Comments on: Quality Time is a Lie

By: Luc Galoppin

Luc Galoppin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:23:13 +0000

Hi Glen, I agree with your statement "Quality Time can be just a single minute showing we care." and the reference you make to the Gallup study. Sometimes we make things too complicated! Luc.

By: Luc Galoppin

Luc Galoppin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:23:00 +0000

Hi Glen, I agree with your statement "Quality Time can be just a single minute showing we care." and the reference you make to the Gallup study. Sometimes we make things too complicated! Luc.

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:59:22 +0000

Have you seen that great YouTube comedy sketch about men’s minds having separate boxes for each matter while women’s minds wire everything together. His closer was men love to go to their nothing box, which drives women crazy! So maybe we need our caves, but Quality Time at work or home (and that should include meal time without the TV) needs listening actively, appreciating, involving, informing and challenging. Engaging. One of the twelve statements people usually agree to in productive orgs, according to the enormus Gallup Study, is “My supervisor or somebody at work cares about me as a person.” Our ex-President got so busy he couldn’t stop and be friendly for any time at all. Quality Time can be just a single minute showing we care.

By: Glen

Glen — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:59:00 +0000

By: Luc Galoppin

Luc Galoppin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:04:47 +0000

Thanks Doug!

The 180 sec timeframe you refer to is indeed a quality slot which is work related and which we should define as ‘quality time’ (in the true sense of the word!).

Healthy-time-frame-pressure is indeed a catalyst for continuous improvement.

On the other hand, my point is that this practice belongs to the workplace and that we should leave it there.

Luc.

By: Luc Galoppin

Luc Galoppin — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:04:00 +0000

Thanks Doug!

The 180 sec timeframe you refer to is indeed a quality slot which is work related and which we should define as ‘quality time’ (in the true sense of the word!).

Healthy-time-frame-pressure is indeed a catalyst for continuous improvement.

On the other hand, my point is that this practice belongs to the workplace and that we should leave it there.

Luc.

By: Doug Shaw

Doug Shaw — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:38:44 +0000

Nice one Luc. You write in an engaging and amusing way, managing to squeeze in practical advice along the way. Keep it up.

Along similar lines…I gave my colleagues five minutes off the other day. Suggested what they could do with the first 180 seconds and gave them the remaining 120 as free time. Ain’t I generous! It was a fun experiment and it connected to a piece of continuous improvement I run called what’s the least I can do today to have a positive impact?

Try having a think and do about that and perhaps see how we can get on developing some ideas.

By: Doug Shaw

Doug Shaw — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:38:00 +0000

Nice one Luc. You write in an engaging and amusing way, managing to squeeze in practical advice along the way. Keep it up.

Try having a think and do about that and perhaps see how we can get on developing some ideas.