Bradley HamnerFounder, BlueprintOS · Founder - Above the Business & BlueprintOS

The Power of Clear Outcomes for Your Team

Name: The Power of Clear Outcomes for Your Team
Uploaded: 2024-03-26T16:00:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 18 s
Channel: Bradley Hamner
Description: In this solo talk, Bradley Hamner emphasizes the habit of establishing a clear, specific outcome at the start of any communication—whether a Zoom call, a…

26 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this solo talk, Bradley Hamner emphasizes the habit of establishing a clear, specific outcome at the start of any communication—whether a Zoom call, a team meeting at Blueprint OS, a speaking engagement, or an asynchronous Voxer message. He demonstrates how he asks participants what success looks like, often allocating a brief 90‑second timer for everyone to write down their desired result. By surfacing these expectations up front, conversations stay focused, time is used efficiently, and the small practice acts as a “hinge” that opens larger doors of productivity and alignment. Hamner shares concrete examples of how he phrases the question, the role of timeboxing, and the impact of outcome‑driven messaging.

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What is a clear outcome for you on this call? And it may just be— he'll say, you know, I just need to have some updates on where we are with this, that, and the other. And I'll say, okay, great, I've got a handful of list of things that I want to make sure we talk about. And then we get into it. Same thing with our team at Blueprint OS. We'll start with what is a clear outcome. And sometimes, especially since a lot of the calls that we have are on— pretty much all the calls that we have are on Zoom— is I'll Um, uh, put maybe 90 seconds on the clock and allow people to actually write down, okay, what do I really want to get out of this call? When this call's over, what do we really hope to accomplish? This has also happened with a speaking engagement, and I sent a text message and said, what does success look like in that speaking engagement? In other words, in order for me to hit the bullseye of what it is that you're looking for, what are the clear outcomes for you. This also can be really helpful even in Voxer messages. If I'm sending to someone, I will say, hey, the clear outcome of me sending this Voxer message to you is to talk about this, and then I'll get into actually being able to talk about it. I know it seems small and subtle, but it really is truly a small hinge that has swung big doors.