Jason Womack

If You Had a Megaphone

Today, Jodi and I get to share the stage with one of our long-time mentors, Maria Shriver. Ever since I attended one of the Women's Conferences she hosted years ago, I've been a fan of her community-building work.

Today, I dedicate our experience and ideas to everyone who can use the activities we put together in our book:

#GetMomentum

What THEY lie to you about in management school

If you're an employee, you're a leader. If you are responsible for a function, some output that your department is "#KnownFor," you ARE a leader.

What Are You #KnownFor?

Maybe not in the #military or #political sense. But, every day that you wake up and in-tend to do/be/have something, you're leading.

Naturally, the question you're asking, "Who am I leading?" The answer always starts with a single pronoun: "You."

You're leading yourself. Through your morning rituals. As you make your way to your workplace. When you switch between tasks (or between distractions). As you make your way through the day, you're setting the direction you want to go in, and then your influencing yourself to take the actions necessary. When you think of leadership, you've got to start with the woman or man in the mirror.

Do You Trust You?

You see, when it comes to studying real leadership - or as we are coaching you this month: Strategic Thinking and Leadership - it is doubly-necessary to ask yourself the question "they" are avoiding. That question is:

Am I trustworthy?

Consider this: What makes a leader "followable"? Really, you can take all the leadership courses, read the leadership books, you can attend high-priced workshops that claim to be based on neuro-science and b-school research. Do any of those things and you're only - and always - left with this query:

As a result of learning this, will the people I'm leading trust me more?

Learning to be more followable should be the only thing that leaders study their first of promotion. How are you doing it?

Don't only focus on "Why?" There's more to it than that...

A lot of talk these days discounts the power of what, by when, and with whom.

Start with "Why?" but that's not the end. Keep going, ok?

When you look out and see where you are going, how you're getting there, what it will be like, and who will be around...that's all the SUPPORT you need to achieve your why.

Back in 2012, I published a book called Your Best Just Got Better. I spent an entire chapter on "Purpose." (That same year, Simon Sinek wrote an entire book on the topic...)

My advice remains the same after all these years:

1. Open your notebook.
2. Write one goal you have.
3. Write WHY you want to achieve it.
(Start with, "So that...")
4. Then, write at least 10 more "So that..." statements, each one developing the last one you write.

Want some examples?

Email me anytime...my address is easy enough to find at Get Momentum.

It's the right thing to do

Have you ever done something because it’s the right thing to do, not knowing if anyone would notice? Here’s what someone said recently:

“Jason and Jodi really care for each member ~ I don’t feel like just a “customer” in their program.”

This is our intention, whether we work with our clients in person, on the phone, or virtually (as I did last summer in Menorca!)

We recently published a 4-part seminar series titled: Get Momentum: Move Beyond “Stuck” to Finally Achieve Your Dreams.

You could have learned:

• the #1 thing to do when you earn a promotion.
• to manage time better in the morning to get more done.
• the ONLY reason people miscommunicate (and argue!).
• that Get Momentum teaches you to live your best life.

Last week a Get Momentum member from Michigan told Jodi, “I’ve saved thousands of dollars this year alone by delegating work more clearly to my staff.”

And just yesterday, Jason spoke with a member in the Middle East who is practicing what he learned in video #2. He has arrived home in time for dinner with his family more times this week than the entire month before!

1. Did you watch those videos and make a change?
2. Are you using that “time management” technique?
3. Is your communication more clear and deliberate?
4. Are you ready to take what you do to the next level?

Don’t stop at the 4th video. Keep the momentum going. You are capable of SO MUCH MORE, and we can coach you to be better!

Join the Get Momentum Academy today.

This 12-month program is an online AND in-person coaching program. In just 2-4 hours per month, you’ll learn how to:

• Be a better leader,
• Manage your team more effectively,
• Eliminate the “distractions of unproductive days”, and
• Get more of the most important things done.

You’re not done. You’re not tapped out. You haven’t reached your peak.

More is possible. Momentum is possible.

It’s time to work with coaches who know you, what you need to do AND to join a community that holds you accountable to the promise you made to yourself.

Read what Fabien Modoux - a long-time Get Momentum member in New York City - said about how the Get Momentum Academy has helped him be a better leader:

I’ve been a part of another online leadership training program in the past, but the Get Momentum Academy is the best I’ve experienced. The monthly themed content is very valuable and relevant to my day-to-day life, but the greatest benefit for me has been the accessibility to Jason and Jodi and the other Get Momentum members.

Jason and Jodi really care for each member - I don’t feel like just a “customer” in their program.

They respond quickly to needs and requests and Jason has gone out of his way to introduce me to an alumni member to help with one of my specific needs. That alumnus generously connected with me pro bono as a great kindness.

The online forum has provided several opportunities for me to connect “in real life” with members to collaborate on ideas and offer accountability to move toward our respective goals.

I can’t recommend the Get Momentum Academy more highly. I hope you’ll consider joining and will look forward to connecting with you if you do!

Don’t put off for one more day what you can start RIGHT NOW!

Click to learn more and join the Get Momentum Academy.

Time Management for Happiness

What's the point?

When you think about ALL the "things" you're getting done - emails you write and reply to, the meetings you attend, the documents you read and write, all the things that you do at home, for your community, for your family - do you ever pause long enough to ask: "Why?"

Do you ever wonder if it's all really worth it? If all the hard work, late nights, stressful conversations will even make a difference? Are you wondering what you need to START, what you need to Get Momentum on next?

Jodi and I are designing the curriculum and coaching activities for the September Course Work at www.GetMomentum.com for our members worldwide. We'll be looking at two very important words in the world of "Productivity."

Strategy

Tactics

When was the last time you asked yourself what those mean to you? From the outside, it's easy to see that a lot of people leave "Strategic Thinking" for other people to do. (Too often, too many of the people we work around and/or live with avoid doing their own long and mid-term thinking; and then, when someone ELSE does do that thinking, they complain/judge/resist.)

Do you want to start being a "strategic" thinker?

I'll give you a few of the questions I know you need to ask. If you consider yourself a Strategic Thinker, these questions will remind you of the work you've done, of the queries you KNOW you need to pull. And, if you have't (yet) given yourself the title you so deserve, I challenge you to write these 4 questions in your notebook, and spend 5-10 minutes on each.

But, be careful: Once you start thinking this way, people may start thinking you have a plan...that you care....that you're willing to do the work it's gonna take to make things better out there!

Oh, and one more thing: Spend time with people who think this way. Raise the flag, send an invite, tell people you're going to be at a coffee shop or lunch place and invite them to come on by. When they do, ask them about all this "Strategic Thinking" stuff. Ask them how they do it, share some of your wins, and look for some learnings.

Now, for some of those questions...



QUESTIONS:

Do people know of us?

Do they know us?

Do they know what we do?

Do they know why we do it?

Those are just 4 of the 13 questions we teach people to ask during the month we study Strategic Thinking.

Oh, and think about this for a moment, these questions are JUST as applicable to that next project you've taken on at work, as they are to the next family vacation you're planning!

But, moments are fleeting. Results are not.

If it were easy, you'd have done it by now.

Take a look, out into the future is some date, some event, some thing that you're getting closer and closer to every day. What is it? A work thing? A life thing? A career thing? A family thing?

Too often you say, "I just need to do it." Too often, you schedule something only to give up your dedication to something you think is more important.

Look, maybe in the moment it IS more important. But, moments are fleeting. Results are not.

I've got an idea for you. Call someone who know who'll listen to you. Tell them what you're working on, and listen to their advice.

Oh, and if you're a http://www.GetMomentum.com member, send me an update. I'd love to hear from you!

What are your demands?

Fire inside.

There will be wind, and rain...you'll need wood to use as fuel.

Learn to be a more Resilient leader.

That means you are willing to bounce back when things are hard.

When. Not if.

"If you're going through hell, keep going." (Churchill said that a while back...)

What do you want?

I’ll put money down that you’d say something like:

I want to make money.
I want to make a difference in people’s lives.
I want it all to mean something…

When things are good, you’re fine. Right?

But, what do you do when it all goes wrong…

The money isn’t there.
Nothing you do seems to make a difference.
Nothing makes sense.

You need to BE resilient.

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
- Winston Churchill

Ok, but how do you DO resilience?

Did you know Leadership Resilience is one of the top programs offered throughout executive education programs nationwide? Wharton, Harvard, Sloan, and more… they all have Resilience courses.

WHY?

Because business is HARD. And life can be hard, too. Sometimes things go wrong. And when they do...

Resilience is a skill you need to learn and improve. You don’t have to figure it out all alone.

 The Get Momentum program will coach you to be a more resilient leader.

ANNOUNCEMENT:
The next Get Momentum course begins this Friday, July 1st.

You won't just learn how to bounce back during uncertain times. You’re going to learn how to come back stronger, get ahead, and be better at work.

By now you’re wondering how…

Let me share how I have used this information over the past 12 months:

• My wife and I sold a book proposal for “Get Momentum” in just 37 hours.
• The book was on Barnes and Noble bookshelves 51 weeks later. 
• We have taken 35 days of vacation.
• We grew our company to more than 25 people.
• We’ve partnered with 2 universities, enrolling groups of leaders as cohorts in the Get Momentum Leadership Academy.

How do we do it?

We use the very skills and tactics we teach.

If you really want to get momentum, get organized, get ahead, and achieve your goals then joining Get Momentum is the natural next step because we can help you.

Remember, not only will you do the course work that hundreds of leaders worldwide are completing, but you will gain the momentum you desperately need to achieve greater work-life balance.

Class is about to begin…

What's on your shoulders?

Think of the weight you're carrying. What do you think of?

What are you carrying?

Sometimes what we're given isn't ours to take. What we miss taking on is ours to go find.

What's next for you?

When they ask, "Are you ready?"

I call it, "At my best when."

I approach each stage with a blend of excitement & fear.

Excitement: I've prepared all my life for this.

Fear: Humble authority. Reflect years of study it took to get here.