Systemize Your Success

By having a clear vision, mission and business objective you’re more likely to achieve in succeeding your goals. In this episode of Systemise Your Success, Steve dives into the need for structured project management, creating milestones and aligning your business with your vision.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  Having a clear vision of your company's vision and mission allows you to know whether the project is...

Property Investor, #1 best-selling author and property coach, Bronwen Vearncombe joins the show today to share how she quit her corporate job for a life where she became her boss and found financial freedom. Together they discuss the importance of networking and systems and how to value your own time.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  Using Zero Accounting for your bookkeeping gives you control and supply great boo...

Have you ever had somebody leave your company, and months later discovered they still have access to company folders and files? Join Steve as he shares how creating ‘groups’ within your company can simplify the process of granting or removing access to new and former employees. KEY TAKEAWAYS The idea of a ‘group’ is that it is a collection of users or email addresses, these may be users of your co...

Outsourcing expert and coach, currently making her mark as Founder of The Freedom Geek, Imogen Cook joins the show today to discuss her journey to being the go-to person for Virtual Assistant assistance. Together, they discuss how the virtual assistant industry is going from strength to strength, the importance of doing your due diligence when searching for a VA and how with the right training, a...

When managing or working within a remote team, it may be difficult to build trusting relationships. Join Steve as he shares his tips and tricks on how you can develop a brilliant relationship with your remote team. Steve discusses how the trusting relationship begins at the hiring process, how to hire people with the same values as you and why regular meetings can help you get to know your team me...

Discover today how you can use an online assistant to save you time when sourcing property or other admin-based tasks, allowing you to focus on the high-value tasks and make more money. Join Steve as he discusses how you can create replicable systems for virtual assistants to utilise, how outsourcing can speed up the buying process of properties and how to work out your value to ensure you don’t s...

Intellectual property lawyer, branding expert and IP business advisor, Shireen Smith joins the show today to share her IP secrets that you can utilise to protect your business. Together they discuss the importance of understanding IP, how IP often acts as a container for your brand's values and why focusing on having unique branding will help separate you from your competitors. Shireen's latest bo...

Understanding the different types of company email accounts available to you can save you a lot of money, join Steve today as he lets you in on some tips and tricks that can help keep your costs down. Steve discusses understanding which staff member needs their license and who doesn’t, the convenience of a shared inbox and the benefits of using Alias’.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Getting company email account...

Discover today how you can prioritise your outsourcing by creating your personalised ‘Systemization Plan’. Today, Steve discusses how creating a ‘Systemization Plan’ can allow you to think about the future of your business, how putting processes into place will see a lot of your urgent stuff disappear and why tracking your time enables you to be more accountable, encouraging you to focus on the im...

Entrepreneur, Author of ‘Stress To Success’ and owner of award winning sales and lettings agency, Castledene Group John Paul joins the show to explain how he went from working in his business, to stepping back and working on it. Together they dive into all things systems and discuss the importance of nurturing your staff, how to start creating processes to systemise and why letting go and trusting...

Giving constructive feedback is a skill which often needs perfecting if you want to positively affect behaviour within your business. Join Steve as he discusses a four step model which can help you deliver feedback in the most impactful and professional way. Learn the importance of ensuring you always use the present tense, encouraging future behaviour and never giving written feedback.    KEY TAK...

Property entrepreneur of the year, creator of Fast Track Finance and chartered accountant, Josh Keegan joins the show to share his wealth of knowledge about how you can make your business profitable and manageable. Together they discuss why too many entrepreneurs focus on growth and neglect their profits, why finance is an investment not a cost and why every decision you make needs to be financial...

Discover today the 7 essential apps that will help you run a successful, efficient and productive business. Join Steve as he talks through the importance of ensuring you have a decent screen recording software, why it is more efficient to use a smart virtual meeting software and why investing in good cloud based office apps can allow you to access your important documents from any device, anywhere...

In demand startup mentor, consultant and dedicated entrepreneur Mike Corrandini joins the show today to talk about how he has helped over 2,000 entrepreneurs grow their businesses into the successful, systemised machines they so desperately desired. Together, Steve and Mike discuss the importance of having a mentor, the benefits of customer and business surveys and why following a specific framewo...

Wealth mentor, Author and podcaster, Kevin Whelan joins the show today to discuss his motivation behind ensuring he no longer was reliant on trading his time for money and how he created the simple process to help people become financially free in as little as five years. Together, they cover everything from pushing back on traditional financial viewpoints, how to create a self-replenishing bank a...

In this episode, Steve is joined by director of WealthBuilders, best-selling author and successful podcaster, Christian Rodwell who discusses his decision to leave the comfort of his 9-5 job and start up his own company helping and advising others to do the same. Together, they discuss how it has never been easier to start up your new business, the importance of creating assets and why waking up a...

In this episode, Steve talks about the benefits of having a weekly company meeting from the perspective of a virtual assistant.     KEY TAKEAWAYS   KPI’s & Goals – Having an overview of what the company KPI’s and goals, especially if specific can be incredibly useful for virtual employees, it provides clarity and context to the work they are doing and can also help them prioritise. Issues – Going...

In this episode of SYS Hiring the Right People, Steve talks about how he on boards a new employee and the benefits of taking the time and effort to do this well. This is an essential step to ensure they become a productive team member as soon as possible, but it also creates and sets the tone for building a trusting, strong and long lasting relationship.   KEY TAKEAWAYS It’s worth spending the tim...

In this episode of SYS Hiring the Right People, Steve talks about how to make your final decision when hiring, an essential step to get right or you will have wasted time and energy on on-boarding the wrong person. Steve goes over some last-minute checks and tests you can do to ensure you get the right final candidate!   KEY TAKEAWAYS  Two things you can implement to ensure you make the right deci...

In this episode of SYS Hiring the Right People, Steve talks about how you can run the ultimate live interview. By this point you have had your candidates go through multiple checks and you are fairly certain they have the right skills, attitude and experience to work with you, but it’s still key that you do a live interview otherwise you risk wasting both time, effort and money on-boarding someone...

In this episode of SYS Hiring the Right People, Steve talks about how you can interview ANYONE in just 2 and a half minutes!   KEY TAKEAWAYS   When you are trying to narrow down candidates you just want to know if this is the sort of person you want to work with, can they communicate and if they present themselves well, you can do all of this in 2.5 minutes. You want to eliminate anyone who isn’t...

In this episode of SYS Hiring the Right People, Steve talks about the test task you can set your applicants so that you can objectively measure their skill set. Creating and setting a task in this way means you can save both time, money and investment on someone, who ultimately, is unable to do the job you want to hire them for.     KEY TAKEAWAYS   When thinking of the task to set make sure it’s s...

In this episode of SYS Hiring the Right People, Steve talks about how you can process any number of applicants down to a shortlist in a matter of minutes!     KEY TAKEAWAYS   You could spend days sifting through applicants and still miss the gems. Using a applicant funnel form (eg via google docs) can save you so much valuable time. Once your applicants have filled in your form, you can then expor...

  In this episode of SYS Hiring the Right People, Steve talks about how you can create and use a recruitment funnel to find the right person for the right role in your business.   KEY TAKEAWAYS   Using a recruitment funnel means you can cast your net wide and give yourself the best chance of finding the right person for your business. Doing it in a systemised way means you can whittle down and cre...

  In the first deep dive episode of SYS Hiring the Right People, Steve talks about how you can create the perfect job posting, to attract the right type of candidate for the job and your business.   KEY TAKEAWAYS   When you are putting up a job posting it’s so important to remember that you are in competition with everyone else out there who are also looking to hire. How can you make yourself stan...