Podcasts about setting objectives

In this episode of the Voice of Influence podcast, host Andrea interviews Dr. Carla Fowler, an MD, PhD, and elite executive coach. Dr. Fowler shares her journey from the medical field, where she spent nine years earning her MD and PhD, to becoming a leading executive coach. She delves into how her medical training taught her valuable lessons about performance, resilience, and decision-making, which she now uses to help top leaders achieve their goals. The discussion also touches upon the principles of performance science, the importance of mindset and physiological health, and strategies for overcoming resistance both internally and externally. Dr. Fowler's insights provide a unique perspective on how to integrate high-performance practices with a balanced, human-centered approach. 00:00 Introduction to Dr. Carla Fowler 00:50 Journey from Medicine to Coaching 03:19 Insights on Performance and Decision Making 10:10 Defining Performance Science 13:16 Wellness and High Performance 21:13 Balancing Humanity and Performance 25:31 The Feeling of Missing Something 26:11 The Concept of Agency 26:32 Making a Difference 26:53 Human Desire for Impact 27:55 Setting Objectives and Goals 28:30 Building Skills and Overcoming Challenges 30:13 The Importance of Purpose in Stress 33:46 Empowerment and Shaping the Future 38:11 Overcoming Resistance 41:53 Coaching for High Performance 46:24 Final Thoughts and Advice   Read the show notes here:   https://www.voiceofinfluence.net/350 Give and receive feedback that makes a difference! Register for our 20 minute Deep Impact Method video course here:  www.voiceofinfluence.net/deepimpact

The Mental Game of Golf and Setting Objectives | Golf Psychology Podcast In this episode, you will learn how to set manageable objectives for your round. We discuss how to keep your focus away form the outcomes and stay focused in the moment shot to shot. In The Golf Psychology Podcast series, mental performance coaches Dr. Patrick Cohn and Brock McCormack discuss how to improve your mindset for golf. Learn tips for pre-round routines, course management, how to swing freely, and much more. Great Resources for Golfers: Download a free golf psychology report to improve your preshot routine. Visit Golf Psychology Coach for more mental game articles and videos. Check out our golf psychology coaching programs at peaksports.com. *Please subscribe to  The Golf Psychology Podcast on Apple *Please subscribe to The Golf Psychology Podcast on Spotify Dr. Patrick Cohn is a golf psychology expert and author of the "Golfer's Mental Edge" audio program and Breaking The Yips Cycle DVD program. He teaches amateur to tour professional golfers how to improve their mental game of golf using golf psychology strategies developed over the last 30+ years of his career.  

Discover how product marketers can elevate B2B product launches by becoming the orchestrators of cross-functional teams, driving alignment among diverse audience segments, and leveraging innovative enablement strategies. In this episode, expert guests Tamara Grominsky, Julien Sauvage, and Beth Rogers share their experiences and insights on successful launch cadences, trend jacking, and creating proactive market strategies.Hosts: Rowan Noronha & Julien SauvageGuests: Tamara Grominsky & Beth RogersProducer: Grayson OttenbreitEditor: Stephen DespinsTIMESTAMPS:(00:00:00) Introduction(00:01:53) Exploring Product Launches(00:03:57) The Role of Product Marketing in Launches(00:06:22) Creating Alignment in Product Launches(00:09:06) Establishing Launch Teams(00:17:21) Prioritizing Market Segments in Launches(00:20:22) Setting Objectives and KPIs for Launches (00:30:14) Crafting the Launch Plan(00:48:05) Engaging and Enabling Sales Teams(00:54:17) Coordination and Cadence of Product Launches

Join Kyle for a conversation with AJ Ballantine, founder and CEO of Cornerstone Remodeling and Rendr about the importance of KPIs and OKRs in running a successful remodeling business. In this episode, AJ shares his invaluable insights on the role of a manager and coach when scaling a team and reveals practical tips on tracking KPIs to inform business decisions and identify areas for improvement. He highlights the significance of implementing the OKR framework to track progress and set measurable objectives aligned with business goals. Also, Kyle and AJ uncover the benefits of using Render, a software tool designed for remote sales and design that enhances workflow efficiency. Listen in and discover the key takeaway pointers of effective management and leveraging business tools to succeed in the remodeling industry! ----- Visit RemodelerRetreat.com and sign-up to join Kyle and his wife Sarah for the Remodel Your Marriage, Life, and Business Retreat, October 2nd-4th, 2024  ----- Takeaways Embrace the role of a manager and coach when growing a remodeling business and managing a team. Start tracking KPIs by identifying the most important metrics for your business and measuring them consistently. KPIs help you make informed decisions and identify areas for improvement in your business. Implement the OKR framework to set objectives and track measurable results that align with your business goals. Regularly review and adjust your KPIs and OKRs to ensure they are relevant and effective. Setting objectives and key results (OKRs) can help measure progress and hold teams accountable in a remodeling business. Objectives can be related to various areas of the business, such as decreasing slippage or improving job satisfaction. Key results are specific actions or metrics that contribute to achieving the objectives. Render is a software tool that enables remote sales and design in the remodeling industry, reducing cycle time and increasing efficiency.   Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Background 03:44 The Importance of Embracing the Role of a Manager 09:33 Getting Started with KPIs 13:16 Using KPIs to Make Informed Decisions 21:57 The Benefits of Regularly Reviewing and Adjusting KPIs and OKRs 22:02 Setting Objectives and Key Results 30:48 Measuring Progress and Accountability 36:09 Introducing Render: A Software Tool for Remote Sales and Design

This latest espresso episode is a condensed version of my conversation with Jonathan Beswick, co-founder of Adventuring Architecture, a polar explorer, and an architect. Discover insights, challenges, and lessons shared by Jon throughout his career and expeditions.If you enjoyed this episode please:Come and join our LinkedIn community: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9054319/Leave a review on the platform of choiceIntroductionYou're listening to Accelerating Careers in Real Estate with Nick Carman, brought to you by MacDonald Co. So in this episode, I once more dial the clock back to the summer of 2020. Time to prep that espresso or put the kettle on. With John Beswick, I get an episode unlike I had recorded before. Or since....A Mad Idea to AfricaIt started on a mad idea. We spent nine months driving down the West coast of Africa, crossed 33 countries, 33, 000 kilometers....Formation of the CompanyWe found we'd met enough mining companies and expats and despots and everyone else that all promised us work that, uh, we started our own company as soon as we got back to London....Lessons Learned and Business GrowthI think one of the lessons learned on these expeditions is to keep things simple. So I think in terms of my career aspirations, I'm not going to set out a career over the next 20 years and try and stick to it....Setting Objectives and Resiliencesetting yourself up. You set yourself an objective, you train, you plan, and then you, you know, whatever happens, you have to make that objective....Overcoming Challenges with a Teamnone of these have been done alone. They've all been done. Whether you see it or not, there's always a team involved, whether it's the team that you're doing it with or there's a team in the background....World's Highest Dinner Partya Guinness World Record holder for the highest black tie dinner party on Mount Everest at just over 7, 000 meters.... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When overseeing a startup, a CEO needs a well-functioning organizational design. This helps evaluate the performance of the team, make sure functions are coordinating and executing efficiently, and communicate and set objectives. In this conversation, bestselling author of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan, talks with Levels CEO, Sam Corcos. Look for multiple new shows per week on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations about metabolic health and how the Levels startup team builds a wellness movement from the ground up in the health and wellness tech industry. Get Your Free Ultimate Guide to Glucose: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://levels.link/itc⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Levels helps you see how food affects your health, empowering you with the tools needed to achieve health goals and improve healthspan. Levels Members gain access to the Levels app and continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), providing real-time feedback on how diet and lifestyle choices impact your metabolic health. Look for new shows every month on Levels - Inside the Company, where we have in-depth conversations about how the Levels startup team builds a movement from the ground up in the health and wellness tech industry.

Join Guy Lewis and Caroline Wilson from Hot Toddi for our conversation about setting objectives for your social media activities. Caroline is a social media expert and today she introduces the idea of setting objectives, plotting a course for your social media campaigns. Discussing the “Algorithm” Caroline talks about how to set clear objectives and stay on course with your social media activity.

In this episode of the Fearless Business Podcast I hand over the reins to one of our certified mindset coaches, Paul Wilson, who runs a group coaching/hypnotherapy session to help our members to gain clarity over what their objectives for the month ahead look like, what is getting in their way and the key results. Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) are something I discovered in the book Measure What Matters by John Doerr. He uses some fantastic examples but what really stands out for me is why OKRs are better for businesses than traditional goal setting. Paul now hosts a regular monthly OKR sessions once a month with the members in our business accelerator to lock on their objectives for the month ahead, with remarkable results. A bit about Paul Paul uses Advanced Conversational Hypnotherapy to quickly and easily resolve some of life's most difficult problems such as anxiety, erectile dysfunction and female sexual dysfunction, driving and passenger anxiety, smoking & alcohol dependence and phobias without the use of medications and months of talk therapy. Based in Folkestone with online consultations for any timezone. I also coach business owners to let go of Procrastination, Perfectionism and Imposter Syndrome - letting go of beliefs that are holding them back from success in their field. To find out more about Fearless Business:  Join our amazing community of Coaches, Consultants and Freelancers on Facebook: >> https://facebook.com/groups/ChargeMore  And check out the Fearless Business website: >> https://fearless.biz and https://www.robinwaite.com   

“A lot of people expected me and Joe to go off the rails. We almost had permission because of our childhood. Because of that, there was always a part of me that wanted to prove people wrong.” In this inaugural episode of 40 Minute Mentor's 9th Series, we're joined by Nikki Wicks, the CEO of the legendary global fitness brand, The Body Coach. There won't be a lot of you who haven't heard of Joe Wicks and The Body Coach, but today, we get a real inside scoop into how the brand grew to what it is today and the often unspoken challenges they faced along the way. We find out: ➡️ Why Nikki doesn't consider himself to be entrepreneurial [05:09] ➡️ The difficult balancing act of running a business and raising children [06:33] ➡️ Joe and Nikki's turbulent childhood and upbringing [09:06] ➡️ How their upbringing has shaped Joe and Nikki's relationship with each other [10:56] ➡️ Nikki's publishing career and why he became CEO [17:00] ➡️ The realities of being a first-time CEO [22:15] ➡️ More about our sponsor's Alchemist [23:51] ➡️ How The Body Coach went from 15 second Instagram videos to a book deal and a global brand [25:49] ➡️ Building and scaling a team and why TBC had to restructure earlier this year [32:03] ➡️ Keeping the purpose at the core of the brand [39:17] ➡️ How Nikki and Joe work with each other [43:04] ➡️ How to stick to your new year's resolutions and form healthy habits [45:43]  ⛳ Helpful links:➡️ More about Nikki Wicks: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikki-wicks-15065661/➡️ Check out The Body Coach: https://www.thebodycoach.com/➡️ Listen back to our Sifted Summit episode: https://jbmc.co.uk/insights/40-minute-mentor/live-at-sifted-summit-purpose-v-profit-with-nikki-wicks-the-body-coach-emma-steele-ascension-amali-de-alwis-subak/ 

In this podcast Ross Brooks from West Ham United speaks with Cambridge United Academy Coach Dario Seminerio on how to develop and establish objectives for players and teams for the upcoming season. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/football-dna/message

When overseeing a startup, a CEO needs a well-functioning organizational design. This helps evaluate the performance of the team, make sure functions are coordinating and executing efficiently, and communicate and set objectives. In this conversation, bestselling author of Brave New Work, Aaron Dignan, talks with Levels CEO, Sam Corcos. Look for multiple new shows per week on A Whole New Level, where we have in-depth conversations about metabolic health and how the Levels startup team builds a wellness movement from the ground up in the health and wellness tech industry.

Join Jennifer Tyler, CCL's Director of Government Affairs, for a training that will review attending town hall and candidate forum plans. Town hall meetings and candidate forums are settings where the member of Congress and candidates want to connect with people in the district. When these events are large and structured, the opportunity is different than when they are small. Through good planning and by being quick to adapt to the situation, you can take advantage of these opportunities. They are worth planning for with the same care that you plan for a lobby meeting. Skip ahead to the following section(s): (0:00) Intro & Agenda (2:43) Types of Town Halls and Candidate Forums (13:48) Finding Events and Setting Objectives (21:35) Tips, Tricks and What To Avoid (30:26) Sample Questions For Various Audiences Presentation Slides: http://cclusa.org/town-hall-slides  CCL Community Training page: https://community.citizensclimate.org/resources/item/19/264 

The whole point of setting your quarterly objectives is to achieve them! But sometimes businesses get lost in the process and create unhealthy habits when setting their quarterly goals. Today on S2 Tips, Benj Miller outlines the Seven Deadly Sins of setting quarterly objectives. No one wants to recite Hail Marys half way through the quarter, so keep these helpful reminders on hand in your next quarterly meeting. You can learn more about gaining clarity and control in your business by visiting SystemandSoul.com. This episode is brought to you by Work from Anywhere. It's an amazing moment in time, the new era of Work From Anywhere. It's a time when our post-pandemic environments are opening the door for leadership teams to reconsider how to run great companies in this new Work From Anywhere world. To help with that, our friends at Ninety.io have launched a new channel completely devoted to all things Work From Anywhere, among the leading authorities on Working From Anywhere to support small and medium-sized businesses. It totally makes sense. The Ninety.io technology makes it easy for teams to stay connected as they transition into a Work From Anywhere world. From people and technology, to communication and culture, rely on Ninety.io as a trusted resource for this new era. Stay up on the trends. Explore what's now and what's next. Just Google “Ninety.io Work From Anywhere” or Visit them online at WorkFromAnywhereWithNinety.com.

Setting objectives with your manager can be an easy process if you have prepared well or it can be a real challenge if you have not. Learning how to prepare and propose objectives to my manager helped me get better, easier and more useful objectives for me and my career development.  It should be no surprise that setting goals with your manager is a lot easier when you are supporting reaching the managers goals or objectives. This, or the company or department strategy was always the first place I started when setting objectives with my manager. This approach also makes a lot of business sense. Put yourself in the driving seat by preparing objectives and goals that align with your manager goals and objectives rather than wait for your boss to give you a set of goals. Taking this step means you set expectations and the starting point with your manager first.  Having more realistic objectives and ones that will help your career development helps when you come to have your appraisal meeting with manager. You are more likely to have achieved your goals, which makes this meeting a lot easier.  Having goals is useful but having a rough or detailed plan of how to achieve those goals is a lot better. Before you think about objective setting for appraisals, go through how you might achieve the objectives. How long will it take? What resources will you need? Can you achieve the objective by yourself, or do you need your team to deliver it? Think about all the assumptions you are making when planning how you are going to achieve your goal. I always found using assumptions is a great way to manage my manager's expectations of what could be achieved.  Setting objectives with your manager gives you a process to follow that creates the foundations for how to set goals and achieve them and is a useful approach for objective setting for managers. Towards the end of “Setting Objectives With Your Manager” I share 5 tips to help you manage the meeting to your advantage.  Good luck with your objective setting meetings. 

I sincerely appreciated Lucas' candor. He and his team are quite innovative with their approach to creating experiences for brands and their customers. And, he is quite articulate about his personal struggle From Founder To CEO at the ripe age of 19. It has to do with the difference between setting expectations versus setting objectives...it's a lesson we all need to remember at any age of entrepreneurship.

I sincerely appreciated Lucas' candor. He and his team are quite innovative with their approach to creating experiences for brands and their customers. And, he is quite articulate about his personal struggle From Founder To CEO at the ripe age of 19. It has to do with the difference between setting expectations versus setting objectives...it's a lesson we all need to remember at any age of entrepreneurship.

On today's episode Ryan and Bobby discuss the importance of setting objectives to keep us on course

"Break your long term vision into manageable goals to reach your destination."Text Me: +1 (912) 331-4700In today's episode, I discuss turning our long-term vision into objectives, trajectories, and goals.Sign Up for Free Coaching Session / Coaching Review CallDownload the Free Contractor's Business Systems DeckWant to speed up your path to success? Looking for some support for your business or career?Consider one of our coaching programs to get the support you need. Click below and complete the quick survey and we can schedule a call to discuss the benefits of working with me directly.Schedule a Coaching Review CallThanks for Listening!Have questions or comments?Leave a voice message here.Comment on our Facebook page here.Ask a question at Ask the CoachI would love your feedback:Leave a review on iTunes or Stitcher. 1 Star of 5 Star, I love your feedback and read every review.Leave a review on our Facebook page.Listen Anywhere!Subscribe on iTunes or StitcherListen on Alexa just say "Alexa, play The Contracting Coachcast podcast."Online at ContractingCoach.comor on your favorite Podcast PlayerWant More?Check out these other great resources:The Contracting Coach AcademyThe Contracting Coach Resources

A Recipe for Conversation is the book born out of Communication and Selling Effectively; Paula's signature communications course she has taught for over 30 years.  In this episode, Paula will introduce you to the art of overcoming obstacles with the 13 key elements. You will get a great overview of both the 5 Steps for Strategic Business Planning as well as A Recipe for Conversation. (Both books available in paperback at paragonlivingus.com) Learn to be your highest and best as you develop your charisma, set clear objectives and use your rules of engagement in every encounter.  This is Part 1 in the series that covers the 8 ingredients in your perfect conversation recipe; Charisma, Setting Objectives, and Rules of Engagement. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/paragonpodcasts/support

In this episode, Emma looks at each department of a business (marketing, operations, human resources and finance) and discusses how objectives are set in each department. She also looks at various external and internal factors that might affect objectives and decisions. Ideal for preparing you for your A Level Business exam. Click here for the full course, or visit this link: http://bit.ly/2NpTzGc

It's a new year! And with that fresh start, many moms pause and think about their goals for the new year. Though it's a challenge to find that sweet spot between overwhelm and stagnation, here are three moms' ideas for setting realistic and worthwhile goals.

How to set objectives from a Tactical approach in football - soccer.

Sometimes people feel as if they're adrift in the world. They work hard, but they don't seem to get anywhere worthwhile.  A key reason that they feel this way is that they haven't spent enough time thinking about what they want from this year, and haven't set themselves any objectives.  This Sunday we will be looking at Setting Objectives as a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and motivating yourself to turn your God-given vision of this future into reality.

Episode 6 - Not Having Effective Meetings? Are You Wasting Valuable Time? Answer: Have More Meetings! We spend most of our working lives in them. Yet, they are rarely an effective use of our time. In short, we simply aren't making the most of them. In fact, the problem is we aren't having enough of them! Listen to this podcast to learn how to have more effective meetings. Here, we argue, that shorter and more regular meetings will keep your team on track. This will allow your meetings to be more effective. Read Effective Meetings Podcast Transcript: "Meetings, you're having them all day long and they're not as effective as they could be. You know this. My name is Darren and you're at the home of Sticky Learning, MBM, Trainers to the UK Grocery Industry. This is another short and sticky story about meetings. Along with emails, you spend most of your time doing either those or meetings and they're not as productive as you want. Most people feel this, they could be a lot more effective and maybe in the past, you've reached for a book or you've done some research online to try and figure out how to make meetings more effective. And what you've probably found is that the advice is about setting objectives." Setting Objectives "Objectives are good advice, it's just not great advice and that's because of how many people really set objectives for meetings? They do for the really, really important ones, but beyond that, the day to day meetings, they don't. Smart objectives would be ideal, but for me it's the difference between if you've seen the film, A Few Good Men, it's the difference between paper law, as Sam says, when he's fighting a court case with Tom Cruise, the difference between paper law and trial law is the difference between someone writing a book who was intellectually right. You should have objectives for meetings, but in reality, it ain't going to happen. So let me see if I can share a story about how you might do it differently and I'll follow up with some practical tips that I hope will help." Have More Meetings to Get More Done "When I was a kid, we had maybe more changes of seasons than we seem to now. We had extreme summers, it seemed, and extreme winters, although maybe I look back at my old childhood with rose-coloured glasses. I remember going to school one day and it had been snowing all night. I'd woken up, I was probably about nine years old, and how excited I was that snow was on the ground, and walking to school was really exciting. You've probably had that feeling. And throwing snowballs at each other all day, going out to the playground, fabulous." "Over the next couple of days, the snow fades and it's not as exciting, but playing with snowballs, the best place to get your snowballs to get them into a ball was at the bottom of a tree where the snow had drifted up against the tree. You probably know what I mean." "So you've got up to the base of the tree, grab a load of snow, make it into a snowball and throw it at the nearest kid. Fabulous. My point of saying that is if you were to look at a tree when it's snowed, you'll see that the snowdrift is on either side. I'm suggesting that to have more productive meetings, you should have more meetings. You won't find that in any book. And if the tree is a meeting, then what happens is the actions, and the things that get done, are the snow to the right and the snow to the left of the tree." Are you wasting valuable time in meetings?   Making Meetings More Productive "So if you want to get more done from the meetings, you want people to take more actions, you'll find what they do is think, "Ah, I've got a meeting today at two o'clock. Damn, I should have done the action from last week." And people do their actions either just before the meeting or they come out of a meeting and think. "Okay, I'll get that done while it's fresh in my mind." So they get their actions done just before the meeting or just after the meeting."

E6 – Not Having Effective Meetings? Are You Wasting Valuable Time? Answer: Have More Meetings! We spend most of our working lives in them. Yet, they are rarely an effective use of our time. In short, we simply aren’t making the most of them. In fact, the problem is we aren’t having enough of them! Listen to this podcast to learn how to have more effective meetings. Here, we argue, that shorter and more regular meetings will keep your team on track. This will allow your meetings to be more effective. Read Effective Meetings Podcast Transcript: “Meetings, you’re having them all day long and they’re not as effective as they could be. You know this. My name is Darren and you’re at the home of Sticky Learning, MBM, Trainers to the UK Grocery Industry. This is another short and sticky story about meetings. Along with emails, you spend most of your time doing either those or meetings and they’re not as productive as you want. Most people feel this, they could be a lot more effective and maybe in the past, you’ve reached for a book or you’ve done some research online to try and figure out how to make meetings more effective. And what you’ve probably found is that the advice is about setting objectives.” Setting Objectives “Objectives are good advice, it’s just not great advice and that’s because of how many people really set objectives for meetings? They do for the really, really important ones, but beyond that, the day to day meetings, they don’t. Smart objectives would be ideal, but for me it’s the difference between if you’ve seen the film, A Few Good Men, it’s the difference between paper law, as Sam says, when he’s fighting a court case with Tom Cruise, the difference between paper law and trial law is the difference between someone writing a book who was intellectually right. You should have objectives for meetings, but in reality, it ain’t going to happen. So let me see if I can share a story about how you might do it differently and I’ll follow up with some practical tips that I hope will help.” Have More Meetings to Get More Done “When I was a kid, we had maybe more changes of seasons than we seem to now. We had extreme summers, it seemed, and extreme winters, although maybe I look back at my old childhood with rose-coloured glasses. I remember going to school one day and it had been snowing all night. I’d woken up, I was probably about nine years old, and how excited I was that snow was on the ground, and walking to school was really exciting. You’ve probably had that feeling. And throwing snowballs at each other all day, going out to the playground, fabulous.” “Over the next couple of days, the snow fades and it’s not as exciting, but playing with snowba

E6 – Not Having Effective Meetings? Are You Wasting Valuable Time? Answer: Have More Meetings! We spend most of our working lives in them. Yet, they are rarely an effective use of our time. In short, we simply aren’t making the most of them. In fact, the problem is we aren’t having enough of them! Listen to this podcast to learn how to have more effective meetings. Here, we argue, that shorter and more regular meetings will keep your team on track. This will allow your meetings to be more effective. Read Effective Meetings Podcast Transcript: “Meetings, you’re having them all day long and they’re not as effective as they could be. You know this. My name is Darren and you’re at the home of Sticky Learning, MBM, Trainers to the UK Grocery Industry. This is another short and sticky story about meetings. Along with emails, you spend most of your time doing either those or meetings and they’re not as productive as you want. Most people feel this, they could be a lot more effective and maybe in the past, you’ve reached for a book or you’ve done some research online to try and figure out how to make meetings more effective. And what you’ve probably found is that the advice is about setting objectives.” Setting Objectives “Objectives are good advice, it’s just not great advice and that’s because of how many people really set objectives for meetings? They do for the really, really important ones, but beyond that, the day to day meetings, they don’t. Smart objectives would be ideal, but for me it’s the difference between if you’ve seen the film, A Few Good Men, it’s the difference between paper law, as Sam says, when he’s fighting a court case with Tom Cruise, the difference between paper law and trial law is the difference between someone writing a book who was intellectually right. You should have objectives for meetings, but in reality, it ain’t going to happen. So let me see if I can share a story about how you might do it differently and I’ll follow up with some practical tips that I hope will help.” Have More Meetings to Get More Done “When I was a kid, we had maybe more changes of seasons than we seem to now. We had extreme summers, it seemed, and extreme winters, although maybe I look back at my old childhood with rose-coloured glasses. I remember going to school one day and it had been snowing all night. I’d woken up, I was probably about nine years old, and how excited I was that snow was on the ground, and walking to school was really exciting. You’ve probably had that feeling. And throwing snowballs at each other all day, going out to the playground, fabulous.” “Over the next couple of days, the snow fades and it’s not as exciting, but playing with snowballs, the best place to get your snowballs to get them into a ball was at the bottom of a tree where the snow had drifted up against the tree. You probably know what I mean.” “So you’ve got up to the base of the tree, grab a load of snow, make it into a snowball and throw it at the nearest kid. Fabulous. My point of saying that is if you were to look at a tree when it’s snowed, you’ll see that the snowdrift is on either side. I’m suggesting that to have more productive meetings, you should have more meetings. You won’t find that in any book. And if the tree is a meeting, then what happens is the actions, and the things that get done, are the snow to the right and the snow to the left of the tree.” Making Meetings More Productive “So if you want to get more done from the meetings, you want people to take more actions, you’ll find what they do is think, “Ah, I’ve got a meeting today at two o’clock. Damn, I should have done the action from last week.” And people do their actions either just before the meeting or they come out of a meeting and think. “Okay, I’ll get that done while it’s fresh in my mind.” So they get their actions done just before the meeting or just after the meeting.” “So if you want more productive meetings, make them shorter and make them more frequent. So instead of an hour every two weeks, I’d have half an hour every week. Because what that does is hold people’s feet to the fire. They do it for themselves and you can do it. The meetings coming up, they’ll get their actions done or you hold their feet to the fire.” “Why didn’t they do their actions in the meeting? Or they’ll come out with a meeting and think, either because you have said it, or because the action is fresh in their mind, they need to get this done. The metaphor is, imagine a whole row lined up with trees and the snowdrift either side, the snow represents the actions that people do just before or just after, and the trees represent the meetings. In summary, if you want to have more productive meetings, make them shorter and make them more frequent. So that’s the snow tree metaphor.” ACE “The other part I’d like to share with you is something called ACE, if you can imagine the ace of spades playing card. The books say that we should have objectives before we go into the meeting and they’re right. We’re unlikely to do that, although we know it’s intellectually correct.” “My suggestion, if you’re meeting is typically an hour and typically six people, as you’d go into that meeting, take the role of chair. All that means is grabbing a piece of paper and taking the first 7%, seven minutes of a meeting and writing down the agenda points that you want to know in that meeting. So the first part is, what do we want to nail in this meeting? Agenda point A, agenda point B, and you’re writing them down and you write a full list. The second part of that is only once you’ve written a full list, do you then agree with the group what the top three that we want to get done and you start those, and it might be C, F and G. It doesn’t really matter.” A: Agenda “The important part and this is where your facilitation skills will be challenged, is when you write the list, don’t allow the group to debate the list. Just get a full list of what everyone thinks we ought to cover in this meeting. Great. You’ve written that down and made a full page in front of them. The second part is what do we absolutely need to crack? Take Pareto’s Law, the 80/20. What’s the 20% that will make 80% of the difference? And it’s normally three things, and make a star by those. Again, you must stop the group from debating and having the meeting. This is just structuring the meeting of what we want to get done. So the first letter is A of ACE and that’s agenda. Make sure you take the first few minutes of a meeting to write the agenda.” C: Capture “The second part is C and that’s capture. Absolutely make sure that someone captures the actions. We’ve all been in meetings, which were great and then come out of those, there are no actions, no one knows what really was supposed to be done, but you think Ron or Bob should have done it, and then guaranteed, you come back to the next meeting and Ron and Bob both look at each other and thought and say, “I thought you were doing it.” And the whole meeting was non-productive.” “So the C is for capture. Make sure someone captures the actions and really, really simple if they capture it on a piece of paper, three columns. The first is the what. So the first column is what. What is the action? The second column is who. Who is the person that’s going to get it done and caught? The next column is when. When are they going to get it done by? So you’ve got the what, the who and the when.” E: Evaluation “Ideally for speed, you want someone to type that straight into their laptop. Bear in mind, there is a risk with that, that whilst they’re typing actions that maybe they’ll just have a glimpse at their emails. So you’ll need to be the judge of whether they can write it down or type it straight into their laptop. So that gives us the C, which is capture. And the last one is taken a few moments at the end for E, which is evaluation.” “This is all about continuous improvement and making the meetings better for the future. It shouldn’t be a 20-minute debate, it should be a few minutes, a maximum of about three, four minutes. What one thing could we do from this meeting next time to make it more effective? Well, we should get Bob to attend, or we should make it 45 minutes, or we should hold it in venue B, whatever that thing is. You as the chair then take that, it gets added to the actions for next time, and what you’ll find is you’re continuously improving that meeting and it’s productivity output. So that’s ACE. So imagine the ace of spades, you’ve got A for agenda, C for capture, and E for evaluation.” Number the Action “When someone captures the actions, just the last point to note is to make sure that they number the action. So when you come back to them next time because remember this might be a conference call, we’re going through action one, action two, action three. And the very first thing we ought to do at the next meeting is to pull out the previous actions to see if they have been done. Let’s not create another 20 actions before we figured out whether the first 20 we created in the last meeting have actually been actioned.” Final Thoughts “So in summary, snow trees, because people do their actions just before or just after a meeting. So if you want more productive meetings, have more of them, but make them shorter. Remember, outlook defaults to either half an hour or an hour, but there’s no reason it can’t be 20 minutes or 45 minutes. And then the next part is, remember the ace of spades. A stands or agenda, C, capture, and E, evaluation. Hope you’ll have many more productive meetings. Thank you.” For further tips and information, you can take a look at our Ultimate Guide to Time Management Skills and our Time Management Skills YouTube Channel.  Also, take a look at our award-winning blog where you can read more Time Management Skills Tips. We are delighted to announce that our Podcast: Personal Development Tips told through Short and Sticky Stories was selected as one of the Top 10 Negotiation Podcasts on the web by Feedspot. 

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Part 4_Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback; Effort and Recognition; Homework and Practice [Tennessee classroom teachers] In this exciting new series, Tennessee teachers will show how they are implementing the research-based instructional strategies that are most likely to improve student achievement across all content areas and grade levels. In this session, the strategies of setting objectives and providing feedback, effort and recognition, and homework and practice will be featured. [Teachers and instructional leaders in all content areas, grades K-12.

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Part 2_Setting Objectives and Providing Feedback; Effort and Recognition; Homework and Practice [Tennessee classroom teachers] In this exciting new series, Tennessee teachers will show how they are implementing the research-based instructional strategies that are most likely to improve student achievement across all content areas and grade levels. In this session, the strategies of setting objectives and providing feedback, effort and recognition, and homework and practice will be featured. [Teachers and instructional leaders in all content areas, grades K-12.

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