When you come back from vacation, there is a giddyness inside of you that wonders what has happened in your absence? Did the project proceed? Did more get done? Did less? What happened without you there? Were new ideas fleshed out and old ones discarded? Whatever it is, I hope it is always positive, the worst feeling is to come back and see that nothing has changed.
Long ago, I was working with a company when one of the managers told me that the CEO was running the company to Sell not to grow. I didn’t understand it at the time but six months later the company sold. When you’re positioning a company to sell, what happens externally to it are very important and how it looks. You aren’t thinking about growth in regards to – we need to hire two more…
We’ve interviewed a number of people this season on Remotely Prepared from the HR discipline. I’m guessing that’s a trend that’s going around these days. Our recent guest, Pat Mullins, is one of the most down to earth HR interviews we’ve ever had. At the end of this great interview, he told us that – “I’m just the HR guy.”- which had me laughing because he is so great at it. Here’s the full interview.
I am tired of people not showing up for meetings. Showing up can take the form of any or some of the following; Not preparing for the meeting.Interrupting people.Setting the meeting back with irrelevant questions. I’m tired of those things happening on my ZOOM calls. Yes we might be tired of having to have all the meetings, but let’s not confuse ZOOM with our inherent meeting culture which is the real problem.
So here it is… Now get back to it.