The Double Win

It's that time of year again. The weather is changing, leaves are falling off the trees, and your favorite leadership podcast is talking about Strategic Planning again.

If there’s one thing that humans do well, it’s imagining the future. (We can do it badly, too, of course.) But the important thing is that we can create better outcomes for ourselves and our businesses when we do it intentionally. That's where Strategic Planning comes in.

We recently hosted our second annual Strategic Design workshop and the insights and breakthroughs were game-changing. We can't wait to see what our clients do in the new year!

Today, Michael and Megan help you plan for success in 2023 by offering you 6 essential ingredients for an effective strategic plan.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How to survey your employees to better serve them
• Which financial data you'll need heading into the new year
• Which stakeholders need to be talked to and considered during this process
• The importance of both vision and values

Remember that we're offering a special discount on our On-Demand Strategic Design Workshop, but you gotta act fast! Visit leadto.win/strategicplan.

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"Quiet quitting" seems to be the hot topic of conversation in business and leadership circles right now. But, what exactly is "quiet quitting"? How can you figure out if your employees are doing it? And, perhaps most importantly, how can you create an organizational culture where your team members will feel empowered in their job?

Michael and Megan talk through four specific strategies that leaders like you can use to avoid quiet quitting among your employees.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How sharing your vision with employees can make a huge difference
• How the new post-pandemic realities can make employee disconnection a real issue
• Why taking the time to learn about your employees is important (even if you're in a large company)

Download the Quiet Quitting Survey at https://fullfocus.co/quietquitting.

BusinessAccelerator clients have developed the vision and processes to help minimize quiet quitting within their own organizations. Make sure to book your free Business Growth Coaching Call at www.businessaccelerator.com/podcast.

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You spend your days managing details, scheduling meetings, and replying to emails — by the time you start on the “real work,” the workday is half over. This ends up cutting into your personal life as you try to make up for lost time. It all leads to you feeling more tired, more stressed, and less productive at work and at home. If you heed our advice, you can minimize this pain. The advice is simple: Hire an executive assistant!

Once you've decided that there's no other way to get that time back, then the next question is: What do I do with a new EA? To help answer that, Michael and Megan are joined by Tricia Sciortino. Before she was the CEO of BELAY, she was Michael's first executive assistant. They talk about how Michael started her out and how she uses her experience to help leaders all around the world get more time and increase their productivity.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• Best practices to get a new executive assistant up and running
• The one task that more and more leaders are utilizing their EA's to do
• How best to communicate with your EA
• How to set goals for your EA

You can get a free download of Tricia’s book: Rise Up and Lead Well: How Leveraging an Assistant Will Change Your Life & Maximize Your Time. In this ebook, Tricia shares what she’s learned in her journey from assistant to CEO about how to work successfully with an assistant. Text LEADTOWIN to 55123 for the free download today. 

This episode was sponsored by BELAY. Find out more at www.belaysolutions.com.

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Last week we talked about the importance of a thriving company culture. Hopefully, Michael and Megan made the case that a company culture is both important and the responsibility of the leader. We're going to continue that conversation by talking about how businesses can actually cultivate a thriving company culture - no matter where they're starting from.

In this episode, Michael and Megan share four ingredients that are essential to creating a culture that drives employee satisfaction and operating results.

You will learn:

• What is the correct number of values your organization should have
• Whether values should be aspirational or descriptive
• How to check that your company values are aligning with company practice
• What it requires of a leader to create a positive company culture

Company culture is an important subject that is discussed with clients of BusinessAccelerator. If you found this conversation helpful, then book your free Business Growth Call at www.businessaccelerator.com/podcast.

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Anywhere you find a group of people, you'll find a culture. That's true for families, churches, cities, neighborhoods, and anything else that you can think of that includes more than one person. This idea is especially true for businesses. Leaders need to have a vision for how they want their culture to look and feel. If they don't, you could find yourself surrounded by a toxic culture that not only hurts business, but makes everyone miserable.

In this episode, Michael and Megan will talk about the four ways that culture drives employee satisfaction and operating results.

You will learn:

1. A useful definition for company culture that is specific and actionable.
2. The value that security (in all forms) brings to happiness and productivity.
3. The importance of a person's congruence between home and work.
4. How to recognize culture drift in your organization.

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Your business is probably the largest single asset in your portfolio. You've invested time and money into and, one day, you may want to see a healthy return on those investments. If you want to maximize the value of your business, then you should start making plans today so that you'll be ready.

Michael Hyatt has bought and sold over a dozen businesses. In this episode, Michael shares eight value accelerators that will help you increase the value of your business. (As a bonus, it will also mean that you're probably doing less work, too!)

You will learn:

• The cost of not preparing for a future where you need to sell
• How to entice as many potential buyers to the table
• How to plan your exit date
• The importance of building an excellent team

To take advantage of our special offer, visit www.businessaccelerator.com/act before the end of August 17th and schedule your free Business Growth Coaching Call.

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There is no denying that you will get further, faster with a good coach. But what about a great coach? How much further could you get with amazing coaching? Today's episode tackles that question by talking to LeeAnn Moody, Director of Performance Coaching for Full Focus. LeeAnn and Michael break down the four characteristics of great coaching and they help you identify what you might need to be successful for your organization.

In this episode, you will:

• Learn the four characteristics of great coaching
• Hear from Michael about his very first coach and what they taught him
• How a great coach provides you with the frameworks you need to be an effective leader
• How to leverage the various styles of coaching to your advantage

For more information on Full Focus Coaching and to schedule your free Business Growth Coaching Call, visit www.businessaccelerator.com/podcast.

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During the heigh of the pandemic, everyone was forced to go remote. But, now that offices have opened back up, leaders and staff are confronted with some challenging questions around a seemingly basic concept: Where should work happen?

Elon Musk publicly drew his own line in the sand when he declared that all Tesla employees must work "for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week" in-person before they could do any remote work. Failure to show up meant that they employees got fired. It's clear that Elon Musk finds remote work to be "pretend" work.

We don't agree with him. We do, however, think that it's important to critically examine the nature of your organization and how both in-person and remote options have their own benefits.

In this episode, you will learn-

• What's best about in-person and remote work options
• How different organizations (and even different jobs within an organization) might have different location needs
• How a hybrid system leverages the best of both worlds and how we use it as Full Focus.

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What if you could grow your business and only do about 20% of the work you're currently doing? If that were true, you would do almost anything to find out how to do it, right?

Well, it is true. With a clear vision and effective delegation you can actually accomplish big, important things with your business with 80% less effort on your part. In this episode, Michael and Megan outline the 10-80-10 Principle. It's an approach to delegation that will change your life - but only if you're willing to give it a try.

In this episode, you will learn about:

• What the 10-80-10 principle is
• How to set-up this principle within your own leadership and business
• How to troubleshoot problems as they arise
• Michael and Megan's history with delegation and how the 10-80-10 principle changes everything.

To learn more exciting ideas that will help you both win at work and succeed at life, go schedule a free call at www.businessaccelerator.com.

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Vacations are essential for active rejuvenation. But for a lot of us vacations aren’t all that restful—and coming back from vacation is a nightmare. We don’t start off with a great plan. And then, because we don’t tie up loose ends before we go, we end up working during our vacations. So we never clear our heads from work. 

In this episode, Michael speaks with Full Focus Director of Marking and expert vacationer, Marissa Hyatt. They discuss five missing features of your vacation plan. These ideas are so simple and important that they can be the difference between a "vacation" in name only and an actual vacation that leaves you refreshed.

In this episode, you will learn:

• How important it is to have a vision for your vacation (especially if you're vacationing with someone else)
• How to prepare to leave your work desk so you can rest your mind while you're away
• How to align your team so they can still be productive in your absence

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