Winning Formulas: The 9 Habits Of High Performers, with Steven Neuner and Ryan Cassin
Jul 27, 2023
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Discover the 9 essential habits that high performers possess, emphasizing collaboration with executive assistants and team synergy. Learn about time blocking, effective communication, and the transformative power of providing executive assistants to boost productivity. Gain insights on maximizing efficiency, overcoming blockers, and supporting team members for success.
Creating an ideal weekly schedule through time blocking is crucial for aligning tasks with the bigger vision of the future, ensuring progress and evolution of goals.
Regularly updating and syncing with your assistant on activities helps maintain alignment with your unique abilities and adapt to changing priorities.
Recognizing the value of executive assistants, the most successful entrepreneurs extend assistant support to key team members, optimizing their unique abilities and time utilization.
Deep dives
The Power of Time Blocking and Ideal Weekly Schedules
Creating an ideal weekly schedule through time blocking is crucial for aligning tasks with the bigger vision of the future, ensuring progress and evolution of goals. Regularly updating and syncing with your assistant on activities helps maintain alignment with your unique abilities and adapt to changing priorities. Communication is paramount to ensuring your assistant understands your ideal week, coordinates meetings efficiently, and supports your strategic planning.
Efficiency Through Managing Personal Life and Projects
Allowing your assistant to manage personal life and projects can reduce stress and enhance creativity by freeing you from non-business tasks. A strategic assistant can handle personal responsibilities like scheduling events, arranging outings, and curating experiences, enabling you to focus on high-impact activities. Trusting your assistant with personal matters contributes to a balanced lifestyle and strengthens your partnership.
Daily Syncs: Building Communication and Trust
Regular daily syncs with your assistant enhance communication, trust, and efficiency by keeping both parties informed and aligned. Encouraging an assistant-led meeting allows them to drive the conversation, share updates, and batch non-urgent queries. Prioritize prompt replies to assistant queries, fostering a proactive approach and preventing potential bottlenecks. Daily syncs serve as a proactive investment in the assistant relationship, fostering growth and synchronization of goals.
Expanding Assistant Support to High-Value Team Members
Recognizing the value of executive assistants (EAs), the most successful entrepreneurs extend assistant support to key team members, optimizing their unique abilities and time utilization. Instead of sharing an EA as a resource, empowering each team member with their assistant ensures tailored support and maximizes productivity. Investing in a team of EAs for personal and business functions enables smooth operations, strategic planning, and efficiency in diverse areas, benefiting the entire organization.
Leveraging Support of an Executive Assistant
Delegating tasks like task management, project management, calendar management, and email box management to an executive assistant can be highly beneficial. By providing additional capabilities such as a brief background document for new meetings, daily briefs outlining the day's tasks, and personal concierge services, executive assistants can enhance productivity and streamline daily operations. Their support includes hiring freelancers through platforms like Upwork and managing project lists more effectively, allowing entrepreneurs to focus on high-impact tasks and strategic vision.
Empowering Your Assistant to Lead
Encouraging assistants to take the lead in managing tasks and projects can lead to more efficient outcomes and better time management. By letting assistants control to-do lists and schedules, entrepreneurs can focus on strategic thinking and long-term vision. Effective communication strategies, utilizing tools like Slack and Zoom, can enhance collaboration, while giving assistants autonomy to make decisions and prompt discussions about progress and potential improvements can foster a strong working relationship. Additionally, investing in the growth and development of assistants ensures a mutually beneficial dynamic built on continuous improvement and shared success.
Have you ever wondered what habits separate the highest performers from those who struggle to complete their to-do lists? In the sixth and final episode of this Team Success mini-series in partnership with Superpowers leaders Steven Neuner and Ryan Cassin, the trio delve into the nine essential habits that are the key to every high performer’s success. (Hint: You can’t do it alone!) From time blocking and daily syncs to letting your executive assistant become your project manager and even giving other high-performing team members their own EAs, this episode has all the information you need to empower your business, maximize your productivity, and keep you working firmly in your Unique Ability®. Don’t miss out!
