How To Eliminate Boredom From Your Job And Business

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Keeping Your Employees from Getting BoredEpisode 12

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Challenge yourself to create ambitious goals as you start and grow your business.

Episode 12 - Keeping Your Employees from Getting Bored

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Robert Dickerson

Robert is the Founder and CEO of Mapout a mobile learning platform that uses video courses to educate customers and train employees. He helps companies develop and launch

products.

Scott Davis

Scott Davis is the Founder and CEO of MobX, a mobile development software agency. He has 20 years of experience developing software for Government, Finance, Sports and the

Telecommunications industry.

@RobDickersonJr @The_Scott_Davis



https://mapoutlearning.com/

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Employee’s POV

Boredom from Two Perspectives

Founder’s POV



1. Understand why you’re bored2. Create opportunities for yourself

1. Engage your employees2. Eliminate boredom

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“If I felt my skillset was different than what I was being utilized for, then I got bored

because it wasn't satisfying. That gratification is what keeps you interested

and makes you want to go to work every day.”

- Scott Davis



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You really need to put in your time.

“I’ve incrementally learned things that have helped me grow my own business.”

- Robert Dickerson



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Stop waiting for tasks● Increase your engagement● Figure out what work the company values● Make yourself more valuable● Find new challenges● Take the initiative



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Build your resumeTEXT

Benefits of a Corporate Job

Acquire technical expertise

Gain business knowledge Challenge yourself



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Figure out what the company values and align yourself accordingly.



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It’s your job.

You’ve got to get engaged somehow.



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Scott’s experience taking initiative● Working for Department of Defense● Rarely challenged● Learned database programming and wrote app● Shared with supervisor● Led to next task

“I took something that was interesting to me, which was statistics and sports, and I applied it to a technical skill set that I needed. I wasn't

wasting my time.”



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Seek out mentors1. Find mentors2. Align self with innovative people3. Brainstorm4. Prototype different things5. Demonstrate initiative



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If you have these people on your team, how do you keep them from being bored?



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As the founder, you need to figure out how to provide the context, goals, and milestones without being the blocker.



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“You really have to know your team. Every person's different, get to know them, get to know what makes them interested in what they're doing. You can sense

passion. . . . Then listen to what they’re saying.”

- Scott Davis



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Listen to their feedback.

“At some point they're going to not have something to do on a Friday afternoon. . . . You ought to say, ‘Hey, you know that

thing you mentioned two weeks ago? Why don't you go ahead and play around with that.’”

- Scott Davis



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How do you let people explore their creativity and still meet deadlines?



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"Hey, I am acknowledging what you're saying. It's

important to me that you eventually get to explore that. Let's finish up these deadlines. Then I promise

I'll find a way to sneak it in."



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Communication is really where things breakdown.



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“In the normal course of doing their work, you can allow this creativity to sink in. Instead of telling them exactly how to do

something, you give them that flexibility.”

- Robert Dickerson

“You hired them because you trust them in some way, so let them do their job. Let them have some creativity. You can't micromanage people. You're going to remove their sense of

personal satisfaction.”

- Scott Davis



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Lip service is bad.

“Don't just tell them that every time. You actually need to try to give them the opportunity. Sometimes you can't focus strictly on

what business objectives are.”

- Scott Davis



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How do you get feedback from employees that they’re bored?



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Develop relationships with your team● Know your people● Relate to your team● Solicit feedback from everyone● Treat them as part of the company family

“You can’t afford to have people who are bored in a startup.”



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“The thing is, it shows that you care when you ask questions. That's really all that matters. People want to

know that they're needed.”

- Scott Davis



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When you start a company,

you’re not going to be bored.

In a startup, it’s constant.

There’s always something to

do.



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You don’t just show up to work and get a promotion every day.

It doesn’t happen.



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“A lot of times these people that you see have successful companies, it may seem like it was an overnight success, but they were working

15 years, grinding.”

- Robert Dickerson



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Gotta get out there and hustle.



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Engage your employees

Strategies for Reducing Boredom as a Founder

Improve your communication Create ownership



“You want a team that performs the best that they can.”

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Find opportunities to challenge yourself TEXT

Strategies for Reducing Boredom as an Employee

Learn new skills Take initiative



“Hustle, and I guarantee you won’t be bored.”

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We’ll send you a trophy.

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