Week 2 Focus – VISION Milestones Focus Question: As you move towards your vision, what are the milestones along the way? Description Chunking down our vision into more manageable pieces allows us to start laying out the roadmap in discrete pieces. This then allows us to move forward strategically. Once you have your vision, creating milestones along the way is an important part of the process. Research/Story “Rome was not built in a day.” My father’s voice continues to echo in my ear, years after first hearing. An entrepreneur himself, my dad ran an old-fashioned corner pharmacy for decades, taking over Britton’s Pharmacy from his father, my grandfather who founded it in the 1930s. Hearing this phrase mentioned regularly reminds me that things that time to create. It’s the consistent action that forges the road as we go. What are the steps you want to accomplish as you go? Activity Using the Vision RoadMap, look at the big pieces of your vision and identify the actual steps you will need to take (and want to take) to move yourself along. With the Vision Roadmap you will be able to break larger projects down into more discrete milestones. Questions to consider when looking at developing your vision roadmap As you look out across the year, what are the key elements or what Steven Covey would call “Big Rocks.” Place these on one sheet of paper. Now working with each one at a time, identify the key milestones or smaller pieces along the way. This will help to break it into chunks. You might want to consider these questions:
If you want to work at the micro-level, turn to page 38 – and review “Be True to Who You Are – The Micro-Vision.” As the page invites you to, take time to identify what’s really important to:
Connection to the Workbook and Planner Several areas of the Planner and Workbook touch on chunking things to milestones including:
Use the hashtag #52weekspdt (52weeks PlanDoTrack) Check out last week's Week 1 of the 52 Weeks of Planning, Doing and Tracking here. Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT
Author of several books including: PlanDoTrack (2019), Effective Virtual Conversations (2017), Effective Group Coaching (2010) Potentials Realized - Specializing in support to virtual and remote teams, leaders and entrepreneurs Award-winning Coaching Skills Training Join us for one of our 2019 Annual Coaching Groups - Teams365 Leadership Lab for Virtual Leaders and Team Members or Coaching Biz Growth Lab - for coaches and other virtual entrepreneurs (416)996-8326 Stay Connected
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Week 1 Focus – VISION Focus Question: What’s Your Vision? What’s possible for you and your business? Description It all begins with a vision. One year from now, what do you want your business to look like? Where do you want to take your business or work over the next 52 weeks? Activity Spend time this week creating or revisiting your vision for the year ahead. If you have a copy of the Coaching Business Builder Workbook or PlanDoTrack Workbook refer to the Vision Questions – Page 95 (CBB) and Page 99 (PDT). Use these questions to reconnect with your vision. Write it out, play with it. If you have a vision, capture it in a different way. In coaching we talk about structures. What is the structure that will make this visible to you on a regular basis Is there a model? A collage, a series of photographs? Related Blog Post: Creating Your Vision I’ve written quite a bit on creating your vision with different blog posts many which can be found via: https://www.potentialsrealized.com/apps/search?q=creating+your+vision New Resource - Working with Vision Team Tool If you have worked with vision before, here’s a new resource you might be interested in. Giving people the opportunity to work through tools and resources with a smaller frame can help with focus, conciseness and integration. Starting in late 2017 I created a one-page vision map for teams to work through. This can also work for business owners. Giving a time window of focused time prompts (for example 5 minutes) to work through each of these questions:
Connection to the Workbook and Planners Coaching Business Builder - Page 95 – Vision Questions PlanDoTrack - Page 99 – Vision Questions Download a one-pager to create you own annual analog resource. Enjoy! Jennifer PS - Share your vision and how you engage with these activities on social media. Use the hashtag #dscam2019 (It stands for Daily Steps + Consistent Action = Momentum) Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT
Potentials Realized - Specializing in support to virtual and remote teams, leaders and entrepreneurs Award-winning Coaching Skills Training Join us for one of our 2019 Annual Coaching Groups - Teams365 Leadership Lab for Virtual Leaders and Team Members or Coaching Biz Growth Lab - for coaches and other virtual entrepreneurs (416)996-8326 Stay Connected Hello! I am excited to announce a year-long series (52 weeks!) which I'll be hosting here at the PlanDoTrack Blog each Friday throughout 2019. It's geared for virtual professionals (leaders, entrepeneurs and team members) as well as coaches, along with any other readers who are enjoying the Coaching Business Builder and PlanDoTrack Workbooks and Planners. Welcome to the Annual Compendium to the Coaching Business Builder (CBB) and the PlanDoTrack (PDT) Workbook and Planners. When I launched the Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner in the summer of 2018, it was in response to the growing needs of coaches for a resource to focus in on their business development, AND also have a place for planning and tracking of their business results. Since that time I have launched the PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner – Virtual and Remote Edition, adapting it for the virtual and remote world where I have spent the better part of the last three decades, either as a remote and virtual team leader, program manager or business owner. The Annual Compendium is a supplement to both these resources. Many professionals may opt to have an annual 52-week resource they can refer to and work through on a regular basis, rather than try to read the books cover to cover. This resource does that. Over the next 52 weeks (one year) each Friday, I will be sharing a different theme from the CBB and PDT Workbook and Planners. The blog post will include a Focus Question for the Week, a brief description, story or research component, an activity for you to undertake AND a quote. I’ve chosen to share this with you on Friday, knowing that for many coaches and other virtual professionals, Friday marks a brief pause in the week, and the start of the planning cycle for the next week. You will also be able to download a one or two pager each week. The Story Behind the Story Like most professionals and business owners, we find ourselves working around the margins of life, One.Step.At.A.Time. In today’s creative entrepreneurial space, client work has its own ebbs and flows throughout the year. After fifteen years of being in business, I have also seen how important it is to also be creating something on the side in response to the needs of those we serve. For many years I have run a series of group coaching initiatives, bringing together small groups or leaders or leaders for three, six- or twelve-month periods. These conversations are geared to support these professionals around their goals, by taking action on a regular basis, and gaining awareness around the belief systems and mindsets they embrace. The coaching conversation provides an important framework for accountability around the steps they want to commit to undertaking. In today’s compressed digital world, it may seem easier to DIY - “do it yourself”. That’s where this weekly guidebook comes in. Each week has a different focus for business development, and includes a Question, a short story and, and activity suggestion and a link to the Coaching Business Builder Workbook and Planner. The logo for the book is a multi-colored puzzle piece, with the tagline of “Putting the Pieces Together”. These pieces often emerge on an iterative basis, getting shaped as we PLAN, then DO by taking action, and finally TRACK – noticing what’s working and what’s not. With this in mind, each tip has its own icon for Plan.Do.Track. While you can engage in the materials one week at a time, you can also undertake these prompts more quickly by following them a more frequent basis like daily. Businesses rarely grow by themselves. Rather they are forged through experimentation, and conversation. I hope you will consider joining me for the Coaching Business Growth Lab and/or Plan.Do.Track series of programming. More information at www.CoachingBusinessBuilder.com and www.PlanDoTrack.com. For those looking for annual group support and accountability join me on Fridays bi-weekly at the: Coaching Biz Growth Lab – for Coaches and other virtual professionals wanting to grow their own service based business (https://www.CoachingBizGrowthLab.com) The Teams365 Leadership Lab – for virtual professionals wanting to hone their leadership skills. (http://teams365.teachable.com/) Power Up Your Business and Work Through this 52 Week Challenge! They will be shared with you each week at the PlanDoTrack Blog. Looking forward to our weekly journey together this year! Jennifer Jennifer Britton, MES, PCC, CPT Potentials Realized - Specializing in support to virtual and remote teams, leaders and entrepreneurs Award-winning Coaching Skills Training Join us for one of our 2019 Annual Coaching Groups - Teams365 Leadership Lab for Virtual Leaders and Team Members or Coaching Biz Growth Lab - for coaches and other virtual entrepreneurs (416)996-8326 Stay Connected |
AuthorJennifer Britton is the blogger behind the popular Teams365 blog, a daily,blog for team leaders and members since 2014. Her latest publication is the PlanDoTrack Workbook and Planner. Pick up a copy at Amazon. Pick Up a CopyUpcoming Programs
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