MBA1571 How Your Business Can Have Frequent Small Wins

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We did something that makes us feel good and feel like we're doing significant work. This is where people really derive their job satisfaction and feel like, hey, I enjoy what I do because it has meaning. You need to organize that for them. So let's get into this. One of the easiest ways to do this is to set up weekly goals. So when you meet with your team, you should say, hey, this is your focus for this week. By next week, by the next time we meet, this is what should be accomplished. This is what you should have done. This is what a win looks like. Winning equals this done. And this sets them up to understand, okay, this is my focus is what I need to get done. If I do, I succeed. The point of this exercise is so that every week they can celebrate a win. You could feel like you're making progress as a business, and your job is to show them how that task, that weekly task that you put them on, impacts the greater goals of your business. The mission, the vision, your quarterly goals, all that stuff. So you need to have that in your arsenal. You gotta make sure that when you're meeting with them, you have that cadence. Hey, let's celebrate the win that you had last week for completing the task that we set up last week. What's this week's goal? What would be the win for next week? What do we got to get done? And how does it tie into the bigger picture? Now, what you'll see is that week after week, after the first month, you have four wins in a row. It creates a sense of momentum where you prove to yourself and the team what we can do great things. We can continue to deliver amazing work. This also, as a business owner, gives you the reassurance you are utilizing your team properly, that you're actually Getting results. And you can measure against these results with KPIs for your business and each position. But the thing to remember is this doesn't happen by accident. You have to plan out these wins. You have to make sure that before your weekly meeting, before you meet with your team. This is what we're setting out to do. This is what we're trying to pull off. And what you want to do is that you want to have some options, but you don't have to set it in stone. You can present it to the team. Hey, guys, these are some of the challenges we're having. Which one of these do we want to attack this week? Which one of these do you want to take on? Let your team decide, but then they commit to completing it by the end of the week so that they get their win. The next thing is don't forget to celebrate win. So when you hit the win at the end of the week or the next week, when you meet, don't forget to praise, don't forget to have a little bit fun, play some music, maybe share some funny gifs or some celebration emojis in your chat channels or your slack channels. This is going to create a sense of pride and a culture of winning in your team, in your business. What this does is that it sets a precedent. So when anybody joins your team, they automatically feel like, wow, this company, all they do is win. All they do is they accomplish their goals. I like this. And this is the standard I gotta live up to. Now, I mentioned that you want to discuss with your team what the win, what the goal is for the week. Because you want buy in. You want people to really have ownership over what they're going after. Otherwise it's just not as satisfying. Also, people will have more of a drive to accomplish that win, to accomplish that goal. If they committed to it, they chose it, like, hey, we want to do this, let's do this. They all agreed, okay, now it's on them versus them being dictated what to do and saying, hey, you know, we didn't have enough time. Time things came up. When it comes from them, it's their commitment. One of the things I also like to do is that when we do a monthly meeting, an all hands meeting with everybody on the team, we recap all the wins we had that month, the past month, four or five wins, one for every week. And we share with the, you know, the larger team. Look at this department. That's just killing it, right? Win after win after win. And just reminds the team, this is what you've done great job. You are a winner. Right? That's a great thing to hear, especially from the leader of the company. And it's great to get, you know, that recognition from your peers in other departments. It also allows other people to understand, oh, this is what other people are doing to help the company to reach our overall goals. We're all doing something, we're contributing in different ways. So definitely recap the wins in your all hands.

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To wrap up today's lesson, you need to organize these wins for your team. You're going to thank yourself after you do this for the first month. Make sure that in your regular weekly meetings, you sit down with your team at least once a week and set the goals for the week. What is the win for this week? What are we going to make us feel good? You know, we really want to make sure that they understand that this is for them as much as it is for the business. If you meet with your team every single day, that's great. But set this up at the start of the week. Now one thing we want to touch on is what if they don't hit the goal? What if they don't get the win at the end of the week? What do you do? Well, this is what we want to do. We want to make sure we debrief, we find out what happened, what blocked us, what stopped us from hitting that goal, and what do we need to do to hit it. This will allow your team to understand that we persevere. We go through these obstac and it gives you a chance as a team to discuss how can we prevent this from happening in the future. How can we make sure we make solid goals and that we hit our wins every week? So I highly recommend you address why you didn't hit the win and find out when you're going to hit the win. When are you going to actually accomplish this? Is it going to be another day? Another two? Do you need another week? Agree and set up that win. Set up that goal so people understand. Okay, we're going to celebrate this day. Thank you so much for listening to the $100 NBA show. If you love what you hear, leave us an iTunes rating and review. We'd love to hear what you think of the show by leaving us a review. You enter our weekly random draw we call Free Ride Friday. Every Friday, we give away a lifetime membership to one of our programs. Go ahead and leave us an iTunes rating or review right now and you enter our weekly random draw. Just listen in on Friday to see if you won. It's that simple. It's our way to say thanks for showing us love on itunes. And while you're there, hit that subscribe button so you never miss an episode by hitting subscribe. The next episode, when it's available, is right on your device. Perfect. Thank you so much for listening. Before I go, I want to leave you with this. If you don't define success, if you don't define what winning feels like or what winning is, no one will. Okay? It's just not going to happen naturally or organically. You as a team need to set this up. Most of us fall into despair, fall in this feeling of not really making any progress because we never set up the goal posts. You need to make sure you define, hey, this is a win. This is how we score. Let's go for it. Thank you so much for listening and I'll check you in tomorrow's episode. I'll see you then. Take care. Hey, Fidelity, Can I get a second.

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