Monday, Monday
Let’s talk about Mondays. I love them. I don’t really like meetings, but I do like starting the week. What I want to know is what do you do to make the most of Mondays?
Help me make my Mondays better. Here is what we do, innovate for me and for anyone else reading.
7:30 am - Personal Think Time for the week
8:30-10:00 am - Executive Meeting - We spend our time discussing the highlights of the past week, the needs of the current week, and have a light leadership lesson depending on where we are in our business.
10:30 am - Strategy Meeting - Online, Marketing, Special Projects
11:30 am - Brief Employee Meeting - Random encouragement in someone else’s office
Noon - Usually a business lunch of some sort
1:00-5:00 pm - Various Conference Calls (two scheduled for each Monday)
That is my normal Monday. I am looking to change it up a bit. My questions are as follows:
1. How should I incorporate other leaders within the company outside of those on the executive team?
2. How can I make Mondays consistent, and yet not boring or predictable?
3. Should I alternate meetings every other week and add more people based on business lines?
I welcome your thoughts…
Posted on December 02, 2008 in Leader Development
2 Comments
Guy Richards said...
Hey Jeremie,
Jen Hudson turned me on to your blog.
Anyway, try to schedule time to serve your front-liners. (You may be doing this with the random encouragement, but not sure.) Pick one person per week.
Ask questions. How is your family? What do you like to do for fun? And the most important, if you owned the company what would you change? This is the most important question but to get it truthfully your employees must feel total trust that you will not discipline them if they say the wrong thing.
In almost every corporate discovery project we do I find that the front-liners hold valuable keys that seemingly never make it to the executive table with out a mediator.
But as you know, when the employees feel valuable and listened too, production and passion flow pushing the brand farther then it could ever went on shear capital.
It all starts with the leader. Under Saul’s leadership the soldiers shook for 40 days, under David’s they conquered the Philistine army.
-Guy
1 Chronicles 12:32
Comment by Guy Richards - Dec 02, 2008 @ 06:04 PM
Jason Grant said...
Point 2: Incorporate or invite other leaders from other companies to share insights on leadership/strategy and how they’ve combatted some of the business challenges they face. 5-10 min insights…if not in person (which might be ideal), would they write an article for you, write a small note of encouragement to the team, etc…maybe surprise the team with “surprise” guests unannounced.
Point 1: invite team members where appropriate when planning the meeting. Not the whole meeting necessarily but portions that might be applicable. Surprise them. Say “do you have a minute…want you to hear something…” Just an idea. Knowing their strengths is important. Ask yourself, where could “this” person benefit from what were talking about “right now” given their strengths and talents.
Comment by Jason Grant - Dec 02, 2008 @ 06:45 PM