Do Your Work Goals Pass This Test?

Do your work goals pass this test?

Learn how to focus on your goals and why your work goals must pass this test.

In this video, we unpack the holy trinity; the secret to focusing on your goals is the ‘what’, ‘why’, and ‘can I’. These are three hugely important components of any goal. Without these three solid foundations, you will learn how weak your goals are a major issues and how you are leaving the success of you and your team to chance.

Get your holy trinity in check, and you will not only make your planning more effective but also significantly increase your likelihood of success.

Look out for a terrible joke, too; my apologies! What are you waiting for?

Dive in and learn how to make your goals more robust.

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Posted On January 16, 2024 By Ricky Muddimer In Culture, Engagement, Goals, High Performing Teams, Leadership, Management, Performance Management, Productivity, Trust, Video /  

What Google says about High Performing Teams

Uncover the Secrets to High-Performing Teams

Are you looking to boost your team’s productivity and cohesion?

Ricky dives into the groundbreaking study by Google that sheds light on what truly sets high-performing teams apart. Whether you’re a manager, team leader, or team member or have a curious mind, this video holds transformative insights for you!

Inside this video, you will discover:

  • Google’s extensive research spanned over two years.
  • Powerful takeaways from 200+ interviews & analysis of 250 attributes across 180+ active Google teams.
  • The surprising truth about what really matters in teamwork.
  • A comprehensive breakdown of Google’s five key dynamics for high-performing teams:
    • Impact of Work
    • Meaning of Work
    • Structure and clarity
    • Dependability
    • Psychological Safety

Exclusive Resource: Want to implement psychological safety in your team? Don’t miss the exclusive worksheet that will guide you through the process! Click here for the worksheet

Join Ricky on this enlightening journey and equip yourself with the tools and knowledge to craft a team that doesn’t just work but excels!

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Posted On October 25, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Culture, Engagement, High Performing Teams, Leadership, Management, Performance Management, Productivity, Psychological Safety, Trust, Video /  

How to Deliver Purposeful Feedback at Work.

Do you want to know how to deliver feedback effectively at work?

In this video, we will share with you five tips on how to deliver effective feedback that will be respectful and helpful to you and your employees.

Learning how to deliver feedback effectively is essential if you want to be a successful manager of people! We’ll show you how to deliver feedback to help your employees grow and learn. We’ll also discuss the importance of feedback in the workplace and give you some helpful tips on how to give feedback effectively!

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Posted On May 24, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Coaching, Feedback, High Performing Teams, Leadership, Management, Mindset, Performance Management /  

How to make your performance chats easy every time!

Do you know how to make your performance chats easy every time?

All managers love it when they have to give great feedback; that’s easy, providing it’s purposeful that is! However, many managers struggle to hold people accountable during routine feedback or performance meetings. Managers ruminate ahead of giving feedback, catastrophising the team member’s reactions. So they sugarcoat the message, which has no impact and, guess what, leads to no uplift in performance or change in behaviour.

There is a way to make it easier: developing a psychological contract, or as we call it, the expectations chat. This chat aims to establish how the line manager and team members can get the best out of each other, which means giving feedback. So why not agree upfront on how you do that and get the two-way permission agreed upon while there are no issues in the relationship?

In this video, we share a simple four-step process that will make every performance chat easy and straightforward every time.

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Posted On May 10, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Coaching, Engagement, Feedback, High Performing Teams, Leadership, Management, Mindset, Performance Management, Productivity, Video /  

How to Achieve Your Big and Complex Goals.

Do you know how to achieve your big and complex goals? How to make them easier to work on? If not, then this video is for you.

Firmly in leadership and management development, we highlight practical strategies and tips for making big and complex goals easier to achieve. Setting ambitious goals can be exciting, but it can also be overwhelming and intimidating, especially when you’re not sure where to start.

We share the umbrella goals technique used by client organisations worldwide to think, plan and communicate complex multi-part goals. Then, as with any big goal, we walk you through how to break your big goal into smaller, more manageable steps. Doing so can create a clear roadmap that will make the journey towards your ultimate goal less daunting.

By the end of this video, you’ll have another tool in your toolbox of practical strategies and tips to help you break down big and complex goals into smaller, more manageable steps. In addition, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and confidence to tackle any goal easily and achieve your desired success.

With a burgeoning set of content on all things goals, tune into our Goals Playlist

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Posted On March 1, 2023 By Ricky Muddimer In Engagement, Goals, High Performing Teams, Leadership, Management, Performance Management, Productivity, Video /  

What to do When SMART Goals Don’t Work

Try the Benchmark Method

New Year’s resolutions will be on the minds of lots of people; if that’s the case, if you’re serious, you need to get goal setting.

A lot of the time, New Year’s resolutions focus on feelings and confidence, and SMART goals don’t work for something subjective, not until now, that is. SMART goals are great for goal setting, when you know how to set goals using SMART they’re awesome, but what do you do when the subject of your goal is a feeling, a perception or a judgement, something subjective, well we have the perfect solution with benchmark goal setting.

You can take something that is hard to measure and turn it into something that will work with a SMART goal. SMART goals are essential to the Thinking Focus Toolkit for Team Leaders and Managers.

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Posted On December 30, 2021 By Ricky Muddimer In Coaching, Goals, High Performing Teams, Leadership, Management, Metacognition, Mindset, Motivation, Performance Management, Productivity, Video /  

SMART goals; are you doing them right?

Need to define Smart goals? – before you do, are you doing them right? if you want to achieve what you want that is!

Smart goal-setting works, which is probably why no one has managed to reinvent them. Smart goals are the staple diet for team leaders, managers and leaders. Without smart goals, you have no idea what you’re working on, what your people are working on, or what your organisation is working on. Your future is at risk and left to chance.

In this video, Graham walks you through the smart goals process and gives a practical example. We also shared why we think most are getting it wrong, at least the order that is.

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Posted On December 28, 2021 By Ricky Muddimer In Confidence, Engagement, Goals, High Performing Teams, Leadership, Management, Metacognition, Mindset, Motivation, Performance Management, Productivity, Video /  

How to achieve success in 2025 with a proven process.

Discover the secret to boosting your productivity at work!

Follow these tips, and you’ll be able to get more done in less time and feel more organized and efficient in your daily tasks. Whether you’re a working professional or a student, these tips will help you achieve your goals and meet your deadlines.

So let’s get started! These tips will help you improve your productivity at work! Whether you’re unstructured, find it hard to plan or dive in without thinking it through first, our Actions Model – FoooDo will help you to be more productive and effective more often.

FoooDo has six steps designed to help you get clarity, be more creative and critically evaluate which ideas are worth pursuing as you work to achieve your goals.

Be more successful with FoooDo, the ultimate #coachingmodel that will help you think, plan and execute your goals more robustly. Achieve what you want!

FoooDo is a central component of the Thinking Focus Toolkit for Team Leaders and Managers.

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Posted On May 21, 2021 By Ricky Muddimer In Confidence, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking, Goals, High Performing Teams, Leadership, Management, Metacognition, Mindset, Motivation, Performance Management, Productivity, Video /  

Eisenhower Matrix – Why Urgent Doesn’t Make it Important

The Eisenhower Matrix helps you decide whether urgent means important. It helps you to prioritize your work and helps you focus on what’s important right now!

It will also help you to stop doing those tasks that add no value to you. In this video, we share why the Eisenhower matrix is such a powerful tool for making you more productive and effective. Learn how to use the tool and access a free downloadable template you can use as much as you like and share with your colleagues and friends.

Critical thinking is an essential part of the Thinking Focus Toolkit for Team Leaders and Managers. Here’s a link to the free download https://bit.ly/urgentversusimportant

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Posted On April 29, 2021 By Ricky Muddimer In Critical Thinking, Leadership, Management, Metacognition, Mindset, Performance Management, Productivity, Video /