All right, welcome to another quick tip episode here on the podcast, my friend. Rick Mulready here.

This is the Art of Online Business podcast. And thank you, as always, for tuning in today. Yes,

I do have the raspy late night DJ voice going today. We have another cold here. Working the way through

the Mulready family life of a toddler, right, who goes to preschool. It's like every few weeks,

there's something new. But today, what I want to share in this quick tip, this is really

kind of how I originally intended my quick tip episodes to be is just like one quick thing for you

less than 10 minutes and you can go and start using it right away. My quick tip episodes as I've

talked about in the past have been a little bit longer, but I still get amazing feedback from these

quick tips. So they're not going anywhere. I just wanted to point out that this is going to be

seriously a quick, quick tip episode here today. And what I want to do is I want to share

with you a simple little tactic that you can do using Slack or whatever team communication tool that

you use with your team to get a sense of how they're

feeling about their workload. And this is not mine. Originally, I learned it from my really good

friend and mentor and my coach, James Schramko, from Jameshramco.com. Shramko has been on the podcast here before,

but I originally learned about this concept. I want to say it was in his book, Work Less, Make

More, but it could have been before that. So I think Shramko is the reason for this. But anyway, it's called red light,

yellow light, green light. And no, this is not an episode about Squid Game. For those of you who

have seen Squid Game, but here's what you do. All you have to do is set up an automated like Slack bot, for example, that

sends a simple message to your team. And I'm going to share this with like how we do in Slack

and in my team. So set up a simple Slack bot in in Slack and it asked the question, are you red,

are you green or are you yellow today?

Or you can say, are you green, are you yellow, or are you red today?

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