837: ACTION SATURDAY (make your team PRODUCTIVE and ACCOUNTABLE w/ Erik Berglund)
Unlock the secrets to powerful leadership as we bring Erik Berglund back into the spotlight, whose previous insights in Episode 834 left us all buzzing for more. This Action Saturday, we're cutting through the fluff and diving straight into the heart of what makes a leader not just good, but great. Erik, the mastermind behind the Language of Leadership, returns with a no-nonsense approach to enhancing your team's productivity and accountability.
Prepare to revolutionize your leadership style with Erik's three C's — clarity, confirmation, and commitment — distilled into a "hack version" for immediate impact. He's handing over the five essential steps that will not only set your team up for success but also transform the way you assign tasks and monitor progress. From the significance of calendar scheduling to aligning tasks with peak energy times, Eric's practical advice promises a leadership metamorphosis. If you're ready to step up your game and lead a team that's not just busy, but bustling with productivity, this episode is the key to unlocking that potential.
ABOUT ERIK
Erik Berglund is the Founder of The Language of Leadership, a system he created over nearly a decade of leading sales professionals. Erik grew frustrated with his own inability to hold people accountable, only to realize nearly everyone felt the same way. He spent 3 years developing the program with his team, and then began coaching managers through it in 2020. Erik is passionate about empowering leaders to be more effective with the team they already have, helping them enjoy their jobs more and get their time back.
He lives in Bend, Oregon with his wife and two daughters - they love to ski, rock climb, camp, and adventure together as a family.
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Hey, what is up?
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Wantrepreneurs and entrepreneurs all over the world.
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It's Brian LoFermento here, host of the Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur podcast, and this is an Action Saturday episode that I am so excited to bring to you this weekend because we are joined by Eric Berglund, who you all heard and absolutely loved in this Monday's episode, which was episode 834.
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Eric brought the heat.
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I'll tell you what.
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I obviously have recorded so many of these episodes 800 plus and In this Monday's episode, which was episode 834, eric brought the heat.
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I'll tell you what.
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I obviously have recorded so many of these episodes 800 plus and I am not ashamed to publicly admit that Eric's episode for sure is one of my favorites of all time.
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I personally learned so much from Eric.
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Eric is the founder of the Language of Leadership, which is a system he created over nearly a decade of leading sales professionals.
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Is the founder of the Language of Leadership, which is a system he created over nearly a decade of leading sales professionals.
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Eric grew frustrated with his own inability to hold people accountable, only to realize that nearly everyone felt the same way, myself included.
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He spent three years developing the program with his team and then began coaching managers through it in 2020.
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He's passionate about empowering leaders to be more effective with the team they already have, helping them enjoy their jobs more and get their time back.
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So if you didn't tune in to the full episode on Monday, definitely go check out episode 834.
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You'll also find the link to languageofleadershipio down below in the show notes.
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But in today's episode you're going to get kind of the hack version of how you can be a more effective leader and hold those people accountable around you.
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This is a good one.
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I'm not going to say anything else.
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Take it away, eric.
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Thanks, brian.
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I'm so happy to be here with you on this Action Saturday episode.
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In the podcast, you heard me talk about the language we need to use to hold people accountable.
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That is, what do you say when someone doesn't do what they're supposed to.
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But today I'd really like to share with you a shortcut, a hack, if you will.
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That's very effective for helping people be accountable.
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Make no mistake about it.
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It is way cooler when people do what they're supposed to, as opposed to when you have to hold them accountable for not having done what they're supposed to.
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And in my course and my work, I teach a process called the three C's clarity, confirmation and commitment.
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It's really effective for a longer version of this, but I'm just going to share the hacked version with you today.
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These are the five things somebody needs to do in order to be successful at anything, and, as a leader, what you can do is check in on these five things to see if someone is set up for success.
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These are the five things someone needs to do in order to be successful at anything.
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The first is that it needs to be in their calendar.
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I don't care if it's a written down calendar or if it's a digital calendar.
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If it's not in the calendar, it's not real as far as I'm concerned, for most professionals, very few people are successful at not using their calendar to get things in there.
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Saying it another way if it's in the calendar it's more likely to happen.
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So it needs to be in the calendar.
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If you're assigning a task where someone's telling you they're going to do something, one simple check is it in your calendar?
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That's usually a good place to start.
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The second thing that needs to happen is it needs to be in the calendar at the right time.
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We have different energies throughout the day.
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Some people are really good first thing in the morning.
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Some tasks are better completed later in the day.
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I know for me, for example, if I try and assign myself administrative work for Thursday or Friday afternoons, it's probably not going to happen.
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I don't have the right energy for that type of task.
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So asking a person is that the right time for you to be working on that?
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Is that when you're really going to bring your best energy to that type of project?
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Is the second really effective question you can ask to check in to see if they're setting themselves up for success.
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So first get it in the calendar.
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Second, for the right amount of time.
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Third, excuse me.
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Second, for the right time.
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Third for the right amount of time.
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Very often we open our calendar and we throw something in there for an hour.
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Well, very few things actually take an hour.
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Some things take 15 minutes, some take two hours.
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Helping a person think through that and say how long do you really think it's going to take you, and getting them to put it in the calendar for the right amount of time makes it so they're more likely to do it.
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Step one get it in the calendar.
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Step two for the right time.
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Step three for the right amount of time.
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Step four be specific about what exactly they need to be doing in that hour.
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For example, I run a business.
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If I put a block of time in my calendar that says marketing time, what the heck am I working on?
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Am I reviewing LinkedIn posts?
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Am I writing content?
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Am I updating Facebook ads?
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I have to tell myself in that time block exactly what I'm really trying to accomplish if I really want to go and get it done.
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Otherwise.
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I'm going to get a bunch of stuff done, but I don't know if it's going to be the thing that I really set out to accomplish.
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Step one get it in the calendar.
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You can ask the person is that in your calendar?
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Step two at the right time.
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Is that the right time for you to spend working on that?
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It's a really good question to go with that step.
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Step three for the right amount of time.
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How much time do you think that'll take you?
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And step four be specific with what you're going to do in that time.
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The question you can use to support that is what exactly do you need to accomplish during that time?
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Take a second open up that calendar invite, throw it in the notes.
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And step five, and this one's critical follow the dang calendar.
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You can ask a person hey, how good are you at following your calendar?
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Is there anything that might come up that day that would prevent you from actually using that time block for this?
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If you can guide somebody through those questions, is it in your calendar for the right time for the right amount of time, with specific details?
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And is there anything that would prevent you from doing that at that time in your calendar?
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That's a hack to help somebody set themselves up to be accountable instead of you having to hold them accountable.
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I hope it's been helpful.
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That's today's Action, saturday episode.
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So go take action.
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