your host of books, books, books, a show with think tech Hawaii, where we will discuss everything about books, whether it's reading them, writing them, or everything in between. Today, we are going to focus on what makes a book club great. And I have three experts, well for including myself, who I promise you are going to share their secrets with you, because book clubs are wonderful. I have Mihaila Stoops, I have Diane Pure, and I have Gretchen Andrews. Welcome, ladies. How are you? We're excited to be here. Fabulous. And I'm excited to have you too, because I know most of you, because I run the West Mali book club, and you've either been members for the entire duration since 2005, or you've been in and out of the club since 2005. So it's very exciting to, to share this evening with you. So let's start with Mihaila. Tell us a little bit about your book club, the one that you represent, and about yourself. Well, thank you for including me in this discussion, first of all. And secondly, at one time, I think I was engaged in four different book clubs. So I am a book club junkie. And that is because I love reading. You know, you and the book club that you're managing West Mali book club has been quite an inspiration for me was the first book club that I've ever attended. And in addition to that, together with Diane, who's also a guest on the show today, we manage the great decisions, discussion group under the Foreign Policy Association. I also attend the Maui Prep book club. And I had, I'm actually just started a book club within Colwell Banker Island Properties. So that's what I do. My goodness, that's a lot of book clubs. But for an avid reader, wonderful. Diane Pure, tell us a little bit about yourself and how you relate to books. Okay, I've been on West in West Maui for the past 20 years. And I've been one of the original members of West Maui book club. And it's my full time book club, along with also being part of Great Decisions, I'm the administrator, we follow our leader, Mihaila. And I'm also part of part time with three other book clubs. So you might say that I'm a bit of a junkie too. Also, I'm very active in the community for charities and other events that are going on in the community is sort of cord, coconut wireless. I'll agree with that. Well, I don't know what we do without you because you keep us all connected and informed on important issues that are happening. So we thank you for that. Gretchen Andrews, welcome from the island of Hilo, I mean, the island of Hilo, the city of Hilo on the island of big the on the back. Tell us about yourself. Thank you. Thank you for including me in this book club is my my book club is a little more unique. I am Gretchen Andrews. I am a librarian here at the Hilo Public Library. I work for the Hawaii State Public Library system. And I've had my brain for youth services, which is the children's department and the teen department. And my book club that I'm going to be talking to you guys about today is called the Hilo Hilo book club and Hilo Hilo is Hawaiian for read or to be a reader. And this book club had originally started as a Newberry Quiz Bowl book club about 30 or so years ago and just recently during the pandemic, the change over came to modify the format. And I'm going to be talking about that today. And this is a book club open to children in grades four through seven. And we do compete and it is only for the big island. So I'll be talking more about that as well. Thank you. I'm so excited to find you. I have to say, when you told me about this book club for children, I said, you have just got to be with us. You've got to talk to us. And so I'm so happy you're here. How do the children? I mean, how do the children react? Are they enthusiastic? I mean, tell us more about the Newberry. Well, it started out as a Newberry book club quiz quiz bowl. And it was began. It's actually started from a librarian for school many, many years ago. And it just carried on. And when I became a librarian here about nine years ago, I've been on I've had this team for nine years. And of course, it rotates. The the actual quiz bowl was something we would prepare for. So we would have the list of all the John Newberry award winning books. And what we would do is we would read them and discuss them. And it is evolved now because of the changing times to have this quiz bowl now be with different books. We have graphic novels on the list. Now we have the Nene award winning books, which is the the awards the children of Hawaii pick. And we also have Newberry honors and Newberry awards. So when we get together, we talk about these books. And we discuss the aspects of the books on the list that we get every year for the quiz period. And we discuss them and we kind of make up questions as if you would for a lib guide or if you were in a book club and you have your own questions that you can pull off of somewhere. The I actually have the kids make their own questions to answer because they actually have to answer questions on the books at the quiz bowl. So this gives them an opportunity to be their own quiz masters within the team. I just imagine that must be so exciting for children to be introduced to books that way and book discussion. Diane and Mihaila with the great decisions. It's a different type of book club as well. It's not your always referred to the craft macaroni and cheese where the book club ladies are sitting there eating the kids macaroni and cheese and you know he's staring at them. You're eating my cheese and you're reading a book called Betrayal by Timothy Scott, you know. So your book club is different. Tell us about it. Either one of you, please. Mihaila, why don't you start? Well, we essentially discuss eight topics per year and the topics are very diverse, but primarily within the realm of current affairs could be anything from food security in the world to China's involvement in Africa to Joe Biden's policy, industrial policy. So very diverse topics and a little more on the serious side. I think we have three PhDs amongst us and it's a combination of men and women. The average age tends to be I believe is somewhere in the mid to late 60s. So there isn't much discussion outside of the topic itself. There's no whining and no timing either. Diane, would you like to add to that? I'd say when they come, when our members come, they are prepared. We have some PhDs who are professors. So this is an opportunity for them to lend us their knowledge and as a result also we have one thing we all have in common. We've either lived overseas or we have traveled extensively. So that everybody has a frame of reference more internationally, which is very helpful because a lot of our discussions are about experience, about topics that are international. And so it makes for a very challenging time to the point where the discussions are so intense that they really enjoy doing this. And after we finish our eight discussions, we usually have two more and it's among the group and you'll have one or two people who will take on that challenge and already I have requests for discussion in the other two months. So we take off for December, I believe, but that's what we do. So it's a very intense group and very challenging and boy you better do your homework. Correct. I'm with the West Maui Book Club and we are your typical book club except for COVID sending us into Zoomland and Zoom has worked out very well for us. We meet every six to eight weeks.  So represented today is a ladies group, a men's and women's group, and a children's group and I want their viewers to understand that. Book clubs are for everyone. Now I've been going with mine since 2005. I think Diane you're also and Mihaila you might have been also in the Kapalua Book Club. So we are all avid readers and we love to read. One of the questions that was posed is what is because we want to get to the secrets of a book club. That is to a great book club and that's this what we want to talk about on this show. So what do you think is the purpose of a book club that lends to the secrets that you've developed and we're going to talk about those secrets next. So what do you what do you think is the purpose of a book club? Anybody want to speak first? I'll go. Okay Gretchen please. I think engagement. I think engaging with the book and then engaging with others and expressing your opinion. I think that's a really important thing and to empower readers. For me it's the younger readers so to start them young is is to just evolve them into the book clubs of tomorrow which which are like your own.  Yes I think like Gretchen said it's a very way a very good way of meeting your new neighbors and meeting new people. So from a social point of view it's very important especially if you're one who's moved a lot. It's a way to break the ice. The other is sharing ideas. The other is book suggestions. People will suggest books that you'd never think of and it makes it very enriching and I always look forward to that. I agree. Mihaila. Well I also appreciate all the new things I learned through a book club and it could be a new way to look at an author or the story or the writing. It could be just new information altogether. So I appreciate what I learned from the book club as well. I agree with that as well. Here's another thing that you can think about. I can't tell you how many times I've asked the book club did you enjoy the book?  When we start discussing them everybody has a different point of view and when you can share those point of views it makes for the most dynamic discussions. The hardest ones for me when I'm monitoring our group is when everybody loves the book. I need a little bit of controversy to keep it very exciting and I think that's one of the secrets to a great book club is having diversity in the group, books that stimulate the mind, stimulate opinion, that share some context about life that we've either experienced or have experienced in different ways. Anybody agree with that? I couldn't agree more. You nailed it. You need a little diversity and what I like about what's my book club is that we see certain ladies two months out of the year and other ladies 12 months out of the year so the group changes so there's new ideas, there's new people and I think that if you have the same I don't know, seven, eight people that may expect they know what they'll hear this or that from the other book club member and it's more exciting when you hear something new, you're challenged to think in a different way and it's hard to do so when it's the same people. I agree. Gretchen, what is the greatest gift that you get from your book club? The stimulating conversation from the children because they will tell me how they really feel. They will tell me why they like the book, why they didn't and then they begin to engage with each other and I love watching that engagement as young people kind of go through that motion of defending the book and saying why they liked it or saying why they didn't really like it and have that conversation with each other. But it's a nice civilized conversation and they really have it. You can tell when the children really have a passion for the book when they like to stand up for what they believe in some of the threads and the topics of the book because in the quiz bowl Liz, we do have some historical fiction for children. We have some true stories, some biographies. We have all different kinds of genres in this book club and not every book is for everybody and I know personally from being in book clubs myself sometimes I don't even want to read the book and I'll open up the meeting with okay, what did everybody think of the book and sometimes they'll just say find it and read it and it's not homework and they're not creative but they're very honest about it and it's it's so fulfilling for me to see them get engaged at such a young age. That's fantastic. Mihaila, what's your greatest gift in monitoring a book club? Well, I think and you're excellent at doing that by the way at keeping one discussion there's sometimes a tendency to have side discussions and those are very distracting so it's nice to have one discussion and you're doing a great job at that and engaging sometimes I show up to a book club and I know that I love the book where I have not liked the book but I don't have I'm not thinking anything else about it until the conversation starts and it's like you want more and you want to dig in and that's the job of the moderator to sort of engage and stimulate that conversation. Diane, what's the greatest gift you get from the book club? Well, I mentioned the other I think more than anything it's exchanging ideas respect for other people's ideas even though I may disagree also many times I'll think gee I really missed that I maybe I'll reread the book which I have been known to do but the other thing that I really enjoy is that it stretches your imagination reading books stretches your imagination and stimulates curiosity and so it's an opportunity to go to another place and that's what I like about it and being with different people they suggest different members suggest different books and as a result you can learn about history you can learn it's a learning experience and you can learn from your fellow members as well as from the books and their life experiences and I think that's another secret to book clubs you know we think of groups in general and everybody's discussing books which is wonderful but the moderator gets benefits from conducting the book club and it's because you're engaging people you are engaging people they are engaging each other but as the moderator you get that special gift right so that's another secret to a great book club when the moderator is engaging the members speaking of members how do you get your members and how do they find you Diane how do you get members and how and how do they find you if I meet someone and I think that they would be a good fit for our book club keep in mind there are several different kinds of book clubs there are those who want to read have B treats yes but I'm talking about your book club great discussions great discussions always looking for someone who is interested in foreign policy and really is serious about it so we're always looking for that so I think Mihaila can say the same we're always looking for someone and we'll say what do you think of this person or that person so it's but mainly it's people who have a more broader interest especially in what we discuss okay Mihaila she mentioned your name you must have something you want to say about how you get members and how they find you yes so you know finding people to join is not that difficult particularly in my business because I meet people that move to the islands but besides somebody's desire to read books and discuss them I'm looking for members that are also willing to listen and give an opportunity to others to contribute so that's another secret of a book club you need a good combination of members that are willing to talk and members that are willing to listen correct if we could show the website for the foreign policy association.org this is the website that Mihaila and Diane well this is the umbrella of the discussion group it's a this is a nationwide association and then The Great Decisions has chapters if you want to call them all over the country and they're the one in Maui it's Diane and myself that manage it and that is fpa.org fpa.org now Gretchen if we could see the website for the library systems and Gretchen if they were going to contact you directly they would do it through this website um well for joining our book club again this is only a big island book club so it's open to elementary schools middle schools that have up to seventh grade and libraries on this island so depending on where they live they would contact their local library on the big island so they would go through the website and the drop down and inquire through the website to see if each branch has a team would they ask for the Hele Hele they would ask to the library manager or for a children's librarian and ask do you have a Hele Hele Quiz Bowl club this year and um they would if they don't they're sometimes able there's home schools as well that participate and based on patronage that library should know if there is one in the area because more than likely the library is being utilized to check out the books that the students have to read for the club super thank you if we could see the West Maui book club dot com this is the club that I monitor if you can click on past reads that would be great and it shows a list of all of the books that we've read since 2005 including discussion questions and if we can scroll down a little bit that would be wonderful there we go they're in alphabetical order a through z and the dates that we discuss them and if there's a line under you just click on it and you have all the discussion questions and then there's other pages involved too where we have book recommendations that we didn't discuss and that list is very extensive as well and you can contact the West Maui book club through that website I get my members through word of mouth I get my members through that website and that's how and that's how people contact me ladies, up your book clubs what has been the outstanding book I will tell you what the West Maui book club has been and it came to me came to our group in 2006 and it stands alone and that is Pope Joan by Donna Wolfe Cross still a favorite it's I mean even the Vatican knows about this book so I highly recommend it and and that's another secret to book clubs everybody books that you remember okay I remember that one well and also the other one was the tortilla curtain that was our first introduction as Louisa say I believe that was fine pardon Luis Urea I believe it was fine I could be wrong I'm going to put another on I'm not sure but I remember that one and that really was the first introduction for all of us as to the hardships and so forth for those coming across the border and so it was very enlightening Gretchen what about your your halo halo well with the halo halo the list is ever revolving but since most of the years the past eight years or seven years I've been doing the newberry portion which also flows over depending on what the judge has picked to put on the new list I'm going to go with if a child walks into the library and they're interested in an award-winning book my go to and the one that's been a favorite is called the one and only Ivan and it is based on a true story it's by Catherine Applegate and the one and only Ivan is based on a real live gorilla that was once enclosed in a mall as part of an exhibit and it's a really great story it's very touching and it's good for any beginning reader and even older readers like myself fantastic and the highlight great discussions what is the best book? well we we read primarily on topics and it's the variety of books but one one book that I've read because of a book club and that was the Maui prep book club is bridges out of poverty it's actually a non-fiction and offers ways to deal with people in poverty that are trying to move up towards middle class and it was practical and inspiring and thought provoking and this book has had seven editions I think or visions and I think given current circumstances it's becoming even more important to to be aware of and read fantastic ladies what are you reading now? what can you recommend to our viewers? I'll tell you what I'm reading besides Lily and the octopus I'm reading you can see it's called remarkably bright animals I think remarkably bright animals I think is the title of it hi Keshia but I'm reading I just finished the violin conspiracy and that's an adult book it's adult fiction and I'm sorry off the top of my head I forgot the author a random slope of my think is the author and I'm reading right now for our Halu Halu quiz bowl meeting it's a book that's a prince honor book which is a actual young adult fiction award it's called starfish by Lisa Phipps and it's written in prose which is really nice wonderful Mihaila what are you reading? you're always reading something interesting yeah I'm reading a fascinating book it's called battlegrounds by H.R. McMaster and it's about security threats to U.S. and it's absolutely fascinating and will you be talking about this on your show called world of books also on things yes it's coming next Wednesday I don't know what date that is but that's when we are recording the show okay we'll have to watch for it Diane what are you reading? I'm reading the book collectors this is about the rebels of Durea right near Damascus they during they were the rebels who were fighting Assad's regime they decided that they were going to be above fear uh to there were 250,000 people who were eventually being dying and escaping and so forth so they were down to 12,000 the rebel rebels in the middle of the rubble were finding books and as a result they decided that they would start a library and save all the books so that when people who came back or really what it says is the importance of books and how it sustained them and uh it turned out towards the end they have 15,000 books that they had saved so they have a very comprehensive library fantastic ladies in closing what secrets can you reveal about your book club or to anyone considering starting a book club what's your number one piece of advice you want to think about it I'll tell you mine I'd say you have an open mind whenever you select titles I'm very resistant when somebody says and this book is going to be non-fiction and I'm a big fiction fan fan fan of fiction and I say oh no I don't know if I want to do something like a non-fiction book and then I uh I end up I read it and then I learned something new I may or may not like it but um the secret is just have an open mind I think if you're if you're an avid reader like myself I try I tried to dabble a little bit of everything so I read all different genres and all different age levels being a librarian fantastic be high love do you want to answer that question yep I would say you know if you hear about a book club give it a try see if it's the right fit you know maybe give it a second try and keep going until you find your home Diane what's your opinion on it what what could you tell people I would say what kind of book club would you like to be a part of do you want one that is of a strictly social where everybody shows up says thumbs up thumbs down and then they go on and somehow end up talking about their last trip which is wonderful but it's more of a social event than something like the West Maui book club and thanks to our narrator we are able to our leader we are able to really discuss the book um and also subjects very very I would say pick your audience pick your members well let one person enjoy it they'll tell two people on and on but it's the moderator's responsibility to keep it exciting in closing I want to thank ThinkTech Hawaii for this opportunity I want to thank Jay Fidel the technicians everyone associated with the program all our sponsors where would we be without you we thank you tremendously my guests Gretchen Diane Mihaila thanks for joining me and keep reading Mahalo


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There's probably one anyways, but it's scored by our non-bar Sports Horror and not not just a horror film that has like the kids high school football team talking about the primary driven Plot line is sports related and has horror. Yeah, I can't think of any but anyways There's a horrible story. That's a true story About a former Yankee who had mental illness and and had a nervous breakdown in the middle of a game It's an old film. I believe Jimmy Stewart played the main character. Was it Bill Buckner? No, that was that's horror. That is a horror. That is a sports horror story That is true. Here we go Your poor teams man. I've had so much talk about a horror story. The Falcons Super Bowl There's no more horror story Wow, what do you think very I'm not so sure what I'm all good. I was close to the best. I'm Samir But he doesn't even know me football. I'm already better than that because I don't know a football This is true. This is a little bit. I'll take India to a world-class team but I need to be Trust me. This is just the beginning of the golden era of Indian football So that's how you play football No, I'm just looking for players who I can play on any position But I'm a goalkeeper. It's a little bit longer If you guys want to go to the Asian Games, then you have to check out the game I've heard that there's a guy from Sikandarabat. Beautiful shots I don't expect anyone to win. I think we can defeat any of the teams in the world And if every one of them is loyal, then I'll never let any of the teams down again You haven't paid the price for your dreams alone. This was our dream I'm not even a football fan and I want to see that move. Yeah, what a really good trailer Um, I felt like I saw like the entire film. Um, but maybe it's because it's like A true story and so people already know the plot points. That's my guess Um, so maybe it was like 83 and people like oh, we know the outcome of that even though we don't Right. I still didn't gather though. Yeah, I mean, I think it did show you a lot because it wants you to know We're covering the whole story, but boy, it looks like it's beautifully shot. Yeah, that cinematography is gorgeous And obviously with sports films, we'll say this all the time and I'm not the barometer to measure this by He is how the how the football playing looked. It looked good to me and I'm a novice I don't know it looked I know how the game played I can watch it and understand what's going on, but I've never played Sports films love the bicycle kick Yeah, even though even though it's rarely ever happens, right? It does not happen that often Yeah, but in sports films if it's a soccer, it's always gonna be a by yeah, it's epic You're you're basically sacrificing body. I don't know what advantage it really gives you right Other than it looked like you did something amazing because you can't Aim that well upside down right and but you know, it looks awesome It does happen, but just not that often wouldn't it happen This is just reveal a lot of what I don't know It seems like it would happen more often as a defensive move Maybe to get the ball away from your goal if it's headed that way and you have no other option But to try to jump a kick it you would probably be called for a dangerous Kick if you did that defensively because if you put your foot way up in the right It's called a dangerous play because it's close to a head. Yes. Yeah And so you actually run that risk even with that even with an offensive kick. Yeah, you run that risk But uh, yeah, it's it's it's something that does happen, but not as Uh, much as you would think from soccer film I bet andrani will want to see this because she's this is her favorite sport It it reminded me and we haven't seen it. I think it was an auction film called gold With the field field hockey players field hockey. I remember that's the vibe. I mean, it's just because I think it I think that trailer sports movie I don't know if it was that trailer or the chalk to india trailer, but one of those had the coach touching the grass Yeah, yeah, uh chalk to india obviously a very famous one that that uh Indians love that movie We did not like that movie as much as Indians. No did for sure. That's okay But uh, so it's just indian sports movie So you're gonna have probably the patriotism aspect to it just don't because of the giant I just hope they don't go to what was the last one. It's probably melodramatic le 83 It was and that's one of our issues we had was how sappy the Nationalism was and that it was just over the top trying to make you feel something versus just letting it be and you Feel it naturally. Um, I think that was the last sports movie. I think it was maybe i'm wrong here. No, no, I think that What let me think that through I think that's correct. Which is Over a year ago. It's a year and a half ago. I think two years ago It was the fall of 20 because I was in florida I was in florida for christmas. It was the fall of 22. Wasn't it? Yeah, yeah two years ago two years ago We had but it was a year and a half ago fall of 22 because it's it's now the winter end of winter of 24 So it was 21. It was whatever It's 21 Because my kids my really my twins were born in 22. Okay, and we told uh me and stef watches in florida And that's when we told uh our family that we were having twins When do you so you think it was when december of 21 bang you got it? Yeah, december of 21 because we saw it in florida. I mean it's nice and we we did uh, yeah nailed it. Um That's when that was so Was that the last sports movie? No, we had the two boxing movies in between here and then right Two fun two fun and uh the good one and the good one That was in 2022. Well, they came out at the same time and two fun was a giant ball of and we can't pronounce the good one No, it's a it's a part of body buddha baba. I think it starts with that. I don't know. I think it starts with an s Yeah, but then there's a p I think that came out 22. I think that came out in 22. I think you're right I think we haven't been early 22 Has it been that long since we watched a sports film? I think those were july of 22 going back to the list But regardless That makes I'm very interested Indian sports movies What the where's my oh, no, it's just looking at it. Oh no, no the last one we watched I thought it was Good and you did not like it. What's that the malayalam film about the nigeria Oh, that's it. That was the last one. Uh, uh, yes Something nigeria and no was was the coach. No, yeah, subin. Yep. No, it was no was. No, it was subin No, you thought it was subin. That's how good of an actor. No was is the best indian sports movie we've ever seen Boxing movies going to be up there for sure, right? But then there's no my my the for me my favorite sports movie This won't surprise those of you've been around a while It believe it or not my my favorite one will probably be dongle What about muckabuck? Great movie Really like that dongle will be over that dongle for me. Yeah, I I really really enjoyed dongle I mean, it's it shows you how much I enjoyed it. We saw it five years ago and it's still very fresh in my memory Um dongle would be up on ashamed bias toward amir khan. I'm yeah completely unashamed to say that Dongle I I think I like the um the boxing the boxing though is so damn good I think I like the boxing more than just because it's more unique The way it was done. It was more unique. Yeah, maybe I'm that forgetting about some That we've seen yeah, actually it wasn't well and we jersey and the you know Yeah, but I would put the two that I would too and bach muckabog over that I would too Um, we've seen how many cricket movies have we seen right? Um, and yes, I know we're talking, you know Dongle is an easier watch on a regular basis, but le gone's pretty damn good. Ah Yeah, I forgot about le gone. That'd probably be number one Hard to top le gone. Yeah, I forgot about le gone If that's considered a sports movie, I I would relegate it into that realm. Yeah I I would I would say that the the preeminent Focus of the story is the sport a cricket hypo chay sports movie Yeah But I don't think it's as much of a sports movie as the other ones. No, I I think it's more of a friendship drama correct with cricket correct Uh, but great movie. Yeah I feel like have some really good sports movies I feel like when you look up like I looked up just best indian sports movies a lot of them are just He needed. Oh, but this I need to be one is jerseys jerseys. I don't consider that number one But I don't either and then it's got sarpata pattern, but I that's what we're boxing one that we love so much Obviously chalk to india is going to be in people's list. Yeah, bog mucka bog. Oh Ponzing tamar. Yeah, that was a good one Um, I forgot about the one obviously there's le gone Uh, we haven't seen this one yet, but I've heard a lot of good stuff about it. Me too ball Uh, oh, yeah, we have not seen you're wondering why I haven't mentioned it's because we have not seen the ms Tony Yeah, but no, I was actually talking about this because I'm pretty sure this is actually an uh on your akashiyap film And it's a boxing film. What the This is it's non This is the original title right here. Say this name Mucka boss. Yes. It's on your akashiyap. I've heard so much about this. We missed that We just haven't seen it yet. It's on the list. It's been on the list forever Um, but I hear great stuff about it's on your ag It's also a boxing movie. Um, it's supposed to be very very good 83 kaipo cheers kaipo. Yeah, it's yeah, I get If it's included, yeah, it would be high up there. Gold. Yeah, we haven't seen you yet. I haven't seen that Uh, uh, salt and I hear great stuff about salt. It's same. Um, I believe it's the same director as dongle Oh, and it's a wrestling with salman and people actually say it's actually quite good When are they gonna do a not a biographical one about his bodybuilding days? Yeah, it's a good question. Yeah, I've been waiting for that for a long That's a great question. Uh, but anyways, so mine If you include legon if that is in fact a sports movie, that would probably be number one A kind of hard to argue with that. Um, but if you're not including that and that's Dongle dongle in those and that boxing one man. Boy the domo boxing one Those are those are probably the two best, right? Yeah And if i'm leaning as far as if i'm being really honest about the elevative artistic fine artistry I'm leaning i'm leaning box by It's a it's a neck and neck at the at the tape and that boxing movie inches past dongle as far as just Elevative artistry. Yeah, it was so good. Such a grateful. Uh, anyways, let us know what the next sports movie should be Yeah, obviously, is it this one? Do you like the trailer for this one?  She's sitting at the same bar. Oh, he was right there She, uh, apparently sent a note and said like something like I love your movies, but she put gave it to the waiter and The waiter gave it to on your again. I think she said the on your thought it was from the waiter I don't know Anyways, uh, let us know the next it's okay. He you could walk by his table and just say sir I love your movies and I doubt he'd have an issue with that in any way. He'd probably be very flattered by that I mean he's sitting. He's just very nice. He was sitting alone in a bar a whole bunch of people. I think He's a very regular person Very he says down to earth as they come. Yeah. Anyways, let us know the next sports movie We should watch and what you thought about this trailer down below


Is your team struggling to get to their work and the time you've got available? Today we're going to help you build a battle rhythm that will make each day a success. Welcome back and congratulations on taking one more step towards becoming one of the great leaders of tomorrow. If managing our own time is hard, helping our team manage their time to be successful can be even more difficult. Today I've got five tips for you that will help you build a battle rhythm on your team to make each day a success and stay tuned till the end. I'm going to give you a link where you can download our free leadership development plan workbook and that'll help you set your goals for the next two, five and ten years and build a plan of action to achieve them. If you know anybody who's in the military or has been in the military for any length of time you've probably heard them talk about the idea of a battle rhythm and battle rhythm was something I'd heard a lot through the first 10 or so years of my career but never really got to experience until I got to the Air Operations Center and started to work with the daily planning cycle that we have there in the AOC. And I wanted to look up a good official definition for you guys to talk about battle rhythm but I couldn't find a really good official definition that I thought really brought the concept home for you so I'm just going to stick with my Air Operations Center example and when we were in the AOC we would work every day we'd be planning the next day's events it was actually a 72-hour cycle but really for simplicity's sake we were basically planning the next day's events of what missions were going to get flown who was going to fly them and what all the air air components and air forces in the theater were going to do that day and we were doing all that at the same time that we were doing command and control executing command and control on today's missions and if it sounds like a lot of moving parts in this planning cycle this execution cycle it was but it worked because we had a battle rhythm we had a plan going into making the plan every day and executing the plan every day the five tips i'm going to give you today are going to help you take a look at your activities on your team and see if there's a way you can build a plan to go into the plan every day or a plan to go into each day to really optimize your time and your team's time and make sure that you can get everything done that you need to get done the first thing you've got to do is map out your team's inputs and outputs you've got to have a really good handle on what's coming in and what you have to put out if those things don't match up you're going to have a really hard time if your team is getting inputs in that don't that don't cover all the things you have to put out in your outputs your team is either going to have to spend a lot of time chasing down those inputs and getting them to come getting them to come in the right way or they're going to have to spend a lot of time doing the research and the work figure out what needs to go into the output now if that's part of your team's job that's okay you may have to take some inputs an analyzer synthesize though is and turn those into outputs and that's your team's job and that's great but if you're not getting the inputs in the input information and you need to do your job to create the outputs you need correctly it's going to be a lot of extra work for your team and that could be where a lot of your team's time is going every day so get a really good handle on the inputs and outputs as the start of developing your battle rhythm tip number two is to identify the tasks that go along with the inputs in the output and this may sound a little backward because most of what you do and your team does every day is tasks but the reason I didn't mention this first is that a lot of time the tasks we're currently doing may no longer be aligned with the inputs and the outputs we might be doing things that are extra that we don't need to do anymore or we might not be doing enough things when we do the output the first time where we come back and we have to do some rework later on so taking a good look at the tasks that go that are necessary to go along with the inputs and the outputs might be a might be a place where you can save some time on your team it will also give you an idea of what tasks might be able to be done simultaneously instead of sequentially or how you might be able to inter leave the tasks to go along with the inputs the outputs between your different team members so you can really be much more optimal with your team members time tip number three is to assess how long it actually takes to do each task and it's important to have a really good handle on this because some days inputs come in late and some days the deadlines for outputs get moved up early and a lot of times those happen to be the same day for various coincidental reasons and that's really frustrating to deal with so understanding how long it takes one person or even a team of people on your team to do each task will give you a lot more flexibility when real-world events pop up and you have to make a decision on how do we get our daily tasks done while still responding to this one-off thing that popped up and this also gives you a little bit insight once you understand how long the task really takes to do this gives you a little bit insight into if I need to do this task quickly can I throw more people at it or is it one of those things we're actually putting more people on it will actually make it take longer because of the confusion the learning curve going on so get a really good handle on how long it takes your team to do each task in a normal day situation tip number four is to map it all out I'm a really visual person so laying these kinds of things like inputs and outputs and task durations on a calendar is very helpful for me to get an idea of the interactions between those things take the case of if I've got a deadline at noon I get the inputs of 11 and it takes my team three hours to get something done now I'm already starting at a two-hour disadvantage of when that input comes in so I've got to figure something out here whether it's to go negotiate the input or the output or how many or decide to put more people on this task to get it done in just an hour that's a little bit of an extreme case and I'm not saying go out and map every minute of every day for each of your team members but having a really good understanding of inputs outputs and task durations will give you a good idea of how you can go through and either renegotiate input deadlines output deadlines or make smart decisions about how many people you put on a task and which people you put on a task depending on how important it is the last tip I have for you today and this one's really important is once you've got the battle rhythm figured out go communicate it to your team set those expectations show them how the inputs outputs and the tasks align and show them where they've got flexibility to make choices as long as they make the output deadlines it's always a good idea to go talk to the people who are actually doing the task to make sure you've got a good handle on how long the task takes so go communicate that to your team get their input and if you have to make a few changes so that you can make some tasks interleave a little better or make some things work work simultaneously instead of sequentially that their input can be valuable to make that battle rhythm work even more smoothly as you carry it forward now we've talked about this in such a way that it's a daily battle rhythm and don't worry about it if your team doesn't have a daily rhythm you may go look at your inputs and your outputs and your tasks and you may not see a correlation to a day your time scale may be a longer time scale or maybe a shorter time scale but more likely it's probably longer your time scale for inputs outputs and tasks maybe more like something like a week or a month or an even longer time scale especially if you're doing creative work or project-based work but these tips will still work for you so go take a look at your inputs and outputs and then see what kind of time scale that correlates to whether it's daily weekly monthly or even if it's on a project basis once you have a good handle on those inputs or outputs now you can work with your team to develop that rhythm to meet that time scale no matter what it is if you found this helpful please like comment and share it with a friend or co-worker click on that link below in the description that'll take you to where you can download our free leadership development plan workbook and that'll help you set your career goals for the next two five and ten years and build a plan of action to achieve them if you have any business or leadership questions we'd love to hear from you leave us a comment or email us at info at evilgeniusleadership.com evilgeniusleadership.com is also where you can find out about all of our coaching and training programs so if you 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