Welcome to another episode of At the Table with Patrick Linconey where everything we talk about is related to organizational health and the world of work.

I'm your host Pat Linconey, joined by the regular crew who are all doing great they promised me Cody Bow and Tracy

got Karen sitting next to me Matt in the studio producing and Cody we have an interesting

topic today what is it productive eavesdropping yeah we talked about what should we call this?

What is really the right way to do this?

And it's the eavesdropping is really a good thing in our organizations

when we know what other people are working on and we can

actually kind of listen in and that doesn't mean you have to have an open office

sometimes you just need to leave the door open or in our case we've got some

places where people can kind of see in and hear in if they want to.

And what happens here is a lot of good things come about because of this and that's what we're

going to talk about today.

Now we're not saying that privacy isn't important sometimes, but sometimes we

misunderstand privacy and think every time we have to have a meeting we got to go

someplace and be by ourselves and a lot of times it's actually better to have people

listening in looking in and knowing

what's going on so that's what we're gonna discuss today what do you guys think?

I think it's interesting I actually immediately have a little bit of pushback and I'd love to lean into when when you talk about productive eavesdropping

Powell what would be the resistance to this idea what would be what is the typical company culture or the or the typical standard

practice that somebody would say we out we don't do that? Well first of all there is the idea

of that eavesdropping is doing it against

somebody's will like you're you're doing you're being sneaky and what we're

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