Business Excellence - TOP 5 Series

“Now what scientists are beginning to think, is that consciousness out there in an ever-present quantum field that we interact with every day. We either pull information down for us to live and grow by, or we provide information up into the quantum cloud.”   Dr Toper Taylor Top Five Tips For Living In the Quantum Field 1.  Everything and everyone is made of energy and particles  2.  We are all int...

“When you have all these different orbs and these different layers, you have those of your team, and then you have those of just your outside team, which could include your suppliers, vendors and such, you know, a virtual assistant, whoever is providing you services that help you do your things that are similar to what your team is. And then outside of that is actually your competitors or your col...

“If you can structure what you say to match how the brain is going to naturally process it. Suddenly, understanding of that communication goes up, which is the goal of communication.”    Rich Carr Top Five Tips For Cognitive Influence in Communication  1.   Align with Brain Processing  2.  Create Psychological Safety  3.  Engaging multiple senses  4.  Keeping it simple (KISS Principle)  5.  Encour...

“The last thing that I'll say, and this is where I put a lot of pressure on myself as a founder, I put that same pressure on any founders listening, or if you sit in the sales or marketing seat, and it's this, you have to know, what are the pains and the barriers that your prospects are trying to overcome, what is it that they want to be educated on. And most importantly, what is it that...

“Good innovation happens iteratively, not with a splash and bang.” Nick Jain Top Five Tips For Innovating In Large Organizations 1.      Focus on running small experiments and collecting data 2.      Ensure your innovation efforts align with your organization's objectives 3.      Create cross-functional teams 4.      Create a culture and incentive structure that encourages innovation 5.     ...

“To discipline yourself is to manage yourself, and you only manage that which you don't trust. If you've ever been managed in a workplace scenario, you've made a mistake in the past, oversight has come down hard on you and gone look, based on your past performance, we can't give you as much rope as we did before, so what we're going to do is restrict you, and we're go...

“The key is finding ways that collaboration can benefit all parties and lead to greater sustainability impact than any one organization could achieve alone.“    The Top 5 Tips for Embedding Sustainability in Your Business Strategy 1. Confidence  2. Commitment  3. Consistency  4. Courage 5. Collaboration   TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:07  Understanding the global issues that affect sustainability. 06:39 ...

“You can love somebody without having to live with them.”  Evelyn Leite Top Five Tips For Strengthening Your Family Relationships   1. Recognizing the importance of respect and dignity.  2. Acknowledging issues, feelings and attitudes  3. Unconditional love and the perimeters around it.  4. Traditions and rituals  5. Frustration vs. Hostility and the way to empathize    TIME STAMP SUMMARY   01:02...

“Your life depends on your focus. If you can't really sit down and focus, you know your results will suffer.”  Christo Hall Top Five Mindset Tips From Professional Surfing and How to Apply Them To Succeed in Business   1. Working with your inner critique. Your biggest competitor in business is usually yourself.  2. How to get a deeper level of focus and why it's so important.  3. Profess...

“If you're solely dependent on Google organic search, then you're going to be missing out in the next couple of years.”   Barb Davis Top Five Tips for SEO 1. Refresh old blog content 2. Optimize/use free Google Business Listing 3. Expand your digital footprint 4. Optimize page titles and descriptions 5. Use Google Search Console to find opportunities   TIME STAMP SUMARRY  01:05  Rearrang...

 “We've got to set expectations with the employee. And when we say a word like expectations in that way, it feels like, Oh, we've got to be the school principal. We've got to tell you the rules, because if you don't follow the rules that I'm going to reprimand you. So, people don't really like when they say, Oh, you've got to set expectations. But really, all it...

"When it comes to securing public funds to elevate your business to the next level, a lot of people really don't understand what being strategic means at all. And so, one of the pitfalls we see with people who are unsuccessful with grants is that they were never really a good fit for that grant to start with, or they weren't ready. They didn't have their evidence in place. They...

“You can put together the best spreadsheet that details the best financial projections, but if you don't have any idea how to get those numbers on that spreadsheet, then you're already behind.”    The Top 5 Tips for Building a Sustainable Business 1. Invest in Yourself 2. Develop a Plan 3. Execute the Plan 4. Pay Attention to the Dollars and Cents 5. Never Stop Learning.   TIME STAMP SUM...

"If you go to AI and ask AI to help you write a subject matter for PR, you're going to get the same 97% of releases that don't work because AI's been trained on the whole body of press releases out there.”    Mickie Kennedy Top Five Tips For Press Release Success 1.    What is a press release and how do they work? 2.   What are tips for writing a winning press release 3.   Why...

“The best form of therapy is to create a life you love” Christopher Duncan Top Five Tips For Recoding Your Subconscious  1.  The reason why personal development or therapy doesn't work for most (and what to do instead). 2. The billionaire secret that helped me build 2 8figure businesses. 3. The 5-step superconscious creator code. 4. How to shift from employee to entrepreneur thinking. 5. How...

“Augment human intelligence with artificial intelligence by using it to deal with your weaknesses rather than your strengths.” Ronsley Vaz Top Five Tips For Ethically Integrating AI To Grow Your Business 1.  Augment human intelligence with AI by using it to deal with your weaknesses           rather than your strengths. 2.  Understand AI as a silicon-based intelligence that requires data and power...

“If you don't understand it, don't do it. Because there is no such thing as get rich quick. I've tried, been down all those roads... Just be wise, and know the area that you're stepping into before you start.”   Zach Oehlman Top Five Tips For Mastering Finance and Building Wealth 1. Understanding Financial Statements 2. Effective Budgeting and Cash Flow Management  3. Strategic...

“The problem as you can probably see, though, what if you're practising fear? What if you're practising anxiety? You're then wiring that into your brain into your nervous system again, that's why tip number one, what is strongest within your mind is what you do over and over again, what you practice, you get better at.”   Craig Meriwether Top Five Tips For Overcoming Fear and A...

“We’re essentially just replacing the form of which they're getting a lift or a boost, and we're not allowing that lift or boost to be so high that then it crashes.” Anthony David Hartcher Top Five Tips For Breaking Addictions 1.          Live by your values  2.          Seek to understand what is driving your addictive behaviour 3.          What are more resourceful ways you can achieve...

“I want to create a business that people want to work at. That's my first way of getting around the people shortage.” Richard Walsh Top Five Tips For Escaping The Owner Prison  1.  Understand what the owner prison is and how entrepreneurs get trapped in the repetitive 2-year cycle. 2.  Automate, delegate, and eliminate tasks to free up time and scale the business.  3.  Overcome the need to do...

“First, you decide that it has to be there somewhere. And then you keep looking for it until you find it. And when I started doing this, when most people start doing this, I tell them, when you get up in the morning, say you're going to find one thing, one person one event, one experience  that you can say, hey, that was pretty good. And then build up to two and three and five. If you do it o...

“ I think it's about getting clear on what your method of problem solving is. And if somebody doesn't have that, if they're not exactly sure why or how they did something, that's an easy no for you. And those people who understand from their mistakes, who can talk you through their logic, their thought process, what the algorithm they have programmed between their ears that let...

“ Focus on solving the big problems that difficult problems the easy ones will resolve themselves.”  David Ednie Top Five Tips For Aligning Strategy and Execution  1.      Raise your standards 2.      Align your people 3.      Sharpen your focus 4.      Pick up the pace 5.      Transform your strategy    TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:34 What are you focusing on?  06:05 Raising the bar 11:04 Sharpening you...

“I think we live in a world people are too, quick to throw stones throw sticks and point fingers. None of us are perfect. I certainly am not. I'm a very temperamental reactive sort of person. So, I have perfected the art of saying I'm sorry. So, I think it's really important that if you're doing something in the world, and you think, Oh, that wasn't very kind, or I could h...

“There's much more to learn and a lot of research happening on what a healthy gut actually is. What it's starting to show us is that if your gut is healthy, then your overall well-being your overall health is pretty good.”   Stephanie Polson Top Five Tips To Improve Your Gut Health  1.        Increasing fibre consumption and how to do this in a way that makes you feel good 2.        Get...