Adam SandCEO of Roofing Business Partner

If You Think Your Team Is Lazy | Watch This! #shorts #leadership #businessowner #roofing

29 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube leadership clip (Adam Sand) arguing that when employees appear "lazy" it's often a leadership issue: standards that are not enforced or mentioned stop functioning as standards. Uses a concrete example (technician dress/grooming) and asserts people give what they believe they're capable of or have reasons for not meeting expectations; leaders can change performance by clearly stating and enforcing standards.

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If you are a business owner and you're saying, my people are lazy, they don't work hard, they don't have a standard. Any of that negativity you have towards your people, this is a you problem. How many of you have a standard in your business for something? Do you have a standard for how your technicians dress when they go out into the field? Of course you do. You want them to look a certain way, you want their boots to be polished, you want their grooming to be a certain way. The team gather at your office or they come through the door and they're not up to standard and you don't mention it. Now that's infectious. And they go, well, they don't really notice anyway. A standard, unmet and unmentioned, is no longer a standard. People are already giving 100% of what they believe they're capable of or they have a reason they believe is valid for not doing so. If you understand this truth about people, you will be able to change performance.