OCTOBER 2020

 

Business Tips:

TRACTION (EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System)

Our management is implementing a new system called “Traction”. It will provide direction over the next year through a wonderful system. We look forward to sharing it with you here. We hope you will take the journey with us.

~ IDS – The Issues Solving track (Identify, Discuss, Solve)~

• IDENTIFY: To start, you must first examine your Issues List and quickly decide on the top three issues to be solved. Do not make the mistake of starting at the top of your Issues List and working your way down. If the most important issue is seventh on the list, you will rarely handle that many issues in one sitting, and as a result you will not get to the most important one. In addition, when you take them in order of priority, a few issues will fall off the list because they turn out to be symptoms of the real issue you solved. One helpful context when identifying is to understand that there are three types of issues. One is a true problem that has to be solved. The second is information that needs to be communicated and agreed to by the team. The third is an idea or opportunity that needs feedback, brainstorming, insight, and/or a green light from the team. As a result, in the identify step, it’s the issue owner’s responsibility to make it clear what type of issue it is and what is needed.
• DISCUSS: The task of clearly identifying an issue enables you to stay focused on the issue at hand and avoid tangents. Once the issue is clearly identified, don’t be afraid to suggest a solution. Sometimes you don’t have to spend much time in the discussion step, because the issue is so clear and the solution is so obvious. In its simplest form, the discussion step is everyone’s opportunity to say everything they have to say about the issue. You get everything on the table in an open environment where nothing is sacred.
• SOLVE: The solve step is a conclusion or solution that usually becomes an action item for someone to do. The item ends up on the To-Do List, and when the action item is completed, the issue goes away forever. Three types of resolutions will emerge from an issues-solving session. The first is when the issue is solved and requires action. The second is when the issue is merely awareness, and the conclusion is that everyone concurs with that awareness. The third is when the issue needs more research or facts. In this case someone is assigned an action item to do the research and bring it to a subsequent meeting.

Wickman, Gino. Traction. BenBella Books, Inc.. Kindle Edition.

 

Personal Tips:

~ Set Clear Intentions for your tasks~

"I'm a firm believer in the 'getting things done' time management mindset. When planning my workday, I do my best to break down daily tasks into a flow of actionable and achievable items. The key to this method is to make sure each task can be completed in one go, whether it takes 30 minutes or two hours. Instead of thinking, 'I need to filter through my inbox' be more specific and think, 'I need to answer these specific emails in order to make these other tasks move forward.' With clearer intentions, the day flows much better."

--Oleg Shchgolev, cofounder and CEO of SEMrush, a visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform with more than 20,000 partners and 3 million registered users and used by 25 percent of Fortune 500 companies

Tools & Tech I am using:

~Understanding Relationships~

              Relationships can be tough. However, the key to understanding relationships lies in your willingness to learn the principles to know how. Understanding never giving up, forbearance, forgiveness, purpose, passion, and power are all things that can help in your ability to find, maintain, and secure all relationships. Relationships are a never ending field of study and it would behoove all of us to be actively engages in its study and fervent diligence to understand and apply truth.

 

Life Skills:

Fun

Life is too short to not laugh regularly. Be accessible and approachable, you never know what next conversation will become fun.

Notable quotes: They are italicized above.

Colossians 3:3

For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.

Galatians 3:26

For in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.

1 Corinthians 12:27

Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.