<\/a>Whether your staff are comfortable having lunch with you says a lot about how effective you are as a leader, doesn’t it? It’s also one way of telling the engaged, enthusiastic, high-performing staff from the rest. The latter would not want to have lunch with you. The former wouldn’t mind and would even look forward to it. If your staff are genuinely pulling their own weight, feeling proud of what they are accomplishing each day, they would welcome your looking over their work and asking them questions about what they’ve done or what they’re doing at the moment. Staff that aren’t performing, or just there to register their presence so they qualify for a paycheck at the end of the month, would likely slink away so they remain unseen and unnoticed.<\/span><\/p>\nShall we have lunch? Where?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I came across an article about “Why Apple Employees Never Wanted To Have Lunch With Steve Jobs” on Business Insider Singapore this morning and wondered how many times the same thing could be said about ourselves. Ourselves being in Steve Jobs’ shoes, so to speak. Apart from the fact that I strongly advocate us having […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,538,402,451,13,14,11,429],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Lunch-Alone.jpg?fit=847%2C564&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2EiEv-1pL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5441"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8838,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5441\/revisions\/8838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elijahconsulting.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}