Business Excellence - TOP 5 Series

  “We don't want to be learned know it all’s. Instead, we want to be learned balls.”    Amber Perry Top Five Tips For Turning Small Steps Into Big Impact 1.      People remember how you leave more than what you did. 2.      Growth mindset.  3.      Fail forward.  4.      Daily discipline.  5.      Leverage your gifts to serve.   TIME STAMP SUMMARY  01:14   Exiting with excellence 05:29  Being...

“...it can be done in inductions, but they're still moving to that portal because a lot of organisations are now either hybrid or remote. And so, it's not as easy as just kind of raising your hand or watching what you know Tom does and how he that he fills out a procedure or whatever it is. People need to be able to be empowered to work independently, as our businesses are evolving and s...

“Usually when the business stops growing, it's my fault. And sometimes it's not that comfortable to admit that. But the truth is, if you want to get great talent to follow you, you have to be a great leader.”    Kody Thompson Top Five Tips For Building Offshore Teams   1. Get your own mindset and leadership skills up to scratch, as the entrepreneur/leader is critical for building a succe...

“You can't delegate successfully, if you haven't followed tip number one, documenting, right. If you don’t that, you're going to spend hours on calls, trying to explain things to people, you're going to get frustrated team members, because they don't understand what they should be doing. And then you'll probably think that they're incompetent, and then take back...

“Too many people spend money, they don't have, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.”  Rand Selig Top Five Tips For Thriving Personally and Professionally 1. Be a Lifelong Learner  2. Establish Great Habits and Routines  3. Figure out How Much is Enough  4. Leadership 5. Power to Make choices    TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:10 Personal and professional growth th...

“Time is always moving forward, tomorrow is going to come whether you want it to or not. And so, you need to be aware of that and you need to plan for it.”   John Foster Top Five Tips For Making Your Kids Savvy  1. Failure isn't Fatal (it's essential). 2. People WANT to Meet You (and want to know, like, and trust you)  3. Don't Make an Enemy on the Way to Making a Deal.   4. Your Ne...

"I believe human beings are built for growth. We're like elastic bands, you know, we're built to be stretched. It takes two things, it takes a mentality, to want to do that to want to put yourself out of a comfort zone. But then action is also required, small steps. And the more and the more small steps you do when you're trying to do something for the first time, the more you...

"Drama kills deals, and this isn't a big one. It can mean drama in terms of not taking care of some of the stuff we read for instant number one, you know, a financial misstep or a tax liability or maybe you have a threatened lawsuit from a formerly disgruntled employee that you don't disclose to the buyer you forget about and there's nothing worse than for that to creep up on y...

"I think that there is some freedom and some flexibility there. And your staff members need to know, okay, my boss is available at this time. And you also need to know from your staff when they're available. So, if there are contractors, it might look a little different than if there are employees. But there should be some set time when everyone knows, the team is, is together, the team...

“So don't discount that just because I'm learning how to negotiate today that this is one and done. It can really serve you for your life on all of your career discussions. And even sometimes, where you go to lunch, where you decide where you're going to pick dinner with your spouse, it's always helpful to have these skills in your fingertips” Dorothy Mashburn Top Five Tips For...

“A personal brand is exposure, like repeated exposure to someone and what they post online, really sets the perception that other people have of you. So, you don't control what people say about you, but you can curate that perception.”    Annie Margarita Yang Top Five Tips For Personally Branding Yourself As An Industry Expert  1.   How does personal branding differentiate a job seeker in a c...

Release the outcome, you have the right to action, you do not have the right to the results of your action. Danielle Matthews Top Five Tips For Entrepreneurs  1.       Be present 2.       Accept the polarity of life  3.       Understand your inner reaction creates the outcome 4.       Look for the lesson in everything 5.       Release the outcome   TIME STAMP SUMMARY  01:21    Why being present is...

“You have got to get engaged where you're passionate.” Peter Winneke Top Five Tips For Using Philanthropy To Build Life Purpose & Legacy   1.          Pause and think about your legacy  2.          Think about what upsets you about your community or the world  3.          Develop a structured approach to your giving  4.          Get the family engaged  5.          Best practice giving   T...

"You do actually need to know who to contact and know how to find the right support. And whether it is the right legal professional, or whether it is finding a mediator, or whether it is going to your business coach as the first step to find someone to be referred to. Knowing your first steps and finding the right support is really key. We don't want to be Googling for a lawyer close to...

“I always work with my clients to help figure out what that problem is. And then let's spotlight it. Then when you think of an analogy of a spotlight, anything that's in the spotlight is brightened up, and you can see it crystal clear...”   Bruce Scheer Top Five Tips For Getting Your Sales Story Straight  1.  Target the Right Buyers  2.  Spotlight the Problem  3.  Envision the Desired Ou...

“And because you've got no cash flow, you still can't leverage that… How many times have you heard people in their 60s, people in the 70s, say I'm asset rich, but cashflow poor? Yeah, happens all the time. And it's because they've injected all this money into the asset, which gives them a lot of equity, but they've started to run out of money.”  Sanjay Parasher Top Fi...

“I think brutal focus is the key. So, you know, often when we start to think about a performance, one of the biggest questions people come and talk to me about is like, Oh, I'm trying to do so much. I have no time. I'm trying to figure out how to fit it all in. And I think it's really interesting that when we think about performance, we often approach the problem from the standpoint...

“There are victories to be found even within failures. Because failure is part of the process of learning and achieving success. And through trial and error. Life is one long, ongoing boxing match. Losing one round or failing at something does not make us a failure for our entire lives. Even the greatest of the greats, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, they got knocked down. But it's not about how m...

“Third is vision. You know, there's a proverb that says, without vision, the people perish. We've got to cast a vision for what we're trying to accomplish. And so, while I tease people by saying what do you want to be when you grow up? There's a lot of truth to that. Where do you see yourself? If it's a sales culture? Where do you see your customer or your client or your m...

“Challenge yourself. Pick something that is so far outside of your lane, something you never thought you would do because it scared you and say no, I'm going to learn this. I want to develop more skill and then set out and create that course, create that curriculum of what you're going to do to get to where you're going to be.” Joe Curcillo’s Top Five Tips For Harnessing The Power O...

“There is a famous saying isn't there, you always start out with the end in mind. And I guess that is very relevant to anyone listening to this podcast because we're all in business. I think that advice would flow through to even to all bricks and mortar businesses as well. What does a potential exit look like? Who would we sell it to? And how do you value it? And then what do I need to...

"Trust is really a two-way street. And in order to build trust, there has to be a first mover. As a leader, it's incumbent upon you to be the first mover. And so, if you want to create a trusting environment within your team, you have to offer trust. And that means trusting that your folks have the organization's and the team's best interests in mind, trust that they have the s...

“It's a simple breathing technique. You breathe in through your nose. So, you hold your breath for seven counts. And then you breathe out through your mouth for eight counts.” Joni Peddie Top Five Tips That Help You Feel On ‘Top Form’ Daily 1.   Sleep is your Superpower. 2.  Brain food is good food. 3.  Stress- less. 4.  'Open your heart'. 5.  Micro movements during your work day bo...

Our beliefs create our reality, basically. So, for example, if we're running on the belief that we're not good enough, or we're not intelligent enough, or you know, if it's a business owner or an entrepreneur, that there's too much competition, whatever the belief is, if it's a negative belief, it's going to impact your life, your business, your personal life or...

“We all need to embrace self-stress reducing techniques. Maybe meditation, you're taking time, five minutes a day, twice a day even, just to settle your mind. And I don't mean that we have to get rid of all our thoughts. It's just that we have to focus, instead of on our thoughts, to drop down into our body and see what's going on in there. It can be as simple as that, practici...