007: What Employees and Managers Can Do When People Are Calling In Sick

Question: In businesses where employees frequently call in sick and everyone else has to pick up the slack, what can managers and other employees do to fix the culture?

Bluntly, the employees who are not the problem are best off pretending the problem doesn't exist. That's in their best interest. They can of course use social pressure to try and change things but that can go sideways quickly.

Managers need to do the fundamentals well: documenting, being direct, and so on. But in this episode we'll get into the number one thing that will stop employees from behaving in this way. It's not what you'd think.


Limited Time Pre-Release (85% off) access to the digital Intensive Entrepreneurship Bootcamp is now available. Please request an invite. Only 100 seats available. Learn the skills and mindsets that will dramatically improve your business success and quality of your personal life.

Free Giveaway for business owners: William Norton's "Primary Objective," A novel and guide to Neuro-linguistic programing that educates and entertains to drive home the teaching.

Click to Download Primary Objective

"Primary Objective" can be read broadly by business leaders as an introduction to neuro-linguistic programming before they join an NLP course to learn the concepts in full. The concepts in this book will lead you to think differently about the way you talk to your employees and the way you structure negotiations and other important business interactions—including sales.