Systemize Your Success

🎙With text messages, emails, and social media or instant messaging, communication within a company can quickly become complicated and confusing, with decentralised conversations resulting in missed information and time-consuming trawls through apps to keep up with ongoing interactions. Steve is here to show you his method of keeping things simple and easy to follow. KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡 Have a standar...

🎙 Jane Bayler is a brand and business growth expert. Her Company empowers consultants and experts to stand out for their difference and create relevant, exciting offers. With a 20-year global brand marketing and media history, she grew London's brand identity business from £1m to £6m, quadrupling profits and selling to a US communications group.  Jane is a breast cancer survivor. She is passionate...

🎙Steve explains Virtual Private Networks and how they can prevent you from getting banned on Facebook. They are apps or software on your browser that tricks the internet into thinking you are located somewhere you are not. The advantages of this, aside from keeping your location secret, are numerous.   KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡VPNs encrypt all the data that you send from your device. This is an extra layer...

🎙This episodes guest is Sebastian Schaffer, founder of Dofollow.io, a company helping Business to Business companies build links on the most desired publications in the world. They build links that not everyone can acquire and which pass through an editorial process to help create long-term measurable growth.  With a demonstrated history of working in the marketing and software development industr...

🎙 If you are in business, you will most likely have several apps you use for your daily operation. With the proliferation of functional business apps on the market, paying for all the ones you need for your staff can become complicated and expensive. Steve explains how to get the best out of your business apps to get all the features you need to make your operation run smoothly without ending up p...

🎙Is time tracking the right thing to do with your staff? Regardless of whether they are remote or local, what approach should be taken, if at all? Should you be tracking clicks, time, shifts or projects? Steve has tried a number of approaches to this problem and this episode will share with you his experience and successful solutions. KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡Many feel that tracking a staff members time ca...

🎙 Following on from the last episode in which Steve informed you how to create a bonded, united remote team that cares about each other and your company’s values with a simple meeting hack, in this episode, he will share the actual meeting itself. With this behind-the-scenes episode, you can see the evidence of how applying simple changes to your weekly meeting can improve communication, relations...

🎙In this episode, Steve explains how to dramatically increase your morale, teamwork and collaboration amongst your staff, even if you never actually meet each other, other than virtually. This simple hack will ensure that you are all focused on the common goal you work towards as a business and thus increase your productivity and profits.  KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡A daily meeting can increase communication...

🎙 When a staff member is not doing their job properly, how do we fix the problem without undermining trust in the team and pointing fingers while achieving the desired result of the work being completed in the way you intend? Steve takes an in-depth look at this common problem and explains his company's steps to rectify the situation. KEY TAKEAWAYS 💡 You need to standardise procedures across your...

🎙 Steve explains three mistakes he made when he started outsourcing and how they cost him dearly in money, time and opportunities. Listen in as he explains how to avoid these pitfalls, from expensive staff to costly software. KEY TAKEAWAYS💡 Never assume that it is quicker and easier to complete tasks yourself. As a business owner, your time is incredibly valuable, and you are your business’ best...

🎙 Do you live in fear of key staff leaving the organisation or feel you cannot promote the best people due to the void they will leave in the main volume of your core work? It could be that the business you created to give you the lifestyle you truly deserve may actually be keeping you trapped. In this episode, Steve will explain how to get more out of your existing team and find and promote the b...

🎙 Steve has spent well over £100,000 on courses, training and books and has been running his courses for over six years. During all that time, he has learnt a few lessons, which he will share with you in this episode. Set up this systemised approach to getting the most out of the money spent on courses, books and coaching programs.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  💡 Being able to make the most out of courses, coa...

🎙 Steve explains how relying on people can sometimes become a pitfall that slows down your business. By recounting his own early experiences with delegating and the failures of doing so, Steve illustrates how systems can be much more efficient and freeing when used efficiently. KEY TAKEAWAYS💡 Steve did not ask his first assistant to document everything she did while she was working. So when she l...

In this episode, Steve will explain how to share access with your team as affordably and safely as possible, how to avoid the risks of using software like LastPass, and how to ensure you stay within the General Data Protection Regulation as you do so.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  LastPass is software that allows you to share access with multiple people without sharing a password over the internet, and they al...

Steve explains how to automate your systems creation. He will expand on the points you need to focus on to achieve this and how you can make systems improvement a habitual and automatic task in your organisation. This will involve a mindset shift on your part and the development of culture within your team of continuous development and improvement.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  Identify which systems require y...

Steve details the 21 benefits of having an Operations Manual in your business. Standard Operating Procedures are key to systemisation and are your method to more freedom and flexibility. Even if you have an Operations Manual already, check out this episode to see if there is any way you can improve it to gain all the benefits Steve outlines.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  With SOPs in place, you will retain st...

Get the inside story on Steve’s debrief with his team after his seven-day absence from his company. He details what worked and what didn’t, what’s changed as a result of his being away, and what changes will be made in the future. You can use the lessons from this meeting to apply to your business, avoid some of the pitfalls, and learn some of the lessons his team discovered during his absence.  ...

Steve interviews Andy Gaught, a property investor, mentor and coach who has been running his own property investment business, Asset Living, for the past seven years.   Andy has been interested in technology from an early age, from upgrading computers in his teenage years to studying mechanical engineering at Southampton University. In 2014, after a couple of years working for TV post-production c...

Steve talks to David Kyle, the FitPro Lead Generation Specialist. Through his experience as a fitness instructor and gym owner David has set up FitPro Lead Generation to help other fitness instructors and fitness based businesses stream line and expand their marketing to reach more clients. Steve and David chat about Marketing, business growth, generating leads and the fitness industry.   KEY TAKE...

Steve has worked with hundreds of businesses of different sizes and types over the years and has concluded that NOW is the right time to hire a Virtual Assistant no matter what stage you are currently at. In this episode he explains how the first step into investing into a Virtual Assistant can set any business on the path to increased productivity and profit.   KEY TAKEAWAYS   There is an incredi...

At Steve’s quarterly meeting he tried a little something new with his staff which was such a resounding success he has vowed to include it in every meeting from now on. He set out his values in a clear and understandable way and asked his team to be either in or out.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  Values are a complex consideration in business but in his first discussion with his team he concentrated on Person...

Steve interviews Scott Cundill, published author, international kung fu medalist and owner of My Most Trusted plug-in for LinkedIn. Through his chrome plug-in My Most Trusted, you can form a trusted business referral and introduction network around you, see other people’s trusted connections and ask for a referral, speed up LinkedIn by 300%, use My Most Trusted Circles to replace WhatsApp groups,...

Steve loves a good flow chart! In fact, he’s pretty psyched about process mapping, brainstorming and digital whiteboards too! In this episode, he explains why mapping your ideas visually can increase efficiency and why it’s an essential skill to master to get the most out of your time and energy.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  When you have a multimodal approach to your sharing of information and your learning...

Steve has tried four different business banking apps in the last few years trying to find the best for all the requirements of the small business. In this episode he explains which one comes out in front and why.    KEY TAKEAWAYS    The business banking world for small businesses can often be archaic, clunky and backward in its approach and operation. HSBC are difficult to get an account with, it...

Steve holds a daily meeting with his staff called ‘the daily stand up’. This takes only 3 minutes a person and the resulting benefits are substantial. Having refined and streamlined it to its most efficient functions, Steve shares how this how it can benefit upper business or organization.    KEY TAKEAWAYS    Cycle round each person and ask them a very specific set of questions which will give you...