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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

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Speaker 1: Today's tip is to repeat what's successful. Why not follow

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Speaker 1: one win with another? If you're striving to be innovative

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Speaker 1: at work and to lead an insta worthy life at home,

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Speaker 1: you may feel pulled towards trying new things. And trying

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Speaker 1: new things can be a lot of fun, but it

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Speaker 1: can also be helpful to have a few surefire strategies

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Speaker 1: in your back pocket to rely on when you want

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Speaker 1: to direct your time and creativity to other places. So

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Speaker 1: what kind of successes can we repeat? A lot of

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Speaker 1: great managers in HR pros have go to questions that

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Speaker 1: they ask in pretty much every interview. Having standard questions

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Speaker 1: saves you time planning the interview, and it lets you

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Speaker 1: be more present during the interview because you're not rethinking

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Speaker 1: the sequence of questions you planned out. You already know

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Speaker 1: from past experience that it works. Asking the same questions

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Speaker 1: also creates consistency across applicants, which is desirable for promoting

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Speaker 1: equity to Similarly, you could have a go to plan

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Speaker 1: for meetings. The same basic template can work with a

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Speaker 1: range of one on ones and team meetings greeting and

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Speaker 1: check in, followed by a quick celebration of recent successes,

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Speaker 1: next a deep dive into top priorities, and finally a

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Speaker 1: recap of who's doing what when, and a motivating launch

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Speaker 1: to send people on their way. You can even use

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Speaker 1: similar language from week to week to introduce and wrap

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Speaker 1: up each section of the meeting, repeating what successful can

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Speaker 1: work in your personal life. Too. Long time listeners know

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Speaker 1: that my family loves going to the Jersey Shore in

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Speaker 1: the summer. In fact, we love going to the same

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Speaker 1: town on the Jersey Shore every year and eating at

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Speaker 1: the same ice cream parlor in that town. Some of

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Speaker 1: us even love getting the same flavor of ice cream

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Speaker 1: every time. That would be me chocolate peanut butter all

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Speaker 1: the way. I've experimented with Moose tracks, but it's hard

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Speaker 1: to argue with success. Part of our delight comes from nostalgia.

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Speaker 1: Each experience calls to mind our past summers at the

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Speaker 1: beach with lots of good memories. But some of the

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Speaker 1: delight also comes from the fact that this is a

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Speaker 1: vacation that satisfies our needs and desires. It works for

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Speaker 1: our family. We could try another beach but well, there

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Speaker 1: probably isn't a perfect beach, and this is a perfectly

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Speaker 1: good one. Social gatherings offer all kinds of opportunities for

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Speaker 1: repeating successes, too. Plenty of groups of friends have standing dates,

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Speaker 1: say brunch the first Saturday of every month at the

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Speaker 1: same restaurant, or happy hour at the bar around the

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Speaker 1: corner from the office every Thursday. If you like planning parties,

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Speaker 1: that is awesome. But if you enjoy the party it's

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Speaker 1: self more than the planning, then feel free to use

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Speaker 1: a given plan more than once. The same menu can

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Speaker 1: work for more than one dinner party. We serve fondue

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Speaker 1: or a large tenderloin from Costco. Those work. I even

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Speaker 1: heard of a couple who routinely throw the same dinner

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Speaker 1: party two nights in a row, same menu, same flowers,

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Speaker 1: same music playing in the background, just a different set

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Speaker 1: of guests on each day. Even if you're not up

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Speaker 1: for full scale re enactments, you can repeat particular successful elements.

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Speaker 1: If you rearrange furniture to make room for more guests

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Speaker 1: at a cocktail party. Afterwards, you can use your phone

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Speaker 1: to take a two minute video walking through your house. Then,

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Speaker 1: when you're preparing for your next get together, you know

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Speaker 1: what to do, and let's not forget conversational success. It's

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Speaker 1: a common social icebreaker for everyone to share one fun

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Speaker 1: fact about themselves. So if you've shared one fact in

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Speaker 1: the past that proved to be a good conversation starter,

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Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and trot that one out again. Don't

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Speaker 1: get me wrong, novelty has a place in life. Since

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Speaker 1: my husband and I tend to take two weeks off

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Speaker 1: during the summer, we can do one beach week and

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Speaker 1: one new thing pulled from our list of one dreams.

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Speaker 1: If you have a favorite coffee shop, well that doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean you should decline if someone suggests meeting at a

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Speaker 1: new one. But novelty is not a good in and

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Speaker 1: of itself. For a while, I felt bad about ordering

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Speaker 1: chocolate peanut butter ice cream in a sugar cone every

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Speaker 1: time I went to my favorite ice cream parlor. But

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Speaker 1: if I'm only going about five times per year, I

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Speaker 1: don't have to choose a flavor I don't like as

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Speaker 1: much just to seem like the kind of person who

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Speaker 1: shakes things up. Sometimes I don't need to shake things up,

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Speaker 1: and that's perfectly fine. Are there successes that you repeat again?

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Speaker 1: And again, could there be more? I'd love to hear

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Speaker 1: about it. You can reach me at Before Breakfast podcast

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Speaker 1: is Laura. Thanks for listening and here's to making the

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Speaker 1: most of our time. Hey, everybody, I'd love to hear

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