370 GID A Fail-Proof Way to Get Coworkers to Keep Their Promises

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3 • 720 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2015

⏱️ 6 minutes

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It's easy for colleagues to promise they'll deliver at work. But making sure they really follow through? That's another matter entirely. Here's a fail-proof way to make sure they keep their promises. Read the full transcript here: http://bit.ly/1MbEbr6

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0:00.0	This is Stevea Robbins. Welcome to the get it done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:09.2	Why do things take so long? A few years ago, I did some work at a large organization that we'll call
0:14.5	Honkin Big Company Incorporated. Neither of us will ever be the same. In my first few weeks,
0:20.5	we decided the company needed a website.
0:22.9	Great! I'd set up my own website for my coaching business, and it's really pretty easy.
0:27.4	And by pretty easy, I mean that we can have a WordPress.com blog up and running in about five minutes.
0:32.6	I know this because I've set up three this week for various projects.
0:35.9	If you want to host it yourself, then it takes
0:38.0	15 minutes because you have to register the domain name and upload the files too. No, really,
0:43.3	it only takes about 15 minutes. At Honk & Big Company, it took over six weeks. Being a really
0:50.1	curious kind of guy and being a get-it-done guy, I proposed a second website that should
0:54.9	have taken five minutes. But this time, I watched closely to understand how five minutes
1:00.0	turns into six-week ordeals. The answer will shock you. Okay, not really. I've just been reading
1:05.9	way too many clickbait headlines. Coordination creates delays.
1:11.8	You see, when I asked one of the managers, can I create this WordPress site?
1:15.7	The answer was, sure, let me check with Sydney and branding, because it has to be on brand,
1:19.7	of course.
1:20.6	Sydney was on the last day of a vacation in Yellowstone Park, and when I sent a text,
1:24.5	because that's what cell phones are about, right?
1:26.7	Freedom from the office so that you can go on vacation and your coworkers can still expect to reach you even though you're free?
1:32.0	Right?
1:32.4	That's cell phones.
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