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Register here. As you go into the new quarter: are your priorities crystal clear to
everyone on your team? Recently we went through our quarterly planning and implemented a new exercise: Identifying Your Queen Bee Resource, and we learned something.
As much as we say we are focused, we still have work to do!
Why the Queen Bee?
Well, the thing about bees is that the tens of thousands of them that make up a hive work in teams and have different jobs. But they all know what their objective is: keep the Queen Bee alive and laying eggs.
There is no need for any job that doesn't ultimately support that objective. Every individual knows why they are there.
In business, the Queen Bee Resource (QBR) (a concept we borrow from Mike Michalowicz) is the business function that you absolutely, positively cannot do without.
Like the queen bee, it is the one activity you must protect at all costs.
As humans running businesses, we often get confused and think that all of the stuff we do is important and struggle with prioritization. But once you know your QBR, you have a ready measuring stick: always prioritize those actions that support your QBR.
In the process, you first identify each team member's QBR. Then take those and whittle them down to the QBR for the team.
It can be very revealing.
In less than an hour, we found activities we could reduce, identified areas of focus, and came out with a new appreciation of how and why we work together.
So give it a try: think about this for you and your team.
What is your QBR?
We've summarized the exercise
here so that you can take your team through it.
We'd love to hear how it goes.
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