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Nine Minutes on Monday 8-Week Tracker
Use this form to help keep track of your distribution of leadership priorities for each employee and your
on Monday team. At the end of 8 weeks look for any patterns or inconsistencies.

Employees

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Place a check mark each time you
Care meet this need for each employee
over the next 8 weeks.

Place a check mark each time you

Mastery meet this need for each employee
over the next 8 weeks.

Place a check mark each time you

Recognize meet this need for each employee
over the next 8 weeks.

Place a check mark each time you

Purpose meet this need for each employee
over the next 8 weeks.

Place a check mark each time you

Autonomy meet this need for each employee
over the next 8 weeks.

Place a check mark each time you

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Grow meet this need for each employee
over the next 8 weeks.

Team Needs Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8
Place a check mark each time you do
Sticky something to promote or protect
team.
Place a check mark each time you do
Play something to have fun as a team.

Place a check mark for each week that

Model you’re clear on what leadership quality
or behavior you are modelling.
 Nine Minutes on Monday Template
9
Minutes
Use this blank template to help create your leadership goals for the week. Hold
on Monday yourself accountable at the end of the week by striving to complete all of your goals.

1
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Care

2
ute This week who will you give feedback to? Completed
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Mastery

3
ute This week who will you reward or recognize? And how will you do it?
Completed
Min

Recognize

4
ute How will you connect purpose to pay for an employee or the team this week?
Completed
Min

Purpose

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ute How can you support or promote someone’s autonomy this week? Completed
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Autonomy

6
ute Who will you help grow and develop this week? Completed
Min

Grow

7
ute What small thing can you do this week to increase team stickiness? Completed
Min

Sticky

8
ute Where is one place you can inject fun into the job or team this week? Completed
Min

Play

9
ute What leadership quality will you model this week? Completed
Min

Model

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Minutes
Nine Minutes on Monday Review Sheet
Use this template to help create your leadership goals for the week. By following the 9-Minutes on Monday
on Monday guide you will create an engaging workplace and help bring out the best in your people.

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Showing genuine interest or concern for employees as individuals is one of the top
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Care engagement drivers worldwide as well as a key ingredient in building trust. Vital Stats and the Walk-about
When and with whom will you show genuine interest or concern?
u te 2 Mountains not Treadmills - The Need for Challenge and Achievement
in DNA of Mastery
Your staff want challenge and achievement and they crave information that tells them
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1. Clear Goal or Expectation

Mastery how they are doing. Consistent feedback is crucial to staff engagement. 2. Optimal Challenge
Who will you give feedback to this week? 3. Consistent Feedback
u te 3The Midas Touch - The Need to be Valued
in Reward or Recognition?
Reward, recognition, and respect help increase a person’s sense of value and helps Use the
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1. Achievement
Recognize increase their feelings of competence and contribution. Recognition
2. Behavior
This week who will you reward or recognize? And how will you do it? Codes
3. Quality
u te 4 Super-Human Motivation - The Need for Significance The Three Questions
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Purpose is the most powerful motivator. When people see a larger purpose to their work, 1. Who do we serve?
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Purpose it taps into deeper sources of commitment and motivation. 2. What job is our product hired to do?
Who will you give the “Second Paycheck” to this week? 3. What difference do you make to here?
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Unshackled - The Need for Responsibility and Control
in 1. Seek input & ideas
Autonomy When employees perceive they have some degree of control over their lives and work
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2. Ask, don’t tell

they are happier, more creative, persist longer and enjoy greater overall well-being.
3. Give choice when possible
How can you support someone’s autonomy this week?

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u te 6 Onward & Upward - The Need to Grow & Develop 1. Clarity - Where do they need to grow?
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Growth often happens outside an employee’s comfort zone but requires someone to act as (Job skills, career skills or behavior)
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Grow a catalyst, initiating, clarifying, and supporting their progress through challenging work. 2. On-the-fly coaching
Who will you help grow this week? And how? 3. Feedback on progress
u te 7 All for One - The Need to Connect Relationally
in 1. Purpose 1. Slackers
People desire to connect relationally with those around them. Functional teams help
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Sticky Glue 2. Trust Solvents 2. Bullies

protect engagement and increase motivation. 3. Ownership
What small thing can you do this week to increase team stickiness? 3. Skunks
4. Social Bonding

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u te 8 All Work and No Play - The Need for Fun
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Fun increases trust, team spirit, morale, and creativity, while decreasing stress and
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Play negative attitudes at work. It starts with the Boss

Where is one place you can inject fun into the job this week?
u te 9 Show Me the Way - The Need for Security and Inspiration
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Because of the principle of weighted relationships, your actions, attitude, behavior and
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Model Defining Your Avatar

emotions affect each of your direct reports. What do they need from you this week?
What one value, behavior, or attitude are you going to model this week?
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