Meeting Rhythm

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...

September 4, 2023

Creating a Habit of Accountability, 12 Brutal Truths For Every Employer & ‘The Daily Huddle’ & Yearly Themes Done Right

Brad Giles Leading Change, Accountability, Daily Huddle, Leadership, Meeting Rhythm, Newsletter

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...

September 3, 2023

The Daily Huddle & Yearly Themes Done Right

Brad Giles Daily Huddle, Differentiating Activities, Leadership, Meeting Rhythm, Theme

August 8, 2022

Is your daily huddle off track? Critical startup skills & How to structure presentations to ensure effective decision making

Brad Giles Daily Huddle, Meeting Rhythm, Newsletter, Scaling Up, Weekly Meeting

April 18, 2022

Why stretch targets are garbage, good vs bad directors & how Onboarding can make or break a new hire

Brad Giles Leadership, Meeting Rhythm, Monthly Meeting, Newsletter, Onboarding, Quarterly Planning, Strategy, Weekly Meeting

March 18, 2020

COVID-19 Information and Perspective for Business Owners 18 March 2020

Brad Giles Made to Thrive, Meeting Rhythm, Newsletter, Succession Planning

January 17, 2020

Why don’t meetings end on time?

Brad Giles Made to Thrive, Meeting Rhythm

September 26, 2019

1.4 All team meetings are conducted with an agenda to effectively make decisions | Made to Thrive 8/34

Brad Giles Accountability, Made to Thrive, Meeting Rhythm

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. [creativ_media type=”youtube” url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naYurMoPjGA&”] What is Scaling Up? Scaling Up is Mastering Read More...

July 26, 2017

What is Scaling Up?

Brad Giles Actions to live by, Annual Planning, BHAG, Brand Promise, Core Customer, Core Purpose, Core Values, Critical Number, Daily Huddle, Meeting Rhythm, Monthly Meeting, One Page Strategic Plan, One Phrase Strategy, Profit per x, Quarterly Planning, Quarterly Theme, Rockefeller Habits, Scaling Up, Seven Strata of Strategy, Strategic Planning, Strategy, SWOT & SWT, Topgrading, Weekly Meeting, Workshop Facilitation

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...

May 17, 2017

How to Improve Daily Huddles

Brad Giles Daily Huddle, Meeting Rhythm, Monthly Meeting, Weekly Meeting

One of the most important factors in scaling up a business from a small business to a faster growing medium sized business is transitioning from the founder or entrepreneur holding all the accountability, to having a leadership team which meets quarterly and performs strategic thinking and execution planning. But how do you build a leadership team? How do you make the transition to having a senior management team who you can trust and will help you to scale the business? In this vlog I look Read More...

January 30, 2017

How to create a leadership team

Brad Giles Annual Planning, Leadership, Meeting Rhythm, Strategic Planning, Vlog

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...

October 7, 2016

The O2E Brands Daily Huddle

Brad Giles Daily Huddle, Meeting Rhythm