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TEAMS365 #2466 – Wrapping up Q3 and Stepping into Q4

9/30/2020

It’s the last day of Q3 and we’re just about to step into Q4. Who is ready to step forward? Before we go there, I’d like to invite you to take 10 minutes or more today to do a brief reflection on your experience. If you prefer to do the reflection by video, take a look at this Quarterly Review Video I recorded 18 months ago as we moved from Q1 to Q2 2019. The questions are evergreen and don’t expire.

Grab pen and paper and take a look at this…

Best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

Join us September 17th for the one-day Stand Out Virtually! STtdio Day Masterclass - Learn more about creating exceptional virtual presentations, meetings and programs, and leave the day with your next one sketched out!

TEAMS365 #2465 – Virtual Co-Working

9/29/2020

2020 – the year of the bubble. Physical isolation has led to many to feeling more isolated than ever. Just last week we released episode 21 of the Remote Pathways podcast, where we touch on the topic of Virtual Co-Working. You can check it out on your favorite podcast player OR here.

One thing I really love as a podcaster is hosting our twice a month breakfast calls. It’s open to all and I hope you will drop in for one before the end of the year!

In the most recent Remote Pathways community call on September 17th, Michelle and I talked about the many different forms virtual co-working can take.

Here’s a quick overview of the different types we talked about. What’s interesting is that between us both of us support programming virtually all these different types of co-working. Which ones might work best for you?

Zoom Call - Working real time for short blocks of time on Zoom
Virtual Retreat - While Michelle focuses on virtual retreats for personal development in her Anchor Your Heart Retreats, I focus more on virtual business planning sessions.
Lunch and Learn - Professional development opportunities abound for many professionals and breakfasts, lunches and dinners are very common. As I share in the call, it’s not uncommon for me to speak to a group of 20 or even 200 virtually over lunch. Contact me if you are looking for a speaker for your lunch and learn.
Social Time - Quarantinis became a popular 5 pm activity in the early days of the pandemic. Today that’s morphed into many different formats. What are you doing to create more social time with colleagues and friends and family, virtually?
Design (Studio Time) - For many of the clients I work with, design or studio time is important. Getting together with others can create more focused work and impact. What are you wanting to design and how might some virtual studio time support you? Again, contact me for upcoming virtual studio days AND sprints.
Conversations - What are the conversations you want to have this month? Who have you not reached out to recently?
Get it Done! - Getting things done are critical for success. One of the favorite activities with the annual lab programs I run is the Get It Done Days. What could 4 hours of focused work get off your list?
Games/challenges - Challenges are one of my new favorite activities. I kicked off the Stand Out Virtually Challenge in August and more than a hundred joined me. I’ll be hosting my next challenge in October so stay tuned and join us at the Virtual and Remote Visionaries Hub to keep posted.
Team Time – Finally, what is the time you have earmarked for your team for team development?

What are the types of co-working experiences you want to engage with?

Be sure to check out the September 17th Breakfast Community Call for more on Virtual Co-Working – You can view the 30 minute call here.

Best,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

Join us September 17th for the one-day Stand Out Virtually! STtdio Day Masterclass - Learn more about creating exceptional virtual presentations, meetings and programs, and leave the day with your next one sketched out!

TEAMS365 #2439 – Team Building Tip 261

9/3/2020

Today’s Team Building Tip is a systems check. It is geared to get you thinking about what needs attention in your systems. Systems are a valuable component of business, which allow us to streamline, and also ensure consistency. This is key is different people are working on the team.

In PlanDoTrack, and Coaching Business Builder, I share systems in 5 key areas -- these are important whether we are a solopreneur or running a 1,000-person operation. Consider here you are in each of these and what could use attention:

Financial systems
Client Systems
Marketing
Content
Sales

Questions you might consider are:

Financial systems – How are you doing with things including invoicing, accounts payable, receivable? What makes it easy for people to do business with you? What do you find challenging? Is it time to get some advice in this area, or renegotiate your terms?
Client systems – What are the things clients receive as they become a client of yours? What message does it send? Is there anything you’ve been wanting to create for your clients which doesn’t yet exist? Consider welcome letters, questionnaires, agreements etc.
Marketing – Marketing is at the heart of a coaching business. Whether we are marketing via relationship building, content marketing, in-person or via social media, what are you doing to let people know about what you have to offer, what coaching is and how you provide support? What could use an update? A refresh? Look at your metrics? What’s working? What’s not?
Content – Content marketing may be a tangential part of a coaching business, however, over time, it’s likely that you may find yourself blogging, podcasting or creating content for reading lists and TED talks you recommend around the topics you coach around. For those that are going offer more than coaching services, this may be a significant part of your work. If you have a copy of the Coaching Business Builder, check out the Content Development Tools, including the Content Daily Trackers. Note what content you have created this year, OR spend time thinking about the top 3 areas you would like to develop content around for the new year.
Sales – What do you have in place around sales? Is it time for a web update? How clear is your call to action? What do you want people to do on each of your webpages?

What are the areas you want to focus on, or revisit as you step into September?

Best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

TEAMS365 #2437 Welcome to September – August Month in Review, September Planning & Gearing Up For Back To Work & School

9/1/2020

Welcome back to September. I’m excited to step into another month of blog posts with you. This start of September may be a little different than past years AND for many it still signals the start of a new year and new routines.

As we start this month, what are you excited about? What are you looking forward to? What do you want to make sure you focus on?

We’re going to start the month with our typical monthly review and stock taking. If you haven’t participated in one of these before, I hope you will take 5-10 minutes today to work on it. What’s important to note and pay attention to?

Looking back to the month of August (and/or the summer):

What were your achievements?
What didn’t get completed but is going to be carried forward?
What learning did you undertake?
What strengths did you leverage?
What got in the way of your plans/achievements?
What helped to MAGNIFY or AMPLIFY things?
What helped you FOCUS?
What helped you SIMPLIFY or streamline?
What else is important to note about your past month? (metrics, lessons learned, other…)
What did you do to renew?
What habits did you lean into?

Looking ahead to the month ahead:

What are your major goals for September?
What do you want to focus on?
What needs to be completed by the end of the quarter/end of this month?
What is the one routine you want to make sure you develop or maintain?
What’s important to let go of?
What will help you streamline or systematize?
What will help you MAGNIFY or AMPLIFY?
What habits do you want to focus on?
What relationships do you want to pay attention to?
What actions/projects do you want to complete, not matter what?
What else is important to note?

Enjoy your reflections!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

TEAMS365 #2426 – Stand Out Virtually! Recap

8/21/2020

A big thanks to those who joined me this week for the Stand Out Virtually challenge. Who had fun? Who is walking away with some practical tips you can put into practice RIGHT NOW?

It’s never been more important to be able to deliver engaging and impactful virtual conversations. It’s key for both business and results.

This week we’ve covered a range of essential virtual tips – from the 4 PERC ingredients needed in every call, to working with visuals, to boosting engagement.

What are the elements which you are going to put into practice?

I’ll be hosting another Stand Out Virtually challenge later this fall, this time focusing more on design. Be sure that you are on the mailing list! You can sign up here for this and other updates.

Interested in Virtual Calls in general? Join the LetsTalkVirtual Mailing list here.

All the best,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

TEAMS365 #2423 – Stand Out Virtually with PERC

8/18/2020

As part of Day 1 of the Stand Out Virtually Challenge I am hosting this week, I covered 4 essential ingredients for any virtual call. Whether you are leading a webinar, group coaching session, virtual team meeting or presentation, we all can benefit from incorporating these four elements into our virtual and remote presentations:

P – Process - Process is key in the remote space. What’s the end result? What’s the sequence from one area to another? What is the call to action?

E – Engagement - What are the elements of engagement you want to incorporate?

R – Results - What are the results you are aiming for? What are the 2-3 bullet points you want people to leave with?

C – Connection - What are you doing to connect people to the material? To the context? To each other? To yourself?

Catch up on the recording from day 1 (it’s available until early afternoon today – Eastern/New York/Toronto). Can’t make the calls but want to benefit from the content? Purchase the recordings for the week for $47 US. You can sign up at here.

Wishing you all the best,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

The Stand Out Virtually Challenge starts Monday, and The Week In Review

8/16/2020

I hope that your weekend is going great! A reminder that I’ll be kicking off a free five day challenge on Monday. We’ll be meeting in my zoom room from Monday through Friday of this week between 9 – 930 am ET for the Stand Out Virtually Challenge.

What’s a challenge? Five days of connecting in with a community for learning and sharing around virtual learning, and then taking daily steps around your visuals to take them up to the next level.

During this fun and free 5-day challenge, you will….

Discover core ingredients to include in every virtual call
Create your own WOW virtual elements
Start integrating elements into your own programming, one step at a time.

We’ll be looking at topics including visuals in virtual calls, skills and ingredients needed, and creating memorability.

It’s going to be a lot of fun!

To participate, sign up at https://www.standoutvirtually.com.

Each day I’ll send out a call with the recording link via the Stand Out Virtually Email List (that’s the link you’ll sign up for at Standoutvitually.com). We’ll also be connecting over at my new Facebook Group – Virtual and Remote Visionaries Hub – to share insights, resources and each night’s assignment. There will also be several giveaways during the week (think digital resources to support you in your virtual calls) plus a grand prize drawn on the 24th for those who complete every day’s challenge.

For those that cannot attend the live calls, they will be posted at the Facebook group for a 24 hour period, and I’m likely to provide a recording option as well.

I do hope you will join us – sign up at https://www.standoutvirtually.com.

Now…given it’s Sunday, let’s take a look back at this week’s posts:

Enjoy your weekend and I hope to see you on Monday for the Stand Out Virtually Challenge! Just catching this now and it’s already after Monday of the week of August 17th – no worries. You can join us until Friday August 21st Head on over to StandOutVirtually.com to sign up!

With best wishes,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

TEAMS365 #2417 – Stand Out Virtually!

8/12/2020

Next week I’ll be hosting a five-day challenge entitled “Stand out virtually!”. Whether you are an entrepreneur, team leader or remote worker, it has never been more important to stand out virtually. How many calls have you been on which are:

Unfocused
Have no call to action
Don’t leave time to address to discuss what needs to be discussed
Are a “talking head” experience, rather than an interactive, engaging dialogue.

From Monday August 17th to Friday August 21st from 11 -12 noon ET each day I’ll be hosting the Stand Out Virtually! 5 Day Challenge. Over the course of the five days, I’ll be holding a live call each day on Zoom and Facebook.

You are invited to join me live and/or in the Virtual and Remote Virtual Visionaries Facebook Group.

Go and sign up right now for the Challenge – you can do so here.

If you and your business aren’t standing out in the sea of virtual programs right now, it’s likely you aren’t able to have the impact you are looking for. From a business perspective you might even be leaving money on the table. If you are a leader, it’s likely that your team is not performing as well as they can.

There’s an incredible opportunity for you to make some quick changes to how you are leading your virtual conversation and additions to what you are doing right now. Whether you are meeting on Zoom, Teams, Skype for Business, Go To or other platforms, we’ll be looking at five core areas for virtual programming.

Let me ask you:

Would you like to jazz up your virtual calls?
Would you like to be seen as the “Go To” person in your area around virtual, but don’t know how?
Would you like to make your calls more interactive, so everyone’s voice is in the room?
Would you like to make your calls more impactful, so people leave with clarity around their next steps and get it done?

Take a minute to sign up now and be sure to block off your calendar for next week’s sessions.

I look forward to hosting you!

Take a minute and be sure to join us over at the Virtual and Remote Visionaries Hub as well on Facebook. You can join us here.

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

TEAMS365 #2406 – July in Review and August Planning

8/1/2020

It’s the beginning of August which means that it’s time to stop and take a pause to check in around your plans and goals.

How did July go? What progress are you making on your Q3 goals? What’s your focus going to be this month?

What did you notice about your metrics last month?

My hope is that today you will take a few minutes to stop and pause and do some planning for the month of August and beyond, while also taking some time to reflect on July.

It’s been 2 years since I launched the Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner, and about 18 months since PlanDoTrack was released. Since that time, many of you have gone through one planner, moved to the other. Did you know that this spring I also made the planners available at our site for digital download? While they are intended for analog use (ie. hardcopy) you can now order a digital copy and print it off for personal use.

Pick up a copy of the PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner (for virtual and remote professionals) here at our Potentials Realized site here.

Pick up a copy of the Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner for coaches at our Potentials Realized site here.

If you have a copy of either one of these, you will want to explore:
#1 – The Month in Review
#2 – The Monthly Daily Trackers
#3 – One Line a Day

And for now, here are some reflection and planning questions (I’ve gone back to July 2019’s post for these!):

Looking back to the month of July:

What are you pleased with achieving?
What didn’t get completed but is going to be carried forward?
What strengths did you leverage this month?
What got in the way of your plans/achievements?
What helped to MAGNIFY or AMPLIFY things?
What helped you FOCUS?
What helped you SIMPLIFY?
What else is important to note about your month? (metrics, lessons learned, other…)
What did you do to renew?
What habits did you lean into?

Looking ahead to the month ahead:

What are your major goals?
What do you want to focus on?
What do you want to let go of?
What will help you simplify?
What will help you MAGNIFY or AMPLIFY?
What habits do you want to focus on?
What relationships do you want to pay attention to?
What actions/projects do you want to complete, not matter what?
What else is important to note?

Enjoy your planning!
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326

TEAMS365 #2403 – Stand Out Remotely

7/29/2020

One of the many challenges faced at the moment is standing out remotely. With back-to-back virtual meetings becoming the norm, one call can blend into another. Note, if you haven’t read yesterday’s Back to The Basics call on the Energy of the Call, check it out.

At the same time, many professionals are concerned that they are not as visible in the virtual space as they are in a face to face environment. This translates to concern around their visibility for career progression, taking on special projects etc.

Several things you will want to consider:

#1 – What does “standing out remotely” mean for you ? What’s important about this? Do you want to stand out more so that your message is remembered – which may mean more about presentation techniques? OR is it standing out as a professional? And perhaps someone who is known for great virtual calls which whiz by and are remembered. What’s your WHY around this?

#2 – Our personal brand can get translated through the screen through our slides, images, our background and also what we are wearing. What are the brand elements you want to keep in mind?

#3 – Be proactive. This might mean getting into the rhythm of connecting regularly with others. It might mean getting a mentor. It might mean focusing in on getting active in a professional association. What do you want to be known for?

Standing out remotely means many different things. I’ll be focusing more on the topic in August as it relates to leading more engaging and memorable virtual calls. Are you ready to Stand Out? Check out my 5 Day Challenge – Standing Out Virtually at (insert)

Have a great week and hope you will join us next week.

Best,
Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
Growing Team Leaders, One Conversation at a Time™ in the Remote Space
Contact us to discuss leadership, coaching or performance needs for your and your team
Phone: (416)996-8326