As a CEO, an activity that I found enlightening and rewarding was rounding on executives, their leaders, and employees. Rounding is the act of spending one-on-one time with individual employees. For the employee rounded upon, the experience is invariably strategic. Rounding offers you the leader, a golden opportunity to step back and reflect on your employee’s personal development. By expressly allocating precious work time, rounding suspends the immediate pressures of the day and encourages the employee to think about “just me” momentarily. To the extent that rounding sensitizes people to reflect and act more purposefully, it is strategic by nature, helping to align the organization with the people in it. It can also be the impetus for building and motivating individuals and teams.
Healthcare Executive, Speaker and Author