Leading to Fulfillment - Episode Zero
Adventures in Businessing
While there will not be new episodes of Adventures in Businessing, we are excited to announce a brand new podcast. Here is a sneak peek with our episode zero. Leading to Fulfillment is a weekly 30 to 40 minute podcast that highlights the impact of People-First leaders and teams where fulfillment is the true measure of success.. In each episode James Laws has conversations with leaders, entrepreneurs, and other thinkers from all walks of life and kinds of businesses to find out how they think & lead differently and make decisions that lead to fulfilling work and fulfilled teams.
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- [0:00:43] Episode Summary | Intro
- Regional Seasonal Allergy Woes
- Last Episode Recap
- Takeaways on Motivational Drivers
- [0:03:25] What Are the Cornerstones of Motivation?
- Deep Diving on The 3 ‘C’s:
- Connection
- Clarity
- Collaboration
- How they all work off of and benefit from one another.
- Collaboration as an accountability tool.
- Whatever you’re trying to accomplish, identifying the cornerstones you’re lacking will allow you to intentionally focus on and develop them.
- Deep Diving on The 3 ‘C’s:
- [0:13:27] Practical Breakdown of How the 3 ‘C’s Actually Interact with Each Other
- Each overlapped ‘C’ (on the venn diagram of fulfillment) creates a ‘P’ (Passion, Purpose, Progress)
- Clarity + Collaboration = Progress
- Collaboration + Connection = Passion
- Connection + Clarity = Purpose
- What you’re doing has to matter...to YOU.
- You have to love what you’re doing.
- What you’re doing has to make an impact you can quantify.
- Each overlapped ‘C’ (on the venn diagram of fulfillment) creates a ‘P’ (Passion, Purpose, Progress)
- [0:21:45] “Does a Tree Falling in the Forest Make a Sound if No One is There to Hear?”
- Measure AND Celebrate Your Wins
- Don’t jump into “the next” before acknowledging what just was.
- Nobody can feel Progress if you simply move right onto the next thing.
- Measure AND Celebrate Your Wins
- [0:23:25] Lifecycle of a Business Related to the 3 ‘C’s
- In the early days you don’t need everything.
- It helps to start strong in one or two ‘C’s.
- You WILL need them all over time, by the individual and as an organization.
- Like anything living, it ebbs and flows, and it has to be nurtured.
- In the early days you don’t need everything.
- [0:25:25] How Switching From In-office to Distributed can Shift Your Clarity, Connection and Collaboration
- When we first went distributed, our Clarity shrank and suffered FAST.
- Now that remote work is the norm for us, Connection is the prime challenge.
- Focus on those challenges; those tensions will reveal creative ways to approach them head on with confidence.
- Now that remote work is the norm for us, Connection is the prime challenge.
- Recommended Quarterly Check-in Review
- Regularly ask your team things like:
- “Where can we grow as a team?”
- “What does our team need to be more successful?”
- “How can we improve things for you?”
- Regularly ask your team things like:
- When we first went distributed, our Clarity shrank and suffered FAST.
- [0:28:44] Parting Words
- Food for Thought Until the Next Episode
- Next Time we’ll Start in on a New Series Topic:
- “What makes great teams & team members?”
- “How do you protect your business by having the right people in the right roles for your organization?”