what’s your recommendation for an an employee that is late to work who usually is late but they’re usually a good performer so being late is unacceptable and III tell us whenever I work with a company and they start talking about we know this guy’s late for a meeting sometimes I was home that I was in the military for 20 years and I was literally never late I was literally never late one time yeah think about that 20 years never late never late never late any time for anything we would you know we would show up at work in the morning so early that even if the worst case scenario my I got t-boned on the way to work I would still be able to get insurance get everything covered get a cab and so show up and be an hour early so you should be you’re right in the fact that being on time is definitely very very important so people shouldn’t be late so now with this individual you got someone that’s showing up late for work you’ve got it like any other leadership challenge what I would attack is making sure they understand why why is it important some people never make the connection as to why being on time is important so you’ve got to explain to them why it’s important you got to explain to them that’s basic respect for other people’s time that it’s basic operational readiness is to follow a timeline that it’s about being prepared that it’s about showing your reliability and your professionalism to other people that you’re working with inside and outside of your company and even sunsoo Sun Tzu and I I didn’t say this during the during the podcast that we did about Sun Tzu and I can’t believe I didn’t say it because I always believed in look waking up early and being early and Sun Tzu said that he who is waiting on the battlefield is gonna win and who he was rushing late to the battlefield is gonna lose well that’s the way your life is – and if you’re Russian and you things are disorganized and you’re running late it’s horrible but if you wake up early and you show up early and you’re ready and you’re prepared and you’re waiting on the battlefield you’re gonna win that’s all there is to it so those the important things that you have to explain to your employee that they so that they understand why being late isn’t unacceptable and why being on time is this standard that needs to be maintained some people it’s a horrible habit that some people have of being late it’s a horrible habit yeah you don’t want to get into it it just just unreliability yeah I was one of those people he’s working the night club in here San Diego downtown for a while – from like 7 years and unlike you I feel like I feel like I don’t know I don’t engage it or another of count’em but it feels like I was late at the very least one minute late you know you have a shift right you know starts at whatever time either one minute late or ten minutes late I feel like I was more late more times than I was on time like right so my dad was always late I come from a long line of late guys nonetheless but I was this guy I was the guy was a good performer I felt like I mean according to my bosses and stuff and I would you know I’d do well it other than the time thing I was pretty reliable very reliable in the nightclub industry so and I’d always justify it like man all this time I would you know take to be prepared to get there and find parking and all this stuff I could be doing something else in my life or whatever not necessarily useful stuff but just something what do I have to work while I’m not working you know like preparing for work I don’t know that was kind of my attitude as long as I have good output as long as my job is being done it’s fine so when I stop the you know when I was done with a nightclub or um industry Jade my brother would um he explained it to me where and the the the thing that I read that really kind of hit me was being late is a blatant disregard and a blatant display of disrespect to the person or people who are waiting for you no doubt in their time which is time is like when you really think about it’s the most valuable thing you have so even if you’re talking about one minute are you talking about one hour you are wasting that person’s time if you have a meeting or something right you can you show up five minutes late people are waiting for you to start the meeting that’s five minutes gone where you know we still have to go over that material so we’re gonna spend an extra five minutes just because you’re relate because you fail to prepare everyone else was there on time and you’re the one doing it you know so and then also I learned through a I want to say it was a book I read I forget where but where one of the two major thing main things that ensure your success or will get in the way of your success is reliability being reliable so and and one day I went to the store right and my wife sends me in the shopping spree she says get this kind of tomatoes like canned tomatoes but it was like a this specific kind you ever try to go chuffer can’t tomatoes brother there’s like this one and this one this one I’m like I’m just gonna eat it just grab one anyone cuz I can’t find this one or I’m not gonna get them at all I’m just gonna go home and be like you get two Tomatoes if you I don’t even want whatever it is you’re making with shit so imma but I’m getting frustrated on the inside like like look down the line of frustrating things that I’ve told myself all the way to the point of this isn’t my job to do this it is my job by the way but this isn’t my job I don’t want Tomatoes why should i why am I even shopping right now why is like this story I’m making a point and it might be an is a very important point so if I do that if I’m like you know it’s I’m not getting the tomatoes so I’m just gonna go ahead and settle for the wrong one I’ve demonstrated and basically proclaimed that I am unreliable so why would anyone come to me for anything who’s to say I’m gonna be reliable about it and sure you might be reliable on some things but you’ve demonstrated that you can and will be unreliable under certain circumstances and those circumstances are dictated by by you so who knows really you’re not gonna get hired no you’re not you might not even be if somebody’s friend what do you think well it it or husband or whatever you know yeah definitely it shows lack of being on time shows a total disrespect for other people’s time and it shows a lack of reliability on your part so these are the kind of things you got to explain to your subordinates or explain to this person that’s being constantly late so that they understand why you’re telling them that and then you they can then they can improve and then you can that you know if the person is a good performer generally that means their type of person I care about how they’re perceived and doing a good job so let’s get them to understand how being late affects everybody else and affects their own reputation as as a performer yeah so it’ll mean something to him plus you’ll be it come through guy everyone likes to come through a guy who comes through I’m sure they liked you for coming in on time every single day for 20 years yeah they did
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