Description This week James feels vindicated, Darin steps in for Tyler, Garret talks Vaccines, Tyler joins in late, and Ari has tiny pockets. All of that and special guest Ari Gerber discusses D&E’s with the guys. Show Notes 00:00:00 - Pre Show Ari’s back Connection vs Relationship Vaccine updates 00:02:07 - Show Start No Tyler has us unable to find a path to Follow Ups 00:02:46 - Follow-Ups Ari’s tiny pant pockets Ari’s podcast gold moment - “claw hands” UN mandate needed for larger pant pockets Ari brought “cupcakes” to work Lucy(?) update - apparently I’ve spelled it incorrectly all this time Luci headed for an annual checkup 00:07:27- The Headlines Darin Strategic Sprint Release 1 for 2 on releases so far in 2021 Support migration to Hubspot is released Not without some hurdles in the lead up A day late, but done “If you drag a wagon over the same dirt path the rut gets deeper” Taking a couple days off Darin attempts Tyler’s headlines Product L10™ - “I don’t like that we judge a week by L10™ score so refuse to score it” Whole scorecards a joke Product team is lacking a vision (or vision alignment) Real time follow up: If not the most important meeting, then what do we score Score may determine if it’s reported Garret LT L10™ - scored a 4.4 (Garret did leave early) Issues V/I relationship isn’t working currently Best meeting in all of 2021 with James this week Retail and 3PL Sales L10’s™ - scored 4.8 and 4.0 At Risk Customer process Got product enhancements narrowed down ( presenting to James next) Ari - “I don’t have the most important meeting of the week so won’t report that score”. Been a week of Sand Investor conversations continue to progress First investor call with a female Hiring - screening and interviewing in Support 1 on 1’s coming next week “Managers get to shut up and listen” (in a great way) PrinciplesYou (new psychological analysis for Ari) James and Darin have already taken and compared the assessment Tyler showed up (questions why we’re still on headlines) Tyler and Darin debate who’s responsible for the score of an L10™ Tyler Same page setup with Tactical Team Leader Mo Missing the mark on vision has led to non decisions Meeting with Garret created lens of priorities If everything’s important, they’ll all fail “The power of no” All fueled by a preceding meeting with James Vision, Vision, Vision James (1 to 5 headlines) Seriously only 2 headlines Wednesday boarding meeting was either the best, or worst meeting ever Finally past just “kicking the can down the road” Feeling almost vindicated (see this was the issue all along) Haven’t held up his end of the D&E process with Tyler and Garret Garret gives him an out Entire situation devolves into a terrible car racing metaphor 00:45:14 - Topic 2 (1) - Ari is back discussing D&E’s™ D&E™ Deep Dive with Executive Director of People - Ari Three parts of a D&E™ Incredible overview on executing a great D&E™ Pre-work Issue Resolution Identifying issues Realtime follow up - Ari, Where do these issues come from in a D&E™? Biggest change this year in the process… Every issue must be resolved Q&A from the guys What underlying themes or issues did you see that came out of D&E’s™? Understanding of Core Value meanings Were there specific Core Values that came up more often? Doing what it takes Positivity and Optimism Delegate and Elevate (D&E’s™) seems literal. Did you find functional assignments to actually delegate or abandon Oh there weren’t a whole lot of cases of Delegating and Elevating in these meetings. Is a different name for the meeting, more fitting now. What was the biggest change vs this previous D&E’s What’s the difference between team lead and manager? What do you see as the biggest improvement prior to the next round of D&Es Clarity between scrum master and team lead Where did Garret go? 01:33:00- Questions and Long Answers Carry over to next week 01:33:05 - End of Show 01:33:28 - After Show - How weird does doing this podcast feel? The Credits Hosts, Garret Richardson, Tyler Samples, Darin Kelkhoff, and James Maes Show Notes by Garret Richardson Proofing and Title by Darin Kelkhoff Editing, Mixing, and Mastering by Brenton Wainscott