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Christopher Littlefield
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Приєднався 18 тра 2015
We believe that culture is a conversation generated by the conversations we have and the actions we take every day at work. This channel is dedicated to helping you make having these conversations easier. Here you will find conversation starters, team-building activities, and videos to help navigate tough workplace dynamics.
Employee Recognition - Helping Senior Leaders Get It Right!
Have you ever watch a senior leader try to do their "recognition thing" and it just kind of lands flat? You know their intention may be good, but you can tell they have no clue who you are, what you do, or really care about you as a person? It is critical as senior leaders that we get these small interactions right.
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👋 Who I am:
If we haven’t met, I’m Chris and I’m an International and TEDx Speaker specializing in Employee Appreciation, Recognition, and Workplace Culture, and the founder of Beyond Thank You. I have trained thousands of leaders, across six continents, on how to understand what their people want and need to be at their best.
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Subscribe to this channel: ua-cam.com/channels/RoRz_CMNPzzExn0XNgCMsg.html
👋 Who I am:
If we haven’t met, I’m Chris and I’m an International and TEDx Speaker specializing in Employee Appreciation, Recognition, and Workplace Culture, and the founder of Beyond Thank You. I have trained thousands of leaders, across six continents, on how to understand what their people want and need to be at their best.
To learn more, please visit: beyondthankyou.com/
📘 Check out my Book: beyondthankyou.com/book
Email us to learn more at team@beyondthankyou.com
✔ Download our Full Programs & Services Brochure: beyondthankyou.com/s/BTY-Programs-Services.pdf
#EmployeeRecognition #EmployeeAppreciation #GreatResignation #SeniorLeaders
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What To Do When a Key Employee Quits
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Finding out a key player on your team is quitting can be devastating both for you as a leader and for your business. And it can be hard to respond when this happens, both in the moment with that person, and how to respond in our organization to mitigate the impact. In this video, I will show you things to do, and what not to do, and even give you some scripts to help navigate the situation. Cha...
Employee Development - Try Learning Missions!
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One of the things that entry level and newer people say that they care most about is opportunities to learn and grow. Which makes sense, of course, this is one of their first jobs. But, it is not always easy to find ways to help them do that. Today, I am going to introduce you to a simply concept called Learning Missions. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:48 - My Daughter’s Learning Mission 1:21 - Setti...
Navigating Pre and Post Election Tensions in the Workplace
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How do we navigate the pre- and post-election tensions in our workspaces? In this video, I share a few things to keep in mind and a few actions we can take to try and navigate these challenging times with as much grace and ease as possible. share your thoughts in the comment? Subscribe to this channel: / @beyondthankyou 👋 Who I am: If we haven’t met, I’m Chris and I’m an International and TEDx ...
Employee Recognition - Getting it Right!
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Are you committed to a culture of appreciation at work, but you are not quite sure what to do, where to start, or the things you are trying never seem to take off and have the impact that you hoped? In this video we will explore these things and more and discuss a few things that you can do to shift it. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 0:36 - Impact of Recognition and Engagement 1:01 - Employee Turnover ...
Following Your Passion - Pull the String!
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It is easy to fall into the habit of recognizing our top performers and forget to also recognize our Steady Eddies, those people who form the backbone of our teams and get the real work done. In this video, I share why this is critical to your business and how to do it well. Want to help your leaders get recognition right to improve performance and retention! Check out my Keynotes and trainings...
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Found this out a hard way favioutism wins all. And i also realised the treatment i am getting is so different compared to her favourite snd other employees. I was wondering maybe the boss is testing. But after 2yr+ i realised. She is squeezing me. Snd press all my button to make me break and finally they did. I been tolerated their insults , belittle , personal insults . Now keep on want to find fault with me. Also the boss i think she know my ability snd scared i replace her favourite. So she make hell for me. I always thought if i meet her expectations , but it never did no matter how good i did. Work for 2 years only criticism. My behaviour has change drastically even they also notice it. I am more silent. Snd just keep to myself do my work. I am an introvert too. So yeah. The ladyboss insulted me twice for the same thing. Saying why am i single at 26 , no girlfriend , etc. Now again at age 29. Same comment's. And even ask me to grow up. Etc. Just pure rude. She even said my expression changed snd dont br defensive about it. But than she continues to point it out infront of me saying see your expression changed etc. These type of stuff causes me stress. I realise i dont want to sacrifice my mental health anymore and dont want to tolerate anymore. There are more companies out there. I thought if i work hard , be loyal things will work out. Guess i was wrong. I always gave 300% but not enough they kept want more. When i ask for advice she ask me to figure it myself or google etc. no training / guidance. When her favourite ask she patiently taught her. And even ask her to call her if she dont know anything. As a coworker. Being treated so differently. I am not envious tbh i feel like i am being used and unfair. I can do as well as her. Why am i treated like shit?
Love your content Chris. Thanks for the valuable advise you're sharing ❤
Your welcome! If you ever have topics you want me to cover let me know!
Everywhere I've worked I've been trusted and well liked like I'm one in a million , this boss , well I don't understand why ,and never have went thru the humiliating smer campaign on my reputation he has caused me , I can't even sleep at night because I think about it so much , it has definitely taken big mental toll on me because he is the first to ever not like me as his right hand man , I'm the type of guy that protect your lumber on a job site I do nothing wrong and loyal ,loyal to those that I work for , he has gotten those now that won't even talk to me now , I love my job but got a boss that just don't want me on his team for reasons I don't understand , but I know one thing he has ruined the way people see me now ! Sowhat do I do ?
They go sick.
Yup!
Love these ideas!
Glad you like them!
Too often managers just stick their head in the sand because they don't want to open the conversation.
You are 100% right! Instead of just talking with peoples they avoid the issue and good people leave
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Employees are disposable, companies don’t care and they do hate their employees.
It's a beautiful reminder. Thanks...
You’re beautiful my friend!
This is also something that I've wrestled with. The obsession with efficiency I'm not sure what the ultimate goal is. If we're not using all this alleged free time to make ourselves and the people around us better, then what's the true benefit to any of us? Friction, struggle, difficulty no matter how small is where the magic happens to create progress. We're absolutely losing something essential.
Love the reflection and I am with you. A great deal of the loneliness and disconnection is from the being busy, working remote instead of coming in, and not having the downtime between the work. The magic is in both the struggle and the time between things.
Whenever i think of company loyalty, i always remember the stifled glee on my managers face when they mention firing someone or having fired someone.
It is sad and many time people didn’t need to be fired they were often never given the honest feedback they needed to grow
I loved this interview! I think this is gonna be my next book club book.
It is an exception book!
Most points are spot on. I need to leave my job.
Sorry to hear that and hope you find a place you feel valued
This has got to be the worst time to be a leader....
It is not easy.
Thank you so much for this. It is very timely for me.
I am glad! Your not alone have had a lot of people who are going through the same right now
Excellent! Thanks Chris
Glad you found it helpful. Reach out anytime via my site if you have questions www.beyondthankyou.com
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YES!
Great video and all the content you make but this one has a bad audio. Not sure why but I had to turn the volume up to max and even after that it was sometimes hard to hear anything.
Thanks for letting me know! Can you try and play it again and see if you get the same thing....not seeing it on this end...but this has happened a few times so want to confirm!
@@beyondthankyou It is better :)
@@milanfasina5727 Few! Thank you for checking!
Terrific information! Thank you, Chris. Providing feedback to a boss can be nerve-racking and challenging. Thank you for the tools and insights to help make giving feedback to bosses more approachable.
I work at Macy's. No raises, heavy turnover, understaffed, zero appreciation, overworked, and micromanaged. My managers are the worst. I have never been more unhappy. Looking elsewhere. Oh, and I'm the only FT person in my dept.
I am sorry to hear that. I was at a store the other day and could not find anyone to help. Can only imagine how much falls on your shoulders. I wonder if the stores understand that if they had better service more people may shop there
Even when we talk to employers they don't listen. They just use this to try to fake that they care.
Sadly few get it!
For work, we created PowerPoint slides we can chose from. Each will show funny pictures with different moods scales(1 through 10, different themes on each slide). We have each student (doing work training) state their name, what mood do they feel today, and why? We have several themes to choose from, we pick one before each class. As an example we have on a scale of 1 to 10 which inflatable duck are you today? Then we have all these different inflatable ducks pictures shown (some more inflated than others). We always get a good laugh.
Love this idea. I just watch a teacher ask people what vegetable represents their current and state and why
Good information
Thanks!
We are just a number and don't forget it. You're free to come and go as you please. And you are spot on with your comments.
It is sad many organization don’t get they if you just treated your people like your customers then you would have the people you need to serve your customers
Clear instructions are important. I was once told where the clutch and brake were and how to shift gears on a dirt bike but . . . They left out a piece of information - to use the clutch to disengage the engine and then apply the brake to Stop the bike.
Ha love the example! The hardest directions to give are about the things you know how to do already
I SO appreciated the science provided behind the information presented by Alison. I am excited to get my hands on this book!
Hope you enjoy it!
Love the model and the questions you included! Sometimes it is hard to know where to start and it helps alleviate trying to figure that out.
You should spend time convincing others to leave as well. Even finding them better jobs. You want to make as big an impact as you can otherwise employers will continue to do the abusive often illegal things that made me quit.
Sign number 4 they told you where to shove your job😊
Well think that is more than a sign at that point ha
What about if you want to let a client know that you don’t want to work with another person that they want you to collaborate with? Is it gossiping if you say that you don’t like that persons attitude
Not at all! If you are trying to navigate a dynamic is very different then just complaining about a person
This is GOLD! (Pun intended!) Thank you for sharing so many great ideas!
Ha Love the pun!
I really loved my job until just recently. They hired a fianance director who I report to now. He's the type that would insist use metal staples instead of disolving staples in someone's surgery. We got to get costs down! Then he'd say that they were uncomfortable - what can be done? Then he'd say - wait they got to go back to get them removed? That costs more than the the just the initial cost of applying them - why the double charge? Why didn't you explain why the disolving ones were better? We need to get a consultant to give us another point of view. After a $10,000 review - they recommend using dissolving ones so from now on we'll start using them. (I'm in IT but you get the idea)
This is a brilliant example! It is crazy how one bad new leader can kill a great place.
Thinking about the last couple times I left a company, yeah, that's a big part of the visible symptoms. The trouble is by the time symptoms are visible it's almost too late. In my case the first company was one I had been at for 13+ years and for all but the last 18 months I loved the place (some key execs left, the people that replaced them did not understand or care for the business). But by the time I started to "check out" and show any of these symptoms I had already pretty much decided to leave when the time was right. And about 6 months later I did.
It is amazing how a few key people leave and the culture changes.
I love these ideas! I can't wait to try the Synchronized Zooming and Olympic Charades! Great way to get a few laughs in and recharge a bit.
Ha glad you like them! Let me know how it goes!
Love these Ice Breaker ! Do you know we we can permit sound when sharing a video through zoom ? recently came across this issue while presenting participants could not hear video Audio.
Shoot me an email via my website at BeyondThankyou.com and I will send you a video on how to do it. Or connect on LinkedIn.
Not the hair in a towel 😂
Hah. Wish I had hair under the towel!
nice video. In the real life, the boss doesn't care about you, maybe, he doesn't know or remember who you are. He just wants to know how much profit he can get. You resign, he can hire another guy.
Sadly many leader make that mistake - the ones who do care, who do get it, keep their people
@beyondthankyou I am sure my case is very bad.Can you imagine a guy with poor performance and low efficiency of work can get the promotion and training. I work hard, no one appreciate.
I've been scheduled zero hours for the past month and I'm on disability and 64 years old
Sorry to hear that!
This is a great idea! Will definitely be using this soon.
Awesome! Let me know how it goes!
i worked at a church once upon a time, just as a permanent musician, i had never worked at one before and figured it might be a very different kind of work environment. well it was different, but not in the positive way. the snitch culture was real, and the boss (a priest) was a bully to everyone. it was bad enough as he strung me along without a raise from an already lowball offer, and when he made inappropriate remarks in front of and about the kids at the adjacent school, it was bad enough to get compared constantly to my predecessor (who left because of him), but the icing on the cake was getting assaulted in my office by the principal of the school, in front of a second grader, all caught on camera...and upon hearing of it from me, boss had an immediate secret phone call to the regional office, who came and "investigated" and found that the principal had done nothing wrong and that their policy was not to give a copies of video footage to anyone. they seemed shocked when i handed in my immediate resignation, i'm still not sure why, and i hear through friends that it takes 4 substitutes to do my job now. they did manage to hire a permanent replacement, but he quit after only 5 weeks. i can't fathom why! 😂
That's a false equivalence. Venting is sharing general frustrations about someone not pulling their weight. Gossip is taking that to the next level with character and reputation defamation which is very personal. Big difference.
I don’t disagree at all, it is an under two minute video so didn’t go very deep on this one. Personally I think the intention is the most important part. Am I expressing to solve or work toward a solution or enroll others in my character attacks.
Employees are going to leave no matter what as a manager you should have someone ready to replace that person if you don't that falls on you as a manager. As my recent employer is finding out right now. Not everyone is easily replaced and that's what management needs to think about when they are not paying you the salary you deserve
Once they’ve begun disengaging it’s over. They disengaged for a reason, a conversation after the fact will do nothing to change their feelings. Learn from it.
It really depends on wha that’s happened. Just last month I had a client with a person who was disengaging - they went and spoke with the person who was just board with the projects they were working on and saw no future for themselves. They had a conversation, asked what the person wanted to be doing, created some new opportunities and the person is back onboard
Awesome idea!! I still think about all the great things we talked about during our walk after work this spring. This needs to become a thing.
We do!
These ideas are amazing! Definitely trying all of these soon :) Thank you!
Glad you like them!
Sometimes when I hear someone say, "I'm fine." I see in their eyes that they're not. Slowing down and asking, "are you sure?" has become so powerful. Sometimes people just want a chance to be heard and share. And sometimes when I share, it gives others the freedom to do the same!
And that is why you’re a gift to this world!
I like this because I have been leading teams for years and always felt everyone needed to be connected to the bigger purpose. This takes the pressure off and helps me to focus on what is important to each individual.
I am glad! Unless people are in healthcare, aid work, and even than many people are working to live the life that matters to them
The jobs I had in the past had a high turnover rate. Companies don't really care of you leave, you'll be replaced very quickly and forgotten about.
This are really good ideas! Can't wait to try with my team. Thank you!
Happy to hear that!
A solid "tell" is showing up work wearing "Crocs" on your feet.
lol! Hilarious and yes