Being in business or undertaking a process without a clear outcome is pointless and a waste of time.
Not to mention frustrating and costly.
In your business, there are key metrics that drive success, year in, year out.
You know what yours are right now, but are they the real key to successful outcomes? (more…)
Being the best kept secret in town is bad for business.
Sure, as customers we like to find products, services and businesses before others do. It’s exciting to be an early adopter.
Sometimes however, no matter how good what we purchase is, we may not always tell others about it. Because it’s our little secret!
But as a business you want to be known and talked about positively. And quickly! (more…)
Value Statements. Mission Statements. Vision Statements.
We’ve all seen or got them in our business.
Can everyone or anyone recite them? Or even remember them?
When all is said and done, words on a wall mean nothing unless there are behaviours that support the words intent. (more…)
Everyone has a brand.
Your brand is not what you say it is, and it’s not what someone tells you it is. Your brand is what someone tells someone else it is.
Your brand is being assessed every day by everyone.
It’s no different from a business or product brand. It requires goodwill based on reputation.
Leadership is the same. (more…)
Purpose is the single biggest discovery you can make personally, or for your business, to give yourself the best chance of success with fulfilment.
It’s also the second key pillar of commitment you make to thrive.
It’s becomes the foundation of which all other commitments are made. (more…)
We all go through ups and downs in life, and at times it causes us to seek greater meaning, or greater purpose.
At its core, a purpose is doing something for someone else. It drives what you do, and who you do it for. It’s that feeling that we are contributing to something bigger than ourselves.
However, the pursuit of purpose arrives to people at different times. (more…)
We are about to face heavy economic headwinds across the globe.
Rising costs, rising inflation, supply chain issues, financial uncertainty, labour market challenges.
No business will be exempt from an impact.
So how do you prepare and minimise the impact for you and your team, and then accelerate out the other side? (more…)
Every business has a purpose.
This applies to any business or organisation. Private or public, every business exists for a reason.
Do you know your business’s purpose?
It’s time to unearth it. (more…)
Performance is formed from a basis of trust.
Trust doesn’t happen overnight and it does take effort to build trust in teams.
It takes vulnerability and genuineness in understanding each other.
Trust is built through growing meaningful relationships where genuine care and interest in each other’s thoughts, ideas and feedback is the driver towards greater success. (more…)
Interdependence will always trump independence.
No one ever succeeds alone.
You may have had a lot of success yourself throughout your career, but you didn’t get there without the assistance of others.
To succeed in business, a motivated and united team supporting each other is essential. (more…)
Ask each of your team to write down the answer to this question: “Why does our business exist?’
Collate the answers.
If they are not all the same, ask yourself what are your team basing strategic and operational decisions on. (more…)
Sport has long been driven by a valuable but diminishing volunteer base.
It’s slowly being replaced by an increasing “where do I pay, where do I play – no volunteering for me” attitude from those seeking recreational activities.
You can understand that as people’s lives become busier, and as choice in recreational pursuits grows, people can and are becoming more selective on where they spend their personal time.
It’s crucial that as a sport, you provide an appealing option for people to join you. (more…)
Let’s face it, business is partly science, and partly art.
Every business runs on numbers, but feelings and intuition occur in business decisions daily.
Whether it’s based on experience or knowledge, there are times when decisions are made and prove themselves right for the business.
But what are these decisions based on? (more…)
Sometimes we are our own biggest threat by not seeing or acknowledging the truth.
If your sport is not growing, you are falling behind.
From years of experience, I have witnessed many sports and sporting organisations say “we’ve held our numbers this year”, and essentially they have seen their growth plateau.
That is often the first sign before a major drop-off, and sadly for some, the beginning of the end. (more…)
Numbers are crucial in any business.
From setting performance indicators to monitoring your finances, you know how much they matter.
So when unearthing and understanding something based on feelings, it’s difficult to justify pursuing it any further.
Why is something like a purpose important to my business if I can’t measure it?
Well you can, it just depends on what you’re measuring. (more…)
