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Waymaker is a software platform and a methodology with tool-kits, that when applied will help you be a better leader and then build better leaders.

Let's bust a myth, we don't have to be experts to talk about leadership. This can be a conversation you can have in your organisation, at whatever level of leadership you're at.

Leadership & management are different things, but never exclusively apart

Our view at Waymaker is that leadership and management are two very different things.

But, they are never exclusively apart. In the podcast we talk about how we often default into talking about that person as a 'manager' or a 'leader'.

This sets up a false idea of what leadership and management is.

A human leads and manages at the same.

At different times they're flexing the muscle of leadership, or at other times flexing the muscle of management. Sometimes together to do the heavy lifting!

What is leadership & management?

Leadership is simply getting someone or a group of people from point a to point b. Management is doing the right things, in the right way at the right time, along that journey.  This is the thinking that sits at the very heart of our framework, The Experience Curve.

Great leaders can exist at all levels inside an organisation

Hierarchy is deceptive. Great leadership and great management can and should exist at every level of the organisation. There is not just one group of people who are leaders at the top of the organisation, rather, the skills and systems of leadership and management can and should be developed at every level.

Leaders lead people, people manage systems

In the podcast we explore the principle that as people we never manage people and we should never lead systems.

Rather, leaders lead people and people management systems.

If you are inspired or passionate about leadership and management, all users of Waymaker.io can access the Leadership & Management course and playbook in Waymaker Academy.

If you're working with a certified Advisor, ask them to facilitate a leadership & management session using the Leadership & Management course tools and canvas.

This will help you establish a leadership culture in your team, that can builds leaders.

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The Chorus presents the idea of the Expanded Self, in which aspects are not fundamentally right or wrong, but can be viewed from various perspectives, including a loving one. After a multi-week and enlightening hiatus, Katie connects this idea to the expansive that is possible in every emotion and every facet of who we are - today - including, even, the parts of us which bring us shame.

TRANSCRIPT - The complete transcript of this episode is available on our website.

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Our goal is to build a platform that helps any team, anywhere, any size, leverage the whole of team to find gaps, build a better roadmap and deliver their goals that matter most with greater effectiveness than ever before.

Most importantly, thank you to all the Waymaker’s who have provided input and feedback over the last few months.

We’ve made hundreds of small tweaks and changes in the platform since launch but there are three significant improvements to mention today.

A faster, easier diagnostic

The Waymaker Experience Curve diagnostic is now up to 50% faster to complete on all devices.

The diagnostic is a key tool that helps leaders and teams rapidly plan strategic business improvement activities.

15 - 25 minutes of Q&A in the diagnostic helps teams rapidly surface valuable strategic initiatives by asking and answering the 7 Questions.

We’ve updated the questions, the data processing, and the UX.

Our goal was to have the speed for users to take this and based on the data we’re seeing from users; most are taking between 20 - 25 minutes to complete. 

See: https://waymaker.io/features/diagnostic/

Confidence scores power your confidence to deliver

Our goal analytics on OKRs roll up all key result progress to an objective progress score. This was the standard user experience on launch.

Now, we allow the user to set a confidence of goal delivery.

Why?

A goal might be at 70% progress, yet the owner may now have new information which means their confidence of full delivery has changed to 10%.

The opposite applies too. You may have only achieved 15% progress on an objective, but your confidence based on the current situation is 100%.

Can you see the difference between progress and confidence?

Confidence scores help you adapt to changing circumstances immediately. 

Explore your data with a powerful new Explore dashboard

The Explore dashboard gives the leader and team amazingly simple access to the most powerful data.

Know the progress and confidence of execution in your business in just a few clicks.

You can view your data on progress and confidence by role, team, user, function, status.

We also have pre-built quick lists for All OKRs, Needle Shifters (OKRs that are top priorities) and Multi Quarter OKRs (mid- or long-term goals).

The Explore dashboard makes team meetings very simple and powerful to track performance, progress, confidence, roadblocks, or success.

This applies for all OKRs completed, in progress, committed or in backlog.

Find out more here: Learn - Waymaker.io

Goals that work actually take a lot of work to write well. But, with practice using a good methodology leaders and teams can create wonderful goals that create wonderful outcomes.

We are going to explore a basic science of goals to help you set goals that work and know when they don't.

We'll cover:

• Goals
• Alignment
• Metrics
• Leading and lagging metrics
• A goal setting methodology called OKRs.

Goals put a doorway to ideas

A goal is an open door to an idea.

When we put a goal over an idea it will bring focus to broad range of options by narrowing an outcome. The goal then becomes the open door a big idea can flow through, stop at or miss.

If we hit the goal and move through the door, we enter a new space, a new level ready for new opportunities.

If we think about goals like an open door, then they become inviting.

Goals create alignment

Putting a goal in place aligns the energy of the team into alignment.

Goals almost force teamwork. The right goals will encourage a team of people to work together.

Without a clear goal, they will almost certainly not work as a team.

Alignment happens when all of the team know the goals the business needs to achieve, whilst their own goals are aligned to supporting the broader outcomes.

Goals shift the needle on metrics.

Good goals shift the needle on many metrics.

What is the difference between goals and metrics?

A goal is not a metric, but a good goal should include a metric.

A metric is a measure of something.

A goal is a desired change in that metric.

Are all metrics equal?

No.

All metrics are not equal.

To set great goals we must recognise that a metric is an indicator.

It will indicate if a goal is on track or off track.

There are two buckets of indicators.

1. A lagging indicator or metric
2. A leading indicator or metric

What are OKRs?

OKRs are a goal setting methodology.

OKRs stands for Objectives and Key Results.

OKRs are a wonderful goal setting methodology that is purposeful and practicable. They will help you write a good goal.

We recommend and use the OKR goal setting methodology as part of the execution tool-kit in Waymaker.

Jim Collins and Jerry Para wrote, "Building a visionary company requirements one percent vision and 99 percent alignment…"  

Research tells us around 70% of current employees are not fully engaged In the work (GALLUP)

If alignment is so important, why do so few achieve it?

It’s really hard.  It's complex.  It involves many, many moving and interconnected parts.

They don’t understand the skill set and tool kit to do it.  

Peter Drucker, our hero of business said, “Strategy is a commodity, execution is an art”

Tom Peters, went on to say, Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence - only in continuous improvement and constant change.

How does Waymaker solve the alignment puzzle?

Alignment is a three cord rope

1/ Alignment in what the business does and why it does it. That's a vision aligned with a market problem, which is aligned with strategic position, aligned with a valuable business model, aligned with the right customer experience and the most effective employee experience. 

2/ Alignment in when the business is going to do things. That's alignment in what will shift the needle on the business at what time.  What must happen this quarter, before next quarter or next year? 

3/ Alignment in who is doing what today, this month, this quarter and this year. That's goal alignment across teams. Who is doing what and when it's going to get done by. 

How do you know if you have alignment?

There is a really simple measure.  It is simple, things gets done, by whoever needs to do it, regardless of the job description.  That's when you have alignment. 

How do you know? 

You can see it in your data in Waymaker.

Read more here on Waymaker.io

Thanks for tuning in today. Matthew shared how Jesus reacted to the act of neglect demonstrated by Jesus’ disciples to him when he was arrested. A time when we would consider that he needed their support as friends to go through the unimaginable sacrifice at least to encourage him. 
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Thanks for tuning in today. This week’s podcast ends with a profound teaching on how we can change our lives with our words. We may think we’re only joking when we say certain things but bible makes us understand that we will give account of every idle word. 
This teaching will change your life. 
Ensure not to listen alone but share will your friends and family.
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Thanks for tuning in today. Matthew talks about the eyes of the Lord being upon the righteous. He uses 2 profound analogies to drive his point home. 
Like a parent loves their children, even more, God loves us and his eyes are upon us to help us. 
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Thanks for tuning in today. In today’s episode, Matthew asks a very sensitive question, is He good? Talking about Jesus. What’s your opinion about him. He himself had to ask his disciples what they thought about him. What’s your opinion based on? 
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Thanks for tuning in today. Minister Sijibomi Adekunle shares how that the peace of God is one under-utilised gift from God. He shows us how to access God’s peace in a troubled world where the media portrays doom and gloom.
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When listening to customers, we found they wanted an effective way to find the gaps in their business and determine which ones deserved their attention.

The diagnostic unlocks insights across the framework.

Principle 1 – Depth of shift increases the level of shift

Changing what we do, does not change who we are. But changing who are, almost always changes what we do.  

That’s why beliefs & mindset lead to skills and systems, which shows patterns, trends and behaviours over time which ultimately outworks itself in daily activities.  

Principle 2 – Organisation alignment is a four-dimensional activity. 

Height, width, and depth of alignment over time.  

We need an objective standard measure over time to objectively compare growth, maturity, and clarity whilst things change inside and outside the organisation.  

We need an objective standard measure across the breadth organisation’s functions; vision, market, strategy, business model, cx and ex.  

We are super excited to announce Waymaker Academy.  Visit: https://waymaker.io/academy

In this episode we introduce Waymaker Academy and it's collection of 'bit sized brilliance' courses that help every team and leader to grow.

Our purpose is to provide practical, quality and easy to digest education & playbooks that leaders, teams and advisors can use every day.

As always we take a little deep dive into what the business principles are relevant and how you can apply them today.

The big idea of this episode:

"Education is knowledge …. but education with distribution is transformation."

We go back in time and look at why the man who invented the modern book died a pauper. Guttenberg is hero who died thinking his invention was worthless.

Why? He made no money from it.

What was the change?

The change was when other printers took the technology to Venice - the crossroads of the merchant world.  They then used the ships as distribution to create news networks, publishing houses and create new jobs on a sustainable platform.

Education is knowledge .... but education with distribution is transformation.

Subscribe and listen as we introduce Waymaker Academy with some bit sized brilliance... or at least bit sized interesting stories!!

Thanks for tuning in to the WORDup Podcast. Today, Matthew shared the keys a Christian needs to overcome the life of sin. Although were Christians saved from the life of sin, we sometimes err but does that make us sinners?
Are we still sinners if we make one mistake as Christians?

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Blessings 

What is a strategic command centre?

A place where real time information can be absorbed & analysed for decision makers to make the most important and most effective decisions quickly.

Ideally, the situation room is:

• Apolitical
• Representative of all departments
• Always on
• Able to operate anywhere
• Strategic but highly focussed on tactics to solve problems
• Receives information in
• Clearly communicates instructions out

What has the White House got to do with this?

If, ‘to the victor go the spoils’, then ‘to the loser goes the lessons’.

We discover how it was JFKs failure in the ‘Bay of Pigs’ Cuba crisis that led to the creation of the now infamous White House Situation Room.

Every business needs a situation room, we explore how Waymaker.io can be that for you.

How can Waymaker be a strategic command centre?

Waymaker helps leaders find gaps across the whole of the business.

We do this through Waymaker’s Experience Curve Diagnostic which guides users through identify what business activities need improvement.

Waymaker's Experience Curve is a sense making framework.

A sensemaking framework is simply a framework or window through which we can make sense of what is around us.

The Experience Curve was developed, to help leaders make sense of the organisation around them.

Sadly, in today’s marketplace so many leaders fall under the weight of hyper-fast disruptive change.

Leaders & teams needed a new way of making sense of the situation around them, what improvements are needed and what the most effective course of action will be.

Many frameworks are useful as a drawing or diagram on a whiteboard.

However, in today’s world cloud software accelerates our ability to receive inputs, process data, create outputs and execute with a speed never before available to us in human history.

Waymaker is the software that brings the Experience Curve framework to life and makes it easier for leaders and teams to deliver strategic compounding growth.

View Waymaker's Experience Curve

The six functions every organisation must mature are:

Vision  

Solve a problem, set a vision for a better future.

Market

Define market and focus on an ideal customer, building a great reputation.

Strategy

Establish a valuable position in market and defend with long term strategic competitive advantages

Business model

Optimise an innovative business model to create a wonderful value proposition.

Customer experience (sales, marketing and service.)  

Deliver an engaging customer experience to find, win and grow a valuable customer base.

Employee experience

Build a winning culture through a high-quality employee experience.  

The seventh item on the diagram above is ‘action’.  

There is no point being clear on the six functions, or even aligned.  If a team cannot effectively execute.  

We do that by asking and answering 7 Questions.

The 7 Questions

1. What is our vision, is this driven by our purpose and what’s holding us back from reaching it?

2. What is our market, who is our ideal customer, what do they value and what perceptions do we need to build?

3. What is our strategy, where is our growth focussed and how do we improve our positioning?  

4. What is our business model, is it creating value, what metrics tell us this, and what practices improve our value proposition?

5. What is our customer’s experience, how do we acquire, retain and grow customers through our personality and what improvements need to be made?

6. What is our employee’s experience, how do we acquire, retain and grow talent through our principles and what improvements need to be made?

7. What are the one, two, or three things that if delivered in the quarter of half will shift the needle on the business?

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This episode answers the question of what brings into existence the Earth. Scientists who believe a Big Bang took place are still in the dark as to what gave rise to the force which existed before the “Big Bang” This episode answers the question.

So, what was the discovery?

8 observations that wildly successful teams did. 

Awareness: Develop situation awareness

Clarity: Ask the right questions

Alignment: Come to agreement on the right answers

Focus: Deliver what matters most  

Maturity: Build skills and systems 

Curiosity: Hold the mindset of an explorer to become a transformer

Rhythm: Use rhythm to build momentum, this will create torque

Accountability: Own outcomes. 

Waymaker builds the skills and is the system to apply the 8 principles of growth. 

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Table of Contents 

0:00 Opening 

1:58 Jarret Ricci Background & Next Big Crop Business Model 

10:56 Jarret Ricci Day-to-Day 

21:32 Clients of Next Big Crop 

25:18 Challenges of Next Big Crop 

46:14 Horror & Success Stories while Consulting 

53:09 Jarret Ricci Teacher Background 

58:00 Future of Next Big Crop 

Questions and Topics in this interview: - Thanks for talking with me today. Tell me a little bit about your background? - Tell us a little more about “Next Big Crop” - What are you brought in to consult on most often? - How much work is remediation or addressing a problem? - Next Big Crop also does consults for processing facilities… - There are tons of new grows and processing facilities popping up, do you see any trends with regard to... - Can you share any horror stories with us? - Is Next Big Crop working on anything new? - Is there anything else you’d like our listeners to know that we didn’t get to discuss?  

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