Slumping Dad What's your plan

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Slumping DadWhat's your plan?

• 10 tools, tips, and techniques for pulling out
  the father slump

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Definitiondrop or sag heavily

• What do you and Tiger Woods and Barry Bonds have
  in common?
• You are either coming into or going out of a
  slump
• Internal.mental/habits/responses
• External.market conditions/systems
• Motivation and a course of positive change and
  action to go forward

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Introduction JAC it up

• Job clarity/expectation the budget
• Accountability to yourself, your company, your
  clients, and to your management.
• Cultivate a celebration culture have fun at
  work, recognize success with great vigor and
  consistency

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Step one admission

• Recognition and realization
• The trending of sub-par performance
• The numbers dont lie
• Drifting off course
• Course corrections
• Ownership of the problem
• Ownership of the solutions

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Step number two ownership

• You are accountable
• Change begins at the top
• Identify what has to change
• Primary, secondary, and tertiary priorities of
  change
• 80/20 plan
• Leveraging strengths
• Recognize and addressing weakness

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Step number three the plan

• Forge The Plan
• Commitment to the plan
• Goals, objectives, road-mapping
• In-depth, actionable, SMART goals
• Vision for total recovery and getting back on
  track
• Breaking the pattern of failure

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Step number four accountability

• Accountability/ upfront/ personal
• Set public goals and direction
• Communicate with boss, staff management and
  stakeholders
• Written goals posted publicly
• Get staff/team by in immediately
• Daily, weekly, monthly meetings

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Step number five current systems

• Revisit current systems/paradigms
• What works and what doesnt
• Implement change accordingly
• The main thing is to keep the main thing the main
  thing
• Dont be afraid to change, what is broken
• If it works, dont fix it

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Step number six get creative

• Think out of the box
• Brainstorm
• Go off-campus and get creative
• Get feedback from trusted advisors and confidants
• Be fearless, try new things

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Step number seven expand

• Counterintuitive
• Add new staff
• Raise revenues with smart projects
• Raise rates, incrementally
• Sell deeper to current clients
• Sell broader to new prospects
• Track the metrics

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Step number eight culture change

• Create a culture of accountability, celebration,
  and job clarity
• Communicate expectations
• Coach, mentor, and hold accountable
  underachievers
• Celebrate achievement by awarding team and
  individual greatness
• Give the public and private accolades, gifts and
  spiffs wisely and freely

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Step number nine train

• Train on a daily basis
• Weekly meetings
• Guest speakers
• Special event training
• Role-playing
• One-on-one meetings
• E-mails, books, tapes, etc.

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Step number 10 implementation

• Do the plan, on a daily basis
• Have accountability/be accountable
• Hold others accountable
• Get organized and focused and involved
• Manage the process
• Communicate, communicate
• Leverage your 80/20 energy gifts

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Conclusion just do it

• Plan the work, work the plan
• Practice drill and rehearse
• Commit to high-performance
• Kill procrastination and perfectionism
• Keep a sense of humor
• Learn to love, grow and change
• Get back in the action, be involved