September 1, 2008Success story ~ Making meetings on time
I finally said something about a habit/trait of a co-worker that has bothered our entire team. We have a supervisor that rarely shows up for meetings on time and quite often doesn’t even bother to show up. I had set up a meeting with this person. When I showed up for the meeting, he was not there. 20 minutes later he was still not there. I went upstairs, called him and left a message that when he returned to call me and I would come down for the meeting. No call. A couple of hours later I saw him in our area. He did not see me. He did not stop by to say “sorry” or “let’s reschedule.” The next day I ran into him in the hall and rescheduled. I asked him to promise me that this time he would be there for the meeting. He promised.
I got to his office for the meeting, he was not there. I could see that he was in another office down the hall, so I stopped and talked to another co-worker while I waited. Again 20 minutes went by. He still was in the other person’s office. When we finally got together, I told him that his missing the meeting made me feel very insignificant. Not only did he miss the meeting, he did not return my phone call nor did he stop by to reschedule when he was in the area. He started to apologize and I stopped him and told him I knew he did not mean to make me feel that way, but the consequences of his continually not showing up or being late for our meetings was making me feel like chopped liver. We had a good meeting. When I got up to leave, he apologized again. Again I stated that I knew he did not mean to make me feel bad but that was the result of his missing the meetings. I told him I wasn’t looking for an apology and if he wanted to show me that he had heard what I had said, he just need to show up for the meetings on time. (Unfortunately this is going to be one of those traits that will take some work before the habit changes.)
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