Daily Influence

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Today, we introduce Gregg Koleno to the podcast.  Gregg is one of our partners at IA Business Advisors and leads our consulting operations in Illinois and Delaware.  

Gregg is an active member of the Schaumburg Business Association and has recently been nominated Female Member of the Year for her work with the SBA and, specifically, in the empowerment of women in business.

Join us as we showcase the quintessential ideas and seminal insights that showcase the best of The Daily Influence. Whether you missed them before or need a refresher, let’s revisit these highlight moments and elevate your influence.

In this episode, we will be unpacking the different bias we live with. All of them can be conscious, subconscious and unconscious biases.  

The list includes: 

Confirmation Bias

Affinity Bias

Similarity Bias

Beauty Bias

Halo or Horn Effect Bias

Contrast Bias

Gender Bias

Age Bias

Performance Bias

Likeability Bias

Attribution Bias

Maternal Bias

Intersectionality Bias

As we unpack these, we will discuss how to understand them and what to do with that understanding.

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Maturity has little to do with age, and we will discuss this in Episode 34. 

Your maturity is determined by how you act in the world, within your areas of influence.  How you respond to the differing issues in your life can influence the perception of your maturity for self and others. 

Maturity is not synonymous with positive influence. It is not good or bad, and it is individual to one's particular areas of influence.  

Being self-aware of areas in your life where you may be immature can help you create more positive influence and change many aspects of your life that we have discussed.

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Does time have to fly by? Isn't a minute the same for everyone?  If yes, why do so many people make the statement; "Time flies by so quickly"?

Did you know the current foundation and use of time and time zones only dates back to 1884?

What did humans do with this new structured time measurement and management opportunity?  

How did the creation of this structure speed up time for humans?  

Perceptions

"The present moment is your best time to make your best decision."

Now is the best opportunity for you to be your best, so managing your perception and use of time is critical to your influence being what you hope it will be.  

You cannot regain the past moments, they are behind us. You can only make decisions in the present.  

Key Takeaways:

Time only moves at one speed for us all.

Measure your individual time; understand your use of time. 

To be in the present, you must control your time.

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We dive into individual focus and how to achieve it during this time in humanity where distraction is the norm.  Being deliberate is one action that can slow us down and gain us focus.  We will discuss how to create opportunities for deliberate acts and gain better focus as we learn to practice slowing down.

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What is S.M.A.R.T.?

Specific

Measurable

Attainable

Realistic

Timely

Many have heard of SMART Goals. We will be reviewing what each section of SMART is and why SMART Goals are just the beginning. 

To be truly SMART in the workplace, you need:

SMART Action 

SMART Tactics

SMART Communication

SMART is not just for work; it's for all aspects of your life.

Key Takeaways:

SMART is beneficial to you in all aspects.  

Be specific

Provide measurement if it's involved

Ensure attainability by all involved

Ensure you can really reach the goal, do the tasks needed

Make sure it's the right time for all involved.

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Our best opportunity as humans to make our best decisions is in the present moment. When we have balance of our understanding and focus on the task at hand, and all that has influenced us for that task, we can be our best self. Living in the present can be difficult, our minds like to digress, wander and visualize the past and future, putting us into that comfortable focus where we create opportunities for us to miss something. We will discuss how to Live in the Present.

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Have you ever had someone speaking to you and you don't hear them? Maybe your spouse trying to get your attention, while you're watching TV or doing some other focused task. This is our subconscious mode or as we like to call it; Comfortable Focus. We are going to address how each of us can fall prey to our individual Comfortable Focus and go too fast and miss what is going on around us.

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We continue with our dive into how to Slow Down to go faster. One of the most influential aspects of our lives, that make us go faster, is our environment. The urgency of the demands as put on by not only self, but our peers, workmates, family and technology in our back pockets; are all attributing to each of our own challenges with environmental urgency as it pertains to going too fast in our lives.

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Our largest chapter in Individual Influence, Find the I in Team is Slow Down. We have spent the past few episodes exploring the concepts of Thinking Forward, Environmental Urgency, our Subconscious Mode or Comfortable Focus and Immediate Gratification; all attributes that lead to going too fast. In this episode we will reflect on these as we begin our pivot Focus and how it can be achieved.