Speaker 1: What's up, friends? Welcome to Culture Drop. Today's video is a little segment I'm calling my two cents. I'm talking about four things that I would abolish in workplace settings and culture right now, today, immediately. I can make a very long list for this, but here's four quick hit things that I think should go away right now. Number one, micromanaging. Also tracking employees' productivity with tracking software inside their computers. Are you insane? This is ridiculous. Do not do that. Do not bring down people's necks. Do not track them. You're not a prison. Hire people that are highly accountable. Find other ways to measure people's productivity. Stop micromanaging. I think for a lot of leaders, if you're not doing this, you feel like, what am I supposed to do as a leader? I don't know, build culture, like chip in, help your team, support them. Don't track them. What? Stop. Number two, people being afraid to give feedback to leaders, which also means leaders not asking for feedback from their team. I've said this a billion times. It's the easiest way to build trust with your team, to prove that you care about them as humans. And also for leaders inside organizations, it is how leaders can grow. People have to be able to give honest feedback to leaders about what they're doing great and what they're not doing great so that they can improve. And we can also focus on improving people's experience inside organizations. People should not be afraid to give honest feedback to leaders. Leaders, you have to ask for feedback. Do not retaliate against feedback. It's not about you and your ego. It's about, are you supporting your team? Are you being valuable as a leader? And that involves asking for and receiving feedback well. Number three of something else I would abolish in workplaces and culture is the phrase, that's the way we've always done it. Who gives a sh**? The way you've always done things is cool. It's made you successful. It's like how you've operated. But like, if you're not changing, if you're not evolving, if you're not learning, if you're not growing, you will die and go out of business and be miserable. Companies have to improve people's like acceptance of change, embracing change leaders. It does not matter that that's the way you've always done it. Companies that continue doing things the way they've always done them end up going out of business or getting disrupted or turned away or like destroyed or left behind by the market, better talent, all of those things. Like stop embracing and holding on to like, this is the way we've always done it. Who cares if there's a better way to do it? Constantly, you have to be asking if we started this organization today, based on everything that we know, is that the way that we would do that thing? And if the answer to that question is no, stop doing it that way. All right, last one, number four, something I would abolish right now. This like, it blows my mind, but denying time off requests. Why would a leader, why would a company ever do that? Yes, of course, in some situations it's manufacturing someone can't fill, but if somebody can fill the time, why would you ever tell someone that they can't leave early on a Friday to go to a concert or go camping or have a day off? Or like, who cares if people have time off? The most important thing in your employees lives is not to work for your company. The most important thing in your employees lives is not to work for your company. And this is such an easy thing for companies, for leaders to do. If somebody wants a day off and someone can fill in their shift, say yes. I don't know why companies would ever deny time off. Like that is people living, it's work-life balance. When you do that to your employees, you extend like goodwill to them. They come back refreshed to doing something fun, feeling like my company's flexible. They let me live my life and then I work harder for them. I don't know why any company or leader would ever say no to a time off request if we can fill the position with somebody else. Like, are you crazy? Say yes all the time. Like, I don't even understand when I hear about those things. I'm like, ah, quit your job. Most people can't do that, but stop it. Say yes. Let people live their lives. So simple. I don't have any chocolate. How am I supposed to film and do things if I don't have chocolate? I quit. Thanks for watching and tuning in. Subscribe to our channel. We put a lot of content on here. You can also subscribe to the CultureDrop mailing list and get these emails in your inbox every Tuesday morning. Follow our social media channels. Put a lot of free content out about just being more awesome and building great teams.