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TEAMS365 #2558 – Year End Stock Taking

12/31/2020

2020 has been a year of many things unexpected. It’s been an opportunity to change and grow and involved tons of learning for everyone who had to pivot or double down on their work. As we go to wrap up the year, I want to wish you and your loved ones all the best for a new year!

Here are several questions I hope you will find useful as you go to undertake your year end stock taking:

1. What's been your biggest success for you this year?
2. What are you most proud of accomplishing?
3. What were your greatest results?
4. What habits have you cultivated?
5. What routines ground you?
6. What changes do you want to make as you step into the new year?
7. What three adjectives sum up the year for you?
8. What were key relationships instrumental to your success and experience this year?
9. What has been your biggest, and most important, learning this year?
10. Looking ahead, what are your key goals? What will wild success look like?
11. What do you want to make sure you keep doing in the new year? What do you want to stop doing?
12. What do you want to acknowledge yourself for?
13. What and how will you celebrate the successes of this year?

See you in 2021!
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
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Phone: (416)996-8326

TEAMS365 #2553 – Weekly Journaling Prompt 134

12/26/2020

As we go to wrap up the last Weekly Journaling Prompt of 2020, you are invited to consider the prompt “This year I….”.

What are the things you:

Were proud of?
Accomplished?
Learned?
Beat or Banished?
Embraced?
Focused on?
Were grateful for?

Enjoy your weekend reflections and it’s been a pleasure to bring you these Weekly Journaling Prompts for 2020!

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 #2551 – Taking a Pause for Gratitude – Team Building Tip 275

12/24/2020

As we step into the next few days, I hope that you will have a chance to pause and take a few minutes to wrap up the year with your team. What have you been grateful for? What are the habits you have developed? What are the achievements you have had? What has been your key learning this year?

Enjoy the conversation and downtime as we move into the last week of the year!

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 #2544 – Team Building Tip #274 – Calibrate

12/17/2020

This Thursday’s Team Building Tip is CALIBRATE. What do you want to focus on adjusting?

Calibrate is defined by the Oxford Languages as “adjust (experimental results) to take external factors into account or to allow comparison with other data.”
This week, as many teams go to wind down their work for a few weeks, consider as a team, what do you want to CALIBRATE?

What are the things you want to ADJUST to take external factors into account?

What are the areas you want to compare with other data?

What’s important as a team to have dialogue around right now?

Enjoy the conversation!
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 #2542 – Power Up – Stand Out Virtually – In Review

12/15/2020

Last week I hosted the Power Up Stand Out Virtually Five-Day Challenge. As with any of the challenges I’ve run this year, it as full of learning, connection and ideas. I love the inspiration of bringing different people together for a series of calls.

During the five days we explored:

The Power of Vision and Purpose
The Power of Engagement
The Power of Planning and Systems
Powering Up our Marketing and Branding
The Power of Teams and Community

Each one of these is an important lever as we move into a new year. What are you doing to build in time in your work for each one?

We’ll be touching on many of these topics later this week on Friday December 18th between 10-2 pm ET at the Virtual Open House I am hosting to showcase some of the work those in my community are engaging with. I hope that you will join us for the entire 4 hours or part of it.

If you missed last week’s Power Up Stand Out Virtually Five-Day Challenge, you can now participate in on-demand, moving through each of the five days at your own pace. It’s available to you at $47 US and includes the five days of videos, worksheets and even a few planning tools for you to take forward from PlanDoTrack. You can get it here

It’s likely that the entire skillset of virtual will continue to be a key focus for 2021, whether the world of work will include more virtual or hybrid work. I look forward to continuing to serve you in the new year!

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 #2535 – 5 Things to Always Keep in Mind with Virtual Calls

12/8/2020

Virtual calls will continue to be the norm into the next year. With this in mind, here’s a quick refresh of five things to keep in mind as you are leading or participating with virtual calls:

#1 – Clarity around purpose and outcomes. As Stephen Covey wrote, “Always start with the end in mind”. What is the outcome you are aiming for? What will it look like when success is achieved?

#2 – Leverage the different learning styles which exist. There are many different types of elements of interaction you can participate with – from more auditory listening to more hands-on kinesthetic approaches where we can incorporate annotation.

#3 – Leave time during the call for silence and reflection. Most people are moving so fast right now that there is minimal time to focus on what’s important. What are you doing to create a pause point for people to be able to catch their breath and take notes?

#4 – Make it visual. The power of visuals is often overlooked. What is the journey you want to take people on? What do you want to focus on as you move forward? What are the visual metaphors you want to capture? What else is important to note?

#5 – Leave time at the end for people to name and note their next steps. Before we know it, we are off to another call. What are you doing to ensure that people have the chance to identify and write out their next steps, even scheduling it in.? As Peter Drucker noted, “What doesn’t get scheduled, doesn’t get done.”

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 #2532 – Weekly Journaling Prompt 132: In Retrospect

12/5/2020

“The goal of retrospectives is help teams to continuously improve their way of working.”
― Ben Linders, Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises

Welcome back to another Saturday blog post, this one focusing on the journaling prompt “In Retrospect”. It is time to take a look back …at the year? At a key project? At a relationship?

Retrospects can be important way to build in learning from an activity. What are you doing to create pause points after your major tasks and activities?

Enjoy the reflection!
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 #2530 – Team Building Tip 272

12/3/2020

This week’s Team Building focus revolves around the fact that small changes add up. This year has been full of changes, on an ongoing basis. Spend some time this week thinking about, and reflecting on/sharing, the changes you have gone through as a team.

How has it helped you?
How has it hindered you?
What impacts have you had from the changes?
How have the changes helped you grow?
What’s possible now for you that was not possible at the start of the year?

This week’s Team Building Tips gets you reconnected to your learning as a business and team.

Enjoy!
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 #2529 - 8 Activities To Be Sure to Slate in This Month

12/2/2020

This month’s focus at the blog is going to be all about winding down the year. While it’s not a usual year by any means there are a number of key activities you might want to undertake this month. Consider if you have scheduled the following:

Team one-on-one meetings – check out the recent post on 10 areas to explore in your year end 1-1s
Time to wrap up the most important projects for 1-1
Reflection time to consider learning
Planning time for 2021 (even though your planning window may not be the same as always, it is important to connect around these). Consider business and personal goals.
Budget time
Outreach to customers (virtually)
Outreach to stakeholders and other partners (virtually)
Time to downshift and recharge. I think we’d all agree that this year has been anything but usual. What do you want to do to create a pause and renewal time for yourself?

Is there anything else you want to make sure you leave time for this year, other than time with your loved ones?

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 #2511 – weekly Journaling Prompt 129

11/14/2020

Welcome back to another Weekly Journaling Prompt. While it’s not quite the end of the year, it’s about that time to start building in time for reflection and preparation for the new year. This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt is “My learning has been….”

I imagine this year has been ripe with learning. What have been those learning moments? The experience of learning? The triggering factors which led to learning? How you’ve put learning into practice, again, and again, and again…

I hope that you enjoy this week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt!

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