I’m excited to share that for the next 12 weeks, I will be working with, and documenting the journey of five women leaders who are committed to transforming their current realities through growth and awareness.
Their commitments range from completing a book, marketing and selling to a new target market due to COVID-19, creating a new product offering, launching a podcast series, and getting a business ready to sell or franchise.
Each leader has identified what they personally want to accomplish in the next 12 weeks, why they want that, and what could get in their way. Weekly, we meet as a group, to keep them in action, celebrate their wins, deal with their disappointments, and share their learnings..
This week, one of the women shared how her first possible attempt at selling a franchise opportunity ended up being a disaster. As she started going down a rabbit hole of all the things that went wrong during our session, I suggested she use The Debrief Tool, a tool that appears in the book, “Little Voice Mastery” by Blair Singer:
“After an experience that leaves any sort of an emotional wake, whether it’s positive or negative, it’s important to know you can move on, otherwise your little voice stays in a question state and you won’t grow. It will ask, ‘Could I have done better?’ What should I have done better? Confusion or second guessing yourself, is a very emotionally draining place to be. So, here’s how to manage this.
“As you look at what happened; ask yourself a series of very simple questions
- What worked?
- What didn’t work?
- What did I learn? Here, you’re looking for a pattern of behavior.
- What would I do next time?
“Whatever the issue is you have to address it. And when you ask What did you learn? the issue is no longer one of being right or wrong. It removes the issue as to whether or not you screwed up. It either worked or it didn’t but either way you learn something.”
The woman with the “disastrous” franchise opportunity agreed to using the Debriefing Tool to process through what happened and committed to coming back next week to share what she learned.
This Debrief Tool is so powerful that we are asking each of these five women leaders to use it daily to recap their week’s activities.
What about you? How could using the Debrief Tool help and support you in accomplishing your goals?
