Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership. An ongoing series of

executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way

you want to be perceived. I'm Tom Henschel, your executive coach, and today

we're talking about the intentional leader. Jen was telling me how her team had adapted during the work-from-home order.

She said, I'm so proud of them.

They started these morning meetings, to tell the truth. At first I was not all that fired

up about them. I mean, but there was no way that I could tell them no. Oh, well, I have to tell

you, they've become the best part of everyone's day, mine included.

Many years earlier Jen had been my coaching client.

Nowadays she and I had catch-up calls three or four times a year. This conversation

was the first time we'd spoken since the lockdown began. There was a lot to

catch up on. Continuing about her team she said, so they declared we were going to have

30 minutes where we wouldn't talk business and we wouldn't talk virus and wasn't going

to be once a week every morning. Now you can imagine me. I'm sitting there smiling because I know they

can all see me. And what am I doing? I'm counting up all the lost hours in my head. But oh, Tom, it's been so much much fun and they have been so creative I don't

think we ever could have had a connection like this in the office time well

spent I'm glad for you Jen and look I miss being in the office I really do.

I miss all those little hallway moments I mean I always felt that was where the real work

got done anyway not in meetings. I miss dropping by people's offices. That was

certainly how I managed my team. By the way they could be planning an armed revolt right now and I would never know it.

Oh, Jen, I said, you've managed remote employees before.

Well, yeah, but the point is, I miss being in the office because I get so much juice from my team when we're together.

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