This is Stevea Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's topic is learning to micromanage your team using only a few minutes each day,

perfect for micromanaging when you're traveling.

Bernice, the owner of Green Growing Things Plant Shop,

has declared that the goddess wants her to travel to Sedona

to learn psychic energy-based cactus-growing techniques from an ancient sect of energy healers.

Unfortunately, her employees, despite being a political mastermind, an Android Wunderkind

and her IT geek fiancé can't seem to run the shop right without her.

She loves them dearly, but let's face it,

she wants to spend her time focusing on her chakras,

not hand-holding her crew back home.

They often need micromanagement, but, ah, that takes so much time.

Luckily, she can get the benefits of micromanagement

without the slowdown by using rapid-fire Madlib meetings. Remember Madlibs? Madlibs is a game where you play fill in the blank.

You have a sentence like, The Profession, went to the store. You then ask your friends to yell

out a profession. They say, Baker! You plug it in and read the resulting sentence. The Baker

went to the store.

Oh my God, it's hilarious!

You can use MadLibs for much more serious endeavors, however.

Use MadLibs to do daily micromanagement check-ins.

To get started, set up daily five-minute team meetings at the start of each day.

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