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SUMMARY:
On April 30, 2020, the GLSnext Event Series hosted a high-impact online event with top-rated Summit faculty Juliet Funt, Patrick Lencioni and Dr. Henry Cloud, hosted by Craig Groeschel. During this event, they discussed ways to lead and move forward during this season of uncertainty. “We’re in an in-between time,” said Dr. Cloud. “Like the moment on a trapeze when you are going from one trapeze to another.” Drawing from their expertise in organizational psychology, organizational health and productivity, you are not going to want to miss this conversation. Get ready to gain new insights and practical tools to thrive during this season and come out stronger on the other side.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
Dr. Henry Cloud
- All of you leaders out there, you have two jobs. You’re now a leader and a psychologist. It’s hard.
- We have a map for how life works, and when something changes it registers as an error. In a crisis, the change is drastic, and you need to get the brain back to normal.
- The human brain needs four things in order to thrive:
- 1) Connectedness
- Our relational connections knit us together.
- The pandemic has blown apart our connections.
- Schedule time to connect with people who fuel your life.
- Connect with employees and stakeholders and communicate with clarity and authenticity.
- Share honestly how the organization is doing.
- Talk about your connections to a larger network.
- Let your staff know they are part of a bigger narrative.
- 2) Structure
- God wired people’s brains to work in a structure.
- The pandemic has interrupted many of our structures.
- Create structure for your team. People calm down with structure.
- Schedule regular meetings. Set priorities.
- Define roles and responsibilities. Set mutually agreed upon expectations.
- 3) Control
- Our brains are designed to have choices.
- In a pandemic, our choices are limited.
- Develop a list with two columns. Identifying the things you can control relaxes the brain.
- Column 1: Write down all the things you can’t control and give yourself 10 minutes to worry. Then, surrender them.
- Column 2: List all the things you can do to drive the needle. Look for ways you and your organization can be productive and helpful at this time.
- 4) Accomplishment
- We are designed to accomplish good things.
- In a pandemic, we may have lost our ability to accomplish.
- Identify what is going right with your team. Brain chemistry changes when people feel good about what they are doing.
- Let your team know they how they added value.
- Leaders right now are psychologists. We have to help people feel connected and structured.
- You are the author of the character called you. What do you want that character to look like?
Juliet Funt
- Whitespace at Work has been virtual from its inception.
- I have worked from home for 24 years full-time.
- I want to take the work from home efficiency element of the conversation to a new level.
- I want to give you a repeatable work-from-home framework that will make you more productive.
- Set Up
- 1) Envision the route for your day
- Envision what you want to accomplish each day.
- Reflect on the route you want to take and the attitude you want to have.
- 2) The paper anchor
- A paper anchor lists out the 5 most important things you need to address today.
- It sits on your desk as a visual reminder of your priorities.
- 3) The visual groove
- Design a visual arch on your desk—coffee, pad of paper, computer, etc.
- If you move locations, move your visual groove with you. The similarity cues your brain that it’s time for work.
- Rhythm
- 1) Create a wedge of whitespace.
- Take a strategic pause of thoughtful time.
- It can be inserted anywhere in your day.
- 2) Create an email-checking schedule.
- Choose intervals to check your email.
- Between those times, you create space for deeper, richer work.
- 3) Create a kids’ “parking lot”
- Have a whiteboard next to your workstation.
- Kids write what they want or need. Check in with them every hour or two with complete focus.
- Reduce stress by having an explicit conversation with your boss about expectations.
- Closure
- 1) Put things away in a physical compartment.
- Put work away in a drawer or room and walk away.
- 2) Make a promise out loud that you are done with your day.
- To your family or a friend. This is your boundary.
- This efficiency system works whether you are working from home or at an office.
- A study by Bloomberg says that 45% of employees say they are burnt out. And the average workday has expanded by 3 hours since COVID-19.
- We need a reductive mindset.
- What can I let go of? What can you do less of? Delegate? Vendor out? Reduce?
- Email Efficiency
- Use the acronym WAIT. Whose Action Is This?
- Email should be a request for action, not observation. Don’t CC too many people.
- Email should be functional, practical and brief. Ask yourself, what do they truly need to know?
- Take an assessment to find out how your team is doing at com.
Patrick Lencioni:
- How do we re-emerge from this stronger than they were before?
- 1) Deepen Trust
- The key is to spend more time together and be personal/effective instead of professional/efficient.
- If my team didn’t slow down and connect, we were never going to become productive in this time.
- Gary Kelly, the CEO of Southwest Airlines, spent 30 hours with all the executives to find out how they were doing. He spent 30 minutes with each of his top leaders.
- I cannot expect us to perform at our best if I’m not consistently pouring into the people I work with.
- The challenge is, when we go back to work, will we bring this back or go back to the professional boundaries?
- Inefficient connection should be the new and better normal.
- 2) New Forms of Meetings
- We discovered the best Zoom calls are what we call hangouts.
- We keep Zoom link open to work independently to recreate the idea of being together.
- It’s not purely social. It’s socialized work.
- Zoom is not just a meeting tool. It’s a platform for social interaction.
- When we went from efficient meetings to more effective inter-personal ones, productivity went up.
- 3) Create a Rallying Cry
- Be clear and healthy.
- Patrick’s team’s rallying cry is: “Let’s become more cohesive and innovative for as long as this last.”
- Our productivity and our affection for each other has gone up.
REFLECTION QUESTIONS:
- Henry Cloud talked about how the human brain has four key needs: Connectedness, Structure, Control and Accomplishment.
- Which one of these is most missing in your life right now?
- How could you implement one of his strategies to move yourself forward in this time?
- Juliet Funt talked about implementing a work-from-home framework of Set Up, Rhythm and Closure to make your day more productive.
- Which part of her framework would be most helpful to you right now?
- How could you implement one of her strategies to be more productive in your work during this season?
- Patrick Lencioni described three ways leadership teams can emerge stronger than they were before: Deepening Trust, New Forms of Meetings and Creating a Rallying Cry.
- Which of these three would be helpful to your team right now?
- How could you implement his advice in this area?
- If you were to only change one thing coming out of this podcast, what would it be? Make a plan to make that change today.
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
COVID-19 Crisis of 2020
Bloomberg Article
Juliet’s How Is Your Team Assessment
Gary Kelly
Southwest Airlines
Open Network: Church Online
RELATED LINKS:
Craig Groeschel
Life.Church
Dr. Henry Cloud
Churches that Heal
Juliet Funt
WhiteSpace at Work
Patrick Lencioni
The Table Group
The Global Leadership Summit
Juliet Funt
CEO | Juliet Funt GroupDr. Henry Cloud
Clinical Psychologist & Acclaimed Leadership Expert | Leadership UniversityPatrick Lencioni
Founder & President | The Table Group, Inc.Craig Groeschel
Founder & Senior Pastor | Life.ChurchLori Hermann
Executive Producer | Global Leadership NetworkEpisode 072: Juliet Funt, Dr. Henry Cloud, Patrick Lencioni & Craig Groeschel on Trailblazing in Uncertainty
TOPICS IN THIS PODCAST
CultureLeading OthersProductivityWellnessOn April 30, 2020, the GLSnext Event Series hosted a high-impact online event with top-rated Summit faculty Juliet Funt, Patrick Lencioni and Dr. Henry Cloud, hosted by Craig Groeschel. During this event, they discussed ways to lead and move forward during this season of uncertainty. “We’re in an in-between time,” said Dr. Cloud. “Like the moment on a trapeze when you are going from one trapeze to another.” Drawing from their expertise in organizational psychology, organizational health and productivity, you are not going to want to miss this conversation. Get ready to gain new insights and practical tools to thrive during this season and come out stronger on the other side.
On This Podcast
Juliet Funt
Juliet Funt Group
Juliet Funt is the CEO and founder of Juliet Funt Group, a training and consulting firm helping organizations, their leaders and employees reclaim their creativity, productivity and engagement. With thought-provoking insights and actionable tools, she has become a globally-recognized expert in helping leaders cope with the “age of overload” in which we all live and work. A warrior against reactive busyness and a force for change in organizations around the world, Funt teaches a streamlined method for personal process improvement that reduces complexity in the workplace. Teams that incorporate a WhiteSpace mindset and skill set increase creativity and engagement, reclaim lost capacity and execute at their finest. Her clients include a number of Fortune 100 companies and span a wide array of industries, from financial services to technology, manufacturing to the military. Funt’s new book, A Minute to Think, released at the 2021 Summit.
Dr. Henry Cloud
Leadership University
Dr. Henry Cloud is an acclaimed leadership expert, clinical psychologist and New York Times best-selling author. His 45 books have sold nearly 15 million copies worldwide. He has an extensive executive coaching background and experience as a leadership consultant, devoting the majority of his time working with CEOs, leadership teams and executives to improve performance, leadership skills and culture. Dr. Cloud founded and built a healthcare company starting in 1987, which operated inpatient, and outpatient treatment centers in forty markets in the Western U.S. There, he served as Clinical Director and principal for ten years. In the context of hands-on clinical experience, he developed and researched many of the treatment principles and methods that he communicates to audiences today. After selling the company, he devoted his time to consulting and coaching, spreading principles of hope and life-change through speaking, writing and media. Throughout the same years and until the present, he has devoted much of his career to leadership performance and development, blending the disciplines of leadership and human functioning to helping CEO’s, teams, organizations and family entities. His book, Integrity, was dubbed by the New York Times as “the best book in the bunch.” In 2011, Necessary Endings was called “the most important book you read all year.” His book Boundaries For Leaders was named by CEO Reads in the top five leadership books of its year. His newest book, The Power of the Other, debuted at #5 on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list. Dr. Cloud’s work has been featured and reviewed by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Boston Globe, Publisher’s Weekly, Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. Success magazine named Dr. Cloud in the top 25 most influential leaders in personal growth and development, alongside Oprah, Brene Brown, Seth Godin and others.
Patrick Lencioni
The Table Group, Inc.
Patrick Lencioni is the author of eleven best-selling books with more than five million copies sold, including The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Dedicated to providing organizations with ideas, products and services that improve teamwork, clarity and employee engagement, his leadership models serve a diverse base from Fortune 500 companies to professional sports organizations to churches.
Craig Groeschel
Life.Church
Globally recognized as a leader of leaders, Craig Groeschel is the founder and senior pastor of Life.Church, rated the #1 place to work in 2021 for small and mid-size companies by Glassdoor. Known for their missional approach to leveraging the latest technology, Life.Church is the innovative creator of the YouVersion Bible App—downloaded more than a half a billion times worldwide. In 2020, Life.Church provided free tools to thousands of churches who quickly transitioned to a virtual church experience in the wake of the global health pandemic. Traveling the world on behalf of The Global Leadership Summit, Groeschel advocates for building leaders in every sector of society. He is also the host of the top-ranked Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast. A New York Times best-selling author, his latest book is Lead Like It Matters
Lori Hermann
Global Leadership Network
Lori is the Executive Producer at the Global Leadership Network. The GLN is a community committed to learning from each other and using their influence to inspire and equip world-class leadership that ignites transformation. Lori leads a team of content curators and developers, producers and artists as they design and execute the Global Leadership Summit and year-round leadership development events, tools and resources. The GLS reaches more than 400,000 individuals around the globe each year with world-class leadership development. Lori has a passion to create opportunities that help others develop into the best version of themselves and has done that from the beginning of her career in health education at an HMO, the Arthritis Foundation and American Heart Association. She then brought her strategic gifts and event experience to Willow Creek Community Church where she led creative teams to produce weekend services, special events, conferences and church resources. In 2000 she transitioned to the Willow Creek Association (now known as the Global Leadership Network) to lead the Arts Ministry Business Segment and in 2013 became the Executive Producer of the Global Leadership Summit, as well as the year-round resources and events.
Show Notes
Get free, instant access to GLS Podcast Episode Show Notes. Leverage episode summaries, key takeaways, reflection questions, resources mentioned, related links and applicable downloads.
SUMMARY:
On April 30, 2020, the GLSnext Event Series hosted a high-impact online event with top-rated Summit faculty Juliet Funt, Patrick Lencioni and Dr. Henry Cloud, hosted by Craig Groeschel. During this event, they discussed ways to lead and move forward during this season of uncertainty. “We’re in an in-between time,” said Dr. Cloud. “Like the moment on a trapeze when you are going from one trapeze to another.” Drawing from their expertise in organizational psychology, organizational health and productivity, you are not going to want to miss this conversation. Get ready to gain new insights and practical tools to thrive during this season and come out stronger on the other side.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
Dr. Henry Cloud
Juliet Funt
Patrick Lencioni:
REFLECTION QUESTIONS:
RESOURCES MENTIONED:
COVID-19 Crisis of 2020
Bloomberg Article
Juliet’s How Is Your Team Assessment
Gary Kelly
Southwest Airlines
Open Network: Church Online
RELATED LINKS:
Craig Groeschel
Life.Church
Dr. Henry Cloud
Churches that Heal
Juliet Funt
WhiteSpace at Work
Patrick Lencioni
The Table Group
The Global Leadership Summit
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