Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning,
Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's
Speaker 1: tip is to repeat what's successful. Why not follow one
Speaker 1: win with another? If you're striving to be innovative at
Speaker 1: 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 too. 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 to 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. Longtime listeners know that
Speaker 1: my family loves going to the Jersey Shore in the summer.
Speaker 1: In fact, we love going to the same town on
Speaker 1: the Jersey Shore every year and eating at the same
Speaker 1: ice cream parlor in that town. Some of us even
Speaker 1: love getting the same flavor of ice cream every time.
Speaker 1: That would be me chocolate peanut butter all the way.
Speaker 1: I've experimented with Moose tracks, but it's hard to argue
Speaker 1: with success. Part of our delight comes from nostalgia. Each
Speaker 1: experience calls to mind our past summers at the beach
Speaker 1: with lots of good memories. But some of the delight
Speaker 1: also comes from the fact that this is a vacation
Speaker 1: that satisfies our needs and desires. It works for our family.
Speaker 1: We could try another beach but well, there probably isn't
Speaker 1: a perfect beach, and this is a perfectly good one.
Speaker 1: Social gatherings offer all kinds of opportunities for repeating successes, too.
Speaker 1: Plenty of groups of friends have standing dates, say brunch
Speaker 1: the first Saturday of every month at the same restaurant,
Speaker 1: or happy hour at the bar around the corner from
Speaker 1: the office every Thursday. If you like planning parties, that
Speaker 1: is awesome. But if you enjoy the party self more
Speaker 1: than the planning, then feel free to use a given
Speaker 1: plan more than once. The same menu can work for
Speaker 1: more than one dinner party. We serve fondue or a
Speaker 1: large tender loin from Costco. Those work. I even heard
Speaker 1: of a couple who routinely throw the same dinner party
Speaker 1: two nights in a row, same menu, same flowers, same
Speaker 1: music playing in the background, just a different set of
Speaker 1: guests on each day. Even if you're not up for
Speaker 1: full scale reenactments, you can repeat particular successful elements. If
Speaker 1: you rearrange furniture to make room for more guests at
Speaker 1: a cocktail party. Afterwards, you can use your phone to
Speaker 1: 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 hundred 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 chocolate,
Speaker 1: peanut but or 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
Speaker 1: again and again, could there be more? I'd love to
Speaker 1: hear about it. You can reach me at Before Breakfast
Speaker 1: podcast at iHeartMedia dot com. In the meantime, this is Laura.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening and here's to making the most of
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