12 Days of Growth

A Challenge to Help You Lead

Your Team and Business to Success

Day1 Evaluate your strengths.

Day2 Set a SMART goal.
Day3 Prioritize your to-do list.
Day4 Write your own KRA.
Day5 Talk it up.
Day6 Identify your why.
Day7 Set a decision deadline.
Day8 Build trust with your “customer.”
Day9 Resolve a people problem.
10 Recognize one person.
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11 Start to replace yourself.
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12 Keep the momentum going.
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Evaluate your strengths.
Day 1
Rank yourself on a scale of 1 to 10 on each of the characteristics of both
a leader and an entrepreneur. Circle the one you most want to develop.

Leader Entrepreneur
Character Qualities Character Qualities
1–10 1–10

Integrity Risk-Taker

Servant Work Ethic

Humble Driven

Charismatic Creative

Decisive Determined

Disciplined Courageous

Loyal Maverick

Influential Learner

Listener Out of the Box

“Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard
effort, which is the price which all of us must pay
to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.”

-Vince Lombardi

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 Set a SMART goal.
Day 2
Set a SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-sensitive) goal
for one area of your business. Or if you already have one, evaluate your progress
and pick one task to move you toward hitting that goal.

My Goal: My Biggest Blocker:

My Next Actions: My Aha Moment:

“Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.”

-Tony Robbins

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Prioritize your to-do list.
3
Think through everything on your to-do list, then organize each task using the following quadrants:
Important and Urgent, Important and Not Urgent, Not Important and Urgent,
and Not Important and Not Urgent.

Important Not Important

Urgent
Not Urgent

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”

-William Penn

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 Write your own KRA.
Day 4
Create a job description to define what winning looks like in your role as well as to clarify
what you need to focus on. In it, include your top three areas of responsibility.

My Top 3: My Biggest Blocker:

My Next Actions: My Aha Moment:

“You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win,
prepare to win, and expect to win.”

-Zig Ziglar

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Talk it up.
5
Take time today to ask one team member these three questions:
1. How are you? 2. What are you working on? 3. How can I help?

Lessons Learned: My Biggest Blocker:

My Next Actions: My Aha Moment:

“The art of communication is the language of leadership.”

-James Humes

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 Day
Identify your why.
6
Write down why you do what you do—and revisit those words often.

My Why: My Biggest Blocker:

My Next Actions: My Aha Moment:

“If we want to feel an undying passion for our work,

if we want to feel we are contributing to something bigger
than ourselves, we all need to know our WHY.”
-Simon Sinek

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Set a decision deadline.
Day 7
First, identify a big decision that you’re struggling with and determine why
you’re putting it off. Then, set a hard-and-fast deadline to make the decision.

Lessons Learned: My Biggest Blocker:

My Next Actions: My Aha Moment:

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is

the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing,
and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

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Build trust with your “customer.”
8
Identify your “customer,” or who is most impacted by your work.
Then, do one thing that goes above and beyond to serve them today.

Lessons Learned: My Biggest Blocker:

My Next Actions: My Aha Moment:

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry

about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.”

-Henry Ford

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Resolve a people problem.
Day 9
Identify one people-related problem in your organization that you can address and resolve today.
Remember, if you’re not helping your team grow together, they will grow apart—and fast.

Lessons Learned: My Biggest Blocker:

My Next Actions: My Aha Moment:

“Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts

our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead
of the ultimate goal of our organization.”

-Patrick Lencioni

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 Recognize one person.
Day 10
Catch someone on your team doing something right—and either
thank them in person or with a handwritten note.

Lessons Learned: My Biggest Blocker:

My Next Actions: My Aha Moment:

“People work for money but go the extra mile for recognition, praise and rewards.”

-Dale Carnegie

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 Start to replace yourself.
Day 11
Replacing yourself as a leader takes time. But if you want to keep growing
your organization—and yourself—you have to grow new leaders to fill your current shoes.
Start your plan to replace yourself by filling out the questions below.

Who can I intentionally grow as a leader?

GROW

What knowledge do I need to teach?

KNOW

Which of my tasks can someone else handle?

DO

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”

-John D. Rockefeller

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Keep the momentum going.
Day 12
The challenge may be over, but it doesn’t end here.
Pick one specific way you’re going to keep fueling your growth.

My Growth Will Continue By: My Biggest Blocker:

My Next Actions: My Aha Moment:

“While a good leader sustains momentum, a great leader increases it.”

-John C. Maxwell

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