Meetings?

Routine meetings are one of those we occasionally shy away from, we hate having meetings to have meetings.  But that tendency kills the value and benefits that come from a weekly meeting.  As managers each of you should be meeting with your teams at least once a month.  Meeting with your team members helps them stay informed, feel connected and heard. 

Over the last 24 months we have committed to and successfully held a weekly technology meeting.  Committing to this meeting has made a huge difference in the department.  (thank you Daniel for helping facilitate this!)

With the help of these meetings we have transitioned from a group of silos to an informed and more cohesive team.  Having meetings does take some effort and preparation.  But with a little investment the results can be exponential.  If you are not meeting with your team on a regular basis there is no way the team can be preforming at optimal levels. 

Weekly meetings Ideas & Tips:

  • Everyone has to work to make a great meeting not just the leader

  • Every meeting needs a note taker and a facilitator

  • Every meeting needs an agenda

  • Every meeting needs a purpose and a desired end result

  • check-in from people in the meeting (where they are, where are they struggling and where are they winning)

  • One on one meetings are a must

  • Share good news and progress

  • Have others share their good news

  • Weekly recruiting or sales meetings will help you grow

  • Host Monthly training meetings

  • Close the meeting by recapping action items

  • Host Rank less debrief meetings

  • Host Patterns and process improvement

  • Host Quarterly business reviews

Meeting template ideas:

  

 

Notes that Resonated

Make your life the one you have always wanted, knowing you have the power to make it happen

Your life is your responsibility…. Your dreams are your responsibility

“if there’s a secret to happiness, its simple- presence to the moment.  The more present we are now, the more joy we tap into.”  – The ruthless elimination to hurry (thanks for sharing Matt)

Hurry is a predator it is a killer of spirality, marriage, creativity… and most other things we value

We all know what we need to do but sometimes we don’t have a clue on how to make ourselves do it. (see the 5 second rule in podcast section)

Investing in preparation eliminates the imposter syndrome

Recruiting a strong player that you don’t know requires getting someone of influence who’s opinion they value to take a meeting. Who knows who you need to know?

You will have the greatest impact by crossing what you are good at and what you love

You can’t do it on your own. Be the kind of person that people want to help make the whole better

Get users on the phone with product and dev so everyone hears the feedback!  Put the user first

Grow your company without out growing your roots.

Light weight processes that are not over engineered increase speed

 

Things to read:

Why Is Zillow Selling 7000 Homes? Tale of Failure, Mistrust, Hot Housing Market - Bloomberg

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-03/housing-analyst-famous-for-pre-crash-warnings-is-concerned-again

 

🎙️ Podcast -

Thankfulness, kindness and happiness https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-max-lucado-encouraging-word-podcast/id1522570191?i=1000540608910

 

Videos I watched

Mel Robbins: lifting your life to the next level https://youtu.be/luRVGDg9e80

5 second rule:  5-4-3-2-1 start.  Move within 5 seconds before your brain kills your momentum

Claire Hughes Johnson COO ideas, stripe technology and building strong organizations: https://youtu.be/vIHKzRub7ts

Things to cover in a weekly meeting:

https://youtu.be/f3Fl2M-eCZc

 

Top Quotes:

“Ability is what you are capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do.  Attitude determines how well you do it.”  Lou Holz

“Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people” -Elenor Roosevelt

“If you want the rainbow you have to put up with the rain” -Dolly Parton

 

Food & Drink

Homemade Vanilla syrup and iced coffee

https://youtu.be/YmIB34Zzqpc

 

Cool Stuff:

Tiny $50,000 house that can be assembled in 1 day.

https://www.boxabl.com/gallery

https://youtu.be/kjZCq-GpUzU Elon musk foldable tiny house in Boca Chica is his primary residence?

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