Podcast Update

 

A few years ago…

A client met me at the door as I was walking in and said, “I am so glad you are here!” And quickly downloaded her disaster of a morning which, she admitted, was completely her fault. She shared the story about how she thought her team had moved a project further along then that had and when she realized it, at 6 that morning, she had made some abrupt phone calls and sent some direct texts that basically sent the message, “this is your fault and you better fix it… or else.” When she finally got to the office she went straight to her desk to do what she could to rectify the situation and within 15 minutes had realized what she had originally saw as a major obstacle was quite easily fixable. She stepped out of her office, she noticed the chaos she had created and the unnecessary fires she had thrown on her team.

She put her hand to her head and exclaimed, “I wish I had called you at 6am instead of my team - hearing you to start my day would have prevented this whole thing.” She chuckled and looked coyly at me, “… could I have called you?” 

We worked through the challenge she was in and put together a game plan on how she could build back some of the trust with her team and more importantly, show them that she did trust them. We had been working on empowering her team and she and the team were feeling like this was a huge blow to the progress we had made. We talked about proactive measures she could take in the future, which would hopefully prevent her from needing to call anyone at 6am. And as we were wrapping up the conversation, she said again, “It would be really helpful to start my day hearing you remind me of all of this. I would love to record these conversations so I can play them back to myself.” 

And the idea of the podcast was born. A short, weekly conversation about how to be intentional in our behavior. 

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