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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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

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

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Speaker 1: 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 too. 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 to 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. Longtime listeners know that

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

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Speaker 1: In fact, we love going to the same town on

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Speaker 1: the Jersey Shore every year and eating at the same

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Speaker 1: ice cream parlor in that town. Some of us even

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Speaker 1: love getting the same flavor of ice cream every time.

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Speaker 1: That would be me chocolate peanut butter all the way.

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Speaker 1: I've experimented with Moose tracks, but it's hard to argue

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: We could try another beach but well, there probably isn't

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Speaker 1: a perfect beach, and this is a perfectly good one.

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Speaker 1: Social gatherings offer all kinds of opportunities for repeating successes, too.

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Speaker 1: Plenty of groups of friends have standing dates, say brunch

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Speaker 1: the first Saturday of every month at the same restaurant,

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Speaker 1: or happy hour at the bar around the corner from

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

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Speaker 1: is awesome. But if you enjoy the party self more

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Speaker 1: than the planning, then feel free to use a given

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Speaker 1: plan more than once. The same menu can work for

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Speaker 1: more than one dinner party. We serve fondue or a

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Speaker 1: large tender loin from Costco. Those work. I even heard

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: full scale reenactments, you can repeat particular successful elements. If

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

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

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Speaker 1: 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 hundred 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 chocolate,

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Speaker 1: peanut but or 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

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

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

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Speaker 1: podcast at iHeartMedia dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura.

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