Today I get to talk to Seth Gleeson about how you can reduce stress & overwhelm through getting the right people in the right seats. For nearly a decade, Seth Gleeson and Datum Projects have been making life easy for brands, consultants, and contractors alike. Born from a desire to work in a more client-centric and solutions-driven environment, the business leverages Seth’s 25+ years of retail and commercial fit-out experience to run a business focused on great people and great service. Datum is very much an extension of Seth and his career. After serving a shopfitting apprenticeship post-school, he spent 14 years in the industry over in the UK before making the move to New Zealand. By the time he started Datum Projects a couple of years into his time here, he’d had enough of below-average workplace cultures. He set out to create a client-centric, solutions-driven business – and create an awesome place for other shopfitters to work. After nearly a decade, Seth’s grown the business to encompass 50 awesome staff, a 2,500sqm factory space, and projects across the country. With a specialist team across various trades and a thriving in-house joinery factory, Datum Projects offers full-service solutions and expert advice on all areas of the fit-out process. Although his main role now is ensuring that the team has everything they need to succeed, Seth is still very much part of the fit-out process. He loves working with clients and the team to ensure every fit-out is successful. Can't wait to hear what he has to share with us about his personal journey!

Really looking forward to talking to Suzi McAlpine on the launch of her new book - "Beyond Burnout - a New Zeland Guide. How to spot it, stop it and stamp it out." A leadership coach, award-winning blogger and keynote speaker, Suzi works alongside CEOs, managers and executives to facilitate clarity, direction and optimal performance in the areas people need it most. Suzi McAlpine is a Leadership Development Specialist and author of award-winning leadership blog, The Leader’s Digest. She writes and teaches about accomplished leadership, what magic emerges when it’s present, and how to ignite better leadership in individuals, teams and organisations. Suzi has been a leader and senior executive herself, working alongside CEOs and executive teams in many guises. Her experience has included being a head-hunter and executive coach, and a practice leader for a division at the world’s largest HR consulting firm. Suzi provides a range of services as a Leadership Development Specialist, including executive coaching, leadership workshops and leadership development programmes for CEOs, leadership teams and organisations throughout New Zealand. She has worked with IAG, Weta Workshop, The Department of Conservation, Contact Energy, Merchant (Overland) Footwear, BDO Accounting, and Nelson Airport to name a few. In 2012, Suzi started The Leader’s Digest, now an internationally acclaimed blog, which provides tips and insights to CEOs and executives around the globe. The blog has been named in CMOE’s Top 100 Socially-Shared Leadership Blogs, Serve To Lead’s Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs, Charles Specht’s Top 50 Global Leadership Bloggers, Hubworks Global Top 25 Leadership and Management Blogs and MP Star Financials’ global Top 25 Leadership Blogs for Small Business. In 2018, she launched an online leadership programme for emerging leaders, The Leader’s Map. The programme fills a void in the leadership arena, teaching leadership skills and providing support to people who are thrust into roles in which they must lead. The programme gives emerging leaders the necessary tools to succeed in their role. Suzi has used her expertise in the leadership space to write a book on burnout and how leaders can create environments in which people, as well as profits, thrive. In this podcast, she will share some insights, actionable tools & practical tips for Leaders & businesses of all sizes. #betterbusinessbetter life #entrepreneurs #leadership

Dave is a Kiwi born entrepreneur, who grew up between the bush in the Waitakeres, and working on an organic farm in his teenage years. Dave’s connection to the land and his Maori heritage, has seen him bring a unique set of sustainability value into a variety of businesses. Dave has owned over a dozen businesses and a charity, as well as holding several board positions. Each with (or under pressure from Dave to have), triple bottom line reporting. Most have won environmental (such as SBN) and business (such as Westpac) awards. Philanthropic focus saw Dave’s attention move to charity and supporting startups, particularly those that improved environmental outcomes, which is where his current journey with the other co-founders of CarbonClick began. Dave was a founding trustee of Sea Cleaners Trust, but has since channeled all his focus into CarbonClick. When Dave handed over the reigns at SeaCleaners, they had removed over 200 shipping containers worth of plastics from NZ's marine environment. A testament to his values of just doing it rather than talking about doing. Dave sees the struggles people have, when they aren’t connected to the environment around them, and his concern is that the disconnect is becoming stronger as we are left with less of it every day. The very environment that supports every one of us. Dave is on a mission to restore these opportunities, through supporting projects that have strong biodiversity and social outcomes, and sharing these stories with individuals, encouraging them to reconnect. Join us at 4.30pm today to hear Dave talk about Better Business, Better Profit from his perspective.

Do YOU celebrate success? Justine from Your VA has met with success after implementing EOS into her business 🎊🎉 While it’s early days, she’s had 📈 wins. And isn’t she happy 😀 Milestones achieved. Investing in EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System, comes risk and reward but when it’s the latter, you should celebrate your success. How do you celebrate❓ What would it look like if you achieved your targets❓ So, if you want some EOS success in your business, I’d love to have a chat. ========================================== For more support: ========================================== Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

Who would have thought that by the end of 2020, we’d all know what Zoom was 🙄 Back in January we thought Zoom was going really fast 🏎 But now, it’s one of the most recognisable tools for online meetings. Bigger than Skype! All it took was a pandemic and we all feel comfortable being on a web conferencing site. So comfortable in fact, people are embracing Zoom calls as opposed to regular one on one face to face meetings. It’s changed the game for so many people. And as Justine of Your Virtual Assistant mentions in her video today, I too have embraced 🤗 the platform to deliver the EOS training for her business. ✅ EOS has changed her world along with Zoom. How often do you use Zoom in your business and has it changed the way you operate❓️ ========================================== For more support: ========================================== Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

Are You Working IN or ON Your Business? All companies undergo periods of growth 📈 Periods of growth are turbulent for any company, as they are inherently unstable and carry risk. In practice, there will always be barriers 🧱 impeding growth. It is both the will and the ability to overcome these barriers which enable a firm to grow. The will, as an extension of the entrepreneurial spirit, is needed as there are many companies which stagnate due to their unwillingness to take the risks associated with growth. While growth may appear risky compared to temporary stability, stagnation in a high-tech company increases the risk of failure. Innovating in response to changes in the market is a good way to mitigate risk. Careful planning can decrease risk ✳️ Being able to anticipate the majority of risks involved and successfully navigating them is what allows firms to grow. In my video today with Natalie and Candice, we talk through their growth and the key mindset shift was focusing working on rather than in the business 🤔 What risks are you mitigating for growth in 2021❓️ Are you planning now to decrease those risks later❓️ ========================================== For more support: ========================================== Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

How often do you take a guilt-free day off away from your business 🙄 It’s a mantra as old as the hills: If I want to grow my business, I need to work more. This seems like it makes sense, but it’s dead wrong. Entrepreneurs are value-creators and creating is a process that stresses mental 💪 muscles. Like any other muscle, our brains need time for rest and recovery to work well. Want proof? Think back to that gnarly problem you were trying to work out late on a Friday afternoon. You didn’t want to leave it until Monday (that would be irresponsible, right?), so you kept working, racking your brain for a solution. Eventually, after getting no closer to solving the problem and simultaneously becoming completely frustrated, you gave up and walked away 😴 When you returned to that problem on Monday morning, did you find it significantly easier to solve, even to the point of wondering why you were so stressed about it the week before? The answer depends on whether you took any real time off between Friday and Monday. It’s the same when you take a day off to work on your business like Natalie and Candice did in my EOS program. Everything just becomes easier. How many hours do you work on your business❓️ Would you feel guilty with one day off from 90 days❓️ ========================================== For more support: ========================================== Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

It could have gone the other way 💡 What might have happened if these history defining moments were reversed. ✅ What if the South won the Civil War? ✅ What if Hitler successfully invaded Russia? ✅ What if James Dean had survived his car crash? ✅ What if President Kennedy had survived the assassination attempt? ✅ What if The Beatles had broken up in 1966? ✅ What if Napoleon had kept going? We would be living in a different world, a parallel universe but with different outcomes. If you choose one of these seven scenarios, what would be different in 2020? So, the moral of today’s story is…. You still have time to change history 💥 Your business CAN change the world 💥 I’d love to contribute on your journey to change YOUR world (well, in your market for starters). Please comment below on what would be different if it went the other way? Don’t ever discount that you’re in control. ========================================== For more support: ========================================== Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

The All Blacks had the wrong personnel 😖 I know that the Bledisloe Cup was safely tucked away in the NZ cabinet for could tinker with his men in different positions and blooding new players. But the senior leadership team of the All Blacks, all 5 million of us, want to win 🏆 Ask any All Black fan on Saturday night around 11pm and that long white enveloped us all. We want to win. Every time. So what does this say about your business❓ If your leadership team was as passionate about winning ALL THE TIME like the AB leadership team then you’d make sure your people were the right ones from the get-go. In the EOS program that I’ve taken Justine through, she’s said just that. Right people, right seats, right now. What does “winning” look like in your business 💪 Did the All Blacks lose, or did the Wallabies want it more? ========================================== For more support: ========================================== Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

Do you find yourself sometimes not letting go of control? It can be quite tough as a manager or owner to delegate and let our staff do the tasks, we can’t make time for. And that’s ok! As leaders we often want to keep a close eye on everything and make sure our processes are running smoothly. But as @Natalie Richards points out, since learning to let go, she now has more time to move her business forward and build valuable relationships. 🤝 When we aren’t trying to manage tasks, we have staff for, we can free up time and use that time more efficiently! ⌚ What tasks do you think you could ‘let go’ of❓ What could you be doing instead❓ I’m keen to hear your thoughts in the comments! ========================================== For more support: ========================================== Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

The times they are a-changing 🎶 Bob Dylan quotes aside, it is clear that the world we are entering following COVID-19 will be quite different to the one we once knew. Luckily, I believe that we as business owners are brilliant adapters. We see stormy waters and we find a way to sail through and come out better. ⛵ Some have adopted an online platform for their business, others have had to make adjustments to their space or even how customers pay. Candice Nicholls has noticed that her customers want to know more about the businesses they use. They may have plenty of questions, but each is a chance to show how your business is staying ahead of the pack. 💯 What changes have you noticed in your business❓ Have there been any changes you have struggled with❓ ========================================== For more support: ========================================== Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

Why saying yes was the best thing Justine ever did for her business. ⭐ This year hasn’t been easy for many medium sized businesses and I’m sure many senior management teams are just aching for the last 6 weeks to fly by so they can hit the beach for a few weeks over summer and start again, afresh in 2021. But what if those problems pre-COVID were always there and COVID just amplified the problem? You were hitting the ceiling before COVID and that growth hasn’t happened since. 📉 Let’s look at this from another perspective 💭 If you lead a team and the people need developing, how many times have we asked ourselves this question. “What if we train them and they leave❓'' What if you don’t and they stay”. 🏋️ It’s a no-brainer isn’t it? Justine from Your VA took action over COVID and hasn’t looked back because it was a no-brainer for her and her senior leadership team. 😀 💡If you’re sitting on fence right now, I’d love to have a chat with you about kicking those goals in 2020💡BOOK A QUICK DISCOVERY CALL WITH ME TODAY 👉 https://www.businesstraction.com/book-online ========================================== If you had a magic wand, what would you like to have in your business today? ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

It’s the #1 thing that employees hate. 🚫 Meetings. Even some senior management team I work with don’t like meetings as they drag on and on and sometimes, they wonder why they’re having them. But imagine if ✅ EVERY meeting in your company were to start and end on time? During those meetings, employees identify the most important issues to tackle and participate in decisions and solutions. ✅ They walk out of the meeting with a clear resolution on those issues—solving them once and for all with everyone on the same page. ✅ Even better, that one single meeting eliminates all the other meetings for employees that week. ✅ That would be a miracle in many organisations. 🙌 So, in today’s video with Justine from Your Virtual Assistant, she shares her most useful tool from working with me and implementing EOS in her 25-strong team, has been level 10 meetings. You want what she’s having? ========================================== What are some of the worst things about meetings at your organisation❓ ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

It’s just been so easy. 😀 In my video today with Justine Parsons of Your Virtual Assistant, I asked her if she felt embarrassed by showing the entire business to me and her response demonstrates the ideal client-coach relationship. ✴️ Trust. You want to achieve your goals? Be successful? Develop a great team and culture? Grow and make squillions of dollars? 👉 But do you trust the systems you’ve got in place to deliver? I’m here to help. I’ve earned the trust from many businesses in my coaching career so let me help you get your 2021 flying. ========================================== 𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓂𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝓌𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒾𝓃 𝟤𝟢𝟤𝟣? ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

Seeing the warts and all❗ Last week I posted about my wedding photos and how on first sight, my little voice in my head said, “Oh I look old or look at my double chin”. But that’s not what everyone else sees. They see a beautiful, happy, smiling woman on her wedding day. It’s the same for your business. As an EOS coach I see leadership teams cringe when I ask to look at the back office of the business because THEY think it’s unorganised and shouldn’t be seen by anyone but them. But on closer inspection, it’s really like everyone else. I just see opportunities as that’s where the gold often sits in your business. 😮 So don’t worry about having the perfect business, instead be proud and see opportunities. What are you hiding in your back office? ========================================== 𝐻𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝓁𝑒𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶 𝒸𝑜𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝓂𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓌𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒶𝓁𝓁? ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

This makes my heart sing and hum along to this song 🎶 Huh, because I'm happy 🙂 Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof Because I'm happy 🙂 Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth Because I'm happy 🙂 Clap along if you know what happiness is to you Because I'm happy 🙂 Clap along if you feel like that's what you wanna do Seeing my clients this happy. It’s the name of the game, right. Are your team on the same page? ========================================== 𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒽𝒶𝓅𝓅𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓀? ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

✅ It’s an investment in the business. Looking back over the last week at some sporting triumphs (and some lousy draws), these teams and players all had one thing in common. They had a coach. How many top performing teams that shine in their respective sports would ever consider not having a coach? It would be unheard of, right? 🏉 Rugby 🎾 Tennis 🏉 NRL 🏐 Netball ⛳ Golf It’s the same in business and in today’s video with Nat and Candice, I asked them why they changed their mind in working with me as their EOS coach. What are your goals for the rest of 2020? ========================================== 𝐻𝑜𝓌 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓃𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒? ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

I’ll do it tomorrow 🤔 How many times have you said that❓ When it comes to your business and pushing the important tasks to one side, it feels good in the moment, but procrastination won’t deliver the result. We must realise that, at its core, procrastination is about emotions, not productivity. The solution doesn’t involve downloading a time management app or learning new strategies for self-control. It has to do with managing our emotions in a new way. One option is to forgive yourself in the moments you procrastinate. How do you deal with it? 💭 What has you actioning the most important things first? In today’s video, Justine Parsons from Your Virtual Assistant Ltd had all the tools to implement EOS and achieve what she wanted in her business, but she was missing a vital ingredient to make it happen. ========================================== 𝒞𝒶𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝑔𝓊𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓋𝒾𝓉𝒶𝓁 𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓇𝑒𝒹𝒾𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒾𝓈? ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

👉 Gary Vaynerchuk started the revolution for young kids around the globe. Just start he said. Everyone who ever did anything had to start. Most people don’t begin with a grand vision. They start with an idea and an action. Through the process of doing they build something greater. • No one thought Facebook would succeed • No one believed that people could fly • No one believed that computers would be in every home All ideas are considered insane until executed. The key is to just start. Thanks Gary. Justine Parsons of Your Virtual Assistant Ltd wasn’t sure until she started EOS, and her video story is like many kiwi business owners who are thinking the same at the moment. How did you get past your fears? ========================================== 𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓁𝓎? ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

Have you lost your entrepreneurial magic? Call it mojo, passion, your why, drive, zip or fire in the belly, it’s the thing we all need to move forward each and every day and that little voice in our heads doesn’t do us any favours. But how do you get the magic back❓ As an entrepreneur and leadership coach, I see it all the time and I just want to help. Read this statement and share in the comments if you’re experiencing this? Tingling hands and feet that are warm and happy. Love for all of life. A mind that is still and yet dreamy. A sense of rightness- right place, right time, right ideas. Worry melts into creative ideas. Obstacles melt into life-stretching challenges. You fill the room with your energy. You’re a magnet. Passion is palpable. Life is sexy, thrilling and it all feels … right. That’s magic. So, in today’s video with Justine Parsons of Your Virtual Assistant, she had lost her magic and found it again through EOS. We’ll show YOU how she did that in the coming videos. ========================================== 𝒲𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒹𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓂𝒶𝑔𝒾𝒸 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒? ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

Do you know when your birthday is? 🎂 Of course, you do! You may enjoy big functions with balloons and cake to celebrate, others may like small gathers or even the chance to have a day off and to yourself. 🎈 Either way, birthdays are important. They give us a chance to reflect on what we have achieved and who we have become but, do you do the same for your business? Today I ask my client Justine Parsons about her business, and how it’s grown over the years. This is the first of a series of videos featuring Justine and how she now celebrates every birthday. It is crazy to think back to those first few years of your business growing so quick and hopefully walking on its own feet. Maybe your business is more mature now and moving out of your first headquarter and setting up around the New Zealand or even the wider world! 🌏 Be it a wide-eyed toddler, or well into adulthood, our business still deserves a celebration. They are our baby’s after all! What do you to celebrate your business’ birthday? 🥳 Do you know when it is? ========================================== 𝐼’𝒹 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝒶𝓉 (𝒾𝒻) 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒹𝑜 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒷𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒷𝓊𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈'𝓈 𝒷𝒾𝓇𝓉𝒽𝒹𝒶𝓎, 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈 🥳 ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

There’s one everywhere. You find one at Wimbledon and at the ASB Classic in Auckland. 💯 There’s one at Eden Park and at the cake tin at Wellington. 💯 You’ll definitely be given one before you head out on Titirangi Golf Course, but you probably won’t fill one out at Augusta for the Masters. 💯 You probably had one at school and you were wracked with nerves when you opened your NCEA exam results last year. 💯 But do you use one at work? And use one every day? The simple score card has been used by Natalie and Candice from Prep Plant-based Meals, since they joined the EOS program and the results are, well expected. 💯 I know the system works and they sure do, by looking at their elation in todays video. How do measure your business? What system can you rely on to know whether you’re on target or just ambling along? ========================================== 𝒦𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝑜𝓌. ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

I beat them with a big stick. 🏏 Not really. It’s far easier says Candice from Prep Plant-based Meals, in fact she says people can’t slime out of their responsibilities because of the way they’ve changed managing their team. 🧑🏻‍🤝‍🧑🏻 Team management has probably been the most written-about topic - how to get the best out of your people, like being consistent, focusing on clarity, accuracy, and thoroughness in communication, publicly rewarding and recognising hard work, being the example, goal setting, the list goes on. But it’s actually much easier. ✔️ Natalie Richards saw the opportunity to invest in the EOS system and now it’s a 📈 breeze managing her team as you can see in the video. What process do you follow? How effective is your team management? If you’d like to find out about EOS, then drop me a line❗ 👉 https://www.businesstraction.com/

👉 Is your team onboard with your business vision? Sitting down to write your business is a vision statement can be a daunting task. For one thing, it must define your company and, more importantly, its future. For another, you don't want it to be relegated to a forgotten poster hanging in the office lobby. A powerful vision statement stays with you, such as Disney's "to make people happy" or Instagram's "capture and share the world's moments." If you are intentional in your efforts and committed to doing the hard work, you can create a vision statement that encapsulates your organisation's core ideals and provides a roadmap to where it wants to go. But then once you write it, 🎙️ how do you communicate it? So everyone is on board and singing off the same hymn sheet? In my video story today, ⭐ I talk about my GM role at Intercity, how their vision wasn’t communicated to their team and how we solved their problem. 🚌 ========================================== 𝐻𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓃 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉? 𝐻𝑜𝓌 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓉𝑒𝒶𝓂 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓃 𝑜𝓃 𝒷𝑜𝒶𝓇𝒹 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃? ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

We all work really hard to pay to the bills and keep our companies afloat. ✍️ But do you ever find that hard work gets the bills paid, but doesn’t grow your business? Soon it feels like you are swimming against a current of tasks that never seems to stop. 🏊‍♀‍ Sometimes we can get so focused on the small jobs that deliver to our customers, we forget to look after and grow the business itself. 🌱 My clients often find taking a step back and setting goals can quickly turn into growth. Swimming to the side of the river gives you a break and a chance to plan ahead. Take the time this week to step back and see what goals you can set to expand your own endeavour! In today’s continuing video series with clients Nat and Candice from Prep Plant Based Meals they get to the heart of their problems and reveal that they just didn’t know what to do next. Are you clear about your direction and know how to get to the result? ========================================== 𝐼𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓉𝑒𝒶𝓂 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑔𝑜𝒶𝓁𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝓊𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈? ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

Much like a humble seed, as entrepreneurs we often find ourselves trying to plant ourselves in vast gardens of ideas and organisations. But as seasons pass, your business will grow and blossom ☘️ Growth can bring the fruits of success but also more roles and responsibilities. Has your team expanded ❓ Who does your business reach now ❓ Has your rent and overheads risen ❓ These can be challenging, but they are a natural part of growth, even with business. I had a chat with one of my clients Nat and Candice of Prep Plant Based Meals about their journey from the seed of an idea, to the fruition of a business. Take a moment to think, what changes have you seen within your own business? Tell me what those are in the comments below 👇👇👇 ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

What do you think is one of the most common problems I see in entrepreneurs? (Yes, I am including myself). 🤔 Is it: A. The consumption of too much caffeine driven by the fact that all of your meetings must take place ‘over a coffee’? B. The fact that there is so much information to consume that a lot of time is spent reading or doing online courses? C. You aren’t able to delegate what you should be delegating in order to save yourself time & boost productivity. Well, it can’t be A because as long as you’re drinking good quality coffee ☕️ that wouldn’t be a problem ;) So hmm, which one is it ❓ Well…. Watch the video to find out if you picked the right one and drop in your two cents in the comments below 👇👇👇 ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

Is your business employing the right seated people Every workplace has its own culture. Be it a hip start up with the latest digital games littered through the staff room, or an accountancy firm where everyone wears suits and drives swanky cars, the culture in any given workplace is as distinctive as a fingerprint. 🙋‍♀️ 🙋‍♂️ But checking in with your current team is a must so you get the right people on board. Why 🤔 People change and companies change. Having the right people in the right seats that are aligned to your values will help you grow 📈 How do you deal with this issue in your business? If you’re struggling with your people and you don’t know how to deal with it, then I’d 💙 to help! ========================================== Book a 15 minute call with me here: https://www.businesstraction.com/book-online ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

You know when you offer someone a cup tea & they accept & then you follow up with “Sugars? How many? With milk? Strong? Double shot?” 🤔 Why do you do this? 👀 You do this because, although everyone likes a good cup of tea, they all prefer to drink it in different ways. 😄 The way they drink it varies because of how they were brought up, what they are accustomed to, what experienced they’ve had in their lives. You don’t hold judgement against anyone for preferring a particular way against another. I find this is a great metaphor to use when working with entrepreneurs who receive a piece of negative feedback on their service or product. You simply won’t be everyone’s cup of tea. ☕️☕️☕️ That is OK! 👌 The point is that you don’t focus on who may say (sometimes in a harsher way) “you’re not my cup of tea” & start focusing on those who thing you’re the greatest cup of tea they’ve ever had!! So it’s time to shift your focus. ========================================== Drop a comment below & tell me the BEST or most memorable piece of feedback you have ever received!! 👇 ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415... Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup

Will you survive, or thrive 👍 All we hear in the newspaper, on television and on social media channels, is that there are businesses that are suffering in these COVID times and we’re to batten down the hatches and prepare for the worse. But there are many businesses thriving 🙏🏼 According to a University of Auckland paper, those in business of concerts, large events, organised tourism, dine-in restaurants, and sporting events could be challenged in 2020 and beyond. But those who can shift their business location or pivot to an online world will be gain the most from this inevitable downturn. Which industries will be the biggest winners in a potential recession❓ What are you doing to move forward and prosper❓ In my video today, I talk about a client who was flatlining and after working with me they turned it around and are thriving. ========================================== For more support: Join our community on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/10415605/ Visit our website: https://www.businesstraction.com/ Sign up for our newsletter: https://tinyurl.com/biztraction-signup FREE GIFTS 🎁 http://bit.ly/freeBTgift