Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: Good Morning, This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Speaker 1: Today's tip is to repeat what's successful. Why not follow
Speaker 1: one win with another? If you're striving to be innovative
Speaker 1: at work and to lead an insta worthy life at home,
Speaker 1: you may feel pulled towards trying new things. And trying
Speaker 1: new things can be a lot of fun, but it
Speaker 1: can also be helpful to have a few surefire strategies
Speaker 1: in your back pocket to rely on when you want
Speaker 1: to direct your time and creativity to other places. So
Speaker 1: what kind of successes can we repeat? A lot of
Speaker 1: great managers in HR pros have go to questions that
Speaker 1: they ask in pretty much every interview. Having standard questions
Speaker 1: saves you time planning the interview, and it lets you
Speaker 1: be more present during the interview because you're not rethinking
Speaker 1: the sequence of questions you planned out. You already know
Speaker 1: from past experience that it works. Asking the same questions
Speaker 1: also creates consistency across applicants, which is desirable for promoting
Speaker 1: equity to Similarly, you could have a go to plan
Speaker 1: for meetings. The same basic template can work with a
Speaker 1: range of one on ones and team meetings greeting and
Speaker 1: check in, followed by a quick celebration of recent successes,
Speaker 1: next a deep dive into top priorities, and finally a
Speaker 1: recap of who's doing what when, and a motivating launch
Speaker 1: to send people on their way. You can even use
Speaker 1: similar language from week to week to introduce and wrap
Speaker 1: up each section of the meeting, repeating what successful can
Speaker 1: work in your personal life. Too. Long time listeners know
Speaker 1: that my family loves going to the Jersey Shore in
Speaker 1: the summer. In fact, we love going to the same
Speaker 1: town on the Jersey Shore every year and eating at
Speaker 1: the same ice cream parlor in that town. Some of
Speaker 1: us even love getting the same flavor of ice cream
Speaker 1: every time. That would be me chocolate peanut butter all
Speaker 1: the way. I've experimented with Moose tracks, but it's hard
Speaker 1: to argue with success. Part of our delight comes from nostalgia.
Speaker 1: Each experience calls to mind our past summers at the
Speaker 1: beach with lots of good memories. But some of the
Speaker 1: delight also comes from the fact that this is a
Speaker 1: vacation that satisfies our needs and desires. It works for
Speaker 1: our family. We could try another beach but well, there
Speaker 1: probably isn't a perfect beach, and this is a perfectly
Speaker 1: good one. Social gatherings offer all kinds of opportunities for
Speaker 1: repeating successes, too. Plenty of groups of friends have standing dates,
Speaker 1: say brunch the first Saturday of every month at the
Speaker 1: same restaurant, or happy hour at the bar around the
Speaker 1: corner from the office every Thursday. If you like planning parties,
Speaker 1: that is awesome. But if you enjoy the party it's
Speaker 1: self more than the planning, then feel free to use
Speaker 1: a given plan more than once. The same menu can
Speaker 1: work for more than one dinner party. We serve fondue
Speaker 1: or a large tenderloin from Costco. Those work. I even
Speaker 1: heard of a couple who routinely throw the same dinner
Speaker 1: party two nights in a row, same menu, same flowers,
Speaker 1: same music playing in the background, just a different set
Speaker 1: of guests on each day. Even if you're not up
Speaker 1: for full scale re enactments, you can repeat particular successful elements.
Speaker 1: If you rearrange furniture to make room for more guests
Speaker 1: at a cocktail party. Afterwards, you can use your phone
Speaker 1: to take a two minute video walking through your house. Then,
Speaker 1: when you're preparing for your next get together, you know
Speaker 1: what to do, and let's not forget conversational success. It's
Speaker 1: a common social icebreaker for everyone to share one fun
Speaker 1: fact about themselves. So if you've shared one fact in
Speaker 1: the past that proved to be a good conversation starter,
Speaker 1: we'll go ahead and trot that one out again. Don't
Speaker 1: get me wrong, novelty has a place in life. Since
Speaker 1: my husband and I tend to take two weeks off
Speaker 1: during the summer, we can do one beach week and
Speaker 1: one new thing pulled from our list of one dreams.
Speaker 1: If you have a favorite coffee shop, well that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean you should decline if someone suggests meeting at a
Speaker 1: new one. But novelty is not a good in and
Speaker 1: of itself. For a while, I felt bad about ordering
Speaker 1: chocolate peanut butter ice cream in a sugar cone every
Speaker 1: time I went to my favorite ice cream parlor. But
Speaker 1: if I'm only going about five times per year, I
Speaker 1: don't have to choose a flavor I don't like as
Speaker 1: much just to seem like the kind of person who
Speaker 1: shakes things up. Sometimes I don't need to shake things up,
Speaker 1: and that's perfectly fine. Are there successes that you repeat again?
Speaker 1: And again, could there be more? I'd love to hear
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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