What do your former employees THINK of you?

So one of the things that I like to do is try to believe in the people around me, right? It's my one word, it's what I stand for. And I try to apply that to all the people who are on my team as well. And often that's, hopefully it's always to their benefit and usually it's to my benefit as well. But sometimes it doesn't work out. Sometimes, you know, you bring people on your team and it's just not the right fit. Their career path doesn't match what you can offer them. I have pretty low turnover on my team, and I like to think it's because they're not, you know, my team is not just able to exercise their skills, but they also like the work that we're doing. They like the impact that we're having. But one former employee that comes to mind, his name was Kevin, who worked for me for a year or 2 years, and he was doing a good job. I just felt like he could do more with his life, that after talking to him multiple times, what he wanted to do just didn't match up with what I could provide. You know, I like being flexible, I like trying to incorporate my team's passions into the work that they're doing and being creative and open, but sometimes you can't. Sometimes somebody just wants to do something totally outside and totally different, and in that situation, the best thing for him to do was to leave the work that he was doing with me and go find another opportunity. And what was really humbling and what was really warming for me was he recently made a video talking about his experience with me and the time that we spent, and this was I don't know, 5, 6, 7 years ago. I don't remember. And he still considers the time that he spent with me to be one of the best in his professional career and the mentorship and the learning. And the lesson that I learned from that was always trying to make sure that the people that are on my team and the people that are around me, I'm trying to pull the best out of them, even if in the long term they're not meant to be good fits with me. And hopefully people who have left your organization still feel like you treated them fairly, still feel like you gave them opportunities to grow. It just wasn't a fit for where they want to go and where you want to go. And hopefully, I don't think I've had anybody leave who is on really bad terms with what we're doing. So I want to share a clip that Kevin made, and hopefully that inspires you in how you're dealing with people, your team, your friends, your family, you know, people at Walmart, everywhere, that you can leave a lasting and positive impression on everybody that you run across in your life.

Hi, my name is Kevin Lee, and I'm currently the lead advisor for the JA Company Program Thread sponsored by Enbridge. In my lifetime, I've had a number of advisors and mentors influence me, but none greater than my former boss Evan Carmichael. Evan is an entrepreneur, founder of evancarmichael.com, a JA alumni, and also a former board member. In the 3.5 years I worked for Evan as his marketing manager, I learned many things including how to offer value first in order to create meaningful relationships, how to earn money before spending it, and of of course, how to become confident in almost any social setting. But I'll probably say that the most important lesson Evan ever taught me was how to dream. Near the end of my contract with Evan, he actually chose not to renew it because he realized that I was actually becoming happy and complacent. And he always wanted me instead to challenge myself to become a better version of it, to work hard, to read more, to become a perfectionist in that specific field in order to become profitable. And for that, I'm eternally grateful because it allowed me to go out and seek my true passion and to do it fiercely. So thank you.

So thank you guys so much for watching. I'd love to know what you thought of Kevin's clip. I'd love to know what you thought about this topic in general and how you are treating people and if you're doing a good enough job across all the people in your life and having a meaningful impact. Even if they meet you for, you know, 30 seconds or 30 minutes or an hour or one day, how can you have a meaningful lasting impact on their lives that is positive and memorable? So I'd love if you guys could share an example of the last person that you have either impacted in a positive way or something that somebody had a positive impact on you. Even if it's a really minor thing, like somebody left a really positive comment on your YouTube channel, maybe took 5 seconds to write, but it made you feel really good. Just showing even some of those small little acts of kindness and gratitude that made you feel like you came alive. Sharing those, I think, would give people some context and also hopefully like a list of potential to-dos to show that and pay it forward to other people as well. So leave in the comments below, I'm gonna join in the discussion. And finally, I want to give a shout out to Levi Kessel as well. Levi, thank you so much for ordering my book, it really means a lot to me. For those of you watching, if you want a chance at a shout out in a future video, make sure to pick up a copy of the book and also email in your receipt so that we can keep track. Thank you guys so much for watching. Continue to believe, or whatever your one word is, and I'll see you soon.