# workplace surgery
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42:11Workplace Surgery — Q1: How do I stop being the person everything falls on?Al Elliott: I'll cut that out. Keep that in. Okay. Welcome back. Welcome back. We— it is time for the world-famous Weekly Workplace Surgery where I put your questions to Cait Donovan and Leanne. By the way, quick shout oEP 302 · 19 May 2026·workplace surgery· 42:11–48:4937:31Workplace Surgery: Crushing commutesLeanne Elliott: I'm ready Al Elliott: The office commute is crushing my soul. Is it just January blues, or is it time to quit? Here's the letter. I'm really struggling with motivation since returning to our new hybrid scEP 166 · 28 Jan 2025·workplace surgery· 37:31–43:2243:22Workplace Surgery: Reigniting your top performersLeanne Elliott: What else you got, Al? Who else did we get letters from this week? Al Elliott: Well, here we go. My best performers are turning into robots. How do I bring back their spark? So this person writes, as a maEP 166 · 28 Jan 2025·workplace surgery· 43:22–48:1248:12Workplace Surgery: The wellness program backlashAl Elliott: Lovely, lovely. Good luck with that. Um, question number 3: my team thinks our new wellness program is just corporate BS. How do I prove we actually care? I launched our company's new wellness initiative backEP 166 · 28 Jan 2025·workplace surgery· 48:12–54:0832:04Workplace Surgery: Burnout and KPIsLeanne Elliott: Yes Al Elliott: I've recently been promoted to Head of Sales and now manage a team of 12. Well done. The team's numbers are good, but I'm getting a bit uncomfortable with the relentless focus of KPIs. EveEP 152 · 10 Dec 2024·workplace surgery· 32:04–39:0232:36Workplace Surgery: Handling mental health leave requestsAl Elliott: Absolutely right. Okay, it's on to my favorite time of the week, which is the world-famous Weekly Workplace Surgery, where I put your questions to Leanne. Lee, I've got 3 questions this week. Are you ready foEP 140 · 29 Oct 2024·workplace surgery· 32:36–38:2236:13Workplace Surgery: Proving the ROI of wellbeing initiativesLeanne Elliott: Born ready, Al Al Elliott: Born ready, baby. Okay. I own a consulting firm with 8 full-time employees and Okay Leanne Elliott: YeahEP 136 · 15 Oct 2024·workplace surgery· 36:13–41:3331:45Workplace Surgery: Defining company values in a growing teamAl Elliott: Excited, excited. Tell you what else you're gonna be impressed by is Leanne's ability to answer your letters. They're not real letters, they're emails, but that you write. This is the time for the world-famouEP 134 · 8 Oct 2024·workplace surgery· 31:45–37:2126:39Workplace Surgery: Leading a more experienced teamAl Elliott: So this person writes, here's the deal. I just got promoted to manage a team that's a little bit older and a little bit more experienced than I am. Don't get me wrong, they're great at what they do, but I'm fEP 123 · 27 Aug 2024·workplace surgery· 26:39–29:3729:37Workplace Surgery: Disagreeing with your boss in a meetingLeanne Elliott: Yes Al Elliott: Okay, so this person writes, how do you handle disagreeing with your boss in a meeting? I've got some strong opinions, but I'm not sure if it's okay to speak up or if I should just nod aloEP 123 · 27 Aug 2024·workplace surgery· 29:37–35:0135:02Workplace Surgery: Encouraging PTO without guiltAl Elliott: Okay. So this person writes, I own a medium-sized business in the financial services sector. Now, this is quite interesting because it's linked very much to, I think, what you were talking about with AustraliEP 123 · 27 Aug 2024·workplace surgery· 35:02–40:5426:59Workplace Surgery: blindsided by a resignationAl Elliott: So it's now time for our world-famous weekly workplace surgery, where I put your questions to Leanne. Leanne, are you ready for question number 1? Leanne Elliott: I'm ready Al Elliott: Okay, so this comes froEP 122 · 19 Aug 2024·workplace surgery· 26:59–34:0426:07Workplace Surgery: 'Am I stealing from my boss?'Al Elliott: So we are now at the part where it is the world-famous Weekly Workplace Surgery with Leanne Elliott, my co-host and wife Leanne Elliott: That's me Al Elliott: You should know by now she's a chartered psycholoEP 121 · 13 Aug 2024·workplace surgery· 26:07–31:2531:25Workplace Surgery: Choosing who to make redundantAl Elliott: Okay, question number 2, Leanne. Are you ready for this question? Leanne Elliott: Yes Al Elliott: All right, so this is from a leader, and I don't think it's clear on whether this person owns the business or EP 121 · 13 Aug 2024·workplace surgery· 31:25–37:5837:58Workplace Surgery: 'Do I lie about being unemployed?'Al Elliott: Okay, next question. I don't know whether you're going to be able to answer this exactly because they do ask whether it's illegal to do that, and we don't know where this person is, uh, but let's just hear yoEP 121 · 13 Aug 2024·workplace surgery· 37:58–45:4822:53Workplace Surgery: building rapport in a new leadership roleAl Elliott: Okay, welcome back. We are out in the world-famous Weekly Workplace Surgery where we have 3 questions that I'm going to put to Leanne. Although, did you just say that we've— there's one for me, so maybe only EP 107 · 18 Jun 2024·workplace surgery· 22:53–28:5218:39Workplace Surgery introAl Elliott: In talking of, uh, of getting every— letting everyone have a voice, I think it's time for us to let HubSpot have a voice, who pay our bills. So we're going to take a short break. We're back in a second with tEP 97 · 14 May 2024·workplace surgery· 18:39–19:25
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