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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Parting on Good Terms
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Why Form a Business Partnership
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How to Get the Most out of Business Events
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The Importance of Business Events
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Planting, Protecting, and Propagating Your Culture
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Discovering Purpose
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Discovering Purpose is a fundamental psychological need. Without it we’re so often driven into the darker aspects of life: self-destruction, callousness, or outright apathy. However, it could be argued that with purpose we’ll never reach an upward limit of human ingenuity and potential.
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What is Company Culture
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- [0:00:55] Episode Summary | Intro
- Last Episode’s Recap
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- Communication Pros & Cons
- Being Thoughtful with Your Chosen Communication Style
- [0:03:22] The Right Time for Synchronous Communication
- Don’t let “synchronous communication is bad” be a takeaway here.
- [0:04:37] Ways to Build Connection Asynchronously
- A remote team spread across different time zones is your biggest obstacle toward connection.
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- Tips on Established Async Connection:
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- Have asynchronous communication around things that are not work related.
- Consider an internal company podcast to heighten clarity and connection.
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- When shared, provide a way for team members to discuss the podcast publicly with the team at large; message board format recommended.
- The more synchronous your company communication, the more you take away one of the major benefits of working from home: working at the optimal time, enhancing work/life balance.
- [0:10:30] Effective Communication: My Four Filters
- https://chrislema.com/effective-communication-my-four-filters/
- Timing, Setting, Audience, Unintended Consequences
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- Financial Updates & Transparency
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- Real time or async?
- Think About Who You’re Communicating With
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- You don’t need to distract or call attention to everyone if a topic is specific to one team or team member.
- Go Into Your Meetings with a Clear Agenda & Time Box
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- Most meetings lack clarity and produce very little.
- Capture outcomes!
- Lacking clarity of what to do next is one of the biggest reasons people hate meetings.
- Have a mediator who facilitates the meeting and the clock.
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- Let it be known who the facilitator is.
- Make the facilitator responsible for capturing takeaways, ideas, questions, and next actions.
- Mine for conflict.
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- That’s where the gems come out of.
- Don’t let someone sit on the sidelines when you know they have a difference of opinion.
- [0:19:03] Best Practices and Standards
- Establish when to expect a response.
- Automatic check-ins.
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- Creating a space for ‘What Work’.
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- A documented history of what you did in a given year.
- Favorite check-ins.
- Make sure you take time to reset for the day.
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- The ability to ‘not’ helps you gain perspective and clarity.
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- Don’t let all your reactions be emotional reactions.
- Stepping away from the computer, even for a short time, works wonders.
- Learn how to read individual personalities in text based communication.
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- Not everyone communicates equally.
- If you don’t know how to read someone’s text based communication attempts, there’s a lot of room left for interpretation.
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- If you’re not sure...ASK!
- Assume the best.
- [0:27:32] Parting Words
- Make time for one-off real time conversations.
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- Even, and maybe especially, not regarding work.
- In a non-pandemic world, face-to-face communication is still very important.
- We want to hear your communications tips too!
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- Reach out to us at: Ciircles - How working together should work.
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