Management Briefing #2: June 2014

 Weekly 1:1 Agenda

In the book ‘Mastering the Rockefeller Habits’ Verne Harnish explains the importance of momentum in a business. He says that to create momentum meetings will help.

The most useful meeting you can have with your Team will be when they are engaged. To have them engaged, they will need to do some preparatory work. When they prepare, they are doing a self-evaluation of their effort since you last met with them.

This meeting could be one to one or in a group. Following on from our first Management Briefing, a group meeting will work better if you have that vital layer of trust and if time permits. Regardless, meeting one to one will also work. The key is to schedule the meeting in both diaries and keep it the same every week.

Engagement Tool

Have each individual complete the form on the reverse of your briefing prior to the meeting and then allow 10-20 minutes to discuss face to face or share with a group.

Personal Energy Levels

This is designed for your Team member to open up and share how they are feeling based on outside influences. You make get some work issues here, which allow you to solve them. This is an outstanding tool to build trust, so encourage your Team to be open and honest.

Blow Your Own Trumpet

Often in the work place you will miss some amazing achievements, awesome service or how the team have helped each other. This is the opportunity to for the team member to tell you something or somethings that you are not aware of, allowing you to praise.

The Mighty Six Questions

This tool has been developed using the research from Marcus Buckingham in his book ‘First Break All The Rules. Based on in-depth interviews with more than 80,000 managers at all levels and in companies of all sizes, Buckingham identified what makes a strong work place.

The research isolated the 12 characteristics of a strong workplace as seen through the eyes of the most successful and productive employees. If your Team can answer each of the following 12 questions affirmatively, you have a strong workplace, a workplace where the best want to work and stay.

Buckingham says in the book that the first 6 questions are the base camp for success. You can ask these questions every week and shoot for a resounding ‘yes.’

This Weeks Plan

Designed to set goals and have your Team think about what they want to achieve over the coming week. You can start the following week’s meeting by asking how they went with their goals from last week.

Key points:

• Meeting a set time every week & is only missed when the Team member is on holidays or sick;
• Form is completed prior to meeting;
• Meeting should be 10-20 minutes
• Sit at right angles to each other, to show open body language
• 80% of the time is listening and 20% is talking from you.

Here is a great sample to get you started.

Download the complete report here – AM Management Briefing # 2: June 2014