Welcome back to another Sunday post with the Week in Review. This week we shifted out of Q2 and into Q3. Did you take a few minutes to review what you accomplished in Q2 and what the focus of Q3 is going to be?

Here’s where we went this week:

• Saturday’s Weekly Journaling Prompt on the Road Less Traveled
• Friday’s Flashback – Teamwork in Complexity
• Thursday’s Team Building Tip – What needs to go under the microscope?
• Wednesday’s post on Month End Review and the Q2 Review
• Tuesday’s post – Back to the Basics – Teamwork Skills: Listening
• Monday’s post on PAUSE

Enjoy your weekend!
​Jennifer

This week’s Saturday Journaling Prompt is “the road less traveled”. Consider what is important for you right now. What are the pathways you are taking? How are they traveled? Are they less traveled?

Consider what are the ways your journey is going? What have been some of the highlights of the year? What have you been surprized by? What have you been WOWed by?

Consider the road less traveled.

Best wishes,
​Jennifer

Welcome back to another Sunday week in review installment here at the Teams365 blog post. Today’s post gets you to stop and take a look back at this week’s blog posts which have included:

• Saturday’s Weekly Journaling Prompt exploring the prompt of “I appreciate”.
• Friday’s Flashback Friday post on Teamwork Skills in Complexity - Experimentation
• Thursday’s Team Building Tip question on “What’s Going to Expand your Range?”
• Wednesday’s post on Building A Vibrant Remote Team Culture
• Tuesday’s post on Back to the Basics – Teamwork: Roles
• Monday’s Effective Virtual Conversations post #151 – Team Feedback. How often are you providing feedback to others?

Best,
​Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
Potentials Realized | Coaching Team Leaders 
Coaching Skills Training | Leadership Development | Teamwork
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Welcome back to the 106th Weekly Journaling Prompt. This week’s prompt is “I appreciate”. What do you appreciate and are grateful for? As I have written in the past, gratitude plays an important role I health and well being.

As I shared in Teams365 #331:

Flowing from gratitude are a number of health and psychological benefits which include higher levels of optimism, increased positivity, more pro-social relationships, happier relationships, and also lower levels of toxic thoughts. As you will read, one practice which has been shown to increase gratitude and the benefits is keeping a gratitude journal, which is as simple as writing down on a weekly basis five things you are grateful for that week. 

You can read more about what science has found about the importance of gratitude and how to incorporate more of this at this link from the Center for Greater Good from the University of Berkeley.
 
What are the things you are grateful for? What would it be like to keep a list of what you are grateful for on a regular basis, even if it’s as simple as listing out the top 3 things you are grateful for?
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Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
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

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This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt gets you to think about the question “I love….”. You may have been reflecting on this question in recent weeks and months when the things that you love (people, places, activities) might have been off bounds due to quarantine, stay-in-place or other events related to COVID-19.

As many places are moving to some loosening of restrictions, what are the things you want to make sure you do, or enjoy, when you can?

A few months ago, back in late March I asked members on a community call to share their insights around the question “I love…” and it evoked many emotions. I hope that this weekend’s Weekly Journaling Prompt is one which is meaningful to you.

Today is the summer equinox for those in the northern hemisphere (and winter equinox in the southern hemisphere). What do you want to be putting attention around in the next few months? What are your goals for the next 90 days? Be sure to take some time today to write these out as well.

Best,
​Jennifer

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

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Welcome back to another Weekly Journaling Prompt. This week’s prompt is the world GROW.

To get you thinking, consider some of these reflections today:

• Where have you been GROWING recently?
• What are the skills, habits and practices you have been growing?
• What does growth mean for you?
• What is possible when you grow?
• Looking ahead, where do you want to grow?
• What can future growth look like?
• What seed have you planted which is now growing?

Enjoy your reflections!
Jennifer

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

Get your Q2 planning on with the PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner or Coaching Business Builder

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“What we focus on, expands”. This is a phrase we commonly hear about. But what is it grounded in? The Science of Attention has been getting an increasing amount of focus in recent years.

Daniel Goleman’s book, Focus, addresses this topic. You can see what he says in this short 4 minute (approximately) video here.

The Reticular Articulating System (RAS for short) plays a key role in helping the brain determine what stimuli or input it pays attention to. In short, it determines where we focus.

Think about it. In any given moment, what are you paying attention to? What are you actually noticing? Is it the sound of outside noise, your beating heart, your keys on the keyboard, or the birds in the trees?

Here are a few different articles which explore the RAS and its function:

• This article by Tobias van Schneider: “If you want it, you may get it. The Reticular Activating System Explained.” 
• This Dummies article by Marilee B. Sprenger: “How your brain controls your attention” 

Today’s team building tip gets the team to explore the question “What are you putting your attention around?”.

Notice. What are you noticing?

What is not being focused on?

What implications does this have?

Enjoy your conversation!
​Jennifer

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

Get your Q2 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, or join me for the Virtual Facilitation Essentials program

Contact us to discuss how we can support you and your teams and organization with remote work.

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This week’s Saturday Journaling Prompt gets you thinking about the idea of LEARN.

Every Saturday I share a different prompt for you to write about.

What are you learning these days? What’s important to learn? What else needs attention?

What else will help you learn and continue to grow?
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Enjoy your reflections,
Jennifer

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

Get your Q2 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, or join me for the Virtual Facilitation Essentials program

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This week’s Weekly Journaling Prompt gets you to consider the question – “What do you want to celebrate?”.

As you think about the first five months of the year consider:

• What were your major accomplishments?
• What did you achieve?
• What are the things you are proud of?
• What is important to acknowledge?

I hope that you enjoy this week’s journaling prompt!
 
With best wishes,
Jennifer

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

Get your Q2 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, or join me for the Virtual Facilitation Essentials program

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This week’s Flashback Friday takes us back to the a much older post, primarily focusing on two topics I find that I have talked a lot about in recent months as people have shifted over to the remote space- motivation and momentum.
 
Take a look at this week’s flashback Friday post to Teams365 #337: https://www.potentialsrealized.com/teams-365-blog/teams365-337-leadership-a-z-m-is-for-motivation
 
Today's Teams365 Leadership a-z is at M. Management, momentum and movement have all been key topics in coaching conversations I’ve had this week.

Here's what I wrote about micro-managing and motivation last November - who other key M areas:

Today we are a the letter M in #leadership a through z. Two words in particular jumped to mind for  me -
Motivation and Micro-monitoring

Motivation: What motivates you as a leader? What motivates your staff? A great book on this topic is Dan Pink's book Drive. In the book he explores what motivates us and proposes that we are motivated by three things - autonomy, mastery and purpose.

Questions to consider: 
Looking at ourselves, where do we get motivation from? Is it an internal driver like purpose, or an external driver like money or recognition? Consider your team members - what are their motivators? What can you do to align their motivators with tasks that need to get done?
How do goals support motivation for your team members?

Resources around motivation:
Motivation 123 website - a website dedicated to motivation. You can visit it here
Jim Riley presents various theorists around motivation including Maslow (remember his Hierarchy of Needs) and others. You can read Jim's overview here.
An animated video by RSA based on a presentation Dan Pink gave. View it here.

Micro-management versus micro-monitoring: A common statement in any leadership development training process is that you don't want to micro-manage.

As a former co-facilitator of mine, Doug McLaren, always stated "as a leader you want to micro-monitor, not micro-manage". Micro-monitoring is about being aware of what your team members are working on, and making sure that you are there to provide support, resources and troubleshooting as needed. Micro-management, in contrast, is about taking over and not letting your employees work autonomously. As indicated earlier in this post, what is a major driver of motivation? Autonomy. Consider the implication

Questions to consider:
What does micro-management mean to you? What does it look like?
What does micro-monitoring mean to you? What does it look like?
On a scale of 0-10 (with 0 being none, and 10 being high) where are you as a micro-manager? A micro-monitor?
What support does each one of your staff really need at the moment to be successful with a particular task or project?

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

Get your Q2 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, or join me for the Virtual Facilitation Essentials program

Contact us to discuss how we can support you and your teams and organization with remote work.

Check out upcoming virtual programs on our calendar
​
PDF copies of PlanDoTrack now available! Get yours here. ​