Cory Shirk: 269 Verne Harnish Creating Momentum With Meetings in Your Fitness Business

Verne Harnish is founder of the world-renowned Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), with over 14,000 members worldwide, and chaired for fifteen years EO’s premiere CEO program, the “Birthing of Giants” held at MIT, a program in which he still teaches today.

Founder and CEO of Scaling Up, a global executive education and coaching company with over 180 partners on six continents, Verne has spent the past three decades helping companies scaleup.

He’s the author of the bestseller Mastering the Rockefeller Habits which is translated into 9 languages; and along with the editors of Fortune, authored The Greatest Business Decisions of All Times, for which Jim Collins wrote the foreword. His latest book Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) has won eight major international book awards including the prestigious International Book Award for Best General Business book.

Verne also chairs the annual ScaleUp Summits in collaboration with Bloomberg and serves on several boards including chair of The Riordan Clinic; co-founder and chair of Geoversity; and board member of the Million Dollar Women’s movement. A private investor in many scaleups, Verne enjoys piano, tennis, and magic as a card-carrying member of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.

Your Podcast Snapshot:

Developing a meeting schedule to create momentum in your business
Daily, weekly and monthly meeting structure and inclusions
Tips for launching and maintaining a meeting culture

Episode Timeline

00:09 Your Fitness Business Podcast Snapshot
00:31 Thank you to our podcast partner MYZONE
00:57 What’s coming up on this week show
03:02 Message from our podcast partner MYZONE
03:22 Welcome to Verne Harnish with this weeks Precor Quick Fire Five
06:01 What is a good meeting schedule to create momentum
10:05 How can we involve part-time or casual staff in team meetings
12:12 How important is it to have a consistent day or time for our meetings
13:52 Agenda sample for a monthly meeting
15:33 What is one key lesson for fitness owners
19:03 What should our focus be for strategic meetings
22:54 Meeting basics Q&A
27:52 Message from our friends at Loud Rumor
28:30 Fitbizpiration: 3 tips on launching and maintaining a meeting culture
29:22 Check out Vernes 2020 Scaling Up events in 2020 (links below)
31:28 Message from our podcast partner Precor
32:04 Announcing the winners of our BOSE Alto Frames competition
32:37 Precor Quick Fire Five – Special 4 part series in Jan 2020
33:15 REWIND Feature Show: Luke Carlson: Identifying Your Core Purpose Makes Your Fitness Business Unique
34:34 Join us at the #FBPFamily Meet Up at IHRSA 2020
35:26 Join the Active Management Community today!