Establish a reason to celebrate!
this chapter cadeswill help you create the necessary themes and images to bring any corporate campaign to life. You'll also learn how companies track progress and celebrate success.
an organizing theme.
To get people to storm the barricades on your behalf, you've got to give them a concept that connects not just with their heads but with their hearts.
take your top priority and align it with your Critical Number
Whenever they checked the hour, they were reminded of the goals and that time was passing.
As he exhorted his team to greatness, he tossed space-themed toys out into the audience. Hint-for-our-swag
One useful source of quarterly themes is your core values. Take one each quarter and use it to bring focus and improvement to a certain aspect of the business. It's an excellent way to audit the organization's culture and to reinforce the core values.
there are at least seven different forms of intelligence: Verbal/Linguistic, Visual/Spatial, Bodily/Kinesthetic, Musical/Rhythmic, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal. Each comes with its own preferred way of learning.
What makes a theme a mission rather than a mere event?
that can be achieved through publicly tracking progress and keeping score. SCOREBOARD
three-stage rocket lost a stage each time one of his profitability goals was met. OCTOPUS 🐙 ?
SCOREBOARD Make them big, make them noticeable, make them memorable.
this is an ideal opportunity to involve and engage some of the people who don't normally get involved in quarterly or annual goal achievement
The real reward is the sense of celebration that comes from reaching a goal and doing it together.
“The goal gets people focused on the right things, but it's still just a game and it's fun. You get the whole company pulling together."
At the end of this chapter is a worksheet you can use to organize your quarterly theme rollout.
- Sheet: Multiple Intelligences and the quarterly theme (grid view)
- Sheet: quarterly theme meeting (one page view with a vertical line)
- who’s accountable?
- When will you hold the meeting?
- Theme of meeting?
- Using the multiple intelligences list of activities, what will you do at the meeting?
- verbal/linguistic
- Logical/mathematical
- Visual/spatial
- bodily/kinesthetic
- Musical/rhythmic
- Interpersonal
- Intrapersonal