This powerful and effective routine has many benefits and forces you to be a better leader.
If you simply start by committing to addressing all of your people every 90 days, after your quarterly planning, this is the starting point to all of the benefits.
Let me start with the structure first before the rewards. It should be no more than 30 to 60 minutes and should hopefully include some Q&A and interaction. In that time frame, you share three subjects:
You simply fill each of the above three “buckets” with two or three real and honest data points and/or information, and then voilà—you’ve delivered a state-of-the-company address.
The benefits are as follows:
I learned this powerfully effective discipline from my dad almost 20 years ago. I’ve implemented this discipline ever since in both of my companies and taught it to every one of my hundred-plus clients.
Do it next quarter and every quarter after that and your vision will be shared by all. It works.