All it takes is just 30 minutes a week to get the best out of your team

What if 1 meeting per week could make your team work harder?

Why risk the future of your business by not getting the most out of your team?

Get the best from your people by holding them to account…

Address the social loafing issue in your business and watch your team rise to the challenges ahead

What happens to your business when you challenge the social loafing of your team?

Get your team all pulling in the right direction for business success

Because social loafing will stop your business from moving forwards make time to address it

How to stop social loafing from suffocating your business

Transform the success of your business by getting your team working as a team

Wake up to the damage being caused by social loafing in your business – you can’t afford not to…

Your team are a powerful force when you get them all working in the same direction

Make you team the winning team by holding them to account

Make social loafing a thing of the past in your business by getting every member of your team working towards the same goals for your business

Time to stop the social loafing that is occurring in your business – build a culture of accountability

Understand the impact of social loafing in your business and take action to deal with it now…

Rockefeller used a proven framework for his team meetings with outstanding success – use this agenda in your business

You too can use the exact same agenda as Rockefeller to transform the success of your team meetings

Run accountability driven meetings in your business – Be like John D Rockefeller

What happens to the success of your business when you run your meetings like Rockefeller did?

Time to take a leaf out of John D Rockefellers book and run agenda and accountability driven meetings

Drive up the standards in your business but holding your people to account in regular meetings

How can an agenda driven meeting improve the success of your business?

A proven agenda-driven meeting will transform the success of your business

How to improve the success of your business with weekly team meetings

Don’t allow your business to be blown off course by not holding regular accountability meetings

Run weekly team meetings in your business

Create opportunities for success in your business by running weekly team meetings

Give your business the chance to run like a gazelle by meeting regularly with your team

Weekly team meetings – 52 opportunities for success in your business

Just 6 points can transform the success of your team meetings

Start making team meetings accountability driven with these 6 agenda points

30 minutes and 6 points will revolutionise your team meetings

When your team are accountable your business is more profitable

Make a 6-point agenda mandatory in all your team meetings

Time to make 30 minutes a week work for you and your team with a 6-point agenda for accountability

1. Wouldn’t it be great if you could get more out of your team? In fact, you probably know you should be getting more from them. Click here to learn how.
2. To get the best from your team, your people must be accountable for the tasks they perform, click here to learn how to do this in a positive team environment?
3. Your people are capable of so much more. It’s not uncommon to be frustrated by the performance of people within your team. It’s OK to grind your teeth about how much more of a burden this puts on you, the business leader or manager. Click here to learn how to ease the burden and get the most from your team.
4. Your team could be working 20% harder than they are now, but because they don’t have to account for their actions they aren’t. Click here to learn that when you install individual accountability processes in your business you can claw back as much as 20% in productivity.
5. Social loafing is the phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they are working in a group rather than on their own. This results in groups often being less productive than the combined performance of their members working as individuals. Click here to learn how to identify if this is happening in your business right now and how to address it.
6. Teamwork is a powerful force in all successful sports teams (The relay team would never win if they were all slacking). Click here to learn how it can also be a powerful force for success in your business team too.
7. To make more than just a lot of noise in your business, you've got to have rhythm. Click here to learn that at the heart of great team performance is a rhythm of tightly run daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual meetings. If it worked for John D Rockefeller it can work for you.
8. You already know that you'll solve problems more quickly and easily in your business, achieve better alignment, and communicate more effectively when you run well-structured agenda driven meetings. Click here to learn why John D Rockefeller held a team meeting every day with his senior people and the success it bought to his business and the success it can bring to yours.
9. In business chances are sometimes you feel like all you are doing is sailing into the wind – with all the challenges that running your business gives you. Click here to learn that your business will be more successful when you ‘tack’ more often, and what this means.
10. You want your business to run rather than walk, don’t you? Click here to learn that your business will succeed when you run weekly agenda-led accountability meetings with your team!
11. Most people resist meetings because they think they don’t work. But team meetings DO work. Click here to start making team meetings in your business accountability driven with these 6 agenda points.
12. Time to make 30 minutes a week work for you and your team with a 6-point agenda for accountability. Click here to learn how this agenda will kick start meetings in your business and improve the performance of your team and your business.

BLOG 1 – Improve team performance in 30 minutes per week

Wouldn’t it be great if you could get more out of your team?

In fact, you probably know you should be getting more from them.

You also know that some of them, when teamwork is involved, work much harder than others – but how to bring consistency across your team?

To get the best from them, your people must be accountable for the tasks they perform – but how to track this in a positive team environment?

All it takes is 30 minutes per week to get the best from your people – simply get together every week and follow a proven framework for your team meeting.

Click here for a proven agenda to run a 30-minute meeting every week where individual accountability shows up and team focus is guaranteed.

BLOG 2 - Don't let social loafing suck the life out of your business

Your people are capable of so much more.

It’s not uncommon to be frustrated by the performance of people within your team. It’s OK to grind your teeth about how much more of a burden this puts on you, the business leader or manager.

When you install Address the social loafing issue in your business and watch your team rise to the challenges ahead

What happens to your business when you challenge the social loafing of your team?

Get your team all pulling in the right direction for business success

Because social loafing will stop your business from moving forwards make time to address it

How to stop social loafing from suffocating your business

Transform the success of your business by getting your team working as a team

Wake up to the damage being caused by social loafing in your business – you can’t afford not to…

individual accountability processes in your business you can claw back as much as 20% in productivity.

To look at that the other way around – your team could be working 20% harder than they are now, but because they don’t have to account for their actions they aren’t.

Here’s the profound yet simple insight:

Way back in the 1880s Max Ringleman (a French anthropologist) experimented on the effectiveness of individuals versus the effectiveness of teams.

He attached a rope to a dynamometer and got volunteers to pull their hardest, like a one-sided tug-of-war.

The average force for one man was 85.3 kilograms.

Ringleman wondered if, with 2 men, the force would be 170.6 kilograms, 255.9 kilograms with 3, and so on up to 8 men.

The result surprised him and everyone else! The total force went up with each new man. But the average per man went down!

Ringleman poetically called this phenomenon ‘social loafing’.

Ringleman’s social loafing showed how a team of 8 pulled less than 80% of the aggregated work of individuals pulling alone. A fifth of the effort went AWOL, more than 20% of effort disappeared!

This is like your team working a four-day week instead of five!

This means more than 40 work-days per year lost, for every person in your team (ignoring holidays, that’s 2 months’ work!).

And it’s possible your team is already experiencing social loafing and, even though they turn up for five days, they only do the equivalent of a four-day week! It’s hard to spot it of course (they may not even notice it themselves) but the result is profound…

As the saying goes: “’Tis easy to expand the work to fill the time”

Which means that it’s also possible, at no cost to you, to turn a four-day week into five.

What could you do with 40 more-person days (per person) this next 12 months? And at no extra cost!

Worthy of your attention? Worth taking some action?

Click here to address the social loafing in your business

BLOG 3 – Build a culture of accountability in your business

Social loafing is the phenomenon of a person exerting less effort to achieve a goal when they are working in a group rather than on their own.

This results in groups often being less productive than the combined performance of their members working as individuals.
Research on social loafing began with rope-pulling experiments by Max Ringelmann in the 1880s, who found that members of a group tended to exert less effort in pulling a rope than the individuals did alone.
What Max Ringleman actually proved was – when individual performance is masked (by others) then performance falls.

Each ‘player’ expects the others to do the work. ‘Slacking’ becomes invisible (and inevitable), because there’s less pressure to do well.

But teamwork is still a powerful force.
It’s a powerful force in all successful sports teams (The relay team would never win if they were all slacking).
Teamwork can also be a powerful force in your business team too.

SOLUTION: Prevent social loafing happening – build a culture of accountability in your business.

To avoid social loafing make your people:
accountable to their personal goals
accountable to their work tasks
accountable to their responsibilities (every week)

When you intertwine their personal goals with the team goals and the company goals and then hold them to account, you’ll start to tap into the missing 20% of the worthwhile work they are capable of.
The magic ingredient is individual AND team accountability

What do you do to build in more accountability in your business?

Click here to eliminate social loafing in your team, by building a culture of accountability and teamwork in your business.

BLOG 4 – How to make your team meetings work – Rockefeller style

How often do you have a team meeting?

In these team meetings do you hold your people accountable for the work that they do?

Or are your team meetings, like so many, just a general wishy washy catch up on what everyone is doing?

What if 30 minutes a week can get you the very best from your people?

It’s simple really – get together every week and follow a proven framework for your team meeting.

Yes, you’ve tried team meetings before but…

You mostly do the talking, your team mostly do all the listening ‘wishing they were somewhere else’.

Conversations go around and around and mostly never reach a conclusion.

If anything, your experience may suggest team meetings undermine what you are trying to do.

Maybe you have never got team meetings started because you found them a waste of time?

John D Rockefeller (famous American oil industry business magnate, industrialist, and philanthropist) insisted on DAILY management meetings for his senior people, using his own proven framework to ensure accountability and focus.

Rockefeller’s success shows us all a way — especially as managers or business owners strive to get their staff members working towards department or business goals.

Click here to learn the importance of those meetings to Rockefeller and the success that well-structured, agenda and accountability driven meetings can bring to your business.

BLOG 5 – A weekly rhythm is the key to increased productivity

To make more than just a lot of noise in your business, you've got to have rhythm.
At the heart of great team performance is a rhythm of tightly run daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual meetings.
All of which happen as scheduled, ideally at the same time, each day, week or month, without fail, with specific agendas.
You already know that you'll solve problems more quickly and easily in your business, achieve better alignment, and communicate more effectively when you run well-structured agenda driven meetings.
Why did John D Rockefeller hold a meeting every day with his senior people – because let’s face it – that’s an expensive meeting?
Mr Rockefeller was at the centre of Standard Oil, Chase Manhattan Bank and some rather large real-estate deals – remember the Rockefeller centre in New York?

Rockefeller needed the daily check-in, he needed to know that his business and his people were on track, he needed to know his team were working as a team and he made sure they were accountable for the job they were doing.

Daily meetings are ambitious for any business.

But monthly meetings are just not enough - meeting only 12 times a year? That’s a long-time in-between meetings for things to go off track!

How about creating a weekly rhythm in your business by having weekly team meetings, making sure individually accountability shows up and using a proven agenda.

Click here for more details on this proven agenda – it really is very simple and can be used in 30-minute meetings to transform your business success.

BLOG 6 – Start the winds of change in your business with weekly team meetings

You want your business to grow, succeed, prosper?

If team accountability is the heartbeat of your business how often do you want to monitor it?

Have you ever seen a yacht sail into the wind?
It has to ‘tack’ very often – it sails at an angle to the wind.
The sail catches some of the wind power, while the hull sails into the wind at an angle, moving the boat forward.
In business chances are sometimes you feel like all you are doing is sailing into the wind – with all the challenges that running your business gives you.
You therefore need to ‘tack’ very often.
You need to adjust the angle of your approach to the various challenges your business throws up.

Are monthly meetings enough for your business to do this – just 12 opportunities to ‘tack’ a year?

Check in once a month and you only have 12 opportunities a year to improve, modify and adapt what you are doing as a team. Check in once a month and you only have 12 opportunities a year to rectify something going wrong.

You want your business to run rather than walk, don’t you?

So, run weekly agenda-led accountability meetings with your team!

Weekly team meetings will give you 52 opportunities to ‘tack’, modify, adapt and rectify the inevitable failings.

BLOG 7 – Use this 6-point agenda for meeting success within your business 

Most people resist meetings because they think they don’t work.

They don’t work because the meeting structure is wrong:

 •you talk – they listen – doesn’t work

 •they come to the meeting unprepared – doesn’t work

 •you come to the meeting unprepared – doesn’t work

Here is a proven 6-point agenda for a brilliant 30-minute weekly team meeting, it comes from the Verne Harnish study of fast-growing businesses.

It will help you kick-start meetings in your business – what have you got to lose?

1) Good news of the week – 5 minutes

Why start with good news? Well you want to start your meeting on a high – this can be personal, or business related.

2) Share your numbers- 5-10 minutes

This is where the team shares their numbers to reflect their work and responsibilities. If you feel someone is falling short or something is going wrong, that’s a separate discussion for another time. Don’t get into the detail, report the numbers and move on.

3) Bottlenecks or hold ups – 5-10 minutes

What issues are slowing people down or stopping them getting their work done.

Regular meetings will highlight the issues that crop up repeatedly and need addressing.

4) Strategic or big issue – 10-20 minutes

What is the priority business focus? – this needs to be one issue, so that the team are focused on getting it sorted.

5) One word or one phrase finish

Ask every individual to use one word to describe how the feel. Might be tricky in the first meeting, but they will start preparing for future meetings. Again, no discussion if someone is unhappy – address that separately – remember ONE word.

6) BTW – Back to Work

This agenda is nothing complicated. But these meetings are rarely held, and agendas are rarely used.

You’d be right to call this simple common sense. It’s just not common practice.

Make it common practice in your business.

Click here to learn that improving the accountability rhythm in your business starts with an agenda driven 30-minute weekly team meeting.

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Wouldn’t it be great if your people worked together like a well-oiled machine?

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