Empower Your Team
With A Feather Light Touch
Introducing A Timely Breakthrough In Performance Management For Ambitious Team Managers
“A great help thanks. Still to be kept secret, I think you have hit a nail on the head with that one.”
Lee Holt, UK
Most Of Us Learn Our Management Skills By Hating On The Mistakes Our Previous Bosses Made With Us
But the struggle is real.
Responsibilities are mounting. Work cultures are evolving.
And your staff might be ready to jump ship without you ever knowing until the resignation letter hits your inbox.
of employees say their bosses are the primary reason they leave their jobs, according to various workplace studies.
of startup failures are attributed to people-related issues, including team misalignment, poor communication, leadership challenges, and problems with hiring and culture.
A majority of people quietly hate weekly catchups
More employees want to be 'empowered' but that creates risk
KPIs don't always connect with daily activity
Managing people well is always harder than it looks
Elite Managers Combine 3 Cutting Edge Management Methods:
Micro-Planning
Few of us enjoy long planning sessions. Plan in tiny bite-size pieces to make visible real-world progress towards achievable milestones. Micro-Planning is a surprising breakthrough for rapidly adaptive planning.
Micro-Reviews
Progress reviews without a strict schedule for 'catchups' or 'updates' — you should barely notice they are happening, and nor should your team. Keep your teams plans fresh and nimble with perfectly prioritized steps that adapt to changing company or market conditions.
Learning-Loops
The same adaptation skills taught to Jet Fighter Pilots (known as the OODA Loop: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act) for responding to change and opportunity with speed and confidence. Your team becomes primed for making rapid adjustments based on new learnings and ongoing results.
Noteworthy references include...
Introducing...
A Magic Wand For Modern Managers
The Cyclic Planner is a single PDF document for use on computer or tablet that captures all team initiatives with ease.
Remain fully informed for risk control or step in to nudge things in the right direction at any time.
The Cyclic Planning system provides a light-touch approach to people management and stakeholder coordination.
Staff feel totally respected for the ownership and decision-making authority they are empowered with.
Every project benefits from your direct oversight for confident control and diligent risk management.
Any attempted use of workflow tools (such as Clickup, Monday.com, Jira, Notion, etc) is enhanced.
Initiative Templates
Here is where you set the overall strategic direction for one or more big project areas.
Including Purpose, Prize, Risks, Milestones, and General Approach. A more advanced Initiatives template is also included in the Cyclic Planner, for use as per your preference.
Simple prompt questions along with one page of guidance will set you on the path to mastering major initiatives.
The Go Template
Here's where your day-to-day activities get planned.
The painstakingly selected sections of the Go template include: Target, Change, Challenge, Expectation, and Action.
Make no mistake, when you understand how to apply this as a learning-loop you will tap into your highest capacity for precise progress towards any KPI.
Question prompts and guidance provided in the planner ensures optimum use of the Go templates for focus and control. All is revealed inside the planner.
Review Templates
On the frequency that feels right to you, use the Review template to keep track of progress and draw out any limiting factors that need to be dealt with.
Sections include: Observations, Progress, Limiters, New Initiative Ideas, and a Radar Diagram for self-assessment across 6 criteria.
A guide built into the planner will give you everything needed to maximize the advantage of the review system when combined with the warp-and-woof of the Go template and the Initiative template.
Proposal Templates
Divided into two separate templates: Opportunity and Approach. The first is used to achieve buy-in for the problem space of a proposal. Only once that is agreed does the Approach template become warranted in order to agree the solution space.
In this way, disagreements are reduced, and everyone stays on the same page as you progress from proposal concept through to proposal implementation.
Other Sections Include:
Impact
Here you'll find space to brainstorm on values and vision, the impacts you seek to create, and the talents you'll need to cultivate. Powerful, decisive, straight to the point.
Schedule
Just in case you want to use your Cyclic Planner as a daily scheduler — In this section you get both typical and not-so-typical weekly planners, along with month planners and an annual calendar — all hyperlinked to software calendars (Google Calendar, iCal, Office)
Notes, Guides, Templates & Archives
Provided at the back of Cyclic Planner to round out the carefully crafted experience for precise planning and activity management.
Feedback On Precursors To The Cyclic Planner
“I finally got my restaurant business up and running. Thanks to you and Neo-Tech”
- thechef
“I am busy working on the [project] thanks to the info you sent me, a great help thanks. Still to be kept secret, I think you have hit a nail on the head with that one.”
Lee Holt, UK
By gaining insight into what I truly wanted for myself and not just reaching and achieving goals by society's standards, I have actualized many experiences that would have taken multiple lifetimes.
Barbara Nwosu • Funding
I've become a completely different person that I don't even understand myself. Complete calmness. Less of a worrier.
Alison • Fashion Director
..I keep reading all of these crazy books talking about writing down goals and such. My favorite of all time is the Science of Getting Rich.
For some reason my ego thinks that it seems to easy, to good to be true, you know. To just get a clear vision of want you want. I find it hard to really focus on my objectives.
Usually, I get glimpses of them, during a certain song or something, but never for long.
The questionnaires are a project.
I seem to be able to get to deeper states of focus when I do the questionnaires. I guess because I got something to finish. I don't really know. But they do good for me.
I need to live my dreams, and the questionnaires help me focus on the goals and the steps to complete them.
Thanks Gav, great stuff
Darren Thompson
I was intrigued by what appeared to be something different and perhaps more effective then the GTD [Getting Things Done by David Allen] approach. It seems your system has a more organic/natural and complete feel to it.
Richard
Your principles and techniques go very well along with Napoleon Hill's and complete them. I went through... and I'm following it to the letter. So far so good.
Israel David
Mini Bio
Gavriel Shaw
15 years across multiple sectors including as CMO, Head of Growth, Head of Marketing, eCommerce Director, Web Marketing Director, Product Manager, Product Marketing Manager, SEO Manager, Senior Copywriter, Business Development, Agile Coach & Scrum Master.
Scaled a FinTech startup in 2017 to 1.5MM users as Head of Marketing.
Ran a web3 VC incubator with 60 projects in 2022.
Ran a marketing agency in 2021 with 14 staff and first year revenue approaching $1M.
I'm also a certified mBIT (multi-brain integration) and HeartMath (neuroadaptive) resilience coach, and I know how tough it is to stay on track with big ambitions under pressure.
Case Study
The Situation
Crypto debit card provider WirexApp had 5 staff in London HQ with a development team based in Kiev when I joined in March 2017. They had acquired 300k users in 4 years and just gained investment from SBI Group Japan. I was appointed to Head of Marketing tasked with building a team for growth.
Founder | www.nestr.io
Joost Schouten
Gavriel supported us in sharpening our business case and pitch.
He has a razor sharp eye and always manages to focus in on the areas of concern your business needs to pay attention to.
Running a business is all about managing your time so you prioritize the right things.
Prioritize Gav and you won't be disappointed :-)
Founder | www.freeos.io
Jerome Kelsey
Gavriel has amazingly sharp insights into marketing, and business acumen.
He has a special gift to be able to break these insights down clearly.
His mentorship and generosity is unmatched
We are extremely grateful to have Gavriel interface with, and guide our senior leadership team to increasing levels of success.
We cannot imagine having a more suitable marketing and business advisor to work with, and I personally cannot imagine how he would not be able to bring massive, transformational value to almost any organisation that wishes to improve their operations, or thinking.
Still have questions? You also get a 60-day money back guarantee for peace of mind.
The Cyclic Planner
Available as an Annotation PDF for iPad apps such as Goodnotes or Notability
Knowledge — With Process — Is Power
$50
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