Fast Pace with Josh Phegan and Dean Mackie

Today on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan talk about living life on purpose and inspiring others to grow. They define advice vs. feedback and discuss ways an individual may prefer to accept your input. They show how to communicate your intent, avoid the advice trap, and create a safe, supportive environment where people can be more receptive. 

This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discussing what's needed for running a great sales meeting. They look at energy management, productive use of time, recognition for great sales, and making it fun. They show why you need rules and an agenda, and they note that people should leave the meeting knowing what to do next. 

Today on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan show how to land great people for your business. They talk about some of the things exceptional people look for, how to show them you'll provide their best environment with guiding principles to grow and succeed, how to get past the resistance barrier, and what to do for a great on-boarding experience. 

This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan show how to conduct a great interview that makes candidates feel good about your organisation. They recommend that you know what you're recruiting for, look for quality attributes, and have a structure with key questions ready. They also discuss digital vs. face to face and the STAR technique.   

In this Fast Pace episode, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss sourcing and the war for talent. Insights include the need to always be recruiting, creating new positions to bring good people in, having a process for replacement, building an attractive environment where people can excel, and demonstrating leadership and support.

This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan explore business intelligence and insights inside the data. They look at data driven decision making, fully utilising the tools you have, small moves that make big shifts, capturing customer moments that matter, combining data sources for fuller insight, and becoming aware of unconscious behaviours.  

In this Fast Pace episode, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan look beyond great recruitment to the next level: Great retention. It takes a mindset for recognising and supporting potential, enforced accountability, a sense of purpose beyond money, caring and interest in your people, and active, intentional gratitude. 

In this Fast Pace episode, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss simple rules that work inside any business. They note the need for a clear alignment of vision and values, having the best interests at heart, roles and responsibilities, the 9/14 rule, specific rules for rising and declining markets, and learning to both recognise what works and pivot when the market changes.

This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss the innovation lab and shifting business performance. They address innovation as culture, encouraging collaboration, overcoming fear of change, identifying the problem first, commitment and fortitude, building a sustainable model, and connecting isolated functions together.

In this Fast Pace episode, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan look at balancing customer service and profit margins in the age of the customer. They talk about how roles are changing, what's most important to the customer, AI applications for improved customer insights, and products that provide a better customer experience with your organisation.

This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discussing business cycles, the property clock, and why current cycles are speeding up significantly. They look at high inflation events, adaptability, supply and demand shocks, cashflow coverage, building a resilient infrastructure, preparing for declining markets, and going granular to create value.

This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan offer tips to business leaders on coaching for performance. They talk about people's willingness to be coached, characteristics of an effective coach, questioning to coach for a solution, and the questions that need to be asked. 

In this Fast Pace episode, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan look at the feasibility of running your business on the power of one number. They discuss metrics you need to run your business effectively, knowing what you want to achieve, measuring MPS specifically, and linking employee performance with business performance.

This episode of Fast Pace features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan explaining how to build a system and how that can solve so many basic business problems. They define what a system is and where you need to use them, solving the right problem by asking the right questions and developing cultured discipline and accountability.

This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan share observations on career progression and making the leap from salesperson/property manager to director. They explore reasons for wanting to be a director, adding value as a leader, knowing what you want to accomplish and how much you're willing to contribute, and being in it for the long haul.

In this Fast Pace episode, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss keeping a finger on the organisation's pulse through financial year planning. They comment on creating sustainable value, the impact of wage pressure on generating revenue, the three metrics for increasing fees, and the need for making personal investments to improve your performance and productivity. 

This episode of Fast Pace features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan examining how a system or a person can affect outcomes. They look at the roles systems and people play, examples of using systems to control workflow, saving time by keeping organised and being aware of what's happening across the organisation. 

This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on leadership in the VUCA world, meaning Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous. They discuss the VUCA concept and how it applies to real estate, understanding and thriving with change, learning to pivot and adapt, bringing clarity in uncertain times, taking action quickly, and being a better leader.

This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan talk about onboarding and the first 90 days. They look at optimising the process through pre-boarding, why 30% of hires leave within 90 days, getting people engaged, what to do when onboarding fails, mapping out expectations, making it a good experience, and paying attention to feedback from the new hires' fresh views of the business. 

In this Fast Pace episode, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan look at entries and exits for business ownership. They discuss evaluation methodologies, complete documentation, clear systems and processes, slow buy in and slow sell out, building for saleability, knowing your own strengths and skillset, and insights for shareholders.

This episode of Fast Pace features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discussing the power of models in creative thinking. They look at the need for having your growth infrastructure in place from the start, your vision and the goals that drive you and your decisions, building a strong business core, creating an environment for innovation, and thinking from fresh new viewpoints. 

This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan look at development paths and how individuals view their career progression. They talk about being clear around how your people move forward into different functions within the organisation and how to help them succeed. They discuss retaining good people, career acceleration, the concept of real estate accreditation, and creating a culture of mas...

In this Fast Pace episode, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan offer leadership guidance around growing a future management team. They discuss cultural environment, growth and alignment, succession planning, types of leadership, recognising and developing talent, the leadership journey, the line of continuum, and training for initiative and autonomy.

This episode of Fast Pace features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discussing what the first 90 days of a new leader look like and how to become successful in that time. They suggest you remember you don't have all the answers, and they offer ways for you to understand how the business works, create a plan for the future, and start showing leadership now by building relationships and learning where yo...

In this week's podcast with Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan, they discuss the power of choosing growth, including: How to decide between new markets, service lines and market share. Why deciding what you want is critical. Why knowing if you're on a plateau or climbing a peak is important. How to stay dynamic and choose the problems you wish to pursue and solve.