Give an Employee Five Precious Minutes

Management is a social act and every minute you spend with your employees is precious. That's why I have always loved the 5-minute management practice from pal and fellow management author and blogger Rosa Say. Here is a quick explanation of the habit from Rosa:

The SIMPLE part

If you are hearing about it for the first time, The Daily 5 Minutes (D5M) is a simple habit. Each day, without fail, managers give five minutes of no-agenda time to at least one of their employees. What they are giving is whole listening time, and their undivided attention to whatever that person has on their mind.

Check out this post from Rosa and get inspired to give your employees a higher quality of attention using tiny pockets of time. These few minutes will make a huge difference to your relationships and will improve employee engagement, retention, and focus. All in five minutes a day!

Comments

[Rosa Say]

Aloha Lisa, thank you so much for sharing the news and my post. I am getting very excited about the virtual alpha test: The D5M remains a person-to-person practice, and what I anticipate the alpha can do is add a layer of virtual coaching and camaraderie for those who choose to be the givers of the D5M - for that is what we do when we choose to "take five" with others, we give them the gift we can be to them.

And yep, "All in five minutes a day!"

[Beth Weisberg]

Lisa, I just happened upon Rosa on Twitter, and was very intrigued. So when I saw her RT from you, I clicked through to check you out. Now I have 2 new gurus to add to my list! Your short but sweet summary of Rosa's work is great, tells people what they need to know but encourages them to learn more -- and shows that "it ain't so hard", just 5 minutes a day. Really resonates with me, especially as I'm working on an upcoming presentation on "Maintaining Employee Morale When Times Are Hard". The conclusion I'm coming to is that there aren't so many "new" things managers should be doing when times are hard -- they just need to dedicate more time to ideas like these (just listen!) that aren't so new and do them a lot better than they typically do!

Thanks for sharing this tip.
Beth Weisberg
Transforming Workplace Relationships: 1 individual, 1 leader, 1 team at a time