Category: Business Development

TEAMS365 #2260 – Week in Review

3/8/2020

This week’s posts focused primarily on remote work. It included posts on:

Monday’s post on 8 Essential Meeting Questions
Outreach and Building Relationships Virtually – Tuesday
Boundaries in Remote Work – Wednesday
Thursday’s post on Digital Detox
Friday’s post on 7 Focus Areas for Remote Team Leaders
Saturday’s post on LOVE

Enjoy your reading!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders | Remote Pathways Podcast
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Everything DiSC
Phone (416)996-8326

Get your planning on with the PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner or Coaching Business Builder
Looking to enhance your virtual conversations? Webinars? Pick up a copy of Effective Virtual Conversations at Amazon.
Check out upcoming programs on our calendar!

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TEAMS365 #2225 – Weekly Round up & the Teams365 Calendar of Posts

2/2/2020

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Welcome to Sunday! It’s time for a weekly round-up and also sharing the February 2020 Calendar with you. Now that the Teams365 blog is in it’s seventh year (yes!) there’s a lot of content you may find invaluable. This year I wanted to provide a monthly calendar to showcase some of the more interesting posts from our history.

If you didn’t see January’s calendar access it here.

And now, drumroll please…. Here’s February’s calendar!

If you missed this last week of posts, here’s what there was:

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and hope that you’ll enjoy looking through February’s calendar. This month we’re focusing on collaboration and relationships.

Don’t forget to download the calendar here!

Best wishes,
Jennifer

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TEAMS365 #2222 – Team Building Tip 272

1/30/2020

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This week’s Team Building Tip reminds you that small changes add up. It’s often the incremental changes which are cumulative over time. What are the changes you have been making as a team over this last six months? Year? How are they adding up?

One of the things that happens with incremental change is that we don’t see it when the shifts are small. This is where taking time to pause so you can note the changes becomes important.

When our teams are small, or when we are a solopreneur, or working remote, it can be very important to explore how these small changes add up. Unlike instances where we may have a huge amount of resources, being able to see the impact of the small shifts we are able to make is key to motivation.

What type of change is important for you right now? Here’s an interesting blog post from the Green Book Blog to explore the distinctions between incremental change and disruptive change.

What’s important for you as a team to explore?

A reminder that I will be hosting the month end review session for January tomorrow, Friday January 31st, from 3- 4 pm ET. During this time, you’ll have the opportunity to pause and take stock of your January accomplishments, while doing some planning for the month of February. You can learn more about this program and register here. Cost $49 US.

Best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders | Remote Pathways Podcast
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Writing
Phone (416)996-8326

Check out upcoming programs on our calendar!

As we step into the start of the year, get your planning on with the PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner or Coaching Business Builder
Looking to enhance your virtual conversations? Webinars? Pick up a copy of Effective Virtual Conversations at Amazon.

Winter 2019 programs start this week including the Coaching Biz Growth Lab (an annual focus on coaching business development), GroupCoachingEssentials (8.75 CCEs), the Advanced Group and Team Coaching Practicum (10 CCEs) and the Virtual Facilitation Essentials program (8.5 CCEs) - geared to support you in creating more exceptional virtual conversations. Finally the Mentor Coaching Group for Winter 2020 will begin - aimed at coaches who are working towards their ACC, PCC or renewing.

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TEAMS365 #2192 – Saying goodbye to an amazing decade and saying hello to a new one!

12/31/2019

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As I go to write this post it’s a bit bittersweet. I’m sure many of you are feeling the same. The 2010s were a great time – personally and professionally.

I’m excited to step into a new decade and leave a few things behind, as well as carry forward many of the lessons learned of the last decade. While my memories of moving from 2009 to 2010 aren’t as clear, I vividly remember the eve of Y2K. Twenty years ago, as a much younger professional I was based in South America. My original four months in a country had turned into almost seven years at that point. I remember wondering what the new decade would bring. As it turned out amazing things – 3 years as a Manager with the UN, and then transitioning into establishing Potentials Realized in 2004.

What are you hopeful for?

As we step into 2020 as a business, we’ll be continuing our focus on providing teams and leaders with exceptional learning experiences grounded in coaching, mentoring and conversations. Our focus on remote work will also continue to expand with:

The Annual Remote Pathways Lab meeting on Fridays during the 2nd and 4th week of the month.
Team Days being custom designed for remote teams – focusing on strengths-based work, team effectiveness, clarifying result and boosting connections.
In-person team days focusing on strengths-based work and team effectiveness.
Our Teams365 series of programming – delivered as virtual modules.
On-demand learning – short, video-based primer courses – Feedback and Team Effectiveness available.
Support to coaches throught the 60 Day Coaching Business Builder Accelerator which starts on January 1st 2020. Coaches - hope you'll join us!

Thank you for visiting and spending time here at the blog. Stay tuned for some exciting changes for 2020 writing.

Wishing you an amazing start to the new decade!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders | Remote Pathways Podcast
Team and Leadership Development | Coaching | Writing
Phone (416)996-8326

As we step into the end of the year, get your planning on with the PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner or Coaching Business Builder
Looking to enhance your virtual conversations? Webinars? Pick up a copy of Effective Virtual Conversations at Amazon.

Coaches - Don't forget we start the 60 Day Coaching Business Builder Accelerator January 1st - I hope you'll join us for this blended -live and on-demand - program.

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TEAMS365 #2185 – Traditions

12/24/2019

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As many of us wind down for the next few days or weeks, it’s gotten me to think about tradition. Traditions were always important in my family – from weekend road-trips to the cottage and seasonal openings and closings, as well as making a point of celebrating with friends and loved ones at key seasonal holidays. It’s always created an anchor of certainty even in a changing world of work, and locations. In continuing these traditions with my own family, I can see how important it’s been.

On a business level, I’ve also aimed to maintain certain traditions including an annual year end call taking a look back at the landscape of group and team programming. This year was my 15th annual call. That’s a lot of calls and conversations, AND I know that it’s an important milestone marker for my community as well as myself.

What are the traditions you engage with on a personal level? As a leader? As a business?

What are the milestones you want to celebrate? What’s important to note for yourself?

Best wishes,
Jennifer

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TEAMS365 #2152 – Team Building Tip #262: What's Getting in the Way?

11/21/2019

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This week’s Team Building Tip gets you to consider the question – “What’s getting in the way?” As a team, what are the things which have obstructed you from what’s really important?

It’s at this time of year that we may become really clear about the SHINY RED OBJECTS which have become an alluring focus but may not have translated to business results. OR WAIT? Have they?

It can be important to think about activities not only from an immediate impact, but also in terms of the longer-term activities and seed-planting work which needs to go into bigger projects. For those reading the Teams 365 blog who are solopreneurs you will probably know what I mean. Many times, we take on creative projects which may not be revenue generating but actually are key in moving the business forward. The challenge is to make sure that there is a good balance between those activities which need to happen NOW and generate revenue, as well as those activities which are key to business growth but may only pay off in the long run.

This week consider the question – What’s getting in the way? Is it a closed road, or an important detour?

What do you need to say YES to? NO to?

Best wishes,
Jennifer

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TEAMS365 #2138 – Team Building Tip #261

11/7/2019

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This week’s Team Building Tip is a systems check. Systems are key in the remote and virtual workspace. They are the things that keep us doing things in a consistent manner, creating a seamless experience for our team members and customers. Consider a team that is spread across Los Angeles, Toronto, London, Paris and Shanghai. We want to ensure that a customer will have a similar experience across the different areas.

In my PlanDoTrack Workbook Planner and the Coaching Business Builder Workbook Planner, I explore five systems which can help remote workers and solopreneurs.

They are:

Financial systems - Invoicing, Accounts Payable, Cash Flow, Accounts Receivable etc
Client systems - Welcome Kits, other supports
Onboarding systems - Questionnaires, Agreements, Welcome Letters
Marketing - Websites, Social Media Feeds, Frequently Asked Questions
Content - Do you know what you have created? Do you have an accessible listing of what there is?
Sales - What do you notice about sales? What can generate more? What follow-up do you have with those you have sold to?

What is the current state of these five areas? What could use attention?
What systems do you as a team have in place? What needs focus?
What new systems could benefit the team?

All the best,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton – Potentials Realized
Leadership | Teamwork | Business Success
Author of multiple books including Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), PlanDoTrack (2019) and From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching (2013)
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#TEAMS365 #2119 - Weekly Journaling Prompt 72

10/19/2019

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It’s Saturday which means that it’s time for another Weekly Journaling Prompt. This week’s question gets you to consider the question “I want to celebrate”.

As we step into the last part of the year, and this decade, I hope that you’ll find this week’s WJP a great opportunity to take stock of what your achievements have been this year, as well a some of the past years. It can be easy for our memories to fade so as we step into a new decade would it be useful to explore your achievements each year.

Here are some questions to consider:

What major projects have you been engaged with this year/decade?
What were the major accomplishments during these initiatives?
What are you able to do toady that you could not do at the start of the year? At the start of this decade?
What are the key lessons learned or “Ahas” you have had as you have progressed with your career?

Enjoy your reflections this week!
Jennifer

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#TEAMS365 #2113 – Weekly Round Up

10/13/2019

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This week’s weekly round-up gets us to look back at the blog posts this week.

On Monday, in Effective Virtual Conversation Tip 114 we explored mentoring. Read it here
On Tuesday we explored Performance Reviews and Conversations in the remote space. Read it here.
On Wednesday, we debunked the Remote Myth– “They’ll Understand” – We may need to over communicate in different ways. Read it here.
Thursday’s Team Building Tip got us to consider the Devil’s Advocate perspective around key issue. Read it here.
Friday’s Flashback Friday took us back to at Teams365 2017 post on Remote Team Mistakes. Read it here.
Saturday’s Weekly Journaling post explored the question “____ Is Enough For Me”. Read it here.

What is important for you to note?

Enjoy!
Jennifer

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#TEAMS365 #2106 - Sunday Weekly Round Up

10/6/2019

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Welcome back to the Sunday Weekly Round Up. As we step into the final quarter of the year, I wanted to include a couple of posts that also get you thinking about what is still outstanding for you to complete this year.

Be sure to check out the following posts:

Saturday’s Weekly Journaling Prompt 70 – What do you want to make sure you complete by year end? Read it here.
Friday’s Flashback post which explores Empathy and Connection in Remote Teams. Read it here.
Thursday’s Team Building Tip – What will keep you grounded? Is it time to revisit your values and beliefs to see how they can help you through all the changes? Read this week’s TBT here.
Wednesday’s post on Remote Work Pathways. Read it here.
Tuesday’s post continuing the remote work conversation. Read it here.
Monday's Effective Virtual Conversation Tip #113 on distractions. Read it here.

Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Jennifer

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TEAMS365 #2260 – Week in Review

TEAMS365 #2225 – Weekly Round up & the Teams365 Calendar of Posts

TEAMS365 #2222 – Team Building Tip 272

TEAMS365 #2192 – Saying goodbye to an amazing decade and saying hello to a new one!

TEAMS365 #2185 – Traditions

TEAMS365 #2152 – Team Building Tip #262: What's Getting in the Way?

TEAMS365 #2138 – Team Building Tip #261

#TEAMS365 #2119 - Weekly Journaling Prompt 72

#TEAMS365 #2113 – Weekly Round Up

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