Category: Professionally Speaking

Challenge the audience to complete all these leaderships action items

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Time to roll up our sleeves?

 

In a few days the opportunity to speak to an audience about leadership will be in front of me. One month ago I was already picturing how it would go. And how to make it better than it has been designed.

At varying points in the class I will challenge the audience to complete all these leaderships action items before they walk out the door:

  1. Have them email a thank you to a colleague, direct report, boss, client, vendor who sent them.
  2. Have them rewrite their email out of office message using thank you and please at least once.
  3. Have them re-record their voice message greeting using thank you and please at least once.
  4. Have them create a minimum ten electronic file folders for email.
  5. Have them purchase a leadership book of their choice on amazon (will recommend Lee Cockerell).
  6. Have them install kindle for free on their smart phone.
  7. Have them install flashlight free app on their smart phone.
  8. Ask them to pledge to not text and drive.
  9. Ask them to pledge to not swear at work.
  10. Have them email a lunch invitation to someone they don’t know but should.
  11. Have them email a lunch invitation to someone they dislike but should not, perhaps someone close to them like their secretary, their peer, or their boss.
  12. Park on the back row and walk from now on.
  13. Pledge to drive the speed limit from now on.
  14. Go for a one minute walk out and one minute walk back and add one minute each day until they walk 15 minutes per day.
  15. Do one push up a day for a week. Add one pushup each week to the daily total. Get to 10 before deciding to quit or keep going.
  16. Start the day on your knees for 10 seconds and simply think about something they are exceptionally grateful for. Insist that this is not prayer time but thinking time and the act of being on their knees tests their comfort zone, that’s all.
  17. Say please and thank you. All the time.

Have never done this. Which is great because most likely the audience will have never done half of what they will be asked to do.

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Do we get to draw our own line on where to be intentional?

Rascal Flatts Unstoppable iTunes screen shot
Never play music with words or melodies people will recognize during individual workbook assignments

 

Why does Starbucks play music in their stores?

When you are in a Starbucks, do other conversations distract you?

Why have libraries historically insisted on silence?

When you are in a silent library, would other conversations distract you?

Now move to a classroom setting and the audience is asked to quietly think and write in their class guide.

Low volume classical music in the background?

No sound whatsoever?

Where in our workplace do we draw the line and no longer worry about being intentional?

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What are the three untapped areas for going beyond the call of duty?

Photo of classroom customer service insight
Going beyond the call of duty is so easy, but most haven’t a clue how

 

Are there simple, transformational tools in existence that 99.99% of the population is unaware of?

Absolutely.

Take the photo above for example.

Most people only focus on what someone needs.

There are three other astonishing places to address in order to go above and beyond the call of duty.

How do I know?

Been doing it for 30 years.

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A quiet confidence an early adopter does receive

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Trust your gut and other common sense advice – be in front of the learning curve

 

Taking risks before others do is scary.

Most of what we’re afraid of never happens.

And the parts that do happen teach us.

Early adopters are ahead of the general learning curve.

A good place to be to build confidence.

The road to excellence has no finish line.

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