Leading Through the Holiday Season
What’s in this issue?
Leadership
Respect People’s OOO
Holiday reminder for bosses, managers, owners. Respect people’s OOO. A recharged team member performs better than a stressed out anxious team member.
Being a leader is a responsibility which requires planning ahead, taking ownership of problems, and protecting your team’s personal time. Just because technology gives us access to contact people at any time and place doesn’t give us the right to. Mutual respect of boundaries is a requirement for a healthy thriving team.
Take care of each other and enjoy the holiday season! ❤️ [listen to my 60 second coaching tip]
“The formation of SEAL teams is less about preparing people to follow precise orders than it is about developing trust and the ability to adapt within a small group,” McChristal adds. “[Soldiers] are constantly sending messages to, and taking cues from, their teammates, and those [soldiers] must be able to read one another’s every move and intent.”
Creating superteams – unfair advantage
Mindset
“The ability to focus will impact business revenue and personal income as competing interests pull at our attention for their financial gain.”
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Practicing Mental Discipline
Many of us feel overwhelmed with the never-ending list of things to do and meeting the expectations of our team and clients. This can worsen during the holiday season. What is our role in this? How can we take ownership to make things better? By reducing the habits that rob us of our energy and mental bandwidth.
Reduce Draining Habits
- multi-tasking
- competing priorities
- interruptions/distractions
- overpromising either out of ambition or guilt
- consumption clogs our mental capacity
Replace with These New Practices
- singular focus
- clear direction
- boundaries and designated breaks + lunches
- pause or delay response
- creating filters
The solutions are simple, yet there can be resistance due to existing beliefs and practices. I encourage you to incorporate one new practice.
Bonus: Help set your team up for success by having them participate too.
“Create before you consume. Consuming clouds your point of view. Create with a clear mind.”
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Operations
Service Continuity during holiday season
If you don’t already, I recommend scheduling any vacation or personal days for you and your team into a shared calendar. This is critical so you can coordinate workflow and deadlines without disrupting service to clients. When there are changes to your office hours or team availability, let your clients and vendors know in advance so they can plan accordingly.
This includes letting them know a) the last day they should submit any needs/questions with time built in for your team time to respond and b) when you’ll be back in the office. (view more email tips)
It’s easy to take peers (contractors, vendors, freelancers) for granted and not include them in your plans, but they depend on you. 💞 Just like you depend on them.
Scaling is profitable repeatability.
Scaling is getting the same amount (PER PERSON) done with 200 people as you did with 5 people.
Sam Jacobs
Scaling is NOT hiring more people.
Employee count is such a vanity metric. Productivity per person is what companies really need to be optimizing for. Instead we see companies celebrate fundraising and headcount milestones, as if that’s winning. Those are inputs and what you do with them defines if you are successful or not.
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Your Turn
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