Attention: Senior Managers Who Have Noticed the Negative, Hard-to-Shake Emotional Drag Affecting Your Team Members, Hurting their Ability to Do Their Best Work, Support their Colleagues, and Advance Business Objectives

• Are your direct reports overwhelmed by demands from work, family, technology, and  distractions?
• Have you missed (or are on the verge of missing) important deadlines or customer commitments that have P/L impact?
• Have you tried pep talks, monetary incentives, or other methods to turn around the problem and found that they came up short?

You owe it to your people to find out about the Get Your Year in Gear program.

About the Program

Get Your Year in Gear (GYYG) is a program designed to add renewed focus, engagement, and certainty for business managers and rising stars. 

It is delivered in a hybrid format in just 2 weeks, providing on-demand lessons and activities within a learning portal combined with interactive facilitation in group video calls to clarify, solidify, and extend the insights, methods, and use of the tools.

Without a clear end in mind, a way to prioritize your work each week, and a system for repeating what works, it is all too easy to get lost in the “fog” that pervades many business environments. You gain:

• Clarity of activities that lead to their best contributions to advancing the business.
• Tools to better focus on priorities and to manage interruptions and unexpected requests without adding stress to the professional relationship,
• Experience with a framework for better communicating higher expectations.
• Improve meeting facilitation skills, with an emphasis on remote video conferencing.
• Build momentum within your division or department, even when working remotely.
• Reflect on your accomplishments so that you orient around what you did achieve rather than what was not achieved. 

We address the root causes of feeling disconnected, unfocused, and adrift by:

1. Energizing individual progress to align with your business objectives, 
2. Providing group input and expert feedback so participants are not left wondering about the usefulness of their responses. 
3. Engaging with issues and challenges relevant to each participant and company culture. 

Instead of looking for “different” in all the wrong places – such as email, YouTube, Netflix, job openings at other companies, and so on — your people can find greater alignment, purpose, and productivity among their current colleagues in just two short weeks of GYYG. 

Who Benefits the Most from GYYG 

While the easy answer is “everybody can benefit” from more clarity, productivity, alignment, and support, we deal in the world of reality, not fantasy. 

The GYYG program is for those who: 

🔥 Are aware that the disruption to the ways we have always done things needs to be addressed with fresh thinking, not just more effort that leads to burnout. 

🔥 Genuinely desire to see their colleagues flourish so that they can be proud of what they have accomplished and how they have personally grown. 

🔥 Are fed up with seeing the same problems/conflicts/breakdowns week after week and month after month, and are ready to try something different. 

With that backdrop, we have had success with using these strategies, tools, and techniques with more than two dozen high-tech industries and across functional departments, including: Finance and Accounting, Research and Development, Operations, QA, HR, Marketing, Channel Partners, Sales, Customer Support, and the Executive suite. 

The GYYG program CANNOT help those who:

⚠️ Have all the answers as the sole leader and only engage with people who tell you you’re right and that your haircut (even on Zoom) is amazing.
Hard truth: to get different results, you have to make changes. It doesn’t mean that you’ve done anything wrong, just that you are open to learning something new and acting on it.  

⚠️ Believe that the way to do better work is to do more work. You do not develop the capabilities of your current leaders or the bench strength of your management team.
Hard truth: Ask yourself whether you can name a professional sports team or group artistic performance that does not place high value on coaching, feedback, and practices. 

⚠️ Care strictly for profit at the expense of their people and do not invest in training and development.
Hard truth: Numerous studies show the mismatch between what executives think employees value vs. what employees say that they value and professional development is consistently a top 3 value for employee satisfaction, not to mention retention. 

How We Will Do It

The Five Integrated Focus Areas

1. Get Your Activities in Gear
   1. Establish the activities that facilitate and those that detract from you doing your best work, and share it with your colleagues.
2. Get Your Calendar in Gear
   1. Block your time to be able to redirect interruptions and do your best work regularly.
3. Get Your Priorities in Gear
   1. Improve your daily planning and self-evaluation with the 5P Focus Tool.
4. Get Your Meetings in Gear
   1. Start meetings with an intention statement to get rapid alignment, then conduct a meeting that advances your team, department, or business. 
5. Get Your Inbox in Gear
   1. Reduce your time spent here by 80%, once you realize how draining and ineffective email is for most purposes, then triage your messages to where you can best leverage your time and energy. 

Tools Added to Your Toolkit

• Create a personal Zone of Genius chart. A graphic that shows what specific activities allow you to make your highest and best contribution to the organization (genius work), which activities support or set up the conditions for your Genius Zone, which should be delegated, and which should be avoided.
  
• Block Scheduling Upgraded. Review your work week and produce an ideal week template that allows you to improve your relationship between your top responsibilities and hours in a week, even when new products launch. 
  
• Adopt the 5P Method. This simple method allows you to categorize your activities by project work, people outreach, and priorities to optimize your workflow productivity.
  
• (Re-)evaluate your meetings. Meetings can be far more streamlined and productive by following these guidelines. Put them to use so you can report on how it changed the quality of work you were able to accomplish.
  
• Powerful Ways to Break Out of Inbox Overwhelm. Email is one of the most overused and misused tools for work. Review these well-established criteria, methods, and channels for sharing dates, files, work progress, and other resources to optimize your toolkit as a manager.

Coaching & Follow-up Support

Follow-up Q&A for 30 days. Completing the exercises is the first step, but we’ve found that keeping the lines open for answering questions as your people adapt and fine tune new skills significantly elevates proficiency and impact. 

The RoadMap

The Get Your Year in Gear program can be introduced and reviewed at any time of the year when you want your team to cut down the friction within or between departments and get your year in gear! It was developed based on a survey of requests and research conducted since the pandemic lockdown began in March of 2020.

Enroll

To begin, just set up a brief conference call to allow me to answer any questions that you have about the program and to hear your perspectives on the changes that matter most to your team. 

Enroll Now for the July 18 Launch

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