Group Meeting

12 December 2016

WELCOME BACK!

Congratulations on your decision

to invest in you!

Introductions

Welcome Luke Reeves,

Master Builders Assoc

“If you give me six hours to cut

down a tree, I will spend the first

four hours sharpening the saw”

Abraham Lincoln

Overview to today

• Have you created more time to lead?

• Time to sharpen the saw

– Essentialism - a book that just might change

your life!

– Sleep – protect the asset

– Laugh – to build resilience

– Meditate – to calm the monkey mind

Delegation

• Benefits

– It gets stuff off your plate

– You get to share your wisdom

– It gives others the opportunity to grow

– It may identify future leaders

– You can use the time gained to lead

Effective Delegation

CREST Methodology

Delegation - how to

CREST

• Context - why this is important

• Result – this is the outcome required

• Enquiry – ask if you don’t understand or

have problems

• Support – here’s how I’ll help you, what

do you need to succeed?

• Timeframe – here’s when it’s needed by

Three Things Today

1. Priority

2. Priority

3. Priority

4 Ds of Email

• Deal with it – take action now!

• Delegate it – assign responsibility to someone else (timeframe it)

• Delay it – schedule some time in your calendar to action it

• Dump it - delete

Discuss with your study buddy

what you did to create time to

lead, what worked, what didn’t

A great way to grow is to read,

right?

But who’s got the time?

‘Reading’ in down time

• Book sales are declining

• Even ebook sales are dropping

• Audio books sales are growing at 40% per

year

• Driving, waiting, flying – listen to audio

books to learn and grow

What’s it about?

• Have you ever found yourself stretched

too thin?

What’s it about?

• Have you ever found yourself stretched

too thin?

• Do you sometimes feel overworked and

underutilized?

What’s it about?

• Have you ever found yourself stretched

too thin?

• Do you sometimes feel overworked and

underutilized?

• Do you feel motion sickness instead of

momentum?

What’s it about?

• Have you ever found yourself stretched

too thin?

• Do you sometimes feel overworked and

underutilized?

• Do you feel motion sickness instead of

momentum?

• Does your day sometimes get hijacked by

someone else’s agenda?

What’s it about?

• Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?

• Do you sometimes feel overworked and underutilized?

• Do you feel motion sickness instead of momentum?

• Does your day sometimes get hijacked by someone else’s agenda?

• Have you ever said “yes” simply to please and then resented it?

Essentialism

• Live by design not default

Essentialism

• Live by design not default

• Disciplined, systematic approach of

working out our highest point of

contribution

Essentialism

• Live by design not default

• Disciplined, systematic approach of

working out our highest point of

contribution

• Doing less but better

Essentialism

• Live by design not default

• Disciplined, systematic approach of

working out our highest point of

contribution

• Doing less but better

• If you don’t prioritise your life, someone

else will

The Way of the Essentialist

• The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about

getting more done in less time

The Way of the Essentialist

• The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about

getting more done in less time

• It’s not about getting less done. It’s about

getting only the right things done

The Way of the Essentialist

• It’s about challenging the core assumption

of ‘we can have it all’ and ‘I have to do

everything’ and replacing it with the pursuit

of ‘the right thing, in the right way, at the

right time’

Greg McKeown - Essentialism

Find a new study buddy

What would it mean to you if you

could focus only on the essential?

Sleep – Protect the Asset

• Non essentialists see sleep as a burden

Sleep – Protect the Asset

• Non essentialists see sleep as a burden

• Essentialists see sleep as necessary for

operating at high levels

Sleep – Protect the Asset

• Non essentialists see sleep as a burden

• Essentialists see sleep as necessary for

operating at high levels

• They systematically and deliberately build

sleep into their schedules so they can

achieve more

Another great way to learn

18 minutes

Powerful messages

Marty Wilson

• Australian Comic of the Year

• 10 years in UK, professional stand up comic

• Best selling author

• Professional speaker – building resilience

and surviving change

• Interviewed over 1,000 successful people

– Wayne Bennett and other successful sporting coaches

– Buddhist nun working on death row

– 9 / 11 survivor

– Mother of 11 children

• Common thread – ‘live lightly’

Take Funny Seriously

http://tedxnorthernsydneyinstitute.

com/speaker/marty-wilson/

Study Buddy:

How can you lead more laughter in

your workplace?

Questions / Discussion

Make 2017 your

BEST YEAR EVER!

BEST YEAR EVER!

• Plan for success

• Protect the asset

• Grow the asset by continuing to develop

and challenge yourself

http://bestyearever.me/a20081/2017byesales

Bonuses from me (online couse + ebook)

Next Steps

• Over the next few weeks, invest in you

– Listen to audio books

– Watch TED talks

– Sleep more, sharpen the saw!

• Next Group Meeting – Monday 30.1.17

• Book in 1:1

• Dates for 2017 – 27 Feb, 27 Mar

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2 debrief sessions

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