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Shannon Waller's Team Success

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  • Shannon Waller, author of The Team Success Handbook, has been the entrepreneurial team expert at Strategic Coach® since 1995. Shannon Waller’s Team Success podcasts are a series of insights around teamwork and success that she’s gained from working with entrepreneurs.
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  • Stuck In The Perfection Gap? Try Leading From “The Gain”

    Stuck In The Perfection Gap? Try Leading From “The Gain”
    May 16 2024
    Raise your hand if you’re a perfectionist. Do you often find yourself focusing on what’s not working and feeling constantly frustrated? When your team checks in with you on a project they’re working on, do you tend to focus on the parts that need to be fixed? The parts that aren’t completed yet? “What about X, Y, and Z?” In this episode of Team Success, Shannon Waller discusses why it’s critical to work and lead from “The Gain,” not “The Gap.” She explains the concept of The Gap And The Gain™, one of the foundational concepts of Strategic Coach® that has helped tens of thousands of people improve their relationships with their teams, families, and everyone else. Don’t miss this episode for practical methods to create psychological safety within the team, foster a positive environment, and drive growth within your team. Download Episode Transcript Show Notes: Shift Your Focus To Progress, Not Perfection When you measuring progress from where you started (The Gain) rather than against an ideal (The Gap), you celebrate how far you’ve come and focus on what is working. Acknowledging The Gain builds confidence and motivation within yourself and your team. Remember: Progress, not perfection, is the key to growth. Cultivate Psychological Safety For Your Team Studies (see links below) have shown that top productive and profitable teams share just one thing in common: everyone trusts and respects one another. Researchers refer to this aspect of group culture as “psychological safety.” Psychological safety in a team has repeatedly shown to have a bigger impact on the team’s performance than any other factor, including collective intelligence. As a leader, your job is to help people stay in The Gain instead of The Gap; otherwise, they are going to play defense, not offense. If people are defensive, they’re not taking risks, and if they don’t take risks, your company can’t grow. When there is psychological safety, team members can own their mistakes because they are allowed to make them to learn from them. Dan Sullivan, co-founder of Strategic Coach, says, “When there’s a problem with a person, 99% of the time it’s not the person; it’s the system.” Being an “impact” leader means always measuring progress and looking for improvement ideas to improve results. Strategies For Staying In The Gain Positive Mindset: Use the Strategic Coach online web app WinStreak® to track your top three wins every day and set up three wins for tomorrow. Short-Circuit The Amygdala: You can use tools such as The Experience Transformer® to turn negative experiences into valuable learning opportunities without overreacting or placing blame. Describe The Circumstance:Begin by objectively describing the situation that did not go as planned, focusing on facts rather than emotions. Identify Successes:Acknowledge aspects of the experience that worked well to recognize positive elements amidst challenges. List Areas For Improvement:Pinpoint specific aspects that did not contribute to the desired outcome to identify areas for enhancement. Brainstorm Solutions:Encourage creative brainstorming to generate ideas for improvement based on the identified challenges. Implement A New Approach:Develop a revised plan, incorporating insights gained from the experience to guide future endeavors. Encourage Learning:Treat failures as learning opportunities and promote continuous improvement for culture and company growth. The Strategic Coach P.A.G.E. core values: P = Positive and collaborative teamwork. A = Alert, curious, responsive, and resourceful. G = Focus on growth and results. E = Provide an excellent, first-class experience. Key Take-Aways Keep yourself in The Gain. No one likes working with a leader who is always in The Gap. If you have any questions or comments, reach out at questions@strategicoach.com. Resources:
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    25 mins
  • Behind The Scenes: The Key To Creating First-Class Client Experiences

    Behind The Scenes: The Key To Creating First-Class Client Experiences
    Apr 18 2024
    Before important client meetings, are you and your team running around handling last-minute logistics? How prepared does your team feel going into the meeting? In this episode, Shannon Waller discusses the value of bookending client meetings with clearings and debriefs to elevate the overall experience for clients and team members. Here’s the why and how of Strategic Coach’s backstage process that prepares the team for delivering exceptional front stage results. Download Episode Transcript Show Notes: Clearings Before Meetings: Positive Focus®: Starting with the Positive Focus exercise allows everyone to: Feel energized and excited by reflecting on a recent win. Get present and shift their focus from past or future distractions. Preview of the day: Providing an overview of what to expect during the day: Helps everyone get familiar with the agenda, timing, and their roles. Focuses the team on key conversations or key points to make. Setting intentions: Everyone states what they want to be true at the end of the experience, thereby creating a shared vision they’re all aligned on. Debriefs After Meetings: Reflection and sharing: Debriefs at the end of the day provide an opportunity for team members and clients to reflect on the experience, share insights, and discuss key takeaways. Continual improvement: By discussing what worked well, areas for improvement, and any insights gained, the team can continually enhance their performance and refine their approach for future meetings. Leaving on a positive note: As a final wrap-up, each person shares the value they got from the meeting. Benefits Of Clearings And Debriefs: Being present: The team has greater engagement in, participation in, and ownership of a superb client experience. Centering the results for the client: By focusing on what will allow clients to leave feeling more confident and motivated, the team can stay responsive to delivering a more personalized and impactful experience. Psychological and emotional preparation: The team is alert and responsive to client needs, ready to expand and elevate the thinking in the room. Everyone is more confident, clear, and prepared to take action to achieve the agreed upon-result for the client. Transformational experience: When the team is focused on the clients, they have the opportunity to create unexpected value for them, elevating the interaction from a transactional experience to a transformational one. Teams can incorporate clearings and debriefs with meetings, coaching sessions, workshops, or any other key client interactions to significantly enhance the overall experience for both clients and team members. At Strategic Coach®, we also have clearings and debriefs for internal team meetings so that we can continually improve our internal experience. Though the goal is to constantly improve client satisfaction, this always has to include elevating the experience for team members too. Resources: Article: “Your Business Is A Theater Production: Your Back Stage Shouldn’t Show On The Front Stage.” Free tool kit download, including The Positive Focus® EOS®: Entrepreneurial Operating System®
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    18 mins
  • The Power Of Saying “Yes” To New Ideas

    The Power Of Saying “Yes” To New Ideas
    Apr 11 2024
    How would you like to learn a strategy for improving creativity, connection, and collaboration within your team that’s as simple as saying the word “yes”? In this episode, Shannon Waller explains how graciously saying yes to your team members’ ideas is an easy yet powerful way to foster deeper conversations and collective problem solving, and dives into the importance of cultivating a positive environment for idea sharing. With actionable techniques for leaders, entrepreneurs, and team members to harness the power of teamwork and practical ways to validate and engage with new ideas, this is one episode you won’t want to miss! Download Episode Transcript Show Notes: Finding aspects of an idea to say yes to can significantly increase collaboration and creativity within your team. Team productivity depends heavily on whether entrepreneurs can create a positive space for sharing ideas. To foster this kind of idea-sharing culture, it’s important to acknowledge and respect the mindset of individuals who are brave enough to come to you or their team leaders—people who stand higher above them in the company’s hierarchy whether it’s explicit or not—with their ideas. There are practical techniques you can use for engaging with and validating new ideas, all of which promote constructive dialogue and problem solving. Team collaboration only gets better when you seek out and engage with new ideas from individuals whose thinking profiles and striving instincts differ from your own. Graciously finding parts of an idea to support, rather than outright rejecting ideas that aren’t perfect in their entirety, can also lead to deeper conversations and more effective teamwork. You can create a more collaborative environment for discussion when you try to find common ground with whatever idea is being pitched to you. Resources: Working Genius The Kolbe A™ Index
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    9 mins
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