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Welcome to your December eZine.
If you find yourself taking things one day at a time right now, you’re not alone. Many business leaders, supervisors, and professionals are exhausted by the prolonged levels of stress and anxiety brought on by the pandemic, political climate, and fluctuating economy. So this month, we are keeping it simple and taking everything one step at a time. This month’s eZine is all about how each small success and incremental decision builds the momentum we need to make progress and lead better.
“Enough Helping Hands” is an audio chapter from Your Invisible Toolbox that tells the story of Josh Cyganic and Leonard Bullock. Two strangers who meet through a series of unremarkable events but demonstrate the momentum and inspiration created through starting with small wins.
Dr. Harwant Kush’s article “Goal Setting and Planning Strategies for Executives” provides four methods for how to be strategic in setting our goals and avoid common pitfalls.
The curation of videos this month includes an episode from the Your Invisible Toolbox show discussing the ways success and progress are achieved through one small win at a time. This particular episode includes an insightful interview with Jackie Norris, current Senior Advisor to President-Elect Joe Biden and former President and CEO of Goodwill of Central Iowa. The Business Insight video by Ro Crosbie gives us four ways we can track and celebrate small wins with our teams. We also include a Tero Tips video about why sweating the small stuff is worth your time and energy. Whether the outcome is positive or negative, each small decision has consequences.
If you are looking for resources that are more hands on, take a look at some of the tools included in this month’s eZine. We have a Tero Development Challenge article for you to help determine and achieve your own small wins. You can try tracking your tasks and making a priority chart with Tero’s Advanced Prioritization Matrix worksheet. Finally, test your knowledge on small wins by taking our quiz this month.
Reflect back on a success you’ve had recently. Can you break it down into the multitude of small steps, decisions, and wins that got you there? Being intentional and proactive about starting small can eventually lead us each to achieving goals we desire for ourselves and our organizations.
Take the Path Towards Success
Featured Article: Goal Setting and Planning Strategies for Executives
Goal setting and planning strategies provide focus and direction to the executives, business leaders, and managers to make their organizations successful and productive.
Do You Celebrate the Small Wins?
Celebrating the small wins is more important than you may think. Take this quiz to see what you know about the importance of celebrating the small wins.
Scroll to the bottom of the eZine to read more about the answers once you've taken the quiz.
Insight on Business Podcast: The Confidence Dilemma
One of the many things we treasure about our relationship with Tero International is their research based work when it comes to achieving success in business or in your personal life. Insight on Business host Michael Libbie introduces you to the topic of confidence with Tero President Rowena Crosbie.
Achieve Small Wins: Development Challenge
Change is scary. It is easy to make excuses that the risks of failure are too high and reconcile ourselves to the comfort of the familiar (even if we don't particularly like the familiar and don't find it all that comfortable.) Wise people know this and know that they will need to start small with recognizable, feasible steps toward the larger goal. Tackling the whole thing at once would be too overwhelming. The small, doable steps are called "small wins" and they are imperative for fueling the positive momentum toward the final goal.
Leadership Activities: Getting the Most of Your Time and Your Life
You've probably learned by now that life isn't always fair. While all of us have resources, there is a great disparity between those who have many and those who have few. Some have more money than others while still others have more energy, creativity, or technical ability than the next.
Understanding our values also helps us challenge and redefine our beliefs: Your Invisible Toolbox Chapter 57 “Enough Helping Hands”
Looking forward to 2021?
The year is almost over and Tero has a few public workshops left on the calendar for 2020 that you can participate in virtually. We also have listed some of the public workshop dates for 2021. Take a look at your calendar for next year and make sure it includes your professional development and Tero International. Hurry, and save your seat today.
Pressure is mounting on our business leaders to move beyond diversity to racial equity within their own companies’ walls. We are here to help. The Business Record, Urban Dreams and Tero International are collaboratively announcing the Executive Vision Series: Strategies for Racial Equity, a powerful new offering for leadership teams and boards.
Tero was included among the Best of in the Business Record’s Readers Poll again in 2020. Thank you to all of our clients, workshop participants, Tero graduates and everyone who voted for Tero International. Thank you for the confidence you've placed in Tero International for your professional development. In the category of Best Training and Development Company, Tero International has been named on the Best Of List by the Des Moines Business Record in their annual Reader's Poll every year since the category was introduced in 2007.
Do You Celebrate the Small Wins Quiz Explored Further:
- True or False: The single most important thing to improve emotions, motivations, and attitudes at work is making progress doing meaningful work.
True. This is known as the progress principle, coined by Teresa Amabile and Steven J. Kramer.
- True or False: Small wins can only be achieved individually.
False. Small wins can be at in individual, team, or organizational level.
- True or False: Writing down your daily accomplishments and setbacks is an effective way to celebrate small wins.
True. Tracking small wins is an indicator of our progress that we can reflect on.
- True or False: There is a physiological side effect to achieving small wins.
True. The neurochemical dopamine is released and boosts our emotions.
- True or False: Having a bad day means you won’t have any small wins.
False. Research found that people still made progress on 25% of reported bad days.
Sources for Quiz:
https://www.talkspace.com/blog/why-you-should-celebrate-small-wins/
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