Start your weekly meetings by having everyone share one personal win and one work win before diving into problems. A marketing reel hitting 30,000 views or coaching your kid's baseball game shifts the room from complaint mode to celebration, then you tackle what needs fixing from a better place.
I start off by asking each person what was the best part of their week. And now people know and expect it. Yeah. Because it's very easy, as you know, to go into an end-of-week meeting and immediately get into all the shit that's going wrong. Yeah. It's so easy. Yeah. This is down. This metric is down. These analytics are down. This is— that changes the energy in the whole room. Right, right, right. And it's like, it turns into a problem dump. And I noticed that's how the meetings were going. It was, okay, so what's going on? And Everyone just chirps in about the shit that's going wrong and they dump it. And then we spend the next 2 hours. Okay. How do we fix it? What's going on? So I switched it up and I said, okay, we're going to start out with the win for the week. Yeah. And I want a personal win. And then I also want a win for your responsibility here at 221B. That's great. So what's your personal win for the week? And like, literally the other day someone was like, um, my son, my son won his baseball game and I had to like help coach it or something.
I was like, What?
Yeah. And I don't play baseball, but I had— I helped coach and we won. And like, you know, my son looked at me like, amazing. Yeah. I was like, so that felt good. He's like, yeah. Cause like, I'm not the baseball coach. I had to step in or something. And I'm like, okay, that's a great win. Yeah, that's a great win. And it like set the mood. And then like the next person went, okay, all right. Now win for what your division is. Okay. Well, we created this reel and it got 30,000 views. So we're trying to figure out like how to fine tune it. Like what happened? What was that? Cause that's like very uncommon. So, okay, what happened? What was the thing that made the difference? Okay, great. Okay, awesome. Good job, man. Okay, next. And then after all of that is done, we go into, okay, what do we need? What needs to happen? Right. And then the mood in which the problem comes out with is a different energy. Yeah. And it's almost like what I hear is, well, this is going on, but I was thinking— Yeah, exactly.
You're already—
This is happening. But you know what? I'm thinking that they're already— they're already in a mood of it's something going on, but I think I could solve it.
I already got the solution. Like, you know, your own personal routine in the morning to get yourself in a good state of mind. You do that at a company level.
Yes.
That's the beginning of the meeting. Yeah. You need to get realigned a lot in life. You need to realign with the things that you know on a regular basis, or you get sucked into the rat race, you get sucked into the pattern. And that could happen at an organizational level too. That's pretty interesting that you do that.
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