What really matters? This question gives you context for making decisions about your life and your projects? How can you do more that matters? How can you have achieve results at work?
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How to do more that matters: From personal satisfaction to professional success
1. How to do more that matters
From personal satisfaction to professional success
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Peter Stevens
www.MyPersonalAgility.org
4. Personal Agility
Get off the hamster wheel
and into the drivers seat!
Peter Stevens and Maria Matarelli
What Every Coach, Manager, Working Professional, Leader,
Executive, and Business Owner Needs to Know About
Maximizing Performance ...
My goal is to inspire you to transform your world
peter@saat-network.net
@peterstev
“Mr. What Really Matters”
7. Would you like to do more that matters?
Five reasons Agile
transitions fail to
meet expectations
Three easy tools for
doing more that
matters
Use these tools to
accomplish more that
matters at work
8. Five reasons Agile transitions fail to meet expectations
• Missing shared goal or purpose
• Missing mindset
• Inability to create alignment
• Inability to get things done
• Inability to hold the new mindset
10. Three easy tools for doing more that matters
• Understanding the challenge
• A simple framework for asking the right questions
• An information radiator to understand the answers
11. To get the right things done, you need to master three things:
Doing, Prioritizing and Questioning the work
Do Work
QuestionSet Priorities
12. These three questions map to three roles
Do Work
Myself
Question
Celebration Master
Set Priorities
Me
13. Personal Agility is a simple framework for doing more
that matters
Stuff done,
Closer to who
you want to be
Celebrate & Choose
Who you are,
What you did
What could
I do this
week?
What can
I expect
to do?
What really
matters?
Do
What is
important
or urgent?
Who can
help?
6 Questions
1 Recurring Event
What did I
do last
week?
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15. How to use these tools to accomplish more that matters
at work
• Achieve Alignment:
• between two people
• with your manager
• with your direct reports
17. If two people agree on what really matters,
they are aligned
Why
How
What
Simon Synek, Start with Why, “the golden circle”
18. Remember the key tasks of getting the right things done?
Do Work
QuestionSet Priorities
19. Pretend for a moment that you are three people
Me, Myself and I
Do Work
Myself
Question
Celebration Master
Set Priorities
Me
20. Ask someone to be your Celebration Master to maintain
alignment with that person
Do Work
Myself
Question
Celebration Master
colleague, coach, spouse
Set Priorities
Me
21. Take responsibility for understanding what really matters
Do Work
Myself
Question
Celebration Master
Set Priorities
Your Manager
26. Summary: How to do more that matters
• To do more that matters for yourself
• Ask yourself the 6 questions.
• Visualize the answers
• Ideally, you actions align with something that matters
• Repeat at least once per week
• To do more that matters at work
• Ask your stakeholders – what really matters?
• Encourage the people around you to do more that matters
27. Are you curious? Let’s get started…
• Take a card in the back of the room
• Connect with me on
• linkedIn or
• twitter @peterstev
• peter@saat-network.ch
• Join the early readers club at www.MyPersonalAgility.com
• Download the Personal Agility Guide
• Come to the coaches clinic
It’s really quite simple,
Every week, celebrate what you’ve accomplished, and choose what you want to do next week.
Of all the things you could do, what’s important, and what’s urgent?
Of all those things, what can you expect to get done?
That’s your choice!