The Double Win

It’s easy to assume that the benefits of gratitude are primarily external. But the latest research reveals that thankfulness offers major payoffs on our side of the equation, too. Discover the advantages of gratitude—and specific practices to harness them—in this week’s episode.

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Learn five simple steps that will ensure your new product will succeed in the marketplace.

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You’ve worked hard and achieved a lot. But success brings a new problem: What to do next. That brings a whole new pressure from your team, your customers, and yourself. You may feel like you’ve used all your best ideas. From here on out, you’re faking it. That can be super stressful.

But there is a way to keep the momentum going. We’ve learned the simple secret to keeping yourself one step ahead of the growth curve—and the competition. You need a coach! And we’ll show you why.

Make this investment in yourself, and you’ll be energized, in the know, and more successful than ever been before. You can finally break out of the imposter syndrome and feel focused, relaxed, and in control of your business again.

Here’s a preview of this episode.

• When we decided it was imperative to have a coach for ourselves.
• The main thing a coach can help you do.
• How a coach gives you an edge against the competition.
• How a coach keeps you from getting in your own way. [6:01]
• How the image of coaching has changed from “remedial” to “performance enhancing.” [6:55]
• Signs that you might need a coach to get to the next level.
• One fallacy that keeps leaders from seeking outside help or advice.
• What a coach can show you that they don’t teach in business school.
• How a coach’s “outside” point of view helps you process failure.
• Why your own team can’t help you in ways a coach can.
• How to “outsource” your mistakes using a coach.
• Why it’s valuable to have a coach with experience outside your industry.
• Two things you need to grow your business that a coach provides.
• How coaching provides breakthrough moments in your thinking.
• Why a coaching session is better than personal “thinking time.”
• The essential presupposition that makes a coach incredibly helpful.
• Key questions a coach will force you to think about.
• How having a coach will help you build a stronger team.
• Why you should block time after coaching sessions for further thought.
• The very best reason why you should hire a coach.

Once you’ve listened to the episode, take the free Business Health Assessment. It’ll evaluate your business based on seven metrics. You’ll receive a personalized score on your strengths and weaknesses, and gain real clarity on where a coach can help you most. Try it!

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Resources from This Episode

• Business Health Assessment
• The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E. Gerber
• The War for Talent by Ed Michaels, Helen Handfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod
• BusinessAccelerator

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As leaders, we all want to be competent and successful. The problem is that our quest for success can be demanding. It can feel lonely at the top. But as a leader, you can’t afford to be isolated. You deserve a rich, full life—including a social life. Every leader can thrive by cultivating friendships, protecting time for friendship, and enjoying leisure time together. In this episode, we’ll show you how.

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Leadership is an exercise in vulnerability. The idea that leaders enter every situation full of confidence and assurance isn’t just false. It’s harmful. In reality, every good leader has one non-negotiable trait: they have developed a capacity for discomfort.

Shaped by many stories and examples, this episode highlights what makes discomfort so difficult and so essential. Megan and Michael will help you feel less alone, coach you to disengage your defensiveness, and challenge you to lean in when it matters most.

In this episode, you’ll discover—

• What makes taking risks so difficult
• Three areas you must embrace discomfort to succeed
• Why being tempered by failure is a good thing
• The vital frame-shift you need to make in thinking about critical feedback
• That feeling confidence is not a prerequisite for accomplishment

To learn more about how to make space in hard conversations, explore the Lead To Win episode “How to Diffuse Conflict Before it Begins.”

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You’re approaching the final quarter of the year. It’s the home stretch. You still have big goals to achieve, but some unexpected obstacles have popped up and your team is feeling fatigued. You want to finish with a bang, but is that even possible? How do you rally your people and equip them to perform at the top of their game? 

In this episode, Megan talks with Chad Cannon, Chief Sales Officer, about the four root problems that can keep your team from achieving this year’s goals—and how to solve them. They discuss strategies for overcoming roadblocks and how to bring out the best in people. There is still enough time to drive massive results this year, as you bring the whole team into alignment and empower them for success. 

In this episode, you’ll discover—

• How to re-energize your team to make their greatest contributions
• The vital importance of a clear, concrete project handoff 
• Why synchronization of work on the calendar gets more done
• How to align your team’s daily tasks with the company goals

Resources:

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You know you need to make a plan for the company’s next year, but you feel a familiar sense of dread. Every year, it results in a giant, convoluted binder that is inevitably pushed to the back of the shelf three months in. How do you plan more strategically, so you end up with something that actually works? Is there a better way to set the company up for the future you want? 

In this episode, Megan talks with her husband, Joel Miller, Chief Product Officer, about the four essentials you need to create a strategic plan that works. They discuss the vital importance of vision, alignment, and execution—and how to ensure you have all three and don’t lose any of them along the way. You don’t have to settle for planning that is onerous, cumbersome, and quickly irrelevant when you incorporate these four ingredients to transform the planning process and clear the way for success. 

In this episode, you’ll discover—

• Common pitfalls of having an overcomplicated plan
• Helpful questions to ask while creating a long-term vision
• Why you must not confuse operational plans with strategic plans
• How to create alignment between the vision and individual tasks

Resources:

• Strategic Planning Checklist

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Michael and Megan show you exactly how to overcome unseen obstacles to productivity so you'll be less stressed, more focused, end each day with a feeling of accomplishment.

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Leaders dream big. But too often, our greatest goals get lost in the whirlwind of daily tasks and interruptions. Today, we’ll give you three simple practices that will ensure your goals stay on track all year long. You’ll avoid the pain of seeing your biggest goals slip through your fingers - and you’ll feel satisfaction at seeing steady progress until they're finally achieved.

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Ugh, another meeting! Do you know the feeling? We sure do. We’ve sat through our share of bad meetings. But would you believe we actually love meetings now?

It’s true. We got so sick of lousy meetings that we decided to do something about it.

When we founded this company, we determined that meetings were going to be something more than a necessary evil. We wanted to make meetings productive and engaging, like they were meant to be.

So we created a meeting rhythm and cadence that ensures we have just the right number of meetings, that they all have a clear purpose, and that they don’t get bogged down or pulled off track.

And it works! Our meetings are enjoyable because we all know why we’re there, that the outcome is important, and it’ll be worth our time. We love meetings—and you can too!

In this episode, we show you how to structure your meetings for maximum engagement and results. We’ve also got two free tools that will make it much easier to structure your meetings. (See the links below.)

Here’s a Peek Inside This Episode

• Learn what we consider the worst of all possible meetings. [2:22]
• How to structure one-on-one’s with your direct reports. [3:58]
• Why it’s not okay to cancel one-on-one meeting. [5:36]
• How to structure a one-on-one so it doesn’t ramble. [6:40]
• How to get direct reports to provide information you need in advance of meeting. [7:32]
• Why it’s important to ask for the “bottom line” up front in a meeting briefing [10:00]
• How to structure workgroup meetings and why they are essential. [11:51]
• Examples of workgroup meetings we hold at Michael Hyatt & Co. [12:50]
• Who drives agenda for workgroup meetings, and what’s the guiding principle? [15:28]
• The biggest mistakes you can make in a work group meeting. [16:45]
• Learn the 3 reasons to have all-hands meetings [19:36]
• See why all-team meetings are vital for maintaining engagement. [18:39]
• The kinds of training Michael Hyatt & Co. offers to team members. [19:35]
• How quarterly meetings drive goal achievement. [20:43]
• Which company meetings should include spouses, and why. [23:07]
• How to structure annual celebrations for celebration and morale building. [23:50]
• Why we particularly loves the annual team gathering. [24:41]
• Best practices for all-team meetings. [26:32]

We hope this episode will be a game-changer for the meeting culture of your company. We’re totally serious. Make the changes we suggest here, and you’ll start to look forward to meetings because they produce the outcomes that drive your business forward.

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Resources from This Episode

• No Fail Meetings by Michael Hyatt
• “5 Ways to Hold Shorter Meetings” by Michael Hyatt
• “How to Ensure You Never Have a Terrible Meeting” by Michael Hyatt
• Recommendation Briefing Form
• Effective Meeting Blueprint Free Resource!
• The Focused Leader One-Day Intensive

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