EP 699 - Mini - Navigating Unspoken Rules in the Workplace

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You know, I have such a fun time going around and being able to interact with people and

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talking about the stuff that we get to do for work, the stuff that we get to do around

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the stuff that we get to communicate about in regards of what is going on with land.

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You know, people are out there doing stuff inside of organizations that is way more difficult

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than the stuff that I do on a daily basis.

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They're going out there and they're doing the work, they're referencing what's happening,

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they're trying to make sure that things change in a positive outliners, outliers and so on.

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So I get to take a look around and help out with saying, okay, this is what we get to

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do.

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Now keep in mind that when you are out there doing the stuff, there are things that you

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have to engage with.

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Now let's put it this way because sometimes people are like you're in an isolation box,

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meaning me, and I get to do and say whatever I want.

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Well, I don't know if I do it that way, but I get to see some things that are pretty strange

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out there.

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But I look at it from the standpoint of you have options as you're going through some

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of this stuff.

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You have some things that you can take a look at and go, does this make sense or not?

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That's the other, um, curtail thing there.

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But I want to reference this because here's what happens in organizations.

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Here's what happens when you get to places.

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Some places have rules that are there that are unbreakable.

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Meaning if you break this rule, no matter what, we can't continue to do business.

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You can't work there.

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You can't be employed.

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You can't be a team member.

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We're not calling them life saving rules because that's not what we're talking about.

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It's the non-negotiables.

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You know what I'm talking about.

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I mean, sometimes they're not even written down.

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They're just non-negotiables about things that go on inside of the organization.

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So of course I get one of these lovely calls.

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It's making reference on how to manage those and how to have those conversations about

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that because here's the most difficult part about the whole thing.

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If you have some of these things, these unbreakable, these rules that cannot be broken regardless

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and they're not discussed, it becomes a problem.

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And even though they're unwritten rules and there's things that you have to work around,

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Kurt Taylor around the things, it's sometimes stuff that you have to talk about because

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it gets weird when you have these rules and they're not discussed.

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Some people don't like talking about it.

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It's the uncomfortable.

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Oh, and then it's that weird conversation of, well, nobody ever said that was a rule.

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Sometimes it doesn't have to be said.

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We just kind of know that it already exists.

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So let's take a look at some of these things.

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Let's have a conversation or two about this.

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So what do I recommend here?

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I guess the position inside of your workplace is going to play a key factor of what happens.

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And maybe it's time to have that conversation with human resources.

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Maybe it's time to have that conversation with the operational team of going, what are

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the non-negotiables here?

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What are the rules that cannot be broken?

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Because here's what happens.

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Most of the time, these rules will show up if you're doing a learning team.

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Somebody will say, this is what we're discovering.

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This is what was going on.

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And then somebody will have an X idea that we need to do.

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And somebody who goes, no, we have this unbreakable here.

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We have this rule that is in place that nobody talks about.

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So opposed to waiting to that moment to occur, maybe it's that time to have the conversation

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of what we can and cannot do.

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And yeah, some people are going to have a hard time with saying, why are we putting

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this in writing?

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Because we need to know.

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Just imagine black line, blue line, as we talk about work, imagine versus work performed

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black line, work, imagine, work performed, blue line.

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You have to think about all these things.

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If you don't do anything about it, guess what happens?

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We get stuck like Chuck.

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We look at this stuff and go, I don't know what to do and what to have, how to move forward

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next.

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And then you have to find that you have to have or find someone to have that conversation

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with regardless.

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It becomes a very, very, very, very strange thing overall when it's all said and done.

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