SLL#15: Personal Development Plan Not Sure What to Start – Part #4

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Create Your Own Personal Development Plan

Understand the 5 simple steps to create your personal development plan in Part 4 of this PDP series.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Amazing. Good afternoon people. Yes, I’m excited. We’re on Thursday. We’ve got people arriving 30 seconds to make sure we’re getting set up for success today. Gina, thank you, Chris. Gerd, Ivan. Mark. Samantha. Stewart. Great to see you. See you all arriving. Some of you got some new faces, the regulars. Really appreciate all of you being here. Hmm. Let’s give it a couple more seconds. Let’s make sure we got, we’re getting ready for this.

Nathan Simmonds:

As always, mobile phones. First of all, let’s remove all the distractions that we’ve got today. Mobile phones. Let’s get your phones out. Let’s make sure they’re in airplane mode. No beeps, no buzzes, no pings, no nothing other than a full hundred percent attention to the time that we’re gonna spend together. Um, going through today’s content around personal development planning.

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Nathan Simmonds:

Just had a message there regarding a document I’m gonna share with you all at the end of this session. So I’ve got a little gift, a little bonus for you at the end of this that we’ve been working on this week and I’m looking forward to sharing that. Making sure you’ve got drinks handy, herbal teas, coffees, waters, whatever it is you’re set up. And as always, making sure you’ve got your, uh, clean sheet notepad, pen at the ready. Now, making sure you’ve got plenty of ink and you’re not gonna be looking for another pen halfway through this session, set that page up at the top of the page, you’re gonna write keepers.

Nathan Simmonds:

Keepers are the things that we wanna remember, the keep the things we wanna keep hold of so that when we read back through those notes, it creates new thinking and it keeps the, the, the, the ideation flowing and progressing forward. Really important. We do this objective for today. We wanna be aiming for three or more keepers as we go through this session. So anything that I say, any questions that comes up or anything in the chat box, you think, oh, I need to keep hold of that. Get to on that sheet so it reminds you,

Nathan Simmonds:

Heading into this lasted a couple of people coming in. Let’s get off the screenshot. Now remember to do it this time. That in itself is amazing. Before the last thing, before we get into the, the, the, the session, making sure that everyone that you are registered for tomorrow’s session Friday, last day of the week, we’re gonna be looking at some tools and ideas to really help keep that momentum down and get some deeper, um, introspection and reflection on what you do, why you do it, and how you make sure the plans and the strategies that we’re putting in place now maintain that forward momentum and, and looking at different tools and different lenses to help you intensify your understanding of the challenges that you are setting for yourself.

Nathan Simmonds:

Because life needs challenge, we need that positive friction. When we understand what our challenges are, we can stack them in the right order. And those tools that we’re gonna share tomorrow are gonna help you to do that stacking. You’re gonna share a link in the, in the chat box, make sure you are registered for tomorrow. Other announcement, we have a guest speaker coming in for next week, Jeff Birch. Very funny, brilliant keynote speaker. Uh, he’s talking about the the cunning sales plan strategy that you can employ. So you’ve got four days of Jeff Birch, there’ll be jokes, there’ll be entertainment well worth.

Nathan Simmonds:

Let’s make sure you are registered for next week as well and maximize these free sessions. Let’s do this. My name is Nathan Simmons, senior leadership trainer and coach for MBM Making Business Matter, the home of Sticky learning. And the idea of these sessions is to give you 20 minutes micro learning of, of leadership development and soft skills, which we provide to the grocery manufacturing industry for free to help you be the best version of you right now in this moment. And prepare you not only to develop yourself while you’re working from home, but also for that return to work if you’re going back there in the next week, two weeks, four weeks, whatever.

Nathan Simmonds:

So we’re gonna share some core ideas. This is part four of the PDPs. You haven’t seen the previous sessions, the links on the webpage, also on YouTube to go and see those. What have we covered so far? Let’s diving in one overarching goal. We talked about this, um, on Tuesday we started to move to this. So these are your three, five year plus goals. Where do you want to be at the furthest point that you can see that? You can imagine that you can work out.

Nathan Simmonds:

You can get to if it’s three years, if it’s five years, if it’s 50 years, this is your overarching goal. People can only see as far as they can think. And if you haven’t been asked these sorts of questions before, where do you want to be in five years time? What is it you want to create in this life that benefits other people? What’s the great impact that you want to, to leave for seven generations after you? If you’ve never been asked these questions, you won’t even know what the answers are to take the time to ask them.

Nathan Simmonds:

Number two is then we’re getting into 12 months goal, 12 month goals. So what we do is we take that OAG, the overarching goal and then we break it down to one year, what do I want to achieve in the next 12 months that is gonna help me move towards this? What is it I’m doing for 12 months from now that is gonna move me closer to my overarching goal and start to strategize This section three, which we’re gonna dive into a little bit now, is then we wanna break it down into 90 to a hundred day planning.

Nathan Simmonds:

And we started working on this yesterday. So we want to take that 12 month plan and we want to chunk it down into three blocks, approximately of 90 to a hundred days. How do we do this and what’s the best way to do it? Key question to be asking now that you’ve got a bit of a viewpoint on where you want to be in say three to five years from doing these sessions or you’ve got a bit of an idea percolating in your head, what is it you would like to achieve and or need to achieve inside the next 12 months that’s gonna move you closer to that?

Nathan Simmonds:

What things can you see that need to happen? What needs to be included so that you are, when you get to the end of the 12 months from here, wherever we are now at the 30th, in the last latter end of April, 12 months from now, what do I want to have achieved in that time? And start brainstorming some ideas. You’re sitting there with your pens and paper. Start just throwing some stuff down.

Nathan Simmonds:

Brain dump it out, mind map it if you need to throw things out there. And as you are doing this and you can start doing this now later on as you start doing this, you’ll start to see there’s some elements that kind of plug into each other and you can start grouping them together. And when you group those things together, what you will find is your 12 months

Nathan Simmonds:

Will break down into three or four categories. And as I was talking about yesterday, you’ll then find that these, these groups, whatever they are, will all go into one, two, or three of these of these columns. It’s making sense with everyone, everyone with me on this, see some yeses and nos. And if you’re not, then we’ll go in and we clarify what we need to is making sense with everyone? Yes, yes, yes. Good. So we brain dump all the activities we believe we need to take.

Nathan Simmonds:

Boom, they’re on the paper. We then group them up. We then stack them into E all the, the three 100 day blocks that we’ve got three times, 100 days. And then we work out what the chronological order of these three, these three 100 day stacks are. As I said yesterday, I’ll give you an example. If you want to change department or you want to become a consultant from where you are,

Nathan Simmonds:

You, there is no point in going for the job interview if you haven’t done the research on the company that you are moving into. There is no point in attempting to sell a product as a consultant or service if you haven’t built the product or haven’t done the research and design potentially to say that you have enough material to create the product. So what you have to do is really understand that once I’ve got these things in order, like in in their stacks, how do they fall chronologically so that when one knocks into the other, knocks into the other. So it becomes a domino effect.

Nathan Simmonds:

As I complete this, it’s a natural progression as I complete this, it’s a natural progression. As I complete this, all of a sudden I’m there and it’s the end of the 12 months and we’ve got success. Uh, question coming up. I’ve never even thought about breaking it down into three 100 day Brooks, which were very welcome. Couple of things on this. One is why isn’t it 365 days? It’s got nothing to do with Roman calendars or um, uh, andan calendars. Just purely for the fact that depending on how we stack our year and when we’re doing our activities, when we get to places like December and January, it’s a bit of a write off for certain things to happen.

Nathan Simmonds:

Now if you think that all months are made equal and you try and get some projects finished in December, I’m not sure that’s really gonna work. ’cause by the time you get into the beginning of the second week of December, everyone is burning and using holiday and then all of a sudden it’s the festive period. And if you are not on holiday somebody else’s, so you are just not gonna get the communication you need to move forward.

Nathan Simmonds:

You are better off using kind of your, the latter stages of November going into December to start tying off any loose ends that might be falling out of this and making sure that you are using the time you’ve got in those periods for your own personal development, your introspection at this point, you cannot rely on other people at the time ’cause they’re gonna be thinking about family, they’re thinking about Christmas shopping. So we break it down into 100 day blocks. Where do we want to go with this?

Nathan Simmonds:

Then it says, so we’ve got a hundred days to focus on an element of what it is you wanna be working on in 12 months. Question while I get them, I want to do a screen share in just a second of some statistics that are gonna show you how there’s the importance of doing this. What have you already got in your 12 month objective even from this conversation or before? What have you got down as your 12 month goal? And also what actions are starting to come to the surface from thinking this way from this conversation right now.

Nathan Simmonds:

Go, let’s light up the questions box with actions and ideas that are popping up. ’cause what you share may help somebody else improve their thinking and and and take another step. So what actions and and goals and ideas have you got for the next 12 months And some of of these 100 day actions, either everyone’s scratching their head or they’re typing furiously one of the two. I hope it’s the latter.

Nathan Simmonds:

Complete my third degree with distinctions. One test and assignment at a time. Absolutely. Uh, action. Read more in the areas I’d like to be promoted in. Absolutely. You know, it’s no different when we’re going for a job promotion, we read up about the company. When we get clarity on where it is we want to go and the jobs we want to do, you’ll do more research earlier and you’ll be more, you’ll we’ll have a more distinguished and replete level of thinking before you even go in there. Implement new system, HR system to the business.

Nathan Simmonds:

Absolutely. And we can start put, start turning those cogs and getting that momentum, which is good. Currently it’s at selection stage of potential suppliers. Nice. Good. So there’s good stuff happening in here. Um, training category knowledge, but ensuring it is my calendar so I can block out and ensure the time is spent on this and not distracted by. Absolutely. Time management. Huge. We’re gonna cover that in a couple of weeks. Um, we’ll make a decision. Uh, absolutely. So we start to see some actions start to move in this, which is really great.

Nathan Simmonds:

Let’s be really clear with this though. Just ’cause you’ve got a hundred days to organize and act and, and plan out doesn’t mean depending on where you’re working or how you’re working, that you have a whole day to do this work on yourself and to take that action. Some days you will most days though you have a contractual obligation to someone else. And whether it is you are moving inside that organization or moving outside of that organization, it doesn’t matter.

Nathan Simmonds:

You still have obligations and agreements with people that in the majority mean that most of your days will not be eight hours focusing on your personal development and taking those actions potentially. So what we do stage four is we take our 100 days and we go three by 30. So that’s why I’m talking about the 90 to a hundred day planning strategy. We break down our three stacks into three more stacks.

Nathan Simmonds:

So we can get a 90 day view rather than looking at the year view. So we’ve started off very high level and we’re starting to come in, come down by degrees of altitude to get into the detail. As you’ve heard me talk about before, when setting goals, and this is where we get the differentiator, uh, in, in business strategy, oags your goals. We don’t set smart goals. We set smart objectives. When you, you set smart goals, the moment you make them smart, specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time-bound. The moment you make your goals realistic, it says they already exist.

Nathan Simmonds:

Therefore they don’t. There is no level of friction that is required to make it. And the moment you make your goals smart, they become small, mediocre, average, repetitive and time-wasting. Set it before and I’ll say it a million times before I die at the same time. It’s important though when we break it down that we may, sorry, make our objectives realistic because if your next step isn’t achievable, you’re never gonna take it. ’cause it’s gonna be too frustrating before you even bothered with it, man, too much.

Nathan Simmonds:

So we take our one 90 to a hundred day plan, we break it into three sections of 30, which funny enough fits into our calendar. So this could well be February, March, April. We have a title for one of these categories here that sits over that. It then breaks down into 30 individual hours of activity because maybe you only have a lunch break, maybe you only have the drive home, maybe you only have the hour when you put your kids to sleep.

Nathan Simmonds:

So I’m kind of managing and helping to mitigate any potential obstacle that anyone wants to put in way. ’cause I’ve done them all, I’ve worked through all of them and I’ve eliminated every possible excuse to make sure this happens. Audio books, um, you know, just sharing the time, the bedtime routines, making sure that I, um, isolate myself at lunchtime rather than being pulled into other distractions. So we break it down into 30 hours of activity. So by the end of the, of the a hundred days, 90 to a hundred days you’ve done a hundred hours of activity in a very specific area.

Nathan Simmonds:

So one person was here saying, researching, um, a potential employer or organization. If you actually did a full r and d, sorry, a full learning on that company for 90 hours, how much would you know about their business before you’ve even applied for the job? I’m getting serious now. I can feel the serious face coming on. Sorry, I need some sort of in Botox injection after this .

Nathan Simmonds:

So what we do is we break it down by hour because sometimes those tasks may not be one hour. Maybe it is listening to an audio book, maybe it’s mindset by Carol Dweck. And I think that’s 10 hours. You know, if you wanna learn about how your mind works and the mindset and and and how to shift it, we’re gonna have to take 10 hours of your lunch breaks in this period to help eliminate that or to help move through that.

Nathan Simmonds:

Someone’s response here to that question was enough to become CEO. Yes. ’cause I guarantee most of the people in that business won’t know their business at the level that you will as a result of spending this amount of time on that specific thing. So we break it down the three lots of 30, 90 to a hundred days.

Nathan Simmonds:

This is really important. If you spend an hour focusing on one task, what percentage of that time will you spend in percentages? What percentage of that time will you spend focused on that one task? Go. Let’s light up the questions with some answers. A hundred percent. What else? Anymore? Anymore for anymore? A hundred percent. A hundred percent good, correct? A hundred percent is the right answer for this. Repeat the question.

Nathan Simmonds:

If you focused on one task inside an hour, what percentage of that time would you spend focused on that task? Correct answer. And the majority got a hundred percent. What happens if you try and do two things though, in that hour? What percentage of your time will you be able to focus that hour on two tasks? Good. We’ve got 50%. What else? 50% on each or what percentage have we got here?

Nathan Simmonds:

50% each. Good. 80%, 25% each are getting closer. So we have this wonderful thing. Good, good, good. 50%, 30%. We’ve got a good spread here. We have this wonderful thing called context switching, which I learned about recently. I’m gonna move my image over. This is gonna get the name right. Gentleman by the name of Gerald Weinberg Weinberg did a study on this is when we start to split our attentions on things. Let me share my screen.

Nathan Simmonds:

So you can see talking about, you can see on the left hand side where it says one task a hundred percent. The moment that we add a second task in, you can see where it says number two at the bottom simultaneous projects, the amount of focus that we give to each task suddenly drops to 40% because 20% is the time it takes to wind down from the previous task and build up momentum to get to the next one.

Nathan Simmonds:

So we’re now losing 20% of our time. Then you look and see what happens when we put a third activity in. We’re actually only spending 20% of our time doing any work. So 20% on each activity with 40% being taken up with context switching. So the distraction between tasks and the more tasks you add in, the more you get distracted, the easier it is for you to check an email. The easier it is for you to get up and go and get a coffee, the easier it is for someone to go, oh Bob, can you help me with this? And then you’re, you’re done. So when we break this down into singular actions, we focus our attention on the singular action and we work through it to completion rather than trying to do multiple things.

Nathan Simmonds:

Hope this is useful. So we plan out the strategy, as I said yesterday, and let me reiterate super clearly. You may be doing things in, in number one that may be relevant to number three. It doesn’t mean you ignore them, you just send out one of your tentacles. ’cause I call it octopus thinking. You send out a tentacle, you grab hold of it and then you park it so that when you come back to number three, you can bring that tentacle in and go, good, I’ve got this stuff ready, I’ve got my scrapbook moving, I’ve got the, I’ve got the documents, the references saved.

Nathan Simmonds:

So when you see that stuff, you can keep it there. Why is this important? Lemme cut this full screen. You have this wonderful thing called your reticular activating system. So let’s give you some science here. Reticular activating system. It, it helps you to pinpoint things and see things and see patterns and pick up on these sorts of things. Prime example, you buy a blue Volkswagen golf. So you go to the car showroom, you pick up your blue Volkswagen golf and you’re driving on the road and all of a sudden you start seeing more blue Volkswagen golfs who hears experiences, you bought a jump jumper and you see more people wearing the jumper or shoes or handbags or cars or whatever.

Nathan Simmonds:

And the moment you do that and you’re looking around and you’re like, oh, everyone’s got one. Didn’t realize. And this is your reticular activating system. So it’s picking up on patterns and it’s, it’s something we’ve evolved with. Now what happens is, is when you start to open the learning part of your brain up, when someone put, when you have kids, yeah you start to notice a lot of things about other people’s kids and other people’s push chairs.

Nathan Simmonds:

This is, you know, it is really, it is a big thing. So when we do this, when we start to, to activate this level of learning and this level of attention stuff starts coming in, you start to become, oh look I’ve got this free email course and oh look, there’s another book over here. Oh that’s really all shiny object syndrome, which a lot of entrepreneurs deal with. We go into this learning state, our brain opens up and all of a sudden it’s very easy to get distracted.

Nathan Simmonds:

So we need the action plan to make sure we’re executing on a singular basis each and every time. If stuff comes in from section number three, we keep hold of it, we park it, we use this level of learning to strengthen the next level of learning and so on and so forth. ’cause if you jump to here and you haven’t done the preparation here, you may find that actually your naivety, your unknown naivety when you get here is actually gonna restrict you from doing what you need to do.

Nathan Simmonds:

How often have you said, I can like to see the comments when you’ve been doing something serious or working on a project and you’ve been doing it for 2, 3, 4, 5 years and you get to the end of it. I, I wish on knew then what I know now. How many people have said this at some point in their life?

Nathan Simmonds:

Amen. Someone just said yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Hand up here. Yeah, absolutely. And actually if you had done the observation work, if you’d done the foundational work, actually maybe that would’ve happened earlier and it would’ve happened much clearer ’cause you wouldn’t have run ahead, which is, as human beings we all have the tendency to do rush forward attack. I’ve got a solution. Rather than holding yourself back as we did with the grow model in that reality phase. Just to have a little look a little, a little look a little longer.

Nathan Simmonds:

But you do get stronger in the adversity. Yes. And the learning gives us knowledge. Yes. Primarily though, from what I’ve learned from my experience, it’s given me knowledge that I can share with others to help them get adults. I can give them practical, pragmatic understanding from reality that says, you know what? This is the approach that I took. Have a look at this and this and this. Incorporate this. And it will help you to avoid that pain shifting to suffering or sitting in that pain and that frustration for any longer than you need to not deny you it, not to deny you the pain. ’cause pain is useful in order to sharing best practices after this.

Nathan Simmonds:

Hence the reason why I talk about this stuff. Time crikey. That has flown. We are on 22 minutes. What has been useful from today for the way that I’ve broken this down into your daily actions, what’s been useful? Context switching. Totally savages your productivity. Beautiful choice of language. I love it. Yes it does. Three lots of 30. Break it down. Context switching. Phenomenal.

Nathan Simmonds:

Yes. Do one thing at a time and finish it before taking on number two. Absolutely. There is a book on my shelf, I’m yet to read it. It’s called The One Thing and it talks about this sort of stuff. Um, planning such small amount each day. Yeah, one step when you have your big overarching goal, as I’ve said, it can be overwhelming and daunting because it’s an overarching goal. It is kind of meant to be. If it doesn’t, you know, frighten you, it’s too small. If your goal doesn’t make you stutter the first time that you say it, for me it’s too small.

Nathan Simmonds:

But I’m conscious that when we have to break it all the way down to the individual step, you don’t need to know how to get here. You just need to know how to take the next step. That’s it. Smart objectives, not smart goals. Yes. How do we approach concurrent themes that are not sequential? That’s a good question. Hold that thought. Impact on 30 hour dedicated topic is encouraging. Yes. Good. If the 10 day block won’t work, 10 day blocks don’t work. A hundred not 10. Uh uh. Okay. What if they’re not sequential?

Nathan Simmonds:

There will be something sequential in it. There will be something in there that says, you know what? This is naturally the right thing to do. First there will always be an order. It’s not about necessarily time outside of you, it’s just there is a natural order to things to happen. It’s one of the few things that we have to um, accept, let alone acknowledge they would always, whether how fast that order happens or that progression happens.

Nathan Simmonds:

You know, I cannot say if you look at the um, the fruit tree, I’m saying that waving over there ’cause I’ve got my chili peppers sprouting on, on the window sill. Um, you know, you cannot, you have to germinate the seed before you get the fruit. You have to create the right environment before you put the seed in. There will always be some step. So kind of just sitting with that question, okay, what is the natural order of this?

Nathan Simmonds:

Before you even start, see if you know that if you’ve got your three stacks, what is the natural order of this? What do I need to focus on right now that’s gonna create the natural steps. When you go into your 90 and a hundred days, when you focus your full attention like this, you may find you actually take the activities quicker and you may not even be in there a hundred days.

Nathan Simmonds:

You may have 100 hours of activity, but because your focus is intent, um, fully, um, attentive and attentive, I’m not even sure attentive is a true word, but trademark that for today. When you have that, you will find you’ll get momentum quicker. Why? ’cause you start ticking things off. Bam, bam, bam, bam. How many people here have written a to-do list? I know the answer to that. Everyone. How many people have done something?

Nathan Simmonds:

They’ve ticked it off. How many people have done something that isn’t on the list and then written it on the list? Just so you could cross it off. Yes or no? Me? Yeah. Me? Yes, yes, yes. No. I’ll tell you why in a minute. . Absolutely because someone’s got yes explanation. But it is a scientific you. Yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Why? Because every time, every time you tick something off of your to-do list, you get a dopamine hit. No different to cavemen going and getting food for the tribe and doing these sorts of things. You get a dopamine hit because it feels good.

Nathan Simmonds:

So it becomes addictive to do these things. So what we do is we leverage the dopamine, uh, production in the brain. We take the activity, we tick it off, it feels good. I do another one. So then we start moving from, oh I’ve used the drive to work to listen to this podcast. Great tick. I’ve used my lunch road to do this. Tick. Oh, daughter’s gone to sleep. It’s eight o’clock tick. And you start working through these much more cleanly. So you will find when you focus into one area, you’ll start ticking those things off much faster.

Nathan Simmonds:

Uh, in the stack theory, are we completing the three by 30 in order to achieve the stacks in number three? Uh, hold on. Lemme think about that. In the stack theory, are we completing the three by 30 in order? You’ll find the three by 30 will be one of these things. So it might be stack number one that is these and everything that drops into this, again, you might think find there’s a sequential order to some of the elements in there. But again, work it out.

Nathan Simmonds:

You might put it all down thinking that’s not right quick. Swing it over there, do that. Move it over there. Walk. I’m conscious of time, time cry. I’m having too much fun with this. Um, now what questions have you got? I’ve seen a couple of questions come up. What questions have you got for me right now to help you take this even further question? Please repeat your own smart goal words that you mentioned earlier. Ha ha. Small, mediocre, average, repetitive and time-wasting.

Nathan Simmonds:

They did change the smart acronym more recently than the R was relevant or results focused. Previously when they made the, the acronym for this it was achievable and realistic. Was painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel achievable or realistic? No, it was putting the man on the moon at some at one point. Realistic. ’cause manpower flight at one point realistic was the four minute mile.

Nathan Simmonds:

Um, a realistic no. So the moment you make your goals achievable and realistic or at least realistic, you, you cripple yourself. So stop it. What other questions have you got? So that stuff again gets me quite emotive. What other questions have you got for me right now so I can help you take this even further?

Nathan Simmonds:

While we’re doing this, the bonus for you for showing up today, we weren’t able to upload the document into the chat box and, and into, um, GoToWebinar Today we have a copy of the, uh, the new M-B-M-P-D-P document. Got it set up on Excel. So you can go and then you can update elements to it. And it’s covering all the elements that we worked on today. Um, so I’m just gonna come out of that for two seconds. I’m gonna bring this up. Just gonna share my screen with you. Can everyone see the, the Excel sheet on my screen?

Nathan Simmonds:

Yep. Yep, yep, yep. Good, good, good. So I’ve broken it down the first screen. You can see that overarching goal. Then your five traits in each of the areas. I’ve also included business objectives in that. So if you’re working in an organization, you’ve got four sections for business objectives, check-in points, check-in dates, et cetera. So if you’re working on a business personal objective, you can put that in when you’re working with yourself and your individual. Three by 30 stacks.

Nathan Simmonds:

Smart, objective, um, preparation. So you can start asking yourself some questions to help build your smart objective. You’ve got your smart actions in there as well. I’m also gonna be talking about SWOT analysis and also gap analysis tomorrow with a twist. Don’t worry, it’s not gonna be the normal cut and dry. And for those people that are gonna be using this in a corporate en environment, a leadership team, you’ve also got your sign off share.

Nathan Simmonds:

Is this useful to you to have a copy of this? If it’s not, I won’t bother sending if it is. Um, someone said, where can this be found? It will be in your inbox at some point today. Got absolutely please. Yes, it would be great. Pleasure. Yes, please. Boom. Okay. This for you attending. It will be straight into your inboxes today, tomorrow morning with the, the replay from today as well. Um, so we’ll be sharing that. I hope it’s really helpful.

Nathan Simmonds:

One thing on there, there is no scoring. It’s just red, amber, green rag state. Is there someone on track? Off track needs a nudge, whatever, you know, scores aren’t helpful in certain situations, but let’s just see how we help each other. Um, what other questions? No other questions? Uh, very clear. I hope. Scale of one to 10, how useful was today? One, not all. 10 being absolutely.

Nathan Simmonds:

What have we got? 9, 10, 8. It’s good. I wanted to share this with you before we close up today. I’ve got another quote. I seem to be like I’m getting a lot of Obama love this week. Never view your challenges a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages. Stack your challenges. Create your challenges. Put ’em in front of you and yourself rather than letting someone else put ’em in front of you and causing yourself frustration. Stack your challenges in front of you and get excited about the fact that you’re putting them in there.

Nathan Simmonds:

Got a question about when the coaching cards will be received. Um, I will get an answer to you very shortly on that one. I know that the order has been placed. And then on the way coaching cards, if you haven’t picked up a copy of the coaching cards, please do. They’re on the website. And also, I asked this question yesterday, what would the impact be if you or I if I was to have this conversation with your team inside your business? If we were to take a day and go deep into people’s personal development and take ’em through these structures and these ideas, what would the impact be on your business?

Nathan Simmonds:

What would happen to the results in your team If we were to come in and we were gonna teach them the coaching skills and the mindsets we walked through last week with the personal development planning as well. How far would your business go? How far would your team go and what would the results be? I know the answer because I’ve seen it firsthand. Sharpen focus on business objectives. Absolutely. More empowerment among team members.

Nathan Simmonds:

Absolutely. You’ll have individuals. Empowerment is an interesting thing. Everyone says, oh, I’m gonna go and empowerment team. No, you’re not empowerment and you break it down actually means empower. I can’t empower you ’cause it comes from inside you. That’s what we talked about yesterday. You know, it is necessity is the father of intervention. Inspiration is the mother that births all of this.

Nathan Simmonds:

And when you have that inspiration, you will have aspirations, fantastic results, motivation, better understanding of each other. Absolutely. If it is appropriate and you would like to have a conversation with MBM about making these conversations happen in your business to create these outcomes, to develop your individuals and increase your results, speak to us. That’s what we are here for. Whether we do this online, and I do this from the so-called comfort of my own home in front of a whiteboard, via go to webinar or Zoom or whatever.

Nathan Simmonds:

Or when all this starts to calm down and we start to see a new, the brave new world we’re heading to, that I come to you and, you know, work in, in your business and support your development of your team and you as an individual. That’s also possible. Let’s start having these conversations. I’m keen to change the world. I’m keen to get this information to people. I’m keen to help improve your results. Everyone. Thank you. Have a lovely day. I’ll see you tomorrow. If you’re not registered, get registered. If you’re not registered for next week, get registered. It’s gonna be a phenomenal week. See you tomorrow. Thanks very much.

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