​It’s the final day of October and time to take stock of the month that was.
Take note of these questions:

• As you reflect on October, what have been your successes and accomplishments?
• As you reflect on the last quarter, what have been your successes and accomplishments?
• What are you most proud of?
• What successes this month do you want to duplicate?
• What top 3 learning have you head that you want to carry forward?
• What key relationships have helped you so far this year? Which ones need more attention?
• What has helped your successes?
• What has hindered or gotten in the way?
• What does your team need to be acknowledged for?
  
  As you look to November, consider these questions:
• What are your key priorities for November?
• What are the key goals?
• What are the major priorities?
• What will you need to place attention on?
• What changes do you want to make in November or this quarter?
• What habits do you want to leverage?
• When will you check in to explore your progress, and make changes?
• What resources do you want to tap into?
• Who can help you be successful this month?

Enjoy your reflections,
Jennifer

It’s hard to believe that another month has gone by. Here we are at the end of September and it’s time to do our monthly stock taking and reflection.
If you do track your monthly goals and metrics, today is the day to do this!
Take note of these questions:

• As you reflect on September, what have been your successes and accomplishments?
• As you reflect on the last quarter, what have been your successes and accomplishments?
• What are you most proud of?
• What successes this month do you want to duplicate?
• What top 3 learning have you head that you want to carry forward?
• What key relationships have helped you so far this year? Which ones need more attention?
• What has helped your successes?
• What has hindered or gotten in the way?
• What does your team need to be acknowledged for?
  
  As you look to October, consider these questions:
• What are your key priorities for October?
• What are the key goals?
• What are the major priorities?
• What will you need to place attention on?
• What changes do you want to make in October or this quarter?
• What habits do you want to leverage?
• When will you check in to explore your progress, and make changes?
• What resources do you want to tap into?
• Who can help you be successful this month?

This month also is the start to a new quarter. Grab a few more minutes to think about, and NOTE (yes – write it down).

1. What are your top 5 priorities for this quarter?
2. What will “wild success” look like at the end of the quarter in each of these priority areas?
3. What, and who, do you need to complete these priority areas?
4. What do you need to say NO to, in order to focus on the priorities?
5. What else is important to note about this quarter?

If you have a copy of the Coaching Biz Builder Workbook and Planner it’s time to complete a new quarterly planning section. Join me for a quarterly planning hack!

Enjoy your reflection!

Coming up – October and a focus on Teamwork Skills.

Best,
Jennifer

​Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Effective Virtual Conversations |  Coaching Team Leaders  
We provide team and leadership development support through coaching, consulting and training services
Author of several books including the 2018 Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner & Effective Virtual Conversations (2017) 
Email: info@potentialsrealized.com
(416)996-8326

​It’s Saturday and time for another journaling prompt. In this week’s prompt I thought it would be important to get you to think about themes. The prompt is “This month’s theme is….”.

As you think about what has played out for you in the month of September, what do you notice about the theme that’s emerged?

Here are some additional questions for you to consider as you go to think about September an the fall:
As I take a 30,000 foot view of the month, what are the common issues which have emerged?
What’s connecting with my experiences from earlier this year?
What are the threads that are showing up?
What is the theme I want to hold for the fall?
 
Be well!
 
Jennifer

Month end reflections and planning for the month ahead.

Earlier today I hosted one of my monthly virtual month end planning hacks. These one hour sessions take professionals through a series of reflective prompts, using the tools I have developed for my newest planner, called the Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner. It’s been so well embraced that I am working on editions for other professionals – remote workers, and leaders. Check out the Coaching Business Building Workbook and Planner here.

If you’ve been following the Teams365 blog for any time, you know that I include month end reflection questions and planning prompts for the month ahead. Here are yours for this month:

1. As you reflect on August, what have been your successes and accomplishments?
2. As you reflect on the summer, what have been your successes and accomplishments?
3. What are you most proud of?
4. What successes this month do you want to duplicate?
5. What top 3 learning have you head that you want to carry forward?
6. What key relationships have helped you so far this year? Which ones need more attention?
7. What has helped your successes?
8. What has hindered or gotten in the way?
9. What does your team need to be acknowledged for?
   
   As you look to September, consider these questions:
10. What are your key priorities for September?
    
11. What are the key goals?
12. What are the major priorities?
13. What will you need to place attention on?
14. What changes do you want to make in September?
15. What habits do you want to leverage
16. When will you check in to explore your progress, and make changes?
17. What resources do you want to tap into?
18. Who can help you be successful this month?

I hope that you do take 10-15 minutes to grab a pen, and your journal to undertake this activity. If you have a copy of the Coaching Business Builder,  you will want to use the monthly planning pages to capture your ideas. Also take a look at your trackers and metrics. What do you notice?
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Enjoy!
Jennifer

​Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Effective Virtual Conversations |  Coaching Team Leaders  
We provide team and leadership development support through coaching, consulting and training services
Author of Effective Virtual Conversations (2017) 
Email: info@potentialsrealized.com
(416)996-8326

Where did April Go? What was the theme for you this month?

​It's the last Sunday of the month and I thought it might be useful to share our monthly refelction questions and questions to support you for the month ahead. I hope that you will find a few minutes today to grab a pen or your tablet and journal around the following:

Reflecting back to the month of April:
​1. What was the theme for you and your work/business this month?
​2. What were your major achievements?
​3. What was your major learning?
​4. As you think about your accomplishments, what were the key relationships and actions which supported you in being successful?
​5. What got in the way?
​6. What were you able to do that you didn't think you could?
​7. What foundation have you set for yourself for the next month?
​8. What habits were in support of you? (Think work, personal, financial)
​9. What else is important to note about this month?

​Thinking ahead to May:
​1. What are your  key goals for May?
2. What are the top 3 priorities?
​3. What will you need to do or be, in order to be successful?
​4. Who is important to have on your team, and in your web of relationships, right now?
5. What is the one thing you really want to focus on?
​6. What habits do you want to leverage?
​7. What is the one new thing you want to do or learn this month?
​8. What do you need to say NO to?
9. How will you track your progress?
​10. What will you do to stay at your peak?

​Have a great Sunday,
​Jennifer

It's the end of month two for 2018 and time to take stock of the month that was and take a few minutes to look ahead in setting plans and intentions for the next month. I hope that you will take 10-15 minutes today to do some planning for yourself, reflecting on these questions:

1. As you reflect on February, what have been your successes and accomplishments?
2 What are you most proud of?
3. What successes this month do you want to duplicate? What has been some of your key learnings?
4. What key relationships have helped you? Which ones need more attention?
5  What has helped your successes? What has hindered?
6. What does your team need to be acknowledged for?

As you look to March, consider these questions:
1. What are your key priorities for March?
2. What do you want to make sure you complete by the end of the month? (which may be the end of the quarter)
2. What are the key goals for the month?
3.  What are the major priorities?
4. What will you need to place attention on?
5. What changes do you want to make in March to your habits and routines?
6. What resources do you want to tap into?
7. What relationships and partnerships do you want to leverage?

Enjoy your reflection!

Best wishes,
Jennifer

That’s a wrap! Here we are at the end of January. Another month whizzed by. I hope that you will take 10-15 minutes to reflect on, and write out, your responses to these questions:

Reflecting on the month of January:
What were my major achievements this month?
What do I want to celebrate?
As I consider my goals (and resolutions) I made at the start of the year, how am I doing with these on a scale of 1-10? Which ones are becoming new habits or something I can check off?
Which goals need to be let go of or changed?
What habits have supported me this month?
As a leader, what have I noticed about my team this month?
As a leader, what notes should I make about performance issues (if I haven't done it already!)
The thing that has helped me be most productive this month has been ______
The thing that has helped me be most successful this month has been ______
The thing that has helped me be happiest this month has been ________
The thing that has helped me be most healthy has been _______
What have I noticed about my work/productivity/results and/or relationships during the winter months (if you are in the northern hemisphere) or summer (if you are in the southern hemisphere)?
How I’m doing with my theme of the year (how I am living it, embodying it).

Looking ahead to February:
The project I want to get started
The project I most want to wrap up is...
I want to leave ______ in the month of January
My priorities are:
Our team priorities are:
My goals are
My teams goals are:
I want to......
I'll be really happy at the end of February when….
As a reminder, our themes this month at the Teams365 blog included:
The 2018 Kickstart – 8 Days of Focus on Goals for 2018
Goals and goal setting
Mindmapping
Be sure to check out our weekly quote and Sunday video!
As we step into February our attention here at the Teams365 blog is going to turn to Relationships, Collaboration and Trust. See you next month!

Here we are, stepping into the last month of the year. What do you hope to achieve this month? What are the MUST Complete tasks? What needs to be carried over to the new year?

As the first day in the month, I hope that you will take a few minutes to take stock of what November was like for you, and do some planning for the month ahead. If November was any indication, December may fly by in the blink of an eye as well.

Here are several questions to support you in taking some notes on the past month and what you hope to create, focus on, and complete, this month:

Looking back to November:
What were your major accomplishments this past month?
What goals did you achieve? Which ones morphed/changed?
What key relationships did you foster?
What issue were you able to close off on

​Looking ahead:
What are your key priorities?
What is important to move forward?
What do you need to let go of?

Because it is December, you may also wish to ask yourself:
What is critical to get wrapped up this month? By when?
What do you want to celebrate this month? How will you do it?
What do you want to make sure you prioritize next year?
What do you want to do differently next month?
What do you want to acknowledge this month about your efforts? Your team's efforts?

Enjoy your start to December!

Best wishes,
Jennifer

PS - If you haven't checked it out yet, take a look at last Sunday's Teams365 video which included a short video on year-end reflection questions. You can view it here.

It's time to celebrate another century milestone - my 1400th post. I realized the other day that in a few months we'll be stepping into the fifth year of the blog. Time really does fly and it's incredible to think of how this has become part of my weekly routine.  Stay tuned as we move into 2018 for some new weekly columns to compliment the weekly Team Building Tips (Thursdays), FlashbackFridays (Fridays), and Monday's Virtual Facilitation Tips.

In case you are just finding us now - which people do every day - here's what I've been writing about in the last 100 posts (Teams365 #1300 to #1399):

Leadership Practices such as meetings, relationship building, feedback. Check out the different Leadership Practices posts here.

Getting to Know Your Team  - Questions to Spark Conversation as part of your team. Check them out here.

20 Focus Areas and Activities for virtual and remote teams - check out these activities you can undertake with your team (even if they aren't virtual or remote you'll find them useful). You'll find them here, and keep posted throughout the rest of the year as I cover the remaining ten posts on this topic. These posts come out on Tuesday and Wednesday of the week. View the 20 Virtual and Remote Team Activities here.

The Sunday Teams365 videos which translate past blog posts into video - recent videos have included Global Leadership, 4 Team Building Myths,  or our most recent this past weekend on Virtual Team Leadership.

You can always use the search function (in the upper right corner) to find blog posts related to any topic).

There's many more posts to come and I look forward to your comments about how you have found the blog useful and requests for new topics.  Please take me a moment and send an email here.

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Today is the last day of the month, and as you step into the month of November I hope that you will take a moment to take stock of the past month and plan for the month ahead. Carve out a few minutes today to capture your reflections and take notes on the following:

Looking back to October:
1. What key goals did you, and the team, achieve?
2. What helped you be successful?
3. What worked really well? What didn't?
4. What changes do you want to make?
5. What were the key relationships that helped you be successful?

Looking to November:
1. What are your key goals and projects this month?
2. What do you want to focus on?
3. What do you want to say no to?
4. Where is it important to place attention this month?
5. What really needs attention so it will get completed before year-end?
6. What are the key conversations you need to have?
7. What do you need to focus on for yourself, outside of work?
8. What do you want to build in time for?
9. What else?


With best wishes,
Jennifer