If your team seems disengaged, quiet, and doing only what they're told, I used to blame them too, until I found the real cause. At Primavera, back when I only had two or three people on my office team, I started noticing the energy had changed. Jobs were still getting done and customers were still taken care of, but nobody was bringing ideas anymore. I was frustrated and thought, I've got good people here, why do I have to hold everyone's hand? Then I asked myself a different question: had I actually given them a reason to care?

The honest answer was no. All my expectations lived in my head. I'd never written them down or connected them to anything bigger, so I was frustrated with my team for missing a standard I'd never actually set. In this episode I break down the three things that almost always cause disengagement: people don't know what winning looks like, they don't feel like their work matters, and they don't feel seen. Every one of those comes back to leadership, not the team.

When you chalk disengagement up to a people problem, you end up carrying your team instead of leading it, and that exhaustion follows you home. I share exactly how I fixed it at Primavera, including the video I now show new hires that reframes cleaning toilets into saving marriages, and the three questions I want you to ask about one role on your team today.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Why Great Employees Stop Caring
00:54 - Introducing Beyond the Office and the Episode’s Goal
01:41 - The Ownership Mindset vs Team Reality
02:19 - Giving Teams a Reason to Care: The Three Core Gaps
04:25 - Leadership’s Role and the Path to Change
05:25 - Defining Winning: How Clear Standards Motivate Teams
06:41 - Connecting Work to Purpose: The Power of the ‘Why’
08:32 - Seeing Your Team: Simple Recognition that Shifts Culture
09:18 - Start Here: Three Questions to Transform One Role
10:18 - Key Takeaways: Building a Caring Business and Personal Freedom