Cultivate a Helpful Work Environment | Building Resilience (5 of 5)

This is the third episode of a five part miniseries on Building Resilience, you can find episode one here. A Helpful Work Environment I hate to date this podcast, but as we're coming to the end of this big COVID-19 pandemic the big IT companies. Apple, Facebook, all these people, they're spending an incredible amount of energy trying to get their staff to come back into the office. They've been working from home for 18 months now, but spent all this money on these big fancy offices.They filled those offices with perks, like free lunches and transportation to and from, and you can sleep there. They seem like a millennials utopia of a workplace. Why the crap do they spend that much money on these fancy offices and those kinds of perks?  Is 6% Enough? I read a study once that claimed that people that sit by a window are 6.5% more likely to show up to work. I mean 6% that's that's not that big a number, but imagine 6% more productivity in your life. Imagine the compounding interest on 6%. When I'm planning for my retirement, they tell me 8% is enough to literally fund my life in perpetuity (if I start saving now). 6% may seem like a small amount but added up over time it's a lot, especially when you're talking about something like productivity that makes the company money. So how much of the environment that you work in, do you think affects your success as salespeople? When the amount of money we earn is usually directly tied to our productivity, how much value do you place on the environment where you work? Does Your Environment Really Matter? At the root of the question is really how much do we believe the environment affects us in general? So I have just a couple of things for you to think about as you, as you ponder the role, your environment and the things around you matter when you're trying to do anything.Like how do you drive when you really have to go to the bathroom? When you're a couple of minutes from home or on a long trip and you really have to pee, how does that affect your driving? When was the last time you tried to sit still when you were cold?  I don't know about you when I'm cold I get really fit. Try standing still without leaning on anything or shifting your weight for 15 minutes. Can you do it? Of course. I mean, especially after I've challenged you to, but why would you actively choose to do those things if you don't have to?  Change Isn't Always Bad We are constantly making changes to our environment, to suit our needs and to suit our motivation. If you're hot, you turn on a fan. If you're cold, you put on a sweater. If you're hungry, you have some food. If you're tired, maybe you take a nap. These are all really important things because they affect how much money we make. Not maybe in a day, but compounded over weeks and months and years. It's important to pay attention to these things, especially now that a lot of us are working from home and might continue to for the rest of our careers. When this pandemic first started, I actually went out and bought a really, really nice chair. And I got a really, really nice desk. And out of my own pocket (I probably should have made my company pay for it), I got monitor stands and, and beautiful lights so that when I'm in my 50,000 zoom meetings that I was going to do, I would look nice. So I'd be happy with the way I looked Because all those things matter to my productivity. It's hard to sit on a prospect phone call for me, if I can see that little square of myself in the corner looking ugly. Get Comfortable So as we round out this resiliency that we're building, I want to talk about and give a couple of tips around maintaining a good work environment. I know for myself, when I'm thinking about my own workspace, there's a couple of things that are just really important to me. I want to settle into a place where I feel comfortable.I mean, physically comfortable. That's why I got the nice chair.