White Board Hub
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“Let’s White Board It”
Life isn’t always black and white—sometimes we land in that gray area (liminal space), unsure of the next step but trying to find the what’s next. When your mind feels cluttered, one simple tool can help: write it down.
Mapping out your thoughts, feelings, and options can you help you draw connections, highlight priorities, see themes, and break big decisions into smaller steps. Seeing everything visually often sparks insight that thinking alone can’t.
The beauty? You can revise, erase, and reorganize as your clarity grows. Sometimes, all it takes is putting your thoughts in writing to turn confusion into action.
In our household, we recognize this process of finding clarity is messy included with lots of scribbles, rewriting, reorganizing, intentional strategy, and more. So as a personal preference I learned that writing it down on a white board is so much easier to do (and yes, hilarious). Think about it: it’s so much easier to rewrite, erase, and reorganize on a white board. (Let’s be real, it’s WAY more fun too!)
Within each of these coaching techniques, we will walk through the why, what, how, and when to use it strategically and in application of your next steps.
Now that you found the White Board Hub: Remember it. Bookmark it. Use it. These are impactful and helpful coaching techniques, tools, and resources to help bridge the gap and help process through the “gray” area.
Flow & Filter
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Casey already ran an established successful sales team. She was looking to expand her business in another ‘arm’ of sales. She ran all tests and small pilots in various areas to see if the product would be a success. After the trials and piloting occurred, her team sat on a lot of data that needed to be processed. Is this product worth developing? Has it proven itself to be successful where I want to put money and resource behind it? If so, what worked or didn’t work? Just because it is permisable, does it make it necessary? Is this the right thing pursue? Although the data is collected, a lot of questions are still to be answered. It needs to be ironed out before the .any definitive statement, reason, or backing could happen.
She came to coaching to because she knew jumping to a final solution wasn’t going to be the right approach; instead, she knew she MUST wrestle through the process. She cannot develop a well oiled machine of a business, if it is yet to be created. She couldn’t created the machine if she didn’t have the WHOLE picture ironed out. Once she wrestled through the data with her team, this allowed her to find themes, connect the dots, focus on the main things she wanted to value, and refine the parts that needed improvement.
The “iron it out” coaching technique used for her team is called Flow & Filter. The goal is to gather data, organize, and optimize on the main goal and/or priorities.
HOW TO USE:
Gather the necessary team members into a room
Write out this layout on a white board in front of everyone
Start by writing your company mission statement or “your why” (goal) at the top.
Process through each question in each column, leaving no rock unturned. Encourage them to think outside the box.
When discussions subside, ask the team to think comprehensively:
What common themes do you see?
When looking at the entire picture, what do you observe?
Where do you see "natural flow”?
Once processing and conversations subside, turn the focus to application on the NEXT step. Ask your team Using the filter of your mission statement, ask your team “What are our next steps once we leave today?” Assign steps to the appropriate people, including a specific timeframe.
FOLLOW UP after that time frame arrives.
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Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.
Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.
Blog Post Title Four
It all begins with an idea.
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world. Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Don’t worry about sounding professional. Sound like you. There are over 1.5 billion websites out there, but your story is what’s going to separate this one from the rest. If you read the words back and don’t hear your own voice in your head, that’s a good sign you still have more work to do.
Be clear, be confident and don’t overthink it. The beauty of your story is that it’s going to continue to evolve and your site can evolve with it. Your goal should be to make it feel right for right now. Later will take care of itself. It always does.