5. Curing Job Misery
At The Table with Patrick Lencioni
Patrick Lencioni
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Job misery is an epidemic in today's working world and there is a simple cure. Pat and Cody provide an easy (and free) solution to help managers address job misery and develop engaged, fulfilled employees.
For more resources related to employee engagement and making work more fulfilling, visit: https://www.tablegroup.com/employee-engagement
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to another episode of At the Table with Patrick Linconey. I'm your host Pat Linconey with my co-host, Cody Thompson. How you doing? |
| 0:18.6 | Doing great. This is the podcast where we explore anything and everything having to do with teamwork, leadership culture |
| 0:24.5 | and other topics related to the world of work. |
| 0:27.6 | So... |
| 0:28.6 | And normally you ask me what the topic is, but we're going to switch roles today and I'm going |
| 0:31.6 | to ask you, what are we talking about today? Today we're going to switch roles today and I'm going to ask you what are we talking about today? |
| 0:33.3 | Today we're going to talk about the craziest cause of job misery, something that is so obvious and |
| 0:39.2 | ridiculous that we're going to think how can we possibly do a do a podcast about it but we're |
| 0:45.2 | going to talk about how people feeling anonymous at work kills their ability to |
| 0:49.4 | love their jobs. In short an anonymity. Anonymity is a job killer and it's so obvious that we think well that's you know what do we need to talk about here most of us after listening to this are going to say I don't take an interest in the people I manage |
| 1:03.8 | enough and the people that manage me don't take an interest in me. |
| 1:07.3 | And if we could change this, we could change the world of work and certainly make a huge difference in the lives of the people that we work with. |
| 1:15.2 | Great, let's get into it. |
| 1:17.2 | Right, so this is one of those things that comes from my book, the truth about |
| 1:21.3 | employee engagement that used to be titled |
| 1:23.6 | The three signs of a miserable job exactly turns out people don't like having that book on their desk at work |
| 1:29.2 | Yeah people said we like this when they can't take this book to work so we finally retitled it but job |
| 1:34.2 | misery is a real tragedy in society people spend a third of their waking hours |
| 1:39.4 | at least at work and if they come home feeling demoralized this is a real problem for their |
| 1:44.7 | family and their friends and for their own psyche and their own self-esteem. |
| 1:48.2 | And in many ways this is why you went down this path to begin with right? |
| 1:52.2 | That's right. Yeah, my dad used to come home and be frustrated. you went down this path to begin with, right? The story of your dad. |
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