I was on my honeymoon for the past two weeks and it was too sunny.
My partner and I travelled to Aruba where the UV Index between 10am and 4pm is classified as "Extreme" and a beach during those hours is a white sand hellscape.
While lounging under a palapa for those six hours a day, I daydreamed about what I want to do for work, life, health, etc. and wrote in my journal, jotting down ideas.
One of those ideas was around helping business owners assess how their business learns. As a learning nerd, I care a lot about how individuals, teams, and organizations evolve and share knowledge.
Under an umbrella, I dreamed up a diagnostic that looks at the different places where a business could have some kind of workflow, system, approach, method, etc. to test and iterate.
Poolside, I whipped up a quick Google Form to translate the jottings into an actual diagnostic tool and started to populate the tool with recommended things-to-do for areas where a business is missing a process or workflow.
Clearly I'm not very good at the "just relax" part of vacations.
I have some ideas of where this diagnostic tool could go/do, but I think it's way more fun to share what's been built so far. It's not perfect, but it's done enough to get some initial feedback.
If you take this MVP Business Learning Assessment, I'm offering to sit down with you to discuss your results if you'd be willing to share what you think of the tool. I'll share models and systems that could help you solve some real business roadblocks if you tell me what sucks with my two minute survey.
Got two minutes?
Take the Learning Assessment |
Let it hang out: summer heat helps you unwind assumptions.
-Roman Noodles, Chief Ruff Officer
Growing up, my favorite gifts to receive were always Legos. Whenever I got birthday money it was always straight to Toys R Us (RIP) to get the new Lego set (preferably Star Wars).
Now that I’m an adult child and have a little more spending money, one of my favorite hobbies is still putting together Lego sets. Most recently, I built a massive replica of the Millennium Falcon with 7500 pieces and an instruction manual that was almost 500 pages long.
It took me a couple weeks but was so much fun. There is something soothing about following a list of instructions and quite literally seeing all of the pieces come together.
I think that’s what I enjoy so much about designing and implementing systems for businesses. There’s the list of instructions from the client, the building pieces that must be put together in a particular order, and the end result of a process that drives efficiency and makes everything work better.
While it isn’t quite as meditative as putting together a Lego set, I still feel as though system implementations activate the same part of my brain.
Is there anything in your day to day work that reminds you of your childhood? Let me know!
- Jeremy
Overwhelmed, lost, or spinning in circles? Get an expert assessment on your sales and business operations to remove noise, move your business forward, and grow your own ability to make strategic decisions.
Learn more about the Assessment |
Last TL;DR, I pledged to read two chapters of my book on the beach, spend five minutes reflecting, and making one frivolous purchase every day while on my honeymoon.
It was glorious.
Hope you achieve 100% of your vacation goals,
Dan from Learn to Scale
Opt-out from the newsletter | Unsubscribe from all emails | Update your profile | www.learntoscale.us, Boston, MA 02119
Entrepreneur, Professional Learner, & Proud Failure. Writes about sales, marketing, and entrepreneurship from the eyes of a learning and development nerd. Lead teams, manage people, scale a business, and learn better through the biweekly irreverent newsletter, the TL;DR.
A bi-weekly roundup of ways to make your recurring leadership meeting more epic June 14 - June 27 Ride or Die: The Four Horsemen of Agencies The strength of an agency lies in four key areas: Sales, Account Management, Operations, and Leadership. Each one is a powerful force, a "horseman" that can either lead you to victory or trample you in the dust. Since it's the Summer of Strengths at Learn to Scale, we've hopped on the horseback for each core function and explored how each role's...
A bi-weekly roundup of good fortune May 31 - June 13 The Formula to Luck Involves Saying Yes Through sheer luck, I got connected to Jeff Gibbard, a multidisciplinary kindred soul that also works with entrepreneurs, agencies, and humans who want to grow and learn. I was so dazzled by his personality that I immediately thought, "This guy is TL;DR material." I invited Jeff to provide the feature for this TL;DR since he appreciated the irony of exploring luck on a historically unlucky day and...
A bi-weekly roundup of neurochemical learning cocktails May 17 - May 30 This Brain Juice Is Worth The Squeeze, Twice What do you know about the neurochemical, acetycholine? If you forgot your Behavioral Neuroscience notebook at home, here's the refresher: acetycholine (ACh) is a chemical released in the brain to help neurons wire together. Research indicates that it helps with alertness, focus, binding certain synapses together, and suppressing other synapses from binding. It's Brain Gorilla...