Lessons in Motion
And so I took that to heart, and I really worked on being able to present my point of view in a way in which it seemed as if people were more willing to listen and also take action based on the things that I was maybe saying or recommending. So those were a couple really valuable lessons that that person shared with me, and I use those throughout the course of my career in working with people. I really tried to practice that management by walking around whenever I possibly could
Rocío (Ro) Christensen
@rocio · 1:23
You miss so much and you pick up on so much if you, if you do that, you walk around and you're keeping your radar like fine tuned for innovation or for things that stand out that you would miss if you were just going about your days kind of just trucking along instead of carving out that time to do this other type of research and of nurturing of the team dynamic
And we just had this conversation only yesterday, how her new associate director, who was a former colleague of hers before he got promoted, she had a conversation with him and she asked him, and he's now, I don't know, four or five months into his role, she asked him, how do you like being in management now? And he answered it by saying, well, he's happy he did it, because had he not applied for the job, he would have regretted it
We're disconnected in some ways. What are all the things that I can do to at least keep in touch and modify the idea of management by walking around? One of the things I thought simply was, we have technology. You're having a conversation with somebody and in the conversation say, hey, grab your phone, we're on FaceTime or we're on a Zoom. Could you go out and walk around a little bit?