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Sticky Learning Lunches #4: Use Your New-Found Time Productively Whilst Working From Home
Get the secret to having laser-like on your productivity with episode 4 of the Sticky Learning Lunches.
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Nathan Simmonds:
Good afternoon everybody. Slight technical hitch and we still made it at one and a half minutes, just over the start time. So we are just getting prepared. People are still arriving. Nice number of people here. Ready? Again, just making sure that everyone is ready. Bottle of drink, water, herbal tea, whatever it is, you need to keep it going. Staying hydrated, sun’s out to make sure we’re looking after ourselves. Also, pens and paper at the ready as well.
Nathan Simmonds:
We’ll give it another 30 seconds while we’re waiting for people to come in. Couple more of people arriving. Fantastic heads up. Gonna give you, um, a little bit of a intro for the end of those. Those of you that are staying till the end of the session today, we’ve got a little bit of bonus material for you, which I’m really excited to be sharing some new coaching tips and tools, um, from the the MBM lab and also gonna openly invite you guys that are arriving now, get registered for Tuesday’s session.
Nathan Simmonds:
So these lunchtime learnings, these, these sticky lunch, learn lunchtime learnings are gonna continue for as long as you guys need it. For as long as we’re in this situation in lockdown, we’re gonna be doing a one o’clock session, a 20 minute micro learning with q and a every single day until things go back to some sort of normal, whatever that might look like in the future. So right now we’re gonna share the link. Alison, you can’t hear me. We have some challenges with this. Can anyone, can? Who? Is there anyone else that can’t hear me? Crash? Anyone else? Can’t hear me?
Nathan Simmonds:
Can hear you fine. Okay. Can hear me throwing my drink all down myself. It’s a good look. We might have to edit that one out for the, uh, the upload. Just saying, Alison, just double check your speaker and your volume. I just had to do a complete system, shut down and then come back into this. Um, because we had some technical challenges there, but the reboot seemed to help. Apparently it cures 98% of all problems. Um, if you speak to your IT service desk, um, I’m not sure about that though. Highly debatable.
Nathan Simmonds:
So make sure everyone else has got a drink ’cause I now don’t. Good. So the first thing I wanna share with you guys is the link for next Tuesday’s learning. Okay, Alison, you might have to go out and come back in. Computer audio should be the right one. Double check your headphone port, all of those sorts of things. Take it out, put it back in, everything like that. If not, come out of GoToWebinar, come back into it afresh and see if that works.
Nathan Simmonds:
So next we’re gonna be dealing with, we’re gonna continue to look at the mindset model today. Um, we’re gonna be looking at D which is about deliverables. Now on Tuesday when we’re gonna come back to this, we’re gonna be looking at space, which is gonna be talking about our environment. So we’re gonna share the link for next Tuesday’s session. So you can plug into that immediately and get registered for that session. It’s gonna come up immediately at the beginning of the next working week. Okay, I think we’re good to go Alison. We will return back shortly, I feel. Brilliant. Let’s go, let’s do this. Let’s make sure we’ve got some good cover pens.
Nathan Simmonds:
Keep those in the pocket. Fantastic. So guys, welcome aboard. Welcome to this lunchtime learning. Really appreciate you being here. I’m looking forward to sharing the content from today. Picked up some gems this morning. I’m looking forward to sharing those with you as well. So good. Welcome to Sticky lunchtime sticky learning lunches. This is MBM, the Home of Sticky Learning. And we are the soft skills provider to the UK grocery and manufacturing industry.
Nathan Simmonds:
And it’s all about sharing ideas and concepts that are gonna help you be the best version of yourself, especially in a time of crisis like this. But also at the same, same time, future proofing you, your mindset, your development, and how we are gonna be working in this brave new world. Let’s not kid ourselves. We are not gonna be working the same. When all of this comes to some sort of end, our lives will be completely different, there’ll be more homeworkers. Um, the way that we focus on our work will be different.
Nathan Simmonds:
And we’re gonna talk a bit about this today and how industry is gonna change. ’cause if it doesn’t, there’s gonna be some major challenges for businesses and corporations moving forward if they think they can go back to how they were working previously. Okay, before this situation, what are we gonna be covering today? Closing the door just in case we get a little visitor of a 7-year-old. So what are we gonna be covering today? We are gonna be covering deliverables.
Nathan Simmonds:
We’ve already covered the managing side of it, managing some of your focus, your routines, uh, certain elements here. We’ve talked about cabin fever through isolation and actually how some of us are already experiencing some of those symptoms. We talked a little bit yesterday about making sure that we’re staying neat and looking at our wardrobe and seeing how we make sure we separate the right elements of our wardrobe, uh, and make sure that we’re using that wardrobe wardrobe to focus our thinking and to create habits that are gonna help us move from one aspect of our life into another so that we don’t blur it.
Nathan Simmonds:
So we’re not wearing the relax, the relaxed clothes while we’re doing work. And take on that physiology and psychology of that clothing into our, our our routines. Today’s session is about deliverables. It’s about actually what you are delivering and how you deliver that and how you have those conversations and make that happen. The first thing we’re gonna cover today, and I wanna bring some clarity to this for you,
Nathan Simmonds:
Is one of the, the business staples and personal development staples, smart objectives. So guys, go crazy. Break it down. Tell me what smart means in the comments. What elements of, um, what are the, what does the S stand for? The m let’s get those in the comments and get those moving first of all, and we’ll see what’s working, what’s not working, and then how I can help you tweak and adjust that to actually get even more out of that model, that framework to help you focus even further. ’cause I guarantee some of you’re using it in a way which is actually holding you back.
Nathan Simmonds:
And I want to change that right now today and, and make that really exceptional for you. So in the chat box in the questions, what does smart stand for? If you wanna do break it down one at a time. Go. Come on people. Let’s see some fingers moving. I’m gonna get this up on the board. Can we see that just about still got a little bit of sunshine or we’ve got, we’ve got specific measurable, achievable, relevant, good time targeted, nice, realistic. We dropped in there as well. Good. Any more for any more
Nathan Simmonds:
Realistic? Good. Agreed. Nice. We’ve got some different elements. There are a few different perme uh, permeations of this, a kind of few different variants of the smart model and it’s really important that we use the right elements of it at the right time. So when we are planning out our time, it’s really important that we break these into two parts. The first thing is smart objectives. Yes, smart goals. No. So let’s look at this. So the first part is about it being specific.
Nathan Simmonds:
Your goals and your objectives have to be specific. Yeah, they say vague goals lead to vague results. So you have to have absolute clarity on what you are working on and the elements that need to be adjusted, where you are going to this, um, who’s involved, all these sorts of questions. And we’re going to gonna share a link also in, in the chat box, there is an article on the MBM website all about smart objectives and we’re gonna share that. So you’ve got that as a takeaway for today. The second one is measurable. Make sure my spelling’s good.
Nathan Simmonds:
How will you know where you are in relation to the top of the mountain? This specific part is which mountain are you climbing? The measurable part is how do you know where you are in relation to the top of the mountain? How far have you got to go? Um, what elements are required? Or you know, what distance can be clear today that you know. So in the point of three days, four days, five days, you are on track to get to where you said you were going.
Nathan Simmonds:
These are the measurable elements and I’m gonna come back to um, some texts I’ve got here. Some interesting facts I’ve learned, um, over the last few months. It’s what gets measured gets done. So if you can see, um, how you want to get fit, you wanna run a certain distance, okay, I want to get this fit, I want to be able to run this distance in this time, um, with this sort of recovery. And you put the specific details in there. Then the measurable part is how you’re gonna clear that distance and how you’re gonna make those improvements over time. The third part
Nathan Simmonds:
Is it achievable. So what have we got in here? We’ve got agreed as well. Achievable is the common one agreed on. Also, is it achievable? Can I do that? Is it structured in a way? Um, so that I can take bite-sized chunks out of this objective? Because if it isn’t, you need to go back to the drawing board and at that point break it down a little bit further. Maybe put another step in that’s gonna move you closer towards it. Um, and I’m not sure who the quote was.
Nathan Simmonds:
You know, one man’s, um, stepping stone is another man’s stumbling block. So if you finding something is a stumbling block, how do you break it down in another way so that it does become the stepping stone and we can move forward? Let’s make sure it’s achievable. The r the bone of contention. Okay, super important. We understand this. Normally we talk about things being realistic.
Nathan Simmonds:
This is the original smart model. The r stood for realistic. It’s important that some of you put in there. No relevance. This is one of the new changes to it or results focused. When we’re dealing with smart objectives, it’s really important that it is realistic, okay? Your objectives have to be realistic. Again, if it’s not realistic and it’s not achievable, you’re not gonna put the energy in ’cause you’re gonna be disheartened, uh, and frustrated that actually you can’t make that step.
Nathan Simmonds:
I use the the analogy of of buying a computer game where the first level is so hard that it’s the most difficult thing and you can’t complete it. And as a result of that and after that, then the levels get easier. But actually you wouldn’t sell many computer games if that was the case. We need to make sure that our objectives are relevant and results focus. We already understand it’s gonna be achievable, but it has to be this in relation to where we’re going
Nathan Simmonds:
Far last part time bound. When we’re setting objectives, we need to understand how long it’s gonna take to get there. What’s the reason I say, and I’m going at pace here. I’m aware of this guys ’cause we’ve only got 20 minutes to cram this in with a little bit of technical stuff. We’re gonna go bam, bam, bam. We need to know what the expectation is to make that happen with the way we’re working at home. Now we have some differences of the way that we can use that time and we’re gonna talk about that in a minute.
Nathan Simmonds:
Smart objectives. Yes. Smart goals. No, when we’re working in personal development space, the moment you make a goal smart and you make it realistic, what you’re saying is it already exists. When we make a goal smart using this, what we do is we make it small, mediocre, average, repetitive and time-wasting because it’s not interesting. ’cause when we say it’s, uh, realistic, it already exists and it’s not gonna put us under the, uh, positive tension and and challenge that’s gonna enable us to grow in order to make that goal a reality.
Nathan Simmonds:
Because it’s not about achieving the goal, it’s about the person you have to become in order to make that goal a reality. We break the goal down to smart objectives. This is super important and again, we’re just gonna crack on with this. Hope that makes sense to everyone. Objectives, yes. Goals? No. So we make them relevant, results focused.
Nathan Simmonds:
Where to next? Wow. Managing expectations. I’ve rubbed that off because we might have to use it again in a minute. The second thing is about managing expectations. I need to read this to you. Frederick Taylor and Scientific Management. This is the guy that you know has a lot to ask for when they’re doing kind of productivity and time measurement management processes.
Nathan Simmonds:
Lot to answer for in day and age, um, around this, you know, Frederick Taylor in 1856 to 1950, whose experiments at the US company of the um, bellum Steel in the late 19th century have been the foundation of so many today’s assumptions about how to be a manager and how to get people to be more productive. Taylor Watchman shoveling coal at the steel works and not just how much more efficient somewhere than others. So he created this model to help managers work out how to be more productive so that they could lay more people off. Great start to see how this is important.
Nathan Simmonds:
Now his recommendations are the to the steelwork, uh, bosses reduced headcount by 72%, cut costs and increased profit. Hala believed that the scientific division of labor cha um, divisions of labor. So he believed in that and change had to be imposed to improve profits. This section was finished up. The trouble was that mostly whenever time and motion was introduced, strikes and protests followed as indeed they ever have since. Uh, manager as a coach by Jenny Rogers, the way that we are working now is completely different.
Nathan Simmonds:
Even over the last two years, a lot of a number of companies have been giving unlimited holiday. If you get the work done, you can go on holiday as much as you like. Right now we are working from home. The, the, the previous paradigm of work, the industrial revolution. You were measured or being paid for the number of hours you were spending at your desk, whether you like your job or not. Whether you are engaged with your job or not. Whether you are even 60% engaged or productive or not.
Nathan Simmonds:
As long as you did the 40 hours at your desk, you got paid the amount of money. But right now you’ve just zeroed out all the distractions Yes or nos in the chat. But in the question box there, who is currently more productive than they ever have been as a result of working from home? Let’s see how many people we’ve got on them. We could have done this as a poll, but I’m just gonna do it as a questions thing today. Who’s more productive than they have been before?
Nathan Simmonds:
I know I am agreed Alison, and you’ve got lots of practice doing this and it is more some up, some down. Again, this is, you know, how we focus our tension and how we, um, plan and structure those routines. Colin, not this week says Steven about the same level, but learning skills, how to increase productivity. Absolutely.
Nathan Simmonds:
So actually you’re doing the work and you’ve also got a little bit of extra space there to increase the productivity. Chris, that’s what we are here for more but not engaged. Ah, good. So we’re starting to see where the, the individuals that prefer to have team around them and there is a balance between working from home and connecting and how we use these connection spaces as well.
Nathan Simmonds:
I’ve got people that I’m working with at the moment that genuinely do not like working from home. And that’s, you know, that might be because they’re, you know, five children and all the children there and they’ve got two dogs and all that. That could be an element of it. But the recommendation is maybe have one or two days at home and then have two or three days at work.
Nathan Simmonds:
So you are around those people in the connections and doing the face-to-face work. It’s about setting the expectations and managing them. Right now you are working from home and maybe you are being more productive. Maybe you can get more stuff done. We talked yesterday about, or or previous days about the routine and the structures and finding the balance in the in when we’re in that isolation of guilt freedom, guilt freedom, overworking, not feeling like you’re not doing enough inside of that.
Nathan Simmonds:
You need to be having conversations with your manager, with your leader, setting up the routines of when you are gonna respond to emails. When they set, um, um, projects or objectives to become, when are they gonna be completed? When do they need to be completing them? Manage the expectations because if you’ve got children and you are working from home and you need to homeschool ’em at the same time, your managers and leaders can’t see that. So you need to work in that space with them.
Nathan Simmonds:
Let them know when you’re gonna respond back to the emails, when you’re gonna respond back with the um, with the outcomes. We, uh, MBM have started having very regular one-to-ones just 15 to 30 minute conversations, project overviews, very quick, short on point, uh, conversations via Skype so that we can stay focused on what we’re doing.
Nathan Simmonds:
We have the regular contact points, we know what’s expected and we also know where we are in each of those things and it’s really helping to strengthen the results we get and strengthen our productivity, uh, and and help us get more of these ideas out to you guys, uh, in a quicker time to helping impact the, the work environment around us as well.
Nathan Simmonds:
Correct. When working from home tend to be judged more on the output, is it all about results in the future? What’s gonna happen? And I’m gonna call this out as potentially um, a, a change. We’re gonna get paid for the results, not for the time at the desk. ’cause actually no one knows how much time you’re spending at the desk. If the job’s done by Wednesday afternoon, who’s gonna know?
Nathan Simmonds:
Actually you finished it Wednesday afternoon, you’ve still done the same amount of work that was expected. Um, and I’ve heard stories recently in interview people and they talked about people quoting for 14 days, but because they didn’t have any distractions, they actually only did they did the 14 days work in one day and this is the way the future’s gonna be going. So you need to be managing the expectations with your leaders, with your managers of what work you can do, your family obligations at this time of crisis especially.
Nathan Simmonds:
And when you are gonna respond back and deliver on those results. If you are not setting them or setting those expectations and taking the lead on them, not just managing them. People are gonna expect different things from you different. And that’s when frustration and conflict occurs is when the individual’s expectation in here isn’t met with a version of reality that is in here. Frustration and friction occurs and is the result.
Nathan Simmonds:
We all go through this when we start homeworking with ourselves, with our family, with the people we work with. So that really taking the lead on this now highly, um, high, high, um, there’s a high percentage here that actually you are starting to be a bit more productive in what you are doing. And actually if you are a bit more focused and a bit more routine, I think it was Chris there that was saying, he start to learn some new productivity skills.
Nathan Simmonds:
You can start to invest in yourself a bit. It’s huge. Plenty of organizations I’ve worked for encourage you, um, to develop yourself here, have some development time, go, go and go on as training goals, whatever. And they say that, but very often that that uh, um, opportunity or en encouragement kind of tends to dwindle depending on the, the volume of projects coming on, the expectations that are being laid down. So it’s really important that you use this time very, very wisely. Start coaching yourself. It’s huge. About the self-development.
Nathan Simmonds:
We’ve got an opportunity. So I’ve got a couple of tools and a couple of concepts. One, Josh , the author of the personal MBA, he says invests 5% of your money primarily into your own personal development. So 5% of your salary that you get every month or income to invest that into personal development. Now, I personally will say invest at least 10%. ’cause the one investment that is always guaranteed to create a return is on your self.
Nathan Simmonds:
Uh, with global warming, global change there, there’s certain bricks and mortar prices that won’t be worth anything in 2015 when the water comes up. So not even bricks and mortar is a guaranteed investment. Let’s be clear on this. The investment you make in yourself is the only investment that’s guaranteed. This also means your time.
Nathan Simmonds:
Take the time, invest in yourself with time and money. So with this extra time you’ve got where you are being more productive, take time to coach yourself. Okay? Take time to ask yourself best questions and when you get that time, I learned a valuable lesson in language this morning from Steven McDonald McDowell’s, uh, here. Um, sorry, I saw McDowell then got confused.
Nathan Simmonds:
Steven McDon, it’s a friend of mine lives in the island we’ve met previously and we’ve had conversations and he shared the if then equation he’s in. Thanks Steve. The if then equation and for me right now, when you’ve got this spare time, when you finish the work, if I finish this, then what do I do? If I finish this project and I’ve got spare time to invest in myself, then what’s the skill that I’m gonna learn rather than thinking, oh, finish this great.
Nathan Simmonds:
Oh yeah, I’ll, I’ll check out for the rest of the day. No, like seriously, you’ve got this time that you’ve been gifted. You complained before when you were working in the office nine to five that you didn’t have any spare time. You were complaining that you weren’t getting any support, you were complaining that um, people weren’t invest in you. Well now you’ve got the time, you’ve got the support and you’ve got all the space to invest in yourself.
Nathan Simmonds:
Do it. If I finish this, then I do this. Start creating that personal development element as a habit. Start to create a new habit around this when you finish. I mean, if I finish this, then I’ll do this easy and you’ll be investing more than the 5% of money and time that Josh Kaufman talks about. It’ll be more like 15, 20% depending on how focused you are on getting your job done.
Nathan Simmonds:
We got Steven is jump jumped in. Great. Uh, flip it if I don’t finish here, what’s the consequences exactly this Steven, one of the core coaching questions I ask people when my second goals is what’s the cost if you don’t, so I’m gonna ask you guys this now and I wanna see this light up now. With, with with with responses.
Nathan Simmonds:
If you are not taking the time to invest in yourself now when you’ve got the opportunity to you to do this and develop new skills, habits and potential, what’s the cost? If you don’t, when we return back to when it, when all of this finishes, let’s see some answers. What’s the cost if you don’t invest in yourself right now when you’ve got the opportunity to
Nathan Simmonds:
Absolutely. There is a whole new level right now, Alison, to help you take whatever you know, the, the skills that you’ve got right now to a whole new level when you come back so you can come back even stronger. Standing still is going backwards. Absolutely. This maybe behind in worth or promotion opportunity. This is the, the, the fertile ground, Chris, right now to plant the seeds in and to nurture the, the ideas and concepts you’ve got and put frameworks in place that are gonna help you be even stronger when you get back My next door neighbor and the nicest possible, I’ve got great neighbors.
Nathan Simmonds:
Um, she’s a training, uh, assistant, whatever the right name is, that’s for she’s sunbathing. Great, fantastic. The sun’s out sunbathing. What skills could that person be learning that’s gonna help them move forward when they go back into that school environment? And right now we’ve got the possibility to do this. Uh, so the secret is better planning, a more accurate estimating.
Nathan Simmonds:
So you don’t get the negative if then, correct. You don’t want the negative if then the idea is you wanna be more focused. So if I finish this, then we might even tweak that to when I finish this. So actually we can get excited about the personal development piece. We get the, the obligation of of contracted work done. When that’s finished then I’ll do this.
Nathan Simmonds:
Great. So here’s the next question for you guys. Bit of group coaching on this session. Is it all connected to the growth mindset? Yes, it is. Doesn’t matter how old you are, it doesn’t matter what job you’re in. It doesn’t matter what the position is, it doesn’t matter your history. Yeah, a stained past does not mean a stagnant future. Whatever your job was before.
Nathan Simmonds:
This doesn’t mean that you have to stop because you are in this. What that means is that the moment you start to understand that you can learn that you do have neuroplasticity, that there is potential that you still have unlocked to unlock, yet you can apply that growth and you can learn something now and you can move forward. It’s got to be this way. If you haven’t listened to the book or, or, or read the book Growth Mindset by Carol Dweck, do it.
Nathan Simmonds:
Um, I believe there’s a, there is a copy on YouTube, whether it’s a legit copy or not, I’m not sure I also found it there. But do go and buy a copy of Carol Dweck’s Mind Growth Mindset. Mindset. Sorry, the book is called Phenomenal Read eye-opening. Next question for you guys. Kind getting close to wrapping this up. If you take 10% of your time as a minimum and you invest that in your own personal development right now, what is the benefit? What is the benefit of investing in yourself right now?
Nathan Simmonds:
Leapfrogging. Yes. You won’t even stop on the next lily pad. You will go flying through to the next one. Become a lot more rounded, happier, understand more. Absolutely. What else have we got in there? What is the benefit of taking the time to invest in you right now? You’ll become more relevant to the job market. Yeah, absolutely. That 10% compound growth in the product that is met. Yeah. And if we are in this situation for maybe four weeks, what’s the 10% compound growth over four weeks if we start doing that every single day.
Nathan Simmonds:
Continual growth more at uh, adaptable to any further changes. Yes, because change is inevitable. The only thing that is set in stone is change. Investment investment today provides dividends to mine, no matter industry exactly that. Tomorrow’s successes are based on the choices that we make today. So when you invest a day, you get the compound interest.
Nathan Simmonds:
And I’m not gonna sing a song from Mary Poppins, um, about banking. It’s gonna be a growth thing. We have an opportunity to make the most of this. We have an opportunity to ask ourselves better questions. ’cause the quality of our lives, quality of our days is based on the quality of the questions we ask ourselves and the time that we take that we book in for ourselves to ask that and get listened to the answers, focus and attention on active and positive areas. Yeah guys, we’ve overrun on the content.
Nathan Simmonds:
We haven’t even got to q and a, but I wanted to go and throw as much of that as possible. If you wanna do q and a for five minutes, let’s go. Thank you very much Alison, appreciate it. If you want to ask me any questions, we’ve got five minutes. Let’s light those comments up as quickly as possible for five minutes and then we’re gonna start to wrap this up and I’ll give you a summary of what we’ve covered, um, and what else we’ve got on offer at the moment. What questions have you got right now?
Nathan Simmonds:
I’m gonna see if there’s any water left in my bottle. Yes, most of it’s on the carpet. What questions have you got for me right now around expectations, smart objectives, um, investing in yourself, Alistair. Good. If someone was new to self-development investment, do you have any suggestions Where to start? Yes, actually a really easy one if someone just wants to start learning some questions for themselves. I’m gonna do a completely shameless plug here.
Nathan Simmonds:
Our coaching cards. If someone’s a bit kind of reticent, they dunno where to start with some of this stuff, why would look at our coaching cards? Um, because they, they’re based on the growth coaching model. It covers all the elements of, of, of setting up the plan and asking yourself those questions to support yourself. And right now they’re only five pound, but easily less than a 5% investment, you know, and to get someone started the other part you talked about mindset, you talked about Carol Mindset, the book, um, ah, and the other one that really changed the game for me, Simon Sinek, how Great Leaders Inspire the TED Talk.
Nathan Simmonds:
It’s 18 minutes and 34 seconds. So if you can’t invest 18 minutes and 34 seconds into your own development, if you’re just starting, there’s some other questions to be asked. So one, the coaching card deck two, um, Carol DT mindset to help people shift out of that, uh, that stuck thinking. And two, how great and sorry. And three, how great leaders inspire, uh, the TED Talk by Simon Sinek in two weeks. We have the PDP, we do indeed Darren is part of the m is the founder of MBM.
Nathan Simmonds:
We’re part of this team. In two weeks time, we are gonna be doing the, the micro learnings around personal development planning. So next week we’re gonna finish the mindset model off. We’re gonna look at the grow coaching model and then we’re gonna look at PDP plannings where we’re gonna bring that to life. So that’s on the agenda.
Nathan Simmonds:
So guys, um, get on the registration page, have a look on there, um, we’ll share the link for that in a minute and you can register for those as they come up as well. The question here from Colin, how do you deal with massive optimists? It will only take you five minutes. Yeah, sometimes with these sorts of people, you have to strap out what that looks like. You have to say, okay, you know, I really appreciate the optimism.
Nathan Simmonds:
I love the enthusiasm. We’ve got a couple of elements here. We’ve got these sections here, we’ve got this part here, this looks like this and that’s gonna take this. I need to involve this person, da da da. And we just start to break it down. Know. And depending on where they are in their kind of their social styles and communication styles, we just have to tweak the language a little bit so that they actually hear what you’re saying.
Nathan Simmonds:
Um, one of the, the, uh, uh, concepts that I use and teach David Merrill’s social and communication styles, um, and I’m happy, um, we can pinging out a questionnaire that I’ve got around that, that will support that. Um, because those people that say can be only five minutes, they’re, they’re like me, they’re results focused. They just want to get where they’re going. They don’t care about the bit in between. And you may have to say, I really appreciate the enthusiasm.
Nathan Simmonds:
In order for us to get where you see we’re going, you need to be aware of some of this information to create that success and then that that will enable you to share some of that content. I’ve all those amazing Alison, brilliant. It’s a journey, not a destination. You are absolutely right. You have to know where you’re going though, okay? You cannot buy, and we’re talking about goals, you cannot buy a ticket to anywhere but here, okay?
Nathan Simmonds:
So when you’re going up to the ticket office of life, you cannot ask for a ticket, uh, to a ticket to anywhere. But here you have to know where you are going. At the same time you take the relevant content, you take the books, you take the whatever it is you wanna do on the train ride. So you can make you get, make sure you get there with a smile on your face while you’re doing it. Okay?
Nathan Simmonds:
Amazing guys, look, a lot of content gone up. Pace. I hope that was helpful. Scale of one to 10, lemme know one being not a tool, 10 being absolutely. How useful was today’s session? 10. Crikey, I didn’t even finish the sentence. Alison, thank you very much for that superstar. Amazing. Nine, thank you. What else? Nine. Thank you.
Nathan Simmonds:
Good. We came with some fire to end the week start. Big finish big guys, if you haven’t registered for the next sessions, go to the registration page. We can share that for you now. Get on there, register for next Tuesday, register for the whatever, whichever one’s irrelevant. Get on them, get them loaded. We definitely need the recording. Yes, crikey. Dunno what time we would’ve finished if I’ve slowed down. Colin registration page, there is in the links for the group. Click on there, register for the next sessions. You wanna look at the Grow Co, the coaching cards as well.
Nathan Simmonds:
Thank you for picking those up, Alison. Have a look at those as well. Super helpful guys. I hope this has been useful. I’m looking forward. Almost forgot. Happy Easter guys. Have a lovely long weekend. Enjoy the sunshine. Take the time to breathe, take the joy, time to enjoy the moment, be with family virtually, physically, whatever it is. And let’s get ready for another week and we’ll get these sessions going for you. Thank you very much everyone. Have a lovely day. Okay guys, thank you very much. Enjoy. See you soon.
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