In this episode I speak with Dave McKeown, the CEO of Outfield Leadership and author of The Self-Evolved Leader - Elevate Your Focus and Develop Your People in a World That Refuses to Slow Down. Dave helps individuals, teams, and organizations achieve excellence by doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well.

We discuss some super practical tips on how to actually run a meeting through a facilitator's lens, why right now it's important to still be flexing our long term strategic planning muscles, how over-communicating with clarity is essential in times of crisis, and why we need to take stock of the lessons from the last 12 months and make them transferable to other situations.

Key episode highlights include:

• Craft the intention for your meetings. Share the intent behind why you are speaking about something or why it is up for discussion.
• Keep the horizon of focus the same throughout the meeting. It's very hard for folks to switch context.
• Re-engage each other around the core guiding principles of the organization - who are we, who do we serve and why, why would people want to work for us, what sort of an impact do we want to have. This is what can give you some motivation and momentum right now.
• View your meetings as an experience that people are going to go through. See your role as one of designing an experience that gets to the outcome that you need to and in a way that makes people feel good about it.

You can check out Dave's work over at Outfield Leadership, buy his book at The Self Evolved Leader, or connect with him on LinkedIn and Instagram.

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