Cadre Today and Bold Followership

Moving right along in such a good time for good news your friend can lose good become right along Put loose and fancy free come share it with me Move right along we don't need a map to get the show on the road here. Newland T. North Amar Speak Wonder. How's everybody doing today? Nice to see y' all. That was a cover of the great Kermit the Frog and Frosty the Bear hit song Moving right Along. That was a cover by Alkaline Trio. They made a cover album called the Green Album of all of. Not all, but a good chunk of Muppets hits with pop artists.

So that album's kind of old now, 2011, so check it out. Jules, nice to see you, too. I didn't see you sneak in the back door. Nice to see y' all, everybody. Hey, I'm glad I'm here. I'm glad you're here. I know what I know, and I care about you. On Mondays, a lot of people have starts to their week, right? Whether it be start to a work week or start to bringing your kids or your grandkids or your animals back to camp or daycare. Maybe the weekend was a certain set of activities, and now your week has a different set of activities.

But Mondays is, I would probably guess, the day that most people have a start. And with that being said, I have a little tip for you today on how you can make sure that if you are starting something with other people, that you all start in a really, really powerful place, a place that's likely to breed success or movement or memories or the good stuff, the stuff we want to have happen. And this little tip is called a structured check in. One of the hats that I wear in my life is as executive coach and facilitator.

I love walking into groups of people doing what they do from the outside and saying, hey, I'm going to spend some time with you today. And poke the bear and hold the mirror up so you can see yourselves. Um, and slow. Or speed up the. The. The. The rate in. In which a group is moving and make them go, huh? What happens if we slow down a bit? Or what happens if we speed up a bit? Um. So I love being that. That person in the story. See, I. I sensed it. I sensed someone had the grandkids and that there was camp going on.

Um, Speak, Wonder. I felt it. So what is a structured check in? Well, let's say, here's an example. Tomorrow I will walk into one of my clients, and I will, for the first time, get all of the Eight leaders that I coach individually together in one room. These leaders work in different parts of the enterprise. They work in different parts of the enterprise. They have different business lines, different focuses, different expertise, different performance indicators that, that they need to focus on.

So you can sense in their minds it's like, ah, taking a few hours away from doing what I need to do and the people that I do it with in order to spend time with other people, ah, no, yes. Excited, scared, frustrated. They're all in different places, they all have different focuses, different lenses, different perceptions on what this time's going to be. And a structured check in invites them to arrive on the same page on some topics before we actually start getting to work. So it's almost like asking, hey, so what, what are you thinking about today?

That has nothing to do with work. It's one of the questions I love asking. Another one is, hey, if you were going to share three things that you are excited about this week, what would they be? If you were, maybe would ask something like, if there's one thing on your schedule this week that, that you're really not looking forward to, what is it now again, they're at work. They may be thinking work, but they may also not be thinking work. So inviting them to move from the small scope to the large scope of their lives and to connect with others so they can go, huh?

Because the second one person shares something, it redirects what the next person is going to say and then it redirects what the next person is going to say because they go from I'm going to deliver the message to I'm going to listen and respond to the collective energy that's in the room. It's a really, really powerful and yet incredibly simple and humanistic way of getting people to start. And if you look at the title of this live stream, it says bold followership. It's also a really great way to get people to start moving together, right?

To follow, to listen, to be inspired, to consider what happens when a group of people move together rather than individually. Maybe you're one of those people who sometimes says, gosh, yep, it would be, yep, I could spend time on delegating, but at the end of the day it's just easier for me to do it by myself. A lot of times that's true. There are times that we need to show up and get the thing done, but there are other times that we need to equip the people in the room to go ahead and do the work.

That needs more perspectives, more faces, more voices. More experience. So no matter where you are, no matter what's going on today, I invite you to find some time to do a structured check in. Even if it's with yourself and the voices in your head. Ask yourself those questions. What's the one thing on your schedule that you're most least looking forward to? What are three things that excite you this week? And what is something not at work that you are spending time with? Oh, did you do a structured check in with Luke?

That makes me happy. You can tell that I've been in the Cadre room with with Luke before and that some things are sticking. I Love that. Jules. Three hour driving appointment. Long day for 30 minute appointment. I get you later on this week I fly to Detroit to drive to Traverse City four hours for a day of meetings before I drive four hours back to Detroit and then fly back to Minneapolis. So put on some good tunes T North speak Wonder Amar Scrolling back up everybody who's here today. I hope you have a good one.

If not, that's okay too. I'll see you later. Just left Rhode Island. We did what? Okay, bye. Saskatchewan.