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Employee Onboarding Goals: Achieve More in 90 Days

Name: Employee Onboarding Goals: Achieve More in 90 Days
Uploaded: 2024-06-26T18:00:18+00:00
Duration: 59 s
Channel: Matt Vaadi
Description: In this motivational monologue, the speaker references Tim Ferriss’s 10X rule, which challenges individuals to imagine achieving their 10‑year goals…

26 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, the speaker references Tim Ferriss’s 10X rule, which challenges individuals to imagine achieving their 10‑year goals within a single year. He extends this exercise to employee onboarding, urging managers and new hires to compress the typical 12‑month, 6‑month, 90‑day, and 30‑day goal timelines into a 90‑day sprint. The core argument is that with heightened focus and intensity—by stripping away non‑essential tasks such as unnecessary meetings, busy work, and other low‑value activities—teams can achieve outcomes that would normally take a year in just three months. The speaker calls for aligning resources and intensity to accelerate results, turning a “rockstar” performance expected at 12 months into an earlier, high‑impact achievement.

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This comes from an exercise Tim Ferriss calls his 10X rule, where he consistently asks the question, if you had to achieve your 10-year goals in 12 months, what would you do differently? And so now I would challenge you to look at, if you've gone through and followed along with me and done the 12-month, 6-month, 90-day, 30-day, look at that timeline and say, what would we have to do to accomplish these goals in 90 days instead of 12 months? And this is so exciting because more often than not, people find with this level of attention and intensity towards these goals, they can achieve them in 90 days. They just need to peel away all the other things from the role that don't matter, all the busy work, all the meetings, all the crap that our employees sit through that they don't need to do if they need to achieve these outcomes. And if these outcomes are so important that we could call this person a rockstar at 12 months, then why wait? Let's align the resources, let's align the intensity to knock these things down earlier.