A good friend of mine retired from Aliant today.\u00a0 For as long as I can remember, without fail, every Friday Tod would walk from desk to desk, offering Timbits to everyone in the office.\u00a0 As we were reminiscing about his career, I asked him about this weekly habit of bringing Timbits to work.\u00a0 Tod Shared the following:<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout 20 years ago, I got my own staff.\u00a0 You may not know this, but I am naturally very shy and introverted, so spent most days alone in my office.\u00a0 Finally, I decided I had to get up the courage to go talk to the group.\u00a0 I bought a box of Timbits as a prop and it was a great ice breaker.\u00a0 For some reason, with the box in front of me, I was no longer shy.\u00a0 Instead, I had a conversation starter.\u00a0 Each conversation eventually moved to what they were working on, if there were any issues, and how they were doing personally, so I at last, got to know the staff.<\/p>\n
This plan worked so well, that the following week, I decided to do the same, and thus the tradition began.\u00a0 Pretty soon, other employees saw me in the elevator and asked about the Timbits \u2013 they were a big hit.\u00a0 Over the years, if I needed to see a decision maker or an executive, I had Timbits in hand\u2026 it opened many doors and started many conversations.\u00a0 It also let me get to know people on a personal level.\u00a0 With the Timbits, I could check in and make sure that they were OK \u2013 that they weren\u2019t overworked and that everything was going well at home.\u00a0 I was never nervous when I had my Timbits\u201d.<\/p>\n
Today, many, many people came out to wish Tod well.\u00a0 Many of these people he met between a box of Timbits.\u00a0 It was never about the Timbits though.\u00a0 It was about the lasting friendships that were built.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A good friend of mine retired from Aliant today.\u00a0 For as long as I can remember, without fail, every Friday Tod would walk from desk to desk, offering Timbits to everyone in the office.\u00a0 As we were reminiscing about his career, I asked him about this weekly habit of bringing Timbits to work.\u00a0 Tod Shared the following: \u201cAbout 20 years ago, I got my own staff.\u00a0 You may not know this, but I am naturally very shy and introverted, so spent most days alone in my office.\u00a0 Finally, I decided I had to get up the courage to go talk to the group.\u00a0 I bought a box of Timbits as a prop and it was a great ice breaker.\u00a0 For some reason, with the box in front of me, I was no longer shy.\u00a0 Instead, I had a conversation starter.\u00a0 Each conversation eventually moved to what they were working on, if there were any issues, and how they were doing personally, so I at last, got to know the staff. This plan worked so well, that the following week, I decided to do the same, and thus the tradition began.\u00a0 Pretty soon, other employees saw me in the elevator and Continue reading The power of the Timbit<\/span>