Slides from the Accelerate Group Mentor session on Monday 12 December 2016

1. Group Meeting
12 December 2016

2. WELCOME BACK!
Congratulations on your decision
to invest in you!

3. Introductions
Welcome Luke Reeves,
Master Builders Assoc

4. “If you give me six hours to cut
down a tree, I will spend the first
four hours sharpening the saw”
Abraham Lincoln

11. Overview to today
• Have you created more time to lead?
• Time to sharpen the saw
– Essentialism - a book that just might change
your life!
– Sleep – protect the asset
– Laugh – to build resilience
– Meditate – to calm the monkey mind

12. Delegation
• Benefits
– It gets stuff off your plate
– You get to share your wisdom
– It gives others the opportunity to grow
– It may identify future leaders
– You can use the time gained to lead

13. Effective Delegation
CREST Methodology

14. Delegation - how to
CREST
• Context - why this is important
• Result – this is the outcome required
• Enquiry – ask if you don’t understand or
have problems
• Support – here’s how I’ll help you, what
do you need to succeed?
• Timeframe – here’s when it’s needed by

15. Three Things Today
1. Priority
2. Priority
3. Priority

16. 4 Ds of Email
• Deal with it – take action now!
• Delegate it – assign responsibility to
someone else (timeframe it)
• Delay it – schedule some time in your
calendar to action it
• Dump it - delete

17. Discuss with your study buddy
what you did to create time to
lead, what worked, what didn’t

19. A great way to grow is to read,
right?
But who’s got the time?

20. ‘Reading’ in down time
• Book sales are declining
• Even ebook sales are dropping
• Audio books sales are growing at 40% per
year
• Driving, waiting, flying – listen to audio
books to learn and grow

22. What’s it about?
• Have you ever found yourself stretched
too thin?

23. What’s it about?
• Have you ever found yourself stretched
too thin?
• Do you sometimes feel overworked and
underutilized?

24. What’s it about?
• Have you ever found yourself stretched
too thin?
• Do you sometimes feel overworked and
underutilized?
• Do you feel motion sickness instead of
momentum?

25. What’s it about?
• Have you ever found yourself stretched
too thin?
• Do you sometimes feel overworked and
underutilized?
• Do you feel motion sickness instead of
momentum?
• Does your day sometimes get hijacked by
someone else’s agenda?

26. What’s it about?
• Have you ever found yourself stretched too
thin?
• Do you sometimes feel overworked and
underutilized?
• Do you feel motion sickness instead of
momentum?
• Does your day sometimes get hijacked by
someone else’s agenda?
• Have you ever said “yes” simply to please
and then resented it?

27. Essentialism
• Live by design not default

28. Essentialism
• Live by design not default
• Disciplined, systematic approach of
working out our highest point of
contribution

29. Essentialism
• Live by design not default
• Disciplined, systematic approach of
working out our highest point of
contribution
• Doing less but better

30. Essentialism
• Live by design not default
• Disciplined, systematic approach of
working out our highest point of
contribution
• Doing less but better
• If you don’t prioritise your life, someone
else will

31. The Way of the Essentialist
• The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about
getting more done in less time

32. The Way of the Essentialist
• The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about
getting more done in less time
• It’s not about getting less done. It’s about
getting only the right things done

33. The Way of the Essentialist
• It’s about challenging the core assumption
of ‘we can have it all’ and ‘I have to do
everything’ and replacing it with the pursuit
of ‘the right thing, in the right way, at the
right time’

34. Greg McKeown - Essentialism

35. Find a new study buddy
What would it mean to you if you
could focus only on the essential?

36. Sleep – Protect the Asset
• Non essentialists see sleep as a burden

37. Sleep – Protect the Asset
• Non essentialists see sleep as a burden
• Essentialists see sleep as necessary for
operating at high levels

38. Sleep – Protect the Asset
• Non essentialists see sleep as a burden
• Essentialists see sleep as necessary for
operating at high levels
• They systematically and deliberately build
sleep into their schedules so they can
achieve more

40. Another great way to learn
18 minutes
Powerful messages

41. Marty Wilson
• Australian Comic of the Year
• 10 years in UK, professional stand up comic
• Best selling author
• Professional speaker – building resilience
and surviving change
• Interviewed over 1,000 successful people
– Wayne Bennett and other successful sporting coaches
– Buddhist nun working on death row
– 9 / 11 survivor
– Mother of 11 children
• Common thread – ‘live lightly’

42. Take Funny Seriously
http://tedxnorthernsydneyinstitute.
com/speaker/marty-wilson/

43. Study Buddy:
How can you lead more laughter in
your workplace?

45. Questions / Discussion

46. Make 2017 your
BEST YEAR EVER!

47. BEST YEAR EVER!
• Plan for success
• Protect the asset
• Grow the asset by continuing to develop
and challenge yourself

48. http://bestyearever.me/a20081/2017byesales
Bonuses from me (online couse + ebook)

49. Next Steps
• Over the next few weeks, invest in you
– Listen to audio books
– Watch TED talks
– Sleep more, sharpen the saw!
• Next Group Meeting – Monday 30.1.17
• Book in 1:1
• Dates for 2017 – 27 Feb, 27 Mar

50. 360 Degree Review
Anonymous, online
Tells you what your people need
more of from you
2 debrief sessions

51. Our next Manager 2 Leader,
one day workshop
in Newcastle
2 February
2 March

52. 2 day intensive
For those that have completed
Manager 2 Leader
8, 9 March Newcastle

53. gregmowbray
gregmowbray.com1
@gregmowbray