Monthly Goals, Weekly Planning, and Daily Dials
Posted on February 4, 2009
Filed Under Act Professionally, Focus Efforts, Grow People, Uncategorized
I’m often ask, “How do you get so much done when you’re a one man business?” “What’s the secret to your productivity?” As I think about it I attribute my success to the fact that every year I take the time to think deeply about what I want both personally and professionally. I dedicate time to ponder my “wants” and capture my thoughts in the form of goals. I end up with a prioritized list of results I want to produce and formulate it into a one page plan.
But that’s just the start. Do you want to know the real secret sauce for productivity? Setting goals is the easy part. The hard part is executing them. If you can execute, you can realize the results you want most in your life and business. So, without further delay here’s my three-step system for getting things done.
The One, Two, Three of Getting Things Done
1. Use monthly goals to achieve your annual goals. That’s right, chunk those annual mountains into monthly hills. By plotting out a monthly implementation plan for each annual goal you’ll always see what comes next. And, as long as you know what comes next you’ll know what to do. No anlysis paralysis, no delays. Just take action on what comes next month by month. List each goal and directly next to each create a list of monthly milestones that need to be achieved in order of priority. It’s much less daunting to look at what’s next versus the whole enchilada all at once. You can see yourself walking up a hill more easily than scaling a mountainside in one fell swoop.
2. Weekly planning every day. What? Does that make sense? In my world it sure does. I’m a big believer that you MUST create a strategic weekly plan at the start of each and every week. And then, you must review that weekly plan each and every day. Without such a plan and review you are vulnerable to the whims and wills of others and worst of all to circumstances that you think are beyond your control. But a weekly plan is not just a list of apointments and tasks. To be truly strategic I suggest you add the following components to your plan: 1) Your TOP THREE RESULTS to produce this week; 2)Your TOP 20 PHONE CALLS or connections that will produce revenue or move your business forward this week; 3) Your TOP TEN STRATEGIC PROJECTS for the week; 4) Your WEEKLY ACHIEVEMENT LOG where you list your weekly achievements so you can celebrate them at week’s end. The last component to record on your weekly plan is the next step listed below.
3. Do your dials daily! That’s right, do the things that you know will lead you to success each and every day. Everyone’s dials differ from one another but at the end of the day everyone has a list of 3 to 5 “things” that need to be done on a daily basis in order to fill the pipeline, stay in business, produce revenue or futher the cause. If you pay attention and measure your progress with these dials every day you’ll be doing what it takes to keep your annual plan fueled and flourishing. Just as an airplane pilot focuses on 3 to 5 dials in his cockpit to stay on course, so you must also if you want to land your goals according to plan.
There you have it. The one, two, three of productivity. Now, get busy!
Joel Deceuster (Chapter Trainer for the One Page Business Plan)
One Page Business Plan Training for US Chapters
Posted on January 12, 2009
Filed Under Act Professionally, Cultural Beliefs, Focus Efforts, Meet Purposefully
At long last we’re ready to help our chapters create their own One Page Business Plan. To do so we’re going to use Go To Meeting – a web based virtual meeting service that allows everyone to view the same documents at the same time and speak/listen in a teleconference setting. This virtual training meeting will be conducted in English only and is meant for US Chapters.
Training Date: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:00AM – 9:00AM Pacific Time
How To Register:
We are limited to 15 participants. The first 15 to contact Joel Deceuster will be permitted to register.
Please contact our One Page Business Plan Trainer, Joel Deceuster, and he’ll send you the Go To Meeting information and phone number to dial in. Joel@FocusYourBusinessNow.com Be sure to tell him which session you will attend. There is no cost for the training but each chapter will be required to purchase a book. The book is called, The One Page Business Plan for Non-Profit Organizations. You can get it for about $23.00 through Amazon. Be sure to get the “Non-Profit” edition of the book since there are editions created for Entrepreneurs, Financial Services and Professional Consultants. The book has a CD in the back with contains all the digital tools we’ll use to implement the plan.
How to Prepare:
Participants will be sent a copy of the master One Page Business Plan for the BYU Management Society. We suggest you review it and seek to align your chapter goals with those of the World-Wide Management Society. The Steering Committee enjoyed great success in 2008 because of this plan and have updated it by creating a new One Page Business Plan for 2009. We’d also recommend that you read the book, The One Page Business Plan for Non-Profit Organizations. It’s an easy read and will help you to prepare your understanding for the 5 simple steps for creating a plan. It’s not essential to read the book in advance. We realize the time is short until our training session and you might not be able to have it delivered in a sufficient amount of time to read.
About Our Trainer/Facilitator
Joel Deceuster is a certified consultant/coach for the One Page Business Plan and has his own business coaching/consulting company in San Jose, CA. He specializes in focusing business owners and managers to develop their annual strategies for business and bottom-line growth. Joel is a past president of the Silicon Valley Chapter. In 2007 he was invited to become a member of the International Steering Committee where he introduced the concept of the One Page Business Plan as a means of helping the society achieve its goals and objectives. Joel was also inducted into the National Advisory Council (NAC) of the Marriott School of Management at BYU in the Fall fo 2007. Joel and his wife Madeline graduated from BYU and raised six children, five of which attended BYU. He currently serves as Ward Executive Secretary. Joel is an avid rosarian and active in his local Rotary club. To learn more about Joel and his program for focused business growth and development visit his web site at: www.FocusYourBusinessNow.com
Presiding Bishopric Purchases Event Management and Communications Software Package
Posted on December 18, 2008
Filed Under Uncategorized
The Presiding Bishopric of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has purchased an event management and communication software package, “iModules,” which will be available to the BYU Management Society and other BYU related organizations. Details will be forthcoming.
Dean’s Chapter of Excellence Award
Posted on December 12, 2008
Filed Under Uncategorized
Here is the proposed criteria for our new “Dean’s Chapter of Excellence Award”:
a. At least 3 Executive Committee Members – with president elect
b. Executive Committee meets at least quarterly – including conference calls
c. Hold at least quarterly chapter events
d. At least one attendee at Annual Leadership Conference
e. One service event/program/project annually (community, to MS, scholarships)
f. Participation in regional conference calls (at least one)
g. Submit annual reports (surveys): financial/membership/activity
h. Enter activities on website calendar
i. Active up-to-date homepage
j. Provide networking and employment resources for members
Please post comments on what you think of the above.
FOCUS Your Chapter Now! The One Page Business Plan Training, Dec 15th and 16th.
Posted on December 6, 2008
Filed Under Act Professionally, Focus Efforts, Meet Purposefully
At long last we’re ready to help our chapters create their own One Page Business Plan. Just in time for 2009. We introduced this concept at our leadership meeting in October and promised to make it available to our chapters before the end of the year. To do so we’re going to use Go To Meeting – a web based virtual meeting service that allows everyone to view the same documents at the same time and speak/listen in a teleconference setting. These virtual training meetings will be conducted in English only. We hope to translate them to Spanish and other languages in the near future.
Training Dates:
There will be two identical virtual training meetings. We hope that by providing two sessions our chapters will be able to fit one into their schedule. We ask that only one or two people from each chapter attend. Perhaps you can have your chapter president and a board member participate. Copies of the presentation will be made available through those who attend. The training will be one hour in length.
Once the initial training has taken place and chapters have had an opportunity to create their plan we’ll have follow up training sessions in early January to instruct chapters how to use the One Page Business Plan as a planning and accountability tool to measure their progress. In summary, the December training will focus on plan creation; the January training will focus on plan implementation.
Sign up for one of two identical training sessions:
December 15, 2008 from 9AM – 10AM Pacific Time
December 16, 2008 from 5PM – 6PM Pacific Time
How To Register:
Please contact our One Page Business Plan Trainer, Joel Deceuster, and he’ll send you the Go To Meeting information and phone number to dial in. Joel@FocusYourBusinessNow.com Be sure to tell him which session you will attend. There is no cost for the training but each chapter will be required to purchase a book. The book is called, The One Page Business Plan for Non-Profit Organizations. You can get it for about $23.00 through Amazon. Be sure to get the “Non-Profit” edition of the book since there are editions created for Entrepreneurs, Financial Services and Professional Consultants. The book has a CD in the back with contains all the digital tools we’ll use to implement the plan in January.
How to Prepare:
Participants will be sent a copy of the master One Page Business Plan for the BYU Management Society. We suggest you review it and seek to align your chapter goals with those of the World-Wide Management Society. The Steering Committee enjoyed great success in 2008 because of this plan and have updated it by creating a new One Page Business Plan for 2009. We’d also recommend that you read the book, The One Page Business Plan for Non-Profit Organizations. It’s an easy read and will help you to prepare your understanding for the 5 simple steps for creating a plan. It’s not essential to read the book in advance. We realize the time is short until our training sessions and you might not be able to have it delivered in a sufficient amount of time to read.
About Our Trainer/Facilitator
Joel Deceuster is a certified consultant/coach for the One Page Business Plan and has his own business coaching/consulting company in San Jose, CA. He specializes in focusing business owners and managers to develop their annual strategies for business and bottom-line growth. Joel is a past president of the Silicon Valley Chapter. In 2007 he was invited to become a member of the International Steering Committee where he introduced the concept of the One Page Business Plan as a means of helping the society achieve its goals and objectives. Joel was also inducted into the National Advisory Council (NAC) of the Marriott School of Management at BYU in the Fall fo 2007. Joel and his wife Madeline graduated from BYU and raised six children, five of which attended BYU. He currently serves as Ward Executive Secretary. Joel is an avid rosarian and active in his local Rotary club. To learn more about Joel and his program for focused business growth and development visit his web site at: www.FocusYourBusinessNow.com
How to Create/Promote/Host Workshops
Posted on October 28, 2008
Filed Under Grow People
How to Create/Promote/Host Workshops
The Silicon Valley Chapter Model
By Chet Harmer
Create:
1. Determine the training needs of the friends and members of the LDS Church in your geographical area. You can begin this process by interviewing current members of your chapter or sending out a survey. Interviewing usually works best. The workshop topics we cover fall into two general areas: business skills and life skills.
Included in this document is a listing of workshops that have been done in the Silicon Valley Chapter during 2007-2008 along with the duration of each event. During each of these years we have completed over 40 workshops.
2. Based on the needs of people in your area, identify current members of your chapter or local community who have the capabilities to teach the workshops. Try to collaborate with other organizations who have goals similar to the Management Society. Two of these organizations are LDS Employment and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society. LDS Employment has good materials and trainers for some basic courses on how to find jobs, how to do resumes and how to do interviews. LDS attorneys who have a business practice can also be a good source of workshop leaders. Other good sources would be local trainers and consultants.
3. Most of our workshops are provided at no charge as a service to our local community. If there is a charge we give a discount to members of our Management Society Chapter who have paid their dues.
Promote:
1. We promote our workshops in two ways:
-emails sent through our Management Society sponsored website
-announcements through our LDS ward bulletins. Since our main audience
consists of friends and members of the Church, we have found bulletins to be
a good way to advertise. Each bulletin announcemnt is limited to 3-4 sentences.
2. We have found it helpful to require the workshop attendees to register for the events
on our website. This helps us to know ahead of time the number of people who
will be attending. The website has the capability of giving basic information on
each workshop: what it is covering, where it will be held, the duration and who
to contact if you have questions about the event.
Host:
1. Identify a consistent place where workshops can be held. In the Silicon Valley Chapter we have a good relationship with the San Jose Institute of Religion and teach most of our workshops there. We always invite the students to come to the workshops. For workshops that have a charge we find a local business with a training room who will provide us the facility for our use. In exchange for the room we give the business 3-4 slots in the workshop for their employees and/or customers.
2. The attendance at most of our workshops ranges from 15-30. We have found that this size gives the workshop leader a better chance of answering questions and teaching his material.
Workshop Listing
Hours Duration
Business Skills: Per Session
The Basics of Finding and Successfully Competing for Good Jobs:
1. How to Find Good Jobs 2
2. How to Develop Effective Resumes 2
3. How to Have Effective Interviews and Then Follow-Up 2
Advanced Internet Job Search Techniques 2
How to Form, Run and Improve Small Businesses (2 sessions) 2
How Leaders Get Extraordinary Things Done 2
Process Improvement Skills:
1. How to Achieve Your Business Goals and Objectives Through the
Use of Six Sigma Basics 3
2. Applying Six Sigma Basics to Your Own Business Problems
(2 sessions) 3
3. The Process Improvement Experience (includes a business
simulation) 8
Understanding Income Tax Laws and Managing Your Money 3
Life Skills:
Personal Finance Workshop 3
Advanced Personal Finance Workshop 3
The Basics of Estate Planning and Administration (2 sessions) 2
Preparing and Organizing Your Personal & Estate Information 2
Scholarships & Grants for Education; Grants & Loans for Small Businesses 2
What is Your Credit Score and How to Improve It 2
What is Foreclosed Property and How to Purchase It 2
One Page Business Plan
Posted on October 14, 2008
Filed Under Focus Efforts, Uncategorized
Soon, Joel Deceuster is going to post instructions on how to get started with a One Page Business Plan for your chapters. Stay tuned!
BYU Management Society Regional Conferences at Temple Dedications
Posted on October 7, 2008
Filed Under Uncategorized
Troy Romero suggested that we may want to organize some type of BYU Management Society meeting/conference in connection with temple dedications. They are logical gathering places/times for our constituency and could foster more involvement. Any thoughts?
BYU Management Society Annual Leadership Conference 2008
Posted on October 7, 2008
Filed Under Act Professionally, Align with BYU and the Marriott School, Focus Efforts, Grow People, Live the Vision, Meet Purposefully, Think Globally
BYU Management Society
Annual Leadership Conference
October 2-3, 2008
By all accounts, the BYU Management Society Annual Leadership Conference, held October 2-3, 2008 on campus in Provo, Utah was a rousing success. Over 100 participants from 11 countries enjoyed beautiful weather, surroundings, company and educational and motivational workshops, speeches and seminars. The vision of the Management Society of “growing moral and ethical leadership around the world” was a focus of the entire event.
The conference began with a day in the mountains at Aspen Grove. The hills were on fire with the colors of fall in the mountains. The opening sessions were held in the Emerald Lodge, with a breathtaking view of the Wasatch Mountains through a floor to ceiling glass window about 3 stories high. Gary Cornia, Dean of the Marriott School gave an update on accomplishments at the Marriott School and introduced the Lowell Bennion Award recipient and keynote speaker, former Dean Ned Hill. Hill recognized the accomplishments of the namesake of the award, Lowell Bennion, reminisced on trips he made over the years to Management Society chapters all over the world during his 10 year tenure as Dean. He also shared anecdotal experiences to drive home the vision of the Society, “growing moral and ethical leadership around the world.”
Ron Malouf, National Advisory Council member and Chair of the NAC Management Society committee, addressed the importance of service to the community and Management Society members. Chris Feinauer, Alumni Association Liaison, shared tips on “Board Structure, Recruiting and Use.” Chet Harmer, new member of the International Steering Committee member over New Chapters, discussed successes in the Silicon Valley chapter, which in the last year included an astounding 96 events and 9,300 participants. Perhaps more impressive is the focus on service to its members through business workshops which teach people how to get, keep and improve jobs.. Silicon Valley also works closely with the J. Reuben Clark Law Society in calendaring and publicizing events.
A one-hour “Success-o-rama” was then held covering topics such as Golf tournaments, scholarships, breakfasts, employment councils, career fairs, surveys, Young Professionals, newsletters, the new Hispanic Chapter and big company involvement. Concurrent sessions were then held for chapters at different stages in their development including: new, struggling and strong. A dinner program featured music by a bluegrass group, “Brushfire,” and keynote speaker, Michael Webb, who addressed how to establish a strong network of business contacts to find a job at any stage in your career.
Friday began on campus in the new Tanner Building addition, with a hot breakfast, a “State of the Society” address by Chair Bill Chapman which reviewed the major events by chapters throughout the world during the last 12 months. It was announced that the 2009 Regional Conference will be held in Europe at a specific loction to be determined. Chair-Elect, Troy Romero, then gave a presentation on the One Page Business Plan, a new goal setting program introduced to the Society by Steering Committee member and NAC member, Joel Deceuster, of Silicon Valley. Concurrent database training seminars were then conducted by Rixa Oman (beginning) and Robert Gardner (advanced). A panel of Steering Committee members addressed each of the Society’s Cultural Beliefs.
Bradley R. Agle, PhD and Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, led a thought-provoking discussion on a case study on ethics. A luncheon was organized by region so that chapter leaders could share what they had learned and discuss local issues, unique to each geographic area. Following the luncheon each country outside of the United States took a turn highlighting events and progress in each of those countries. Gustavo Estrada next spoke on LDS Employment and networking. The international and domestic chapters then separated to focus on topics pertaining to each of those types of chapters. A closing session allowed participants to set goals based on things they learned at the conference, followed by an open discussion on highlights of what was most helpful.
An added dimension to the Conference was a Friday night dinner meeting, first ever for the new Hispanic Management Society, with Elder Pingree giving the keynote address. Over 100 were in attendance.
A great deal of enthusiasm flowed through from the start to finish of the conference. Interactive discussions allowed a liberal exchange of ideas and sharing of experiences. Friendships were made or renewed and a new commitment seemed to be felt by all present.
Ideas for Expanding Services and Membership
Posted on October 7, 2008
Filed Under Live the Vision
Some ideas on the partnership between the BYU Management Society and LDS Employment (Employment Resource Services, ERS):
- “No dues” membership option. Different levels of membership in BYUMS could include “no dues” membership (some chapters already have this to drive membership and recruit new members). This might allow us to better penetrate the LDS target market through priesthood leaders by not offending the non-commercial/no pay policy for Church activities. We can offer this as a service and may help us be viewed more by priesthood leaders as a service organization consistent with our vision developed with Lee Donaldson in 2005.
- “No fee” workshops. For the same reasons above, this might open some doors. If the goal is “growing moral and ethical leadership around the world,” why have barriers like dues if they can be avoided? Members could be the presenters, if done for “no fee,” church buildings could be used and we could touch more lives. We could break down many of the existing barriers to reaching Church members if there was no fee involved. I don’t think it would be difficult to recruit presenters from the local wards/stakes. Silicon Valley has already piloted this idea with great success.
- Coordination with LDS Church Leaders. With a no dues level of membership and no fee workshops, a viable base of members could be dramatically expanded. Existing levels of for fee membership, paid events, etc., could continue for those interested and would not only continue, but most likely would also dramatically expand because of increased visibility through greater publicity to our target market: LDS Church members.
- LDS Employment. A key partner in breaking through existing barriers to reaching LDS Church members, our target market. Could help put on “free workshops,” including training for those not even looking for a job to help them be prepared for the future when they may need to make a move (A la Michael Webb’s keynote address at our recent Annual Leadership Conference.) Even “stay-at-home-Moms” should know what skills they have and be prepared for the future. Networking is “provident living” for all adults regardless of age or gender. In today’s economy, this is realistic preparedness.
- Get listed on Providentliving.org’s “Related Websites” listing. The BYU Management Society should be considered a “related website” for “Networking.”
The intent of the ideas above is not to announce these as policies but to start a discussion. Any comments would be welcome.
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