Before Breakfast Make friends for your ideas
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Oct 24, 2025 Discover the power of socializing your ideas before formal proposals. Learn how informal testing can reveal connections and refine concepts, like when gauging conference themes. Hear about discussing leadership nominations to build consensus and test changes in meeting frequency with your team for effective accountability. Early feedback not only sharpens your proposals but fosters a sense of ownership, ensuring your ideas resonate before they're fully launched.
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Talk About Ideas Early
- Socialize your ideas by informally talking with people before presenting them formally.
- Use feedback to decide whether to drop, refine, or build support for the idea.
Familiarity Builds Support
- Familiarity increases others' willingness to support an idea.
- Early exposure can make a proposal feel natural by the time it's formally proposed.
Conference Theme Test
- When planning a conference, test whether people understand and connect with a proposed theme.
- If the theme resonates, you'll likely have built support before the larger reveal.