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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How to Get the Most out of Business Events
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Planting, Protecting, and Propagating Your Culture
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What is Company Culture
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- [0:00:49] Episode Summary | Intro
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- The Topic That Keeps us Moving & Out of Bed in the Morning
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- Being Motivated by Progress!
- [0:03:27] Progress is Essential, but...
- We sometimes forget that being busy or active doesn't always go hand-in-hand with moving the needle forward.
- It’s easy to not plan your productive time well.
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- It takes a lot of planning to do ‘deep work’ well.
- [0:05:15] The Secret SuperPowers of a Good Manager
- Facilitating & Tracking Real Progress
- Real progress has nothing to do with looking busy.
- Being aware of putting your big rocks in first.
- Rewiring How You Perceive Busy vs Productive
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- It’s a fundamental, though rewarding, shift.
- [0:08:52] What is Progress?
- Is it strictly movement over time?
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- Instead let’s consider: The right amount of better over the right amount of time.
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- You know when you’ve taken too much time for too little better.
- You know when you’ve scheduled too much better for too short a time.
- The sweet spot is always the right amount of better over the right amount of time.
- Time is a real constraint that can free us up in ways that make us more productive.
- Progress Doesn’t Mean Much Without Time Constraints
- [0:13:07] The Impact of Not Defining Constraints or the Right Amount of Better
- Lots of activity is a false security blanket.
- It’s hard to stay passionate about something over a long period of time if you aren’t making the necessary progress.
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- Working on things that never ship is a good example of this type of burnout.
- Poorly scoped work also results in this kind of burnout.
- When you do not have steady progress, everyone loses motivation.
- Most people are quite bad about predicting or estimating how long something will take to accomplish.
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- Don’t beat yourself up about that though, and while it’ll never be perfect, it gets better with time.
- As your company changes, how you do the work will change as well.
- Invisible progress is a very real thing, let’s be mindful of it.
- Focused effort will lead to results.
- [0:21:10] How to Help Your Team Establish Progress
- The Ingredients of Progress:
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- Clarity
- Collaboration
- Progress is impossible to determine without clarity.
- Your team cannot make decisions without clarity, and decisions by the team are necessary to make progress.
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- Clarity also means checking in frequently to ensure everyone is still operating under the same parameters.
- Clarity enables your team to make better decisions.
- The Importance of Planning
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- Slowing down to speed up ensures better results in the end.
- All Leaders are CROs: Chief Reminding Officers
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- Constantly be reestablishing the clarity aspect.
- Do you have a proper collaborative workflow?
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- Does everyone know where the hand-off points are?
- [0:30:38] Parting Words
- Next Episode: The Work In Between the Work