"...keeping you great"
HEADLINES:
IMPORTANT -- venue change for Growth Summit Europe next Tuesday (15 June) -- it's now at IESE University South Campus, Av. Pearson, 21,
Nine Meeting Protocols -- before each weekly Exec Com (Executive Committee) meeting, Will Siganto, Managing Director of Australia-based Siganto & Stacey, reads a quick checklist of nine meeting protocols that have dramatically improved the effectiveness of his meetings. It's the power of a simple checklist, like airline pilots use before takeoff. Here's a link to the nine protocols. #7 is one of the most important "We will trust that whatever is said or discussed is from the heart and for the good of the entire team and company." BTW, this best practice of reviewing a set of protocols before each meeting is used by the best CEO forums (Siganto is in a YPO forum).
Eight Reminders -- Siganto also sent along a copy of his reminder list he uses "before I get into the car with my son as he is learning to drive." Continues Siganto, "after an initial terrible shouting match with him I had a rethink and concluded that a few personal reminders and setting a few rules is a heck of a lot easier than having a 16 yr old get upset at you. It has been a dream run ever since!!" Again, the power of a simple checklist. Here's a link to his heart felt reminder list, including reminding each other "I love my son!" and "My son loves me!"
Five Letters For My Daughters -- last week Bruce Johnson, President of Accelerated Growth Consulting, started a blog for his two daughters (ages 18 and 21) of life lessons he'd like to pass along to them. Notes Johnson, "as we talked about it, they liked the idea of using a blog so that their friends (and others) could learn from them as well. So far I've posted five lessons this week." Lessons include "Why Slow is Much Better than Fast (In Dating)" and "Eliminate 'I Know That' From Your Vocabulary." Concludes Johnson "Wouldn't it be great if fathers regularly wrote down lessons for their children that generation after generation could pass along?" I couldn't agree more. Here's the easy to remember link to these life lessons http://www.lettersformydaughters.com.
Daily Routine -- and this note from Dr. Ilan Lieberman, Director, UK-based Angel and Bowden, providers of medical legal services who attended my EO workshop in London "daily huddles have become part of the team's life, big improvement in communication, improvements in efficiency at every level much of it small but all incremental like a coral reef -- lots of small changes making a big difference over time." Continues Lieberman, "the team was unsure about it to begin with, now won't give it up! Very positive impact on morale and locus of control." Its routines, like all those above, that "set you free.