[Maritime Q-Scout]

The coffee walk and chat is a great idea.

But keep it casual. A quick check in on employees to see how they're doing and not what their doing builds rapport and comfort level.

While you might not get any 'technical' stuff done. Showing you value employees, and genuinely are checking in "who was the weekend/the kids/common interest" will do so much more to help productivity than nose in their work ever would.

The parcel I'm at now I'm at the bottom of the ladder. Went from the top to the bottom. But I still do the same management things I always did. Check in, talk to the others, build rapport with the boss. Now I do this naturally anyway, it's not a scheme. But when things go sideways, I know they have my back. Same goes the other way too. I've reworked my schedule to help in the past, will do so in the future.