Transforming Your CEO Focus

1. Transforming Your CEO Focus Strategic Coach ® www.StrategicCoach.com

3. Goals • Assess Your Current Focus as CEO • Rethink Your Role and Use of Time in Order to Create More Value and Get Better Results Tools • Strategic Coach ® • Unique Ability • Time Breakthrough • The Metiss Group • Accountabilities Matrix

5. Unique Ability® What is Unique Ability? • A superior ability that other people notice and value • You are passionate about using it and want to use it as much as possible • It’s energizing for you and those around you • It creates a sense of never-ending improvement • You never run out of possibilities for growth

6. Unique Ability® Discovery Process

7. Unique Ability® Discovery Process  …those talents and abilities that you’re exceptionally good at and really enjoy

8. My Unique Ability

9. Unique Ability® Discovery Process  …things you automatically do to get your best results

10. Top Unique Ability HabitsThings you always do automatically to produce your best results • Choose a theme or pattern • “What do I do that has people saying these things about me?” • Summarize with an “I always…” statement • Something you do consistently in all areas of your life

11. Examples • I always take action • I always empower people to solve problems • I always trust that there’s a solution • I always put myself in the other person’s shoes • I always have fun • I always challenge myself to beat my own personal best • I always think positive

12. My Unique Ability Habits • I always… • I always… • I always… • I always… • I always… • I always…

13. Unique Ability® Discovery Process  …the essence of what you do well and the underlying passion that motivates and drives you

14. Unique Ability Statement What I Do + Why I Do It (Talent) (Passion) My Unique Ability is… (What) Perceiving the essence of the situation and providing practical strategies (Why) to help people solve complex problems

15. My Unique Ability is… • connecting with people in a fun and lively way to empower them to be confident in themselves and experience the joy of new possibilities • empathizing with people’s individual experiences and taking action so they feel cared for • communicating and responding with energy to achieve an improved result • listening, asking questions to quickly get to the core of the matter, and identifying solutions that maximize future possibilities

16. Unique Ability Statement What I Do + Why I Do It (Talent) (Passion) My Unique Ability is… (What) (Why)

17. Unique Ability® Discovery Process  …get an overall picture of how you spend your time

18. Activity Inventory Example

19. My Activity Inventory

20. The Activity Inventory • Categorize each activity as U, E, C, or I • Unique • Excellent • Competent • Incompetent

21. Types of Activities

22. Types of Activities

23. Types of Activities

24. Types of Activities

25. Activity Inventory Example

26. Unique Ability® Discovery Process  …become clear about which ones best use your Unique Ability and where you need support

27. Activity Snapshot Example

28. Activity Snapshot Example

29. Unique Ability® Discovery Process  …do fewer of your “non-unique ability” activities to free up your energy

30. Unique Ability Action Plan Example

31. Unique Ability Action Plan Example

32. Happiness - SFS The greatest secret to a happy life is to do what you love, make a great contribution, and get extraordinarily well-paid for it. Dan Sullivan Strategic Coach

34. The Time Breakthrough Strategic Coach ® www.StrategicCoach.com

35. Time Traps

36. A New Entrepreneurial Time System Enables You to: • Break Out of the Time Traps • Simplify & Achieve Balance Between Your Work & Personal Life • Focus on Your Unique Ability Activities that Lead to Greatest Productivity, Contribution & Satisfaction • Transform Your Unique Ability into Great Value

37. The Entrepreneurial Time System Buffer Days 80 Free Days 150 Focus Days 135

38. The Entrepreneurial Time System No Work Rejuvenate: Physically Creatively Spiritually Relationships Free 100%

39. The Entrepreneurial Time System “Best Results” Days Focus on what produces the best results: Unique Ability “Strategic Urgency” Focus 80%

40. The Entrepreneurial Time System Practice Rehearse Delegate Clean Up Prepare for Focus & Free Days Buffer 100%

41. The Entrepreneurial Time System Free

42. The Entrepreneurial Time System Focus

43. The Entrepreneurial Time System Buffer

44. The Entrepreneurial Time System Buffer Days _____ Free Days ____ Focus Days _____

45. Action Plan to Balance Your Time Frames

46. Benefits of the Entrepreneurial Time System • Forces you to delegate • Freedom to focus on your Unique Abilities, creating bigger results faster • You’re able to ignore useless information • Your choices decrease, become more strategic • Your busy work is eliminated, replaced by value creation • Your life becomes more rejuvenating, creative, integrated, and enjoyable

47. 2012 CEO FocusYour 2012 Accountabilities Matrix Developed by The Metiss Group

48. 2012 CEO FocusYour Time Allocation Goal Buffer Days _____ Free Days ____ Focus Days _____