Chad Silverstein says leaders obsessed with profit lose their team's trust, triggering quiet quitting. His fix: ask each person "What's the best gift a leader can give you?" then actually deliver it. That builds the trust that makes people care.
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I think the problem today is everyone is so focused on money and making a profit and fattening their own paychecks that you forget that people can see right through you and they see that your decisions are self-motivated to benefit you and not necessarily the whole. And when a team can see that their leader is with them, that they invest in them, they care about them, there's something that that does for people on a team that makes them work harder, makes them more invested. And the term quiet quitting, it's there for a reason. People aren't happy. You have to show them that you care about them and that you're invested in them. Ask your team this question: What's the best gift a leader can give you? And then shut your mouth and listen to what they say, because whatever you hear that comes out of their mouth, they're telling you what they want from you. It's a very powerful exercise. It's an incredible question to ask. What's the best gift a leader can give you? You'll hear all sorts of different things and write them down and burn them in your head because that's what that person wants. And if you can give them that, whether it's the time, whether it's the knowledge, whether it's opportunity, whether it's whatever it is, then you can be someone that has a huge impact on people's lives. And when you can do that on a mass scale within an organization, boy, you have built something very special. You're very blessed to have people that are going to get what they're looking for from their leader.
