Prepare Your Leadership

Hello, everybody. Give it a couple minutes here. Hope you're enjoying your lunchtime today on this Monday. Okay, we'll get started today. We'll be talking about what I call setting aim. So let's start with a quick question. How many of you have ever walked into a meeting or presentation, maybe a sales pitch, feeling stressed and overwhelmed? In fact, it's probably something that everybody has experienced. But what if I told you that with just about a couple minutes, a few minutes, up to ten to 15 minutes, however time you have, you can really tap in and change that experience.

So this is based on some research that Hitendra Wadhwa did at Columbia Business School, which he calls the leadership in flow. And then I've adapted it to simplify it to something that can be practiced every single day for everyday meetings. So, with this, his research, Wadwa saw executives, their ability to achieve more successful outcomes, so achieve their goals, rise by an average of 135% within just six weeks of adapting this approach. So what is it? Think about on a sports team before the game, the coach is going to give you the pregame.

They're going to tell you what to expect, what's going to happen, what's your role? So imagine if in a meeting or a sales pitch, you went with your team and did that exact same thing. Or if you're going into a team meeting and you're just yourself. What if you did that with yourself? What if you set your intentions right? You changed what your goal was with the meeting. Hi, Luke, how's it going? Hi, Jules. We're talking about setting intentions and what I call setting aim for the meeting. So it all starts with understanding the power of our emotions and intentions.

And when we're triggered or emotionally upset, we tend to underperform because these emotions are hindering our thinking. We are entering that flight or flight experience, but when we're more centered, calm, and tuned and open, we're more likely to achieve high performance. So just think to yourself what kind of meetings or what kind of maybe sales pitches that you go into, any type of setting where you're going to meet people or having to achieve a goal, think about what's kind of getting those emotions triggered.

So to prevent this state, you can do several things, and I call it aim. So that includes awareness, being aware of the situation, setting your intentions. How do you want to be scene? What are your goals for that meeting? And then lastly, I call motion or movement. How are you going to set those intentions in the meeting? What are the actionable steps that you're going to take. So let's go back. Let's think about awareness. So before going into a meeting, think is it just a project meeting you're talking to your team about?

Or maybe it's a performance review with your supervisor, or maybe it's a meeting from a different team that you're just meeting for the first time. So you want to, you know, it's more of an introduction meeting. So think about your intention going off that last one. You just meeting somebody the first time. Maybe your intentions for that meeting then is just to get to know them. You want to come across as friendly. You want to be more open. So then your movement, your motion may be more, I'm going to ask questions about them, about what they like, what their job is.

I'm going to do more listening. Or if it's meeting where you have to talk to somebody above you, somebody below you about something specific, your intentions are going to be different. You're going to probably not listen as much and be more direct. But how does that align with your values as well? So it's aligning your values, having these intentions and how you want to come across and then finding out how you're going to do it. So that is setting your aim, being aware of the situation, what kind of meeting, what kind of sales pitch, what kind of atmosphere, environment are you walking into?

What is the current, you know, feel of the entire organization right now? And then setting your intentions, how do you want to come across? How do you want to be seen as a leader? How do you want to be seen as a teammate? And then setting your movement or your motion, how are you going to achieve this? How are you going to get this done? And then, just like a coach, going back to my previous metaphor, just like a coach, after the meeting, sitting down and then talking about what went well. So if you're doing a sales pitch with your whole team and you after the meeting, you kind of have a team meeting afterwards, and you talk about what went well, what you could improve your teammates improvements, performance and how they could improve, just like a coach would do after a game.

And if you're by yourself, you can do that yourself as well. You can do that journaling, or you can just take a minute and think to yourself, did my intentions come across? Did I get all of my actionable steps? Was I successful? Did I think I was successful in this setting? And lastly, and this is if you have more time, is to visualize this interaction, this meeting beforehand. Hatendra Wadhwa, this researcher who was behind all this he found that 70% of people, after visualizing people who were 70% more likely to succeed because of this visualization practice.

So visualizing how you want your intentions and your actions to come across during this meeting. So this is all about being more self aware as a leader. And it's going back to versatile leadership, which I talked about last week, where it's changing your leadership style depending on what is the need in the environment at that moment. So it involves self awareness. What do you, what are your authentic values? What can you do as a leader? And then overall awareness of knowing the organizational climate.

So aim again is awareness, setting intentions and then motion and movement. How are you going to get that done? So that is this week's live talking about aim. Next week I'll kind of give a preview of what will be talked about at the respect live event coming up on the 20 May. I'll talk a little bit about generational differences in the workplace. So yeah, and keep it here. We got JC on at 1230 and Daryl Arglaze at five. You can check the whole schedule out here on the Cadre app. I hope you have a great rest of your Monday.

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