22 October 2023 Newsletter
“The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.” Fabienne Fredrickson
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a productive week with meetings, a planning workshop, and a presentation to a group about onboarding.
Also, I watched the new David Beckham documentary on Netflix, which is an excellent insight into the mindset of a top performer.
Look out for his attention to detail around the house and his persistence and resilience in the face of Read More...
22 October 2023 Newsletter
“The day you plant the seed is not the day you eat the fruit.” Fabienne Fredrickson
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been a productive week with meetings, a planning workshop, and a presentation to a group about onboarding.
Also, I watched the new David Beckham documentary on Netflix, which is an excellent insight into the mindset of a top performer.
Look out for his attention to detail around the house and his persistence and resilience in the face of Read More...
3 September 2023 Newsletter
“A good leader leads everyone the same, a great leader caters to different people based upon what they need.” John Maxwell
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been an extremely productive week with four x full day planning workshops and preparations for the new Onboarded for Managers book launch on October 1st.
I hope you’ve enjoyed a good week also.
If you haven’t yet had the chance, I’d encourage you to watch the Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary Read More...
3 September 2023 Newsletter
“A good leader leads everyone the same, a great leader caters to different people based upon what they need.” John Maxwell
Hope you’re Thriving!
It’s been an extremely productive week with four x full day planning workshops and preparations for the new Onboarded for Managers book launch on October 1st.
I hope you’ve enjoyed a good week also.
If you haven’t yet had the chance, I’d encourage you to watch the Arnold Schwarzenegger documentary Read More...
The Daily Huddle & Yearly Themes Done Right
Dancer Concrete Design is a 40 person business specialising in polished concrete and epoxy floor coatings based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They physically change the design, the feel, and the impact on interior spaces by using concrete as a design element. They are a great example of a business doing the hard work to become a small giant – a business that works to become better not bigger.
One of the things I liked on their website was their Read More...
The Daily Huddle & Yearly Themes Done Right
Dancer Concrete Design is a 40 person business specialising in polished concrete and epoxy floor coatings based in Fort Wayne, Indiana. They physically change the design, the feel, and the impact on interior spaces by using concrete as a design element. They are a great example of a business doing the hard work to become a small giant – a business that works to become better not bigger.
One of the things I liked on their website was their Read More...
This video is a summary of the book Scaling Up by Verne Harnish and should give you an understanding of the subjects and key concepts in the book. I’m going to talk about who the book is intended for, what problems it solves and how it solves them and how you can use the book to further your business.
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What is Scaling Up?
Scaling Up is Mastering Read More...
This video is a summary of the book Scaling Up by Verne Harnish and should give you an understanding of the subjects and key concepts in the book. I’m going to talk about who the book is intended for, what problems it solves and how it solves them and how you can use the book to further your business.
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What is Scaling Up?
Scaling Up is Mastering Read More...
What are the most important things you must do to improve Daily Huddles from Verne Harnish’s book Scaling Up?
How do you prevent a Daily Huddle from failing?
What makes a Daily Huddle succeed?
In this video I explain what is a Daily Huddle, how Daily Huddles work and how to prevent Daily Huddles from failing.
Also I provide Daily Huddle examples and explain the Gazelles Meeting Rhythm from Scaling Up.
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What are the most important things you must do to improve Daily Huddles from Verne Harnish’s book Scaling Up?
How do you prevent a Daily Huddle from failing?
What makes a Daily Huddle succeed?
In this video I explain what is a Daily Huddle, how Daily Huddles work and how to prevent Daily Huddles from failing.
Also I provide Daily Huddle examples and explain the Gazelles Meeting Rhythm from Scaling Up.
Read More...
In an effort to add more value, I started a vlog.
Here is my first vlog, in it I talk about the Daily Huddle, a part of the Meeting Rhythm.
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In an effort to add more value, I started a vlog.
Here is my first vlog, in it I talk about the Daily Huddle, a part of the Meeting Rhythm.
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The Daily Huddle forms a key part of the Meeting Rhythm framework and there is generally no right or wrong way to conduct it, however there are best practices to learn about the Daily Huddle that you can consider, and implement into your Daily Huddle.
What is the Meeting Rhythm?
The Meeting Rhythm is a consistent rhythm of meetings designed to support cascading communication around the priorities and metrics driving strategy.
Quarterly and Annual Planning Meetings – A one to Read More...
The Daily Huddle forms a key part of the Meeting Rhythm framework and there is generally no right or wrong way to conduct it, however there are best practices to learn about the Daily Huddle that you can consider, and implement into your Daily Huddle.
What is the Meeting Rhythm?
The Meeting Rhythm is a consistent rhythm of meetings designed to support cascading communication around the priorities and metrics driving strategy.
Quarterly and Annual Planning Meetings – A one to Read More...
In this short video Naomi Simson talks about her journey implementing Gazelles tools to Scale Up her business Red Balloon. Naomi discusses the Red Balloon Core Values, how she has used the Brand Promise and Catalytic Mechanism (Brand Promise guarantee) to make it painful to not deliver on customer promises and the BHAG at Red Balloon.
She also discuses Core Purpose and how this inspired her to start the company as well as an example of a theme that could have worked better, but was Read More...
In this short video Naomi Simson talks about her journey implementing Gazelles tools to Scale Up her business Red Balloon. Naomi discusses the Red Balloon Core Values, how she has used the Brand Promise and Catalytic Mechanism (Brand Promise guarantee) to make it painful to not deliver on customer promises and the BHAG at Red Balloon.
She also discuses Core Purpose and how this inspired her to start the company as well as an example of a theme that could have worked better, but was Read More...
Silver Chef are long time Rockefeller Habits users having used the tools to grow to 3 countries, 200 staff and ASX listing. This ten minute video shows an 8 minute daily huddle (never let them get past 10 minutes) at Silver Chef Canada and how they are using it to align the team each day.
It also offers insights into the benefit team members get from the daily huddle.
Thanks to Canadian Gazelles Coach Shannon Susko for producing this video.
Also be sure to check out their wall sized One Page Read More...
Silver Chef are long time Rockefeller Habits users having used the tools to grow to 3 countries, 200 staff and ASX listing. This ten minute video shows an 8 minute daily huddle (never let them get past 10 minutes) at Silver Chef Canada and how they are using it to align the team each day.
It also offers insights into the benefit team members get from the daily huddle.
Thanks to Canadian Gazelles Coach Shannon Susko for producing this video.
Also be sure to check out their wall sized One Page Read More...
Do you have a theme for the second half of 2015? Gene Browne and his team continue to brilliantly use quarterly themes to align everyone around addressing a key constraint to scaling up City Bin, their Galway, Ireland-based waste collection firm. Their last theme titled “The Price is Right” drove them to focus on pricing strategies which resulted in an increase in their monthly Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) by 7%. “We’re very happy considering the price sensitivity Read More...
Do you have a theme for the second half of 2015? Gene Browne and his team continue to brilliantly use quarterly themes to align everyone around addressing a key constraint to scaling up City Bin, their Galway, Ireland-based waste collection firm. Their last theme titled “The Price is Right” drove them to focus on pricing strategies which resulted in an increase in their monthly Average Revenue Per User (ARPU) by 7%. “We’re very happy considering the price sensitivity Read More...
May 2015 Evolution Partners Newsletter
“No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care” – Ted Roosevelt
A word from Brad
With 3 public holidays in April I had a good opportunity to spend some extra family time, including a great boat trip to Rotto with a couple of other families, and what seemed like dozens of kids swimming, fishing and generally doing what Rotto does best.
I spoke last week about the Science Behind a Winning Sales Culture at an Read More...
May 2015 Evolution Partners Newsletter
“No one cares how much you know until they know how much you care” – Ted Roosevelt
A word from Brad
With 3 public holidays in April I had a good opportunity to spend some extra family time, including a great boat trip to Rotto with a couple of other families, and what seemed like dozens of kids swimming, fishing and generally doing what Rotto does best.
I spoke last week about the Science Behind a Winning Sales Culture at an Read More...
California-based Walters & Wolf designs, fabricates, and installs amazing glass interior and exterior walls for all types of construction. With 900 union employees, two years ago their president Nick Kocelj made no excuses why they couldn’t fundamentally transform their company and since then has driven unbelievable performance in their industry using Lean. Go to 24:40 to see a couple minutes of their daily huddle; then go to 29:00 to check out this simple solution. Notes Paul Aker, Read More...
California-based Walters & Wolf designs, fabricates, and installs amazing glass interior and exterior walls for all types of construction. With 900 union employees, two years ago their president Nick Kocelj made no excuses why they couldn’t fundamentally transform their company and since then has driven unbelievable performance in their industry using Lean. Go to 24:40 to see a couple minutes of their daily huddle; then go to 29:00 to check out this simple solution. Notes Paul Aker, Read More...
Shoes of Prey are a global online retailer that enable shoppers to design and buy their own shoes online. Founded in 2009 by Michael Fox, Jodie Fox and Mike Knapp in Sydney they enable shoppers to design shoes exactly the way they want, have them custom made and shipped.
This video shows the Shoes of Prey daily huddle in action and is a good example of how to hold a daily huddle The daily huddle is a part of the meeting rhythm drawn from the book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits. You can Read More...
Shoes of Prey are a global online retailer that enable shoppers to design and buy their own shoes online. Founded in 2009 by Michael Fox, Jodie Fox and Mike Knapp in Sydney they enable shoppers to design shoes exactly the way they want, have them custom made and shipped.
This video shows the Shoes of Prey daily huddle in action and is a good example of how to hold a daily huddle The daily huddle is a part of the meeting rhythm drawn from the book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits. You can Read More...
If you want to grow faster, pulse faster.
“Implementing a daily sales huddle has helped Quickparts grow at a torrid pace,” explains Mark Mackie, co-founder and Vicepresident Sales for this Atlanta-based source for custom-manufactured plastic and metal parts (they helped develop the 2002 Winter Olympic Torch). And this growth has garnered them plenty of honors including Finalist Atlanta Small Business Person of the Year, Finalist Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Read More...
If you want to grow faster, pulse faster.
“Implementing a daily sales huddle has helped Quickparts grow at a torrid pace,” explains Mark Mackie, co-founder and Vicepresident Sales for this Atlanta-based source for custom-manufactured plastic and metal parts (they helped develop the 2002 Winter Olympic Torch). And this growth has garnered them plenty of honors including Finalist Atlanta Small Business Person of the Year, Finalist Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year for the Read More...
It used to take days for issues to work their way to the top to get authority reallocate resources,” says Tony Petrucciani, CEO of computer services firm Single Source Systems. “Now it’s like FedEx. It’s there by 10:30.
There is one indispensable routine; one absolute essential habit more important than any other I can teach an executive team; one discipline that is non-negotiable – and that is an effective daily meeting rhythm.
Before dismissing the idea (I’ve Read More...
It used to take days for issues to work their way to the top to get authority reallocate resources,” says Tony Petrucciani, CEO of computer services firm Single Source Systems. “Now it’s like FedEx. It’s there by 10:30.
There is one indispensable routine; one absolute essential habit more important than any other I can teach an executive team; one discipline that is non-negotiable – and that is an effective daily meeting rhythm.
Before dismissing the idea (I’ve Read More...
