System I/O: Recent Episodes
Tom Rolley
What is an entrepreneur? Why is creating procedures so critical yet so difficult? And even if they are... Why don't people use them? Explore these questions and more in the System I/O podcast.
- Failing a lot? Is it a lack of reps or a lack of technique?
- Private coaching will get you further faster.
- Stability is critical to your success. Find out why.
- Systems can fail at multiple points.
- If you are not getting the results a system is designed to create, then something is either broken in the system or something was not executed.
- And the failed results you are getting will help troubleshoot the system problem. Watch to find out more.
- Refusing to fail only leads to stagnation…
- Failure may be avoided in the short term, but the long-term outcome is assured… yes, long-term failure.
- Willingness to fail in the short term provides the insights and corrections required for long-term success.
- To see what’s being done in your business? What is not being done?
- This is traditionally difficult and can easily get too hard for people to bother tracking their work at all.
- Yet as team sizes grow… This ability is critical to ongoing improvement in the effectiveness of the work a business does. Watch to learn more.
- Kanban has been very popular for usage outside of its original context…
- But with the changing nature of work… Is it the optimal method of work management?
- Watch for a comparison of Kanban vs Magic Board styles of project management
- Ikea is a powerful business game…
- And many people will have faced the problem of converting a flatpack into actual furniture… And MOST SUCCEED!
- Why is this, and why is it important to your business? Listen now for the answer…
- The acute shortage of workers is affecting many businesses…
- While adding more people to a business may allow you to do more, this is not an option if there are no people to hire.
- Businesses that can operate in these conditions will have a much bigger advantage over those that can only hire more people as their only strategic move.
- Learn what to do instead by listening to this.
- Make no mistake… Tracking your work is SLOWER.
- But if you are interrupted? It's way FASTER!
- Find out when you should and should not track your work.
- You will have two major choices in styles of project management…
- Which one should you choose? What are the pros and cons of each?
- Discover when you should choose Kanban and when you should choose spreadsheet.
- The concept of a Minimum Viable Product is powerful…
- Do the minimum work and then get to test it out. Find out if it works…
- But like many conceptual ideas, the implementation holds many lessons.
- Listen to this now for a discussion and errors not to make!
- Keith Cunningham clearly knows business… And he is VERY NEGATIVE on systems.
- And he is RIGHT! Rigid, inflexible systems are of limited value. So is there any value to systems?
- If you set your systems up, so they are flexible and adaptable… Then you get the benefits of documentation in your business + the ability to customise every system to the specific needs of individual cases.
- Flexibility in the framework of your system is CRITICAL!!
- Listen to learn more…
- It is very common for businesses that do not document their work to suffer this problem!
- Every piece of work has to be done from scratch. Not only done, but often a problem solved to work out what must be done in the first place.
- This is highly inefficient! Documentation at even a minimal level helps speed up the work AND improves the accuracy.
- Some golf courses are cheap to play, and some are extremely expensive.
- Why would some people choose to pay for very expensive courses?
- The answer reveals a lot more about life and money than would first appear… This one is worth listening :)
- Is the minimum enough?
- If it is part of a habit, then the minimum may be the most important work you do that day…
- Why? Keeping the streak alive, even if it was just the bare minimum, has long-term benefits that go far beyond the apparent deficit on that day.
- That is a pretty strange name for the software.
- But it seems we are moving into a far more difficult business environment.
- And the skillsets required for wartime and a peacetime CEO are very different. Listen to this now for more details on this important info.
- There is a very difficult aspect of a small successful business...
- That what works with a small team… does not scale.
- And this leaves you in a very difficult position. Listen to this now to learn what to do instead.
- The problem with fires is that dealing with them leaves no time to work out where they are coming from.
- Unfortunately, most businesses only see the fire when it is BIG. Yet… it was there for days or weeks before…
- The problem is the ability to see the fires while they are still small. Usually, this is extremely limited. What can you do to see the fires when they ARE small?
- If you ever wanted to know how to make good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible...
- Then knowing how to do this really makes a difference to your life value over time…
- From getting out of bed on time to daily exercise to business habits and everything in between… this is a powerful skill set to know.
- Habits seem to have a critical feature… That they will not be started unless there is a “trigger.”
- If you do not hit the trigger, then the habit will not run.
- And if you do? It will… Knowing how to trigger your habits is a powerful skill set to get better results in your life…
- What are the factors that lead to habits “sticking”...
- And if these are known… Can they be utilised to increase the rate of instilling good habits?
- Listen to this now to learn an easy yet powerful change in your thinking that can make a big difference to the results you experience in life.
- A half-built bridge has limited value.
- A completed bridge has massive value.
- How much of your work does not finish? Can you see where everything is up to clearly? Listen to this for more clarity around this important topic.
- Every business must get results.
- Knowing these allows you to work out the work that must be done to get those results.
- Businesses can often create many results, but identifying the ones that absolutely matter is a wise move.
- What creates our habits?
- One of the most powerful factors is your environment.
- If you are not getting the results you want from your habits - this episode is a must-listen.
- Are there problems with running a business WITH processes? Yes.
- But they are much less than the three BIG problems you will face trying to run a business without processes.
- Just like recipes for cooking and instructions for lego, having the processes documented in your business makes a big difference.
- Listen to this now to see if you are dealing with any of these three problems and know if you are… you have a process problem.
- Businesses around the world are facing a similar crisis... There are not enough people to work.
- This means many businesses are at risk of collapsing.
- Is there any solution to this? Is there any hope in such dire circumstances?
- Systems are potent… They generate specific results time and time again…
- Except when they don’t. And the reason they don’t is always the same.
- Find out why systems just DO NOT live up to their promise… And what to do about it!
- It is easy to remember the work you do every day… It's never long since it last got done.
- But as the time between system execution stretches - 1 week, 2 weeks, 4 weeks, 12 weeks - which do you want to rely on?
- There is no doubt which one works better for these systems… Listen to find out why.
- Imagine having the ability to radically change your reality.
- This was simply impossible for the vast majority of people who have lived before the internet age…
- But now? If you have these two simple ingredients… Radical transformation is available to you too…
- The long-term improvement of humans has been based on one thing - improved productivity.
- Over time, productivity has been a very linear improvement curve…
- But if you had a way to significantly increase productivity ahead of this curve? Now you have a massive strategic advantage.
- Many systems should be executed on a schedule…
- Miss that schedule, and you have to play catch up… or accept the consequences of letting it go…
- If you do choose catchup? You should know the one thing covered in this video BEFORE you begin.
- Surely systems and vaccines have very little in common…
- One protects the body against illness… One tracks processes and results…
- But there is one aspect that they are extremely alike… And it is possibly the most important part of both…
- Listen now to find out more.
- Are your habits under your control?
- How do they get setup in the first place…
- And is there a place that is optimal to change them?
- It is always quicker to just get the work done…
- At least the first time! But if you have to do that work again?
- It is wise to consider building the system, even the most basic version of it, at the same time…
- Is the focus on goals as being a critical component of success true?
- People who hit their goals, set goals…
- But for every person that does hit the goal, there are usually 20 more that fail… :0
- Listen for more details!
- I knew systems could only be handled with software.
- And while massive developments have been made in software development…
- If you would like to invest a lot of money really quickly, then jump into software dev…
- Restarting habits is a critical ability.
- The story of how James Clear got so passionate about habits is both confronting and powerful.
- The pace of change is phenomenal right now. Your skill sets are crucial to update.
- “Fortress Australia” finally opened for travel…
- The lady behind the check-in FREAKED me out as I checked in. Almost every other passenger carried huge suitcases. Mine was small and did not even appear to be full.
- Find out what happened when I flew to Maui for the first time in 2.5 years!
- Knowing what to say NO to can be just as important as what you say yes to…
- Even with a high potential for high revenue and profit - you might still choose to say “no”...
- Listen to this now to find one reason when it's a good idea to say no to good opportunities.
- Your customers are interested in one thing… Results.
- Great results come when all the components to produce that result are provided.
- Partial solutions may have some value but cannot compare to the power of a complete solution. Listen to this now for more.
- Software development and house remodelling have many similarities…
- Problems occur commonly with both and there is a significant risk of making errors that lead to much bigger problems.
- The cool thing is that lessons from either can easily be applied to the other. Listen to this now for more!
- Permanent daylight saving is an interesting idea. I love one part but struggle with the other…
- The problem? Daylight saving is a solution for a world that no longer exists.
- A better solution for the 21 century and the world we live in now? Listen to this now for the answer.
- It is so easy to be overwhelmed and confused about business. What to focus on. What to do next.
- And many people just never get clear on their MARKETING - the underlying basis for who they are serving, what problems they are solving, and their offer to solve those problems.
- Once you have these… Then applying your marketing to your sales, ads and fulfilment becomes MUCH easier. Listen to this now for full details.
- You just presented your live webinar. You sent the replay and closed down the cart…
- And then… What to do? What about those people that did not buy?
- Listen to this now for the easy option to get more sales :)
- The coming health crisis is now unavoidable.
- The problem? We need more doctors and nurses for the aging baby boomer population in 6-8 years. But… it takes 12 to train them. :(
- Outcome? Expect healthcare to get expensive from 2028 onwards.
- Feeling overwhelmed with what to focus on in your business?
- How well do you have these FOUR systems working?
- Got it locked down? Great. Struggling or non-existent? You will struggle. Listen to this now for what to do!
- Either you are going to document how to do things or you are going to problem-solve.
- The first time you do any new system, you are going to have to problem solve it.
- The problem? If you do not document your solutions (ie your SOPs!) then you are going to have to problem solve it AGAIN and AGAIN and AGAIN. Find out what to do instead by listening to this now.
- When selecting what software to use for your systems - you are going to have to make a choice.
- Either you choose to optimise for systems and productivity OR you optimise for processes and ensure compliance.
- When you choose one, you automatically decrease your ability to have the other. Listen to this now to work out which way you should go for your business!
- Knowing the instructions is essential.
- But incorrect execution of correct instructions will still lead you into trouble.
- Listen for more details on this simple yet powerful example of failed execution…
- Business is just one set of systems.
- As an entrepreneur, you will need more than just business on point.
- Find out the other three key areas and how they influence your productivity and profits. See www.playwarrior.io for the 42 day Warrior Challenge.
- Before you automate… Prove it works manually first.
- This is a REALLY good idea. You will not waste money on ideas that do not work…
- AND… you will have a clean process to automate. Listen to this now for best practices.
- When you have errors - this costs you money, this costs you time, this costs you headaches…
- And it costs you PROFIT.
- Simple systems are simple, but once you have multiple people on multiple systems all at once? You better have a robust system structure!
- It is VERY tempting to think that you can make more by serving more people…
- But you will run into a BIG problem. If you try to speak to too many people… NO ONE will buy.
- The solution? Choose ONE AVATAR and stick to it. Why? Listen to find out.
- You just completed your webinar slides? Congratulations!
- But what now? How do you get people to buy from your webinar?
- Listen to this now for the next steps you will need to take for webinar success…
- We lost internet access to the Byron Bay region…
- ATMs did not work, gas stations ran out, and supermarkets were only taking cash… :0
- Knowing how systems work allows you to prepare for system failures.
- If you could only choose seven books to run your business on… What would they be?
- Watch now to learn the seven most important books to study and master to “almost guarantee” business success.
- How many do you already own?
- What are the systems required for any successful business?
- With these in place… a business can be successful. Without them - the business will fail.
- And the better you understand them and their interrelationships - the more successful your business will be… Listen to this now for more…
- Disaster situations will expose systems.
- Knowing the LIMITS of a system’s capacity to be under strain and still work is critical. Why? It allows you to prepare for what to do when a system breaks.
- While you hopefully only need to deal with this rarely, thinking about it BEFORE you face the situation makes a BIG difference. Listen for more insights and tips.
- When does it make sense to start building out your systems and processes?
- Some people say wait. Some people say to start immediately.
- A hint may be found here -Experienced entrepreneurs can build businesses so fast because they already have all the systems required for that business. Listen to this now to learn more and go to www.systemio.dev for more systems help.
- The first question to answer - how do SOPs relate to Systems?
- There are two reasons your SOPs are not producing the results a system is meant to...
- Being able to decide which one is the problem is critical to what you do next! Listen to this now to learn more.
- Ukraine holds a solid reputation for software development…
- But this has been severely disrupted by Russia’s invasion.
- What can be done in these difficult circumstances?
- Does planning pay off?
- It is often easy to think that “just starting” is the best way. But often leads to many problems that could have been avoided with even minor planning.
- Listen to clarify the major advantages of great planning…
- Many people struggle with the mechanics of running their business on systems.
- Even though many have been told that systems are the solution to business success…
- Listen to this now to discover the simple principles of building systems in your business.
- Fixing the right problem is critical to getting the results you want from your business.
- Knowing where and why a campaign is failing allows you to make the changes in the right place.
- It is easy to think would be obvious to work out - but often it is NOT.
- One critical factor is what you think marketing, sales, and advertising are.
- Get this right and it's going to allow you to fix the right problem and get much better results for your business.
- How is it possible that the same service could be ten or even one hundred times more expensive?
- I learned the concept from Russell Brunson in Expert Secrets.
- Keen to make more money from the same frameworks? Listen to this now for further details.
- Which systems have the most value in business?
- Having the ability to build any system is NOT as helpful as you might immediately think… Why? Not all systems have the same value depending on the growth stage a business is in.
- Listen to this now to find out which ones many businesses value the highest.
- Knowing what “marketing” is makes a big difference to business success.
- I struggled for YEARS with this. Somehow the importance and usefulness of “marketing” just never really registered… yet the consequences of this have been PROBLEMATIC.
- Now, Marketing ALWAYS comes first. Before Sales. Before Ads. Before Products. Marketing. More detail on why this is - Listen to this training now!
- Error 18 suddenly appeared on my washing machine and threw me into a dilemma… How do I get it fixed?
- I knew fixing it was a pain, not a great skill set of mine, and not something I wanted to do…
- Yet I made the DECISION to do it… Why? Listen to learn how this lesson applies to business as much as broken washing machines!
- Several episodes ago, I went on a rant that Email Marketing should be better called “Email Advertising”...
- But what I discovered is that email marketing deploys out to Email Sales, Email Advertising, and Email Fulfillment… And so Email Marketing IS the right name for this.
- So just like Marketing itself deploys out to Sales, Ads, and Fulfillment so does the specific version of marketing using email. Listen to learn why this is important in your business today!
- Templates are often provided by those that have had success… Here is a simple template you just fill in - and it too will work for you.
- Unfortunately, most templates do not work as well for you as they do for their creators. Why? Often, there are many unseen additional decisions that just having the templates do not help you with.
- So instead of being valuable, they just end up frustrating! Is there another way? Listen to this now.
- It is easy to get all excited about the “Expert Economy.” You, too, can make a fortune on the internet!
- And you go and create your course!! Well done!
- But then you find that when you build it… They do NOT come. Here’s what to do in this situation!
- Some people recommend just using video SOPs to document the work of your business.
- But there are significant downsides to this. Namely - people will stop using them with time and go back to their memory of what will be done. This is risky as people are easily distracted and often forget steps.
- Yet there are TWO times when video SOPs make perfect sense. Listen to this now for more.
- While we have easy access to vast amounts of knowledge from the internet and online book stores…
- Just gaining knowledge WILL NOT change your life.
- Find out what you MUST do with the knowledge in order to have it get you REAL RESULTS in your life.
- Recipes meet a lot of the requirements as examples of systems.
- There are instructions. There are ingredients. And there is the final result.
- Listen to this now to build a better understanding of how recipes are very similar to systems - so you can run your business more effectively and make more money today!
- A system is “repeatable tracked actions creating defined results.”
- Tracking is an essential part of the use of systems in a business.
- While there IS a small overhead of time required to track your systems, you must know the 3 BIG advantages of tracking - for you and your team.
- Realize that what you are after in business is one thing - Results.
- Results of leads. Results of Sales. Results of Cash.
- The outcome? You work less and make more. Listen to this now to discover the secret of consistent results in business.
- If you do not care what results you get, it does not matter what actions you take.
- But… If you are after SPECIFIC RESULTS? Then you must pay attention to the specific actions that lead to particular results.
- If you are not getting the results you want from your systems… Then you must look in one specific location. Listen to this now to find out where!
- You might wonder where is the best place to keep your system documentation…
- There are several options - trainual, systemology, process street, dropbox, google drive…
- But there is one place that is the WORST. Do not keep your system documents here! Listen to this now!
- Ask yourself right now… What is your definition of a system?
- And if you have a good definition… How does this help you build systems for your team in your business?
- Building systems for your teams will be impossible if you don’t have a definition of what a system is. Learn more by listening to this video…
- You get all excited and think… I’m going to do a webinar!
- And you think about all the work involved in building the slides for the webinar.
- But do not forget the rest of what is needed!! Emails, Videos, Pages, Forms, Automations, and even thank-you pages.
- Your decision? Do you want to know the actual workload beforehand or discover it halfway through your project?
- The cost of software development remains high…
- So tools have been developed to build high definition prototypes that give the exact experience…
- You get to try out the prototype thoroughly, sort out all the issues and then go to development. Planning makes a massive difference.
- Life can present you with highly challenging situations to know what to do or even just cope with.
- Knowing how to manage these situations makes a huge difference.
- When you do… You are more willing to take more chances because you KNOW you can handle whatever life brings to you. Listen to this now for more.
- The number of actions taken in the right direction will determine your result.
- Not just any actions… But the right actions. It is better to slow down and ensure your efforts are targeted for what you want… even if it means slowing right down.
- Take actions that move you forward in the right direction, and you will get results. Listen to this now to learn more.
- In the early stages of a project… you may have to face some voices of doubt. Will it work?
- Part fear. Part excitement. But the finished result seems so far away it is easy to quiet these voices.
- You might expect that as the completion becomes close, the voices become quieter… After all, the project is ALMOST DONE. Listen to this now to find out what really happens AND what to do about it.
- Information not implemented is not worth much…
- Skills in systems allow knowledge to be implemented far more effectively than trying to do it without systems - even if all the steps are given!!
- This is a hidden benefit of the systems mindset - everything becomes MUCH easier to get done - even that which previously could not be done. Listen to this for more!
- Having the ability to come up with a problem and get multiple robust solutions is powerful in business.
- Do you have this in your life right now? What results are you getting?
- If this is something you want, then listen to this episode for the benefits of setting up the Trifecta for you…
- It is very tempting to make improvements as you build out a project.
- But realize that if you change your sales funnels, you might improve the funnel but put the entire marketing at risk.
- Not realizing you must also change other areas of your marketing when you change one part has significant risks for your campaign success. Listen to learn more!
- I failed #75Hard
- Twenty days of the program… and I could not keep going.
- Was it worth it? What would I have done differently? Listen to this now.
- You will get results from what you do or do not do in life.
- The Universe is ruthless in this behavior. You cannot cheat the outcomes of the choices you make.
- So how do you leverage this to get the results YOU want? Learn how a Chocolate Cake is a perfect metaphor for executing systems in your life so you can create the results you want.
- If one business is held up as “the” shining light of systems - it is McDonald's.
- Immortalized in the 1986 book E-Myth… It was fascinating to see how they recovered from mistakes and dealt with the impact of those mistakes.
- Discover the MOST DANGEROUS time for more system errors - it’s not when you think it might be. Listen to this now to KNOW when it is and what to do about it.
- It is called 75 Hard for a reason.
- It is HARD.
- It is unclear whether it was 75Hard or seasickness, but I started to get very strange effects in my body. Listen to this now to learn about what you could face if you take on 75Hard.
- So we got to do three dives today… :)
- If you have not been diving, it is hard to describe the ALIEN WORLD. It is like going to Pandora… right here on Earth…
- Would I recommend learning to Scuba? Hell yes! Listen to this now for full details…
- Learn why training allows you to execute systems even under challenging circumstances…
- Discover why I was so grateful that we had practiced in the pool FIRST… Before entering the uncontrolled environment of the ocean!
- While my mind FREAK OUT, it was the trust in the Scuba Systems that allowed me to settle into a seriously amazing experience… 😀🙏
- Scuba enforces system compliance from the beginning.
- While it might seem relatively unimportant whether small breeches are made, this is NOT the case.
- Listen to this now to discover why how you execute one system is so essential if you want ALL your systems to work…
- Learning to scuba dive involves learning 6 systems…
- These systems are designed to both protect the human from the challenges of diving AND allow them to explore underwater.
- While each system is separate, all are required to meet the final result of scuba… The ability to dive into the underwater world. Learn more by listening to this now!
- You must be aware that many words in business are often used interchangeably… marketing, sales, advertising…
- This may be sloppiness. This may show a lack of understanding.
- But while retargeting “advertising” may use advertising - the category of business it fits into is NOT. Knowing this will help you create much better retargeting. Listen to this now.
- Selling is an incredible experience…
- The interesting thing is that you BOTH benefit. Your customer gets their problem solved. You get revenue coming in.
- But to sell successfully, there is one factor that will make a difference as your team size grows. Want to know what it is? Listen to this now.
- Video games have become a significant challenge for modern parents.
- One option is just to allow all access. This is very easy but very risky.
- Can Roblox addiction in kids even be fought against? Listen to now for how.
- How do you currently think about systems, processes, and people?
- Getting these ideas clear in your head will determine how many hours you work, how productive your team is, and how much profit you take home.
- If you know how these concepts relate to each other, your business will thrive. Listen to this critical video now for the details.
- Underperforming funnels are part of the marketing game.
- But you cannot just leave them as underperforming!
- Troubleshooting amongst many different factors can be painful and expensive. But checking this first may prevent a lot of waste and heartache.
- You will face this difficult choice. Short term or Long term?
- Do you go for a short-term project with smaller benefits or long-term projects with much higher payoffs?
- This decision is not as easy as it sounds. Learn to weigh up everything at stake by listening to this now.
- The tools available to sell are phenomenal. So good. So fast.
- But there is a HIDDEN RISK in having such powerful capabilities - that did not exist when every page had to be custom-built.
- If your sales pages are not converting as well as they should, even when you have taken all the classes… Then this might be your actual problem! Listen now.
- 7 Days into 75 Hard, and I found a STRANGE “Coincidence.”
- Adding 75 minutes of additional exercise per day SHOULD have decreased how much I got done…
- But what REALLY happened? Find out by listening to this NOW…
- Procrastination can be productive…
- In avoiding the ONE IMPORTANT thing that must be done, many other things get done.
- Is this a viable strategy? Listen more to get the low down on whether it's ok to procrastinate while getting other things done…
- I received this text message about SystemIO.dev…
- To me, it was 100% on message - yet to my bro, it was completely off.
- The question is - Was the assembly of the basketball hoop a system or not? What is your opinion? Post your thoughts in the comments section.
- There is a much more common name for systems that are executed daily.
- It is the powerful conversation of HABITS.
- Habits are nothing more than systems successfully executed daily - And in time, they will inevitably create the results that those habits lead to.
- The early stages of 75Hard are difficult!
- Significantly increasing exercise from 15 minutes to 150 minutes has immediate consequences.
- Yet, this is the price to pay for executing the system AND receiving the results… Want the results? Execute the system - Daily!
- Starting 75Hard? Experience is valuable.
- The program will challenge you. It is a repeating system that creates results.
- Want the results 75Hard gives? Execute the system daily!
- You will face the temptation to put it off until tomorrow.
- At the moment, it will seem like it is impossible to do anything BUT put it off.
- But if you do - there are eventual consequences… And typically those consequences will require far more work than just doing the work now. This awareness will help you make better decisions in your day…
- 75 Hard is hard.
- Beginning any new project may start with failure.
- But these early failures can be seen from two different lenses. Which one you choose is up to you. Listen to today’s training now for more!
- The frequent temptation in business is to “just begin.” Sometimes this has its place.
- But… The VAST majority of the time - you will run into significant problems with this approach.
- Listen to today’s training to discover the three risks you place yourself under EVERY time you choose NOT to plan. Enjoy!
- There are often far more elegant ways of doing things if you have the right knowledge.
- The time required for brute force methods can often be accurately estimated.
- Finding, learning, and implementing the elegant method is a risk. A critical skill set is knowing when to use brute force and when to risk elegance. Learn more by listening to today’s training.
- When do you need to execute a system?
- The good news is that there are ONLY TWO.
- Learn what they are in today’s training and how this knowledge.
- Understanding systems begins with knowing the components of a system.
- The good news is that all systems have just 4 components.
- Learn what they are in today’s training. This will set the foundation for learning how they fit together. Enjoy :)
- Systems that work under normal conditions, may break under surge conditions.
- Without systems thinking, this will be a surprise to those that work in those systems.
- Failure to understand these principles naturally creates backlogs and waste - directly impacting your profits. Listen now to learn what to do instead.
- Waitlists by themselves are just a “number”...
- One waitlist could be very long because the service is either incompetent or incentivized to do ever less with ever more (you’ll know who we are talking about as soon as you hear the whole story…)
- A different waitlist could be even longer, yet the business is highly competent and charges exceptionally high prices. How can this be? Which waitlist would you rather be on? Listen now for full details!
- I visited my 96-year-old Grandmother and my father who has late-stage dementia…
- It opened up a spiritual conversation on the nature of systems and feelings of “oneness”...
- What balance is there between the spiritual and the material concerning systems? Listen now to learn more!!
- You might expect that if you have a “process for processes” or a “system for systems,” then you will be able to create any system you want…
- But unfortunately, this is not entirely true!
- Listen now to discover the missing piece required even if you have both a system for systems AND a process for processes… 🤯
- Covid-19 has been highly chaotic, and it is “likely” that this will continue.
- Your ability to foresee chaotic events and plan for them WILL make a massive difference to the success or failure of your business.
- Running your business on systems will give you insight into where weaknesses in your business are and allow you to take action BEFORE problems arise. Listen to learn how.
- Very few businesses will have accurate lag times documented (lag time is the total time to complete that system).
- This time is VERY important to know for at least one powerful reason… when improving that system.
- Discover why you will have a LOT of problems if you make more than ONE CHANGE to a system within its lag time… And how to do exactly that if you need to… Interested? Listen now!
- What do you do when what must be done conflicts with what you want to do?
- The easy choice is just to do what you want!
- But be aware that multiple possible results can happen from this seemingly minor decision. Listen now to discover what is REALLY at risk…
- You may see systems as just a way to save time…
- But one more benefit is protection.
- How do systems protect you? Listen now to learn more.
- “How to get better?” is a powerful question to ask yourself regularly…
- What is your framework for answering it?
- Listen now to learn why a particular framework makes such a difference to your life… And how to implement it for yourself - today!
- What if you could “see” businesses like you can see houses…
- What strange things would you see when you looked at businesses?
- Listen now to take the powerful lessons from this analogy! You will not see your business the same ever again!
- When everything is working well, you do not need to worry too much about “other people’s systems”...
- But as more difficulties arise from decisions made to cope with COVID-19 - system effects outside your direct control will be very worthwhile to address and plan for.
- System analysis allows you to identify and confront potential problems and build redundancy so you can continue to operate - even if other businesses go down.
- Naming structures appear to be an added headache to “just getting it done.”
- Sure, if you only have a very small number of items to track in your business, then that “might” be ok… But…
- If you have lots of files (which you almost certainly do!) or you have a team - the benefits of naming structures rapidly become apparent. Listen now for the full rundown of why you want to get this on point today.
- There are TWO non-negotiable, must-have, critical things you must have in place for your business to be successful.
- This might seem a massive leap given the apparent complexity of business and the vast array of challenges you will face…
- Yet when you have both of the items discussed - you will have the keys to solve ANY problem and transform it into success. Listen now to learn more.
- You already know the benefits of running systems in your business… but what do you need to make it happen?
- There are TWO critical software requirements that you must have if you want to run your business on systems…
- Listen now to run through the options you have to choose from!
- If all the alarms are screaming red, what would you do?
- The “logical” answer would be to take action… But what about if you were witnessing someone REFUSE to do that? What could possibly be going on for them?
- To know at least two possible reasons why they might NOT act - Listen to this now!
- If Systems Create Results… Then inaction will also cause results when it occurs within a system.
- The challenge you will have with failing to take action is that the results of such execution tends to be PAINFUL. Stuff you want to AVOID. UNPLEASANT. Sometimes downright HORRIBLE.
- You know this though... So the interesting question is… Why does INACTION continue to plague most human beings? Listen now to learn more about what you can do about this persistent problem!
- Problem! Just reading books is not going to do anything for you.
- You might feel good. Feel like something is has changed…
- But unless a particular thing happens - it has just been making yourself feel good. Want to know what that thing is? You know what to do! Listen now!
- It is an unspoken law in tech… If you don’t manage the batteries, they will fail on you - at the most inopportune time.
- The best thing about full batteries? If things are going WRONG… you can eliminate the batteries as a cause of the problems…
- And you do not need to find new batteries or a charger when the pressure is.
- Listen to learn why taking care of batteries tells you a lot about the rest of your world!
- The EASE of having all your work copied is astounding and potentially depressing…
- Yet while people can copy all of your front-end marketing, hack your upsells and videos and duplicate your products…
- Do not give up hope! There is always ONE thing that ONLY you have and can NEVER be copied… Listen now to find out what that is…
- The marketing says “ If you want more leads, if you want more sales, you're going to need funnels”
- And… if you get your funnel up, you're going to need to traffic as well.
- Learn why your project management skills will massively impact how long it takes you to get up and running - And what to do about it so you are live FAST.
- What calculations should you consider for converting an asset to its cash value?
- How much should you sell the potential future production for?
- Discover the one asset where you can “have your cake and eat it”... And exactly who is doing that every three months!
- Unexpected events are unfortunately becoming a lot more common...
- From extreme weather to infectious disease to supply chain problems… The list of problems that threaten your business's success continues to increase.
- What role do systems play in mitigating your risk? Listen now to discover how systems act as insurance against the unexpected!
- When is the right time to work on your systems?
- The fact that you are pushed for deadlines suggests you have a systems problem… Yet fixing systems takes time away from meeting the deadline!
- Is there some way to end the downward spiral of constant deadline pressure? Listen now for the answer.
- Once you see the systems running in your business, there is a trap you must be aware of...
- And the benefits that systems give you will not be able to be gained...
- Listen now to determine exactly what is required to run your business on systems so you can free your time, maximise your team’s productivity and increase profits all while serving your customers much better!
- You may be tempted to “do it yourself” because of a common belief that you can do it quicker, faster, and better.
- But it is worth noting WHEN this belief will not serve you!
- Listen now to learn how to assess when to do it yourself and when to pay for it to be done...
- Should you invest in better equipment in your business?
- How do you make the decision whether to invest or not?
- Listen now to discover how to weigh up whether the investment is worth it or not...
- Problem-solving is an essential skill for business and life...
- One of the more challenging aspects is not falling trap to assumptions in the problem solving process.
- Listen now for lessons learnt so you can solve problems better in your business and directly improve your profitability.
- Do you find yourself running projects yet have little project management training?
- If so, you probably do not know what a “Critical Path” is… yet it is the determinant for whether your projects get finished “on time” or not.
- Once you have this knowledge, you will know exactly where to focus your attention to ensure your projects hit their deadlines.
- Discover the powerfully effective “Rule of Thumb” that keeps projects progressing...
- Should you use videos or text or BOTH for optimal chances of success?
- And finally answer the question of how long your feedback videos should be!
- It is VERY easy for instructions to get lost and miscommunicated… Even with the powerful audio, video and messaging options available...
- One trap is to give lots of instructions in one LONG video!
- There are so many details that unless whoever you are communicating with have been trained to extract ALL the instructions before beginning work - Steps will be missed.
- Watch now to see the results of the testing we did - It might surprise you!
- Frequently you and your team will be doing project based work...
- But often people do not have much project management training!
- And this open your business up to the risk that projects will NOT complete on time or on budget.
- Your immediate response to “system failure” is likely negative.
- And depending on how you see a system failure is what determines this!
- Discover why system failures may be EXACTLY what you want and why they might even benefit your business and your profitability!
- You may think you don’t have any systems in your business...
- Yet, I guarantee they are there!
- Watch now to learn how to see them and why you want this to happen!
- Lag time is the time between an action and the result of the action.
- Long lag times cause many difficulties and trap you between waiting long times to make changes or...
- Much more likely, you end up with a different problem!!! Watch now to find out more about it AND why it is so damaging to your business...
- What is marketing? And what does it do in sales?
- How you define the word “marketing” will be a powerful determinant of your business results.
- Get it right - abundance and prosperity. But get it wrong and you are doomed to struggle in scarcity.
- Discover why running a family holds so many clues for better running your business...
- The infrequent nature of many camping trips shows the critical importance that great systems can make to the trip.
- Watching those who have their systems dialed in when camping reveals great insights for similar situations in business… Learn more by watching now...
- Many business coaches, books, training, seminars ALL speak of using systems in business as a major advantage...
- Yet, the “down and dirty” how do I do this again of systems can be extremely confusing.
- How you fit the components of a system together - MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE! Watch now to learn the secret...
- There are two places when systems are ideal to invest into…
- Strangely, they are at two opposite times in a business cycle!
- Watch now to learn more as well as the one time when it DOES NOT make sense to run systems...
- Is there an easy solution to team problems? Yes! Just never grow beyond 5-7 people.
- But this will ALSO limit your ability for your business to serve more customers.
- To grow beyond this level - you must confront the two significant challenges of running larger teams.
- Watch now to find out what they are AND what to do about them...
- It is very easy to get distracted from the purpose of systems...
- Is it really to have your business running purely on systems?
- Or could there be a MUCH more important reason than systems that you should be focusing on?
- While having templates and existing sales pages are great… There is a hidden trap!
- All of the sales copy must be adapted to your specific product and avatar...
- Find out why you may also be getting very slow production DESPITE templates and landing page software!
- Marketing is typically a challenging concept to describe...
- Yet, its impact is critically important across all areas of your business!
- This training will give you insights into exactly what marketing is and why this makes such a difference to your profits and business success. Watch now.
- How dependent is your business on you?
- The more dependent… The more risk the business has...
- Unless you are deploying working systems across a business from the beginning… Then THIS is the one system you must have in place.
- Watch first THEN go to www.playwarrior.io
- What is the amount you get paid as the entrepreneur?
- Know this and you can make better judgments for what to do and what to pay to get done...
- Watch now how to get infinite returns for your investments...
- Most businesses face the problem of being blind to their processes...
- Are there any occasions that it makes sense to HIDE the processes?
- Watch now to learn when it makes sense to do EXACTLY THAT...
- Learn why these two seemingly different things are the SAME!
- Learn when you want to use a form and when it makes sense to use a template.
- And discover the MOST IMPORTANT thing about both of them when you want business success...
- Knowing what to do and why you need to do it IS essential.
- Most courses are ENTIRELY about this… But there is a problem.
- Just knowing what to do and why you do, it IS NOT ENOUGH. Learn More by Watching Now.
- Two books make a massive difference to marketing your products and services.
- They are - “Copywriting Secrets” and “100m Offers”...
- These two offer such clear instructions on what to do in business - you almost do not need any others… Learn more by watching now.
- What is “marketing”?
- This question is worth answering well. Why? Your business’s success depends on it.
- Want to know what marketing really is? Watch now.
- Perhaps you have seen advice just to make videos of how to do everything...
- Or perhaps you KNOW you “should” be running systems but it is so overwhelming and difficult - you never start...
- Watch now to learn the real “one thing” to focus on when you are building your systems.
- Hospitals are a high risk environment!
- Many different people are attempting to do many different things and they are dealing with something very valuable - people’s health.
- There is a clear reason why hospitals choose to focus on systems - and it might be one reason you choose to focus your business on systems too. Watch now to learn more.
- Communication is fraught with difficulties...
- The more awareness you have the dangers that can occur - the better you can mitigate risk AND get the results you want.
- Watch now to learn more about communication risks and what to do about them!
- Must watch if you have a backlog of work so you KNOW what must be done to clear it...
- Having this information will allow you to make much better decisions when you know your suppliers are backlogged...
- This information is critical today and likely to remain critical for some years post-pandemic - watch so that you know why to prepare for much longer timeframes of difficulty than many people assume.
- Systems and processes can be such an overwhelming task to even contemplate, let alone do...
- Discover what the best course of action is in these cases!
- Your time is valuable as the business owner - your focus should be on high value tasks! Watch now to learn more...
- In the early stages, the productivity of your team was not a problem. There were hard deadlines that meant the life or death of your business.
- As you succeed in business - the game changes. Why? More people join your team.
- And as you grow, you will start to hit productivity limits - watch now to learn what you must do to get your team working again.
- What is “Marketing”?
- What you think marketing is, is having a dramatic effect on your take-home cash.
- If you would like to get a clear understanding of precisely what “marketing” is and how it affects everything in your business - watch this video now.
- Processes, Forms, Templates, and Systems can be confusing.
- There are advantages and disadvantages to each. Knowing when to use a form or a template will make a difference to productivity.
- Forms and Templates are closely related in function - watch now to learn when to use each effectively...
- The business may not “look” like a collection of assets…
- But when you take the Asset Mindset to work - miracles can happen.
- Discover why CEOs take this mindset as their core belief system… Watch Now.
- The difficulty is that they hurt! System failures are typically painful.
- And they are unavoidable.
- Yes! knowing what to do with the inevitable dramatically affects the quality of your life and the cash in your pocket.
- They know something that most do not...
- “There is an infinite amount of possible work”
- So what do they say yes to? Find out more in this podcast.
- Multiple difficulties are facing us as a result of COVID shutdowns...
- The challenge is even getting back up to 100% production… Many will have to accept less than this...
- The opportunity in all of this? The capacity to go well beyond was previously possible may hold the key for those entrepreneurs who can such a “miracle” off..
- How do people get RESULTS in life?
- Many people are unsure about why they get the results they do.
- If you desire to know how to change your results in business and life… watch this video now.
- Global shipping is severely backlogged with up to 77 ships waiting to dock into California - normally, there would be 6.
- You might expect that if they can just get back to full production, then the backlog will resolve.
- Watch now to discover why this is not enough!
- Business is often challenging - discover the major cause of this...
- Many people believe that McDonald’s represents the solution to this issue.
- Check this video to learn more about whether this is the right solution for your business.
- Most businesses do not document any procedures at all.
- But those that are good enough to achieve this - face a second, even more disheartening problem… All that work and their teams don’t use them :(
- The outcome? Your procedure documentation does not match what is getting done by your team, which means you are vulnerable to errors and can’t tell whether it’s the procedure or the team member that needs correcting.
- Do you get in your own way?
- Are you the bottleneck in your business?
- And if you are… then what do you do about it?
- Learn what people who don’t want to go on holiday may be hiding...
- While that specific problem may not be happening… There are still 2 more reasons why your team doesn't want to go on holiday.
- Knowing these will help you make the required pivot in your business to massively decrease your business risk.
- Why do you want your team to use systems and processes instead of you telling them what to do?
- There is another alternative - systems for running people.
- Which should you choose? Watch now to work out which is the RIGHT choice for your business.
- Discover why you need both of these software tools if you are already using one of them.
- If you are having problems that are solved by one, you will have different but complementary problems that must be solved by the other.
- Discover what the real problem is that you need both of these software solutions to solve… Head to Systemio.dev for more.
- When you have so many systems in a business, it can be easy to just give up on the task entirely.
- How are you ever going to document the 80, 120, 150 systems?
- Before you can document 100, you must first successfully document what? Watch now to discover the answer to this critical question.
- Just handing over a system to a team member can have problems!
- Why? There may be extra steps that are not evident when you just did the work…
- Remember, all system changes MUST have this one thing done EVERY time to ensure they work! Watch now to discover what it is...
- Do you think your results in life are random?
- This is an easy belief to fall for - but is it TRUE?
- And if this belief was false - what then should you do about it?
- Discover the simple tool to practice linear process execution leading to consistent results - time and time again...
- Discover why the steps that are required initially to learn may be able to be refined by experienced practitioners.
- Learn the secret to fast, accurate system execution - all from a children’s toy!
- Learn why the body acts as a “system of systems”...
- And with limited knowledge about any of the organs that make up a human body, it was very challenging to work out what was not working and what to do about it...
- Oddly, this situation is very similar to how most businesses operate in the 21st century. The only difference is there is NO threat of dying if you seek to master the structure and functioning of a successful business - superior lifestyle, impact and cash.
- Building detailed standard operating procedures that your team use means you don’t have to tell them what to do anymore - It is all written down so they know what to do!
- If you keep your SOPs with the work being done, most people will use the instructions… reducing mistakes and errors, which means more profit and you going home on time.
- This training will teach you how to set up your systems in a unique way that gives you an unfair business advantage.
- If you have specialized team members that just do particular work in your business… This may affect your systems in unexpected ways.
- You may have ordering problems. You may have processes that have two people trying to work on them. These must be adapted to work with your team as it is, not how it was.
- Discover when and how to rearrange the steps and processes to manage this expansion successfully - Watch now.
- First… Why would you even want your team to track their work?
- Then… How do you get your team to track?
- Watch now for all the details on why this makes such a difference to business success.
- Are you frustrated with continually having to tell your team to do things a certain way… over and over? It is very annoying for everyone involved!
- This is such a common experience that you might think it is just the “way it is”.
- What if there was a simple and effective way to NEVER have to deal with this again? Watch now to learn how!
- Most businesses work by the Boss telling them what to do.
- This is a risky strategy on many levels!
- Learn what successful entrepreneurs do instead. Listen now.
- How to cope with the effects of externally imposed change.
- How to recognize system inefficiencies and what to do about them so you save time and make more money with just a little bit more effort ONCE.
- Learn why some entrepreneurs would rather keep control than make $100m.
- You can get by on Excel and Word for Projects and Process while your team is small...
- Learn why most businesses struggle with the transition to PMS software and what to do instead.
- Why systems don’t matter for most startups.
- Imagine This… you are succeeding and what worked as a startup starts to have lots of problems.
- Learn the three critical steps you must put in place to make the jump to a business that can run without. Need help? Head to www.systemio.dev now.
- When so many things are going wrong in business, it can be very hard to choose what to focus on… So what do you do?
- Why blaming your people might lead you to focus on the wrong solutions meaning you spend a lot of time and effort for no results because you are solving the wrong problem.
- If you are sick of telling your people what to do, over and over, and you are exhausted and it's just not working - watch now to learn where you may be better rewarded for your efforts...
- Learn what is the most critical factor to focus on for building systems - its obvious once you know but most struggle before this.
- What pro system builders do when their system doesn’t work - its not what you think!
- Should you fill in all the details on a system or just the bare bones? There is a way to do it that will keep you and your teams happy :)
- Discover the easy mistake to make that will severely limit your business’s success.
- Why getting your marketing right affects your advertising, sales and fulfilment so you can have consistent messaging throughout your business
- Learn where marketing was hiding and why it can be hard to see - once you get this you will see marketing everywhere...
- Is it true that marketers don’t want you to learn systems?
- If you knew how to build systems, you would only have to buy their book and not their high priced implementation service for just that ONE system.
- Systems allow ultimate leverage - you can read the book, translate it to a system and then let your team do work using the info in the book - without them ever having to read the book at all! Watch to find out more...
- When do growing businesses need to upgrade to PMS and SOP software?
- Why you must know how to run one system before attempting to run multiple systems at once… The same principles apply, just on a larger scale, so you can do more and still retain control.
- When do growing businesses need to upgrade to PMS and SOP software?
- If you know you should be writing down your work but aren’t sure why it’s so hard… know you are not alone!
- Understanding what a system allows you to build systems that work.
- Split up the steps of a system into smaller processes so you can make big systems manageable.
- When does it make sense to document your SOP’s?
- Why most small businesses fail in the first five years and what to do about it.
- Document your systems so you can choose to take the profits or sell your business, either of which leaves you with more than enough money to live the life of your dreams.
- Why you should never buy templates without knowing how they will be used - you will never get the full benefit of what you purchased.
- Most businesses just allow their templates to stagnate in a “folder of despair”. They never put them into use and never get the results leaving them wondering why the template didn’t “work as promised”.
- If you know how to take templates and insert them into your business, you will get the exponential results you knew were possible - watch to learn how.
- Verbal communication is a high risk for being heard incorrectly resulting in costly errors and mistakes which directly comes out of your profit.
- Written processes mean your team knows what to do which means you are no longer the limiting factor in your team’s production.
- Stop telling your team what to do so they can get their work done which means you can get yours done too!
- Your team will spend a little more time tracking what they are doing, but the tracking does more than just show you who is working on what right now - it also forces your team to do the work in the proper order and follow the details. The outcome of this? You will not have to redo hours of work when mistakes are inevitably made.
- Systems let you track what work got done so you can know who in your team is performing at high levels. What this means is you can run great three monthly performance reviews and know what your payroll is paying for.
- Systems allow the work to get done much faster as the instructions are right there with the work. Your team may not be used to getting so much done and may fear getting fired. You could choose this, or you can just get twice as much done for the same payroll.. The choice is yours.
- Discover why taking 12 minutes before you build your next Facebook campaign makes all the difference to your ad results.
- Know which tools are the best for which tasks so you can increase productivity and decrease errors.
- Just as chainsaws are more effective than shovels at cutting down trees, using the right tool for the right jobs makes your business a lot more enjoyable to run!
- What steps do most business owners fail to take to eliminate poorly performing Facebook ads?
- If the first thing you do is write your ads, you are doing it in the wrong order - you are just making large donations to Mark.
- Build a system to run your Facebook ad campaigns so you can consistently run split tests and identify your best performing ads - so you get more customers at lower cost and increase your business profits.
- Frustrated by buying books, courses and seminars and never seeing the results show up in your business? You are just wasting your money if you don’t know how to translate what you learnt into your business systems.
- Most courses fail to make any difference to the client because nothing changes how the business works. There is no ROI from the training and you are wasting your money.
- If you can take a course and make it a system, your business will FOREVER benefit from it, meaning you get massive value from any investment you make.
- See how easily you can grow your business using systems so you can free yourself from your business and enjoy it working without you.
- Quickly build processes so you can troubleshoot your systems and see what needs to change which means you stop making the same mistakes over and over.
- Without processes, your team will continually make mistakes costing you sales, profit and your sanity!
- Isn’t it time you stopped failing to integrate your learnings into your business?
- The dirty little secret marketers hope you will never find out.
- Get organised and double your profit.
- That’s a lot of chaos! No business can expect to be profitable if you operate like that!
- Learn how to say goodbye to inconsistent results so you can finally switch off your phone and relax.
- The secret to organising work in your business so you don’t have to struggle managing people any more!
- What E-Myth got wrong.
- The secret to creating systems without documenting every last click
- What every entrepreneur must know about systems - the new definition changing how entrepreneurs think.
- How to make sure your business is always protected from frivolous lawsuits, even if you live in California.
- Say goodbye to tax and lawsuit worries - the strategy intelligent business owners use to limit their downside risk.
- When to focus on protecting what you have created so you can sleep well at night again?
- The harsh penalty this family man made for his mistake.
- What can you learn from system design so you can stop similar mistakes in your business? Increase your productivity and profitability!
- Are there any benefits from a catastrophe? Sometimes - if you know this one weird trick.
- Your ideal customer has problems!
- But do you create your offer first or your problems first?
- Watch to learn how to solve this tricky marketing dilemma!
- My first hiring experience did not go well.
- Not because of the people or the quality of work they did...
- Instead it exposed a terrible fallacy that you want to avoid at all costs!
- All that matters is the result, right?
- What’s the one thing you should keep in mind when designing your next system.
- Learn why seemingly good advice can cost you… and what to do about it!
- Learn why system errors are occurring so much more now...
- What are the critical design requirements for a functional system?
- When to write down the system and when not to? The answer may surprise you.
- Why do most entrepreneurs leave documenting their processes until it’s too late?
- If you want your systems to work - watch to find the one thing you must focus on.
- The only way to avoid building SOPs that your people won’t use!
- Learn the Secret Entrepreneurs use to power through their days.
- Could there be a system to reverse engineer your ability to get stuff done?
- Are you sabotaging your success? You are if you don’t know this entrepreneur’s secret.
- What if your marketing didn’t stop when your customer bought?
- Are you getting enough results for your customers?
- Here's a Quick Way to Increase your Sales... Guaranteed!
- Discover why knowing your desired result is so critical to your system design.
- The decisions you need to make to judge how much detail must be in a system.
- Learn why documenting your systems makes such a difference to your wealth.
- Is this magic pill that improves all aspects of your business?
- Has the secret to massive success in life been hiding in plain sight the whole time?
- You can only choose two areas of business to focus on - watch and find out if you chose the same as elite entrepreneurs!
- How you structure your systems will determine how they work.
- When you break a habitual system, the next day becomes CRITICAL. Watch to learn why.
- It doesn’t matter how good your process documentation is if your people don’t use them!
- Why is documenting your procedures so important?
- How can you make it easier for your team to use the instructions?
- Discover why tracking this one weird thing makes all the difference to your business success!
- “We have no systems” is a common belief for many businesses.
- Watch now to discover if this is really true!
- Find out what “No systems” really means and how to create your first working business systems.
- What risks exist for scaling your first business?
- When should you begin documenting your systems and procedures?
- The one thing you MUST do when you edit your system documentation.
- Increasing the number of people in your team eventually slows production.
- What worked when you had 3 or 4 teams doesn’t work when you have 27.
- Watch to learn what factors make a difference in selecting between Project Management Systems (PMS)
- Discover the idea behind “Content Multiplication”.
- Learn why seemingly simple ideas hide significant system challenges.
- You cannot do it all. You must use systems to create a business that works.
- Results are created by executing processes.
- Whether that result is a chicken coop or any other result… It still comes down to the execution of processes - one step after another.
- The system organises that experience! Watch now for more.
- Compare two very different styles of onboardings...
- How you onboard will reflect how you do everything in your business.
- Defining the system for onboarding ensures consistency in training your staff.
- There is one asset class that outperforms everything by huge margins.
- And within that asset class there are two particular places that massive ROI’s exist.
- You probably know what the first is… but have you seen the returns on the second?
- Traditionally focus had been on Batting Averages in Baseball.
- Oakland A’s chose to focus on a different metric… and it worked!
- The requirement from you as the business owner in regards to your systems is the same… You must focus on the right results!
- The “Systems Mindset” becomes so dominant that a strange thing happens...
- You will be confronted with the sheer ineffectiveness of working without systems.
- One risk is becoming very intolerant of those who work with haphazard methodologies!
- Is this the most powerful question you can ask in business?
- If you don’t want to manage people, what will you do instead?
- What is the one requirement you must meet before building more systems?
- Why do businesses usually become dependent on their owner?
- How do you make your team functional without you?
- And how do they deal with the ever-changing nature of 21st Century business?
- Is this the source of Sydney’s mystery COVID cases?
- When to use existing infrastructure?
- Discover why knowing the targets of a system is CRITICAL.
- Why COVID-19 is like a roulette wheel for business.
- Why closing a business now should be considered as a valid business strategy.
- What critical data experienced business owners take out of closing down a business.
- If you believe that systems create results, what should your focus be on when building systems?
- Where does your role as the business owner come into this focus?
- You must have a yardstick by which to measure whether your system works. Want to know more? Watch this training now.
- Find out when to use a fast-moving system design.
- Find out how to design batched systems - systems that handle batches of work.
- Discover the principles to design systems that control other systems.
- Your decisions will impact the way your business systems operate.
- Seeing the decision in the context of the system helps prepare for the impact of your decision.
- You may still face unexpected challenges from system changes, but you will be prepared for most!
- As the work increases, you need more team.
- Commonly what this means is that you will now be chief troubleshooter for your people.
- You are about to discover that more team typically means more work for you, not less.
- Why do most business owners massively underestimate the amount of work required to run a successful business?
- Is there anything that can be done about this?
- Watch now to discover the three inevitable outcomes for businesses that fail to run systems. Hint: none of them ends well.
- What are the consequences of failing to maintain your SOPs?
- Why is the investment of work into systems worth it?
- A stitch in time is worth nine when dealing with business systems.
- Your business requires you to be a competent decision-maker!
- Yes, you can systemise this too.
- Discover two great resources I used to build my version of the decision-making system.
- In the startup stage, it doesn't really matter how your business’s work is organised.
- Later - the problems appear. Errors, poor communication, missed deadlines, lurking vulnerabilities. The strain of this falls on one place - you.
- Discover the way better way to run your business.
- So you want to run a webinar?
- It looks like it should be EASY...
- Why then do so many people struggle to get the required work done?
- What is required to have your systems generate the results you want from your business?
- Why is regularly emailing your clients and prospects so important?
- If you don’t turn the car on, it is hard to get where you want to go!
- Discover one unusual form of decision making… and its results?
- Learn whether Byron Bay has always been expensive.
- Entrepreneurs can create opportunities for themselves that employees simply cannot!
- Why is it so important to make changes to the templates?
- Small improvements barely make a difference? Or do they?
- Know that sooner or later, you will have systems problems if you are a successful business owner. Prepare now.
- Hopefully, you said yes to this deal!
- Find out how to prevent lost revenue.
- Find out how to effectively run businesses.
- What takes longer? Building the system or doing the work?
- Why short term thinking and long term thinking are often opposed.
- Why your growth will bottleneck - and what to do about it.
- Even elite systems are no good if…?
- There are few more intense growth experiences than running a business.
- You must have a way to keep going when the last thing you feel like doing is to keep going!
- How do systems create results?
- Is it a mysterious black box of chance and luck?
- Or a specific methodology for consistent outcomes?
- Systems increase your business sales multiple.
- What would have to be in place for you to go on holiday for two weeks?
- How about for two months or even two years? :)
- What principles are required to scale your business?
- What is the number one requirement for your team to implement to scale?
- Discover why redundancy is so critical to have in your team’s work.
- The purpose of the system is to create results.
- The structure you use for your systems determines their effectiveness.
- The question you must always ask is - Does this system give the results I want?
- When you get the systems mindset, there is an unexpected problem that can open up for you...
- Knowing where the finish line is, is critical to setting your initial target.
- After you hit your MVS, then you can continue and become a billionaire ;)
- If you have systems and you are not getting your results - you must find out why.
- What are the questions you need to think about to resolve this situation?
- When you solve this - you can know the result you want and create a system to give you just that.
- How do you currently ensure you get the results you want?
- Realise that people don’t scale.
- There is a big difference between an undocumented and a documented system!
- How are your people doing their work now? From habit? Or from your SOPs?
- Productivity will decrease if you can’t see what work is being done.
- If your team is not working, you will be!
- Principles from lean manufacturing are applicable in all types of business.
- Consider the whole system when making changes to it.
- Ideas rapidly spread and evolve!
- What is it that makes an entrepreneur continue in the face of great difficulty?
- What drives them to own a problem so much they dedicate their lives to bring a solution to market?
- Business is a brutal teacher. Its lessons are often very hard.
- Iterative improvements are powerful!
- The Japanese term for this is Kaizen.
- Any single small improvement is almost so insignificant to make it worthless to implement. Yet add enough of them together, and the improvements are massive.
- Better results in life provide two significant benefits - more time and more money.
- The life you get to live is determined by how much money you create and how long it takes you to make it.
- If you like flying business or first for long haul flights - you better get addicted to getting results!
- A lot of work appears to have been done.
- A lot of money has to go out on payroll.
- If you can’t see what work got done, how will you know what needs to change?
- It is helpful to find out how much you don’t know!
- Lack of systems keeps you working late at night.
- Lack of systems leads to poor coping strategies that cost your health and relationships :(
- Buy my templates! Buy my Templates! But… Now what? Arrghhh...
- If you don’t know when and why to use a template, let alone how to use it… How much value is it to you?
- How do templates work with processes? More inside.
- Life is Better when You are Getting Results!
- If you are not getting the results you want, look at what you did to get the results you did create.
- Look long enough, and eventually, you will see what creates results in life. Good, bad and indifferent. The cause is always the same. :0
- What is a Process? What are they most like… ?
- Just having all of your SOPs documented is only part of the solution.
- You must structure your business so your team uses their processes!
- Many people think they have “no systems”.
- What they fail to realise is what it takes to get consistent results from a system.
- Undocumented systems are guaranteed to produce variable results!
- Your poor system game means you will pay - Expensive, late, and defective!
- Your systems run everything in your business.
- There is no more significant ROI than fixing your system problems.
- Once you see why things are happening, your understanding of how the world works will change!
- You must know why you get the results you do.
- Results are not a mystery. Results are not from Manna falling from Heaven!
- Want to work on your business - but don't know how to do this?
- It is hard to get your team to build a system if you don’t know what a system looks like.
- What are the critical questions to answer to build a successful system?
- There is a consistent methodology that will solve a Rubik’s cube every single time.
- If you complete these eight processes, you will solve the cube...
- Systems Create Results!
- Tired of telling your people what to do?
- Sick of your team forgetting how to do their work?
- This is a mindset problem that you must solve, not software you buy.
- Choosing a Project Management System is critical.
- There are advantages to project management, but you must be good enough to have the problems they solve.
- Realise that all of them are fancy Excel boards. If you can’t use Excel to manage your projects, then PMS will not save you.
- Do you consider the results you get to be by luck or chance?
- Or did they come by consistently executed actions, done in the correct order and at the right time?
- It is easy to be distracted and overwhelmed when working task by task instead of focusing on system completion.
- You can manage a small team with meetings and direct guidance.
- It is still prone to variable execution and missed details.
- But it is not the complete chaos that awaits the unwary entrepreneur scaling without their systems on point.
- Unless this is day 1, week 1 of business, you know business systems are critical.
- They underpin EVERYTHING in the business.
- If you are not working on getting your systems running more effectively, what are you working on instead?
- You are getting results all the time in life… Some are great, some are not so great.
- To get different results, it is valuable to understand how you are getting your current results.
- When you see that your results are not by accident, this gives you the power to create different results in your life!
- All systems require at least one process.
- Bigger systems benefit from splitting the instructions up into multiple processes.
- Where do you split up the instructions? What works and what doesn’t?
- Great financial decisions are impossible if you do not have up to date books.
- Decision making without data defaults to emotional arguments.
- There is a heavy price to pay for failing to systemise your bookkeeping!
- Systems do things. They run, and work gets done.
- Sometimes the things that get done produce a physical outcome - these could be called “assets”.
- Sometimes the things that get done mean things are moved around - these could be called “outcomes”.
- In the context of systems, we need a word to encompass both an asset and an outcome. That word is RESULTS.
- First, make sure your system gives you the results you want from it.
- Improving that system can be done… But, you must consider the consequences on the whole system of changing any part of that system.
- Making changes to a system just looking at one part risks making the whole system fail :(
- How businesses do one thing is how they do all things.
- Consistency implies their systems are working. You can see this in their front-facing marketing. Look at their Facebook page. Their Instagram page. Their Youtube page. It will be evident if they know systems.
- Systems are frameworks. If they know systems, they will have a clae framework for thinking in systems, running systems, and creating new systems.
- There is a place where you have invested time, money and energy into training and courses trying to get a result.
- The marketers are very skilled and got you and me to buy.
- But their lack of systems meant that MOST people buying MOST courses get LIMITED RESULTS.
- Does this mean the courses are bad or wrong? No. It means that your ability to transform the course you bought and turn it into a system is limited.
- Business owners commonly become the bottleneck for their entire business. They are the ones telling everyone what to do, how to do it, troubleshooting and wondering why no one seems to have any idea initiative.
- In this chaotic environment it is extremely difficult to see that the problem is not more people, or better people or even better management of people. Rather the possibility of a well run organisation lives in a transition away from spoken instructions to documented one.
- You can make this transition yourself. But if you want to do it quicker, faster and skip a lot of systemisation problems, then your next step is to go to systemio.dev.
- If you track your SOPs, then you will have optics on what is getting done.
- This massively increases productivity because you know what you were up to. You can come back and see what process you were doing.
- Work using the instructions significantly increases productivity.
- Documenting all your systems but not using them again is a massive waste of time.
- All you are doing is taking a snapshot of your business processes at that moment in time.
- Change will occur, and your SOPs will decay.
- The Principle of “Copy to Use”
- Discover the four components that make up any system.
- Find out how you can keep using your systems without filling them up.
- The more information you have for your business, the harder it is to stay organized!
- But a tidy business is a profitable one. Good systems are simple, predictable, and organized — not a mishmash of various apps, drives, and documents.
- Need to escape the chaos in your business? Watch this video.
- You may have operating manuals, style guides, and workflow automations lying around — but if your team isn’t using them, that’s a problem.
- There may be very different systems based on what’s working for your team than the documented systems!
- Watch this video to learn how to identify your business’s real processes and optimize them!
- Are your business’s automated processes being triggered? Or are they gathering dust?
- Sound systems aren’t just detailed — they’re also tuned into your actual workflow! But you also need wiggle room to accommodate last-minute surprises.
- Watch this video to learn why your business’s systems need to be predictable yet adaptable!
- Having good processes is crucial to your business’s success. But is your system helping or hurt you? If it takes too much time to manage — or if it doesn’t let you see what’s going on — it’s not a sound system!
- What should you document? Can you automatically assign or track tasks?
- Learn what’s essential to include in your business’s system.
- If there’s one thing a business has, it’s systems…for marketing and advertising, fulfilment and payments, and of course team management.
- Unfortunately, systems can be hard to manage. Some aren’t necessary until your business takes off; others become cluttered as you grow.
- Watch this video to learn how to develop strong business systems.
- Having a business that works successfully with or without you is all about having proper system documentation.
- The first time you attempt to document everything will be the hardest-- but it will pay off soon after. Once you get the hang of doing this the first time, you can easily create your next systems.
- Live life to the fullest-- take those holidays you’ve always wanted! Create that business that’s designed to perform for you. Get your systems on point.
Upon hitting a certain threshold of revenue and employee count, the strategies that used to work for our business seem to stop working.
Remote work has worsened work life, with at least five work hours per week getting wasted in all the chaos.
The problem won’t go away with duct tape solutions, with various app installations and integrations. The root of the problem lies in the systems and processes-- or the lack of which.
Getting optics on what got done this week makes a massive difference to your business efficiency.
You can see what is being worked on. Your team can see what the other team is working on.
If you can see what your team is doing in real-time, then you can redeploy your team to meet deadlines and balance workloads as required.
Your lack of instructions means you must constantly be checking the quality of your products.
You cannot be sure of what got done, so you must check all production to ensure standards have been met.
If you don’t? You will be dealing with customer complaints and be blind to what needs changing in the production system.
Managing the people in your business can be very challenging.
Hiring more teams when your current team is struggling will not fix your productivity problems.
Hiring and firing team members is expensive and will not solve your lack of process documentation.
What works is running a team of 2-5 breaks down when you have more than 6 or 7 team members.
Suddenly you become the source of what to do, how to do it and troubleshooting anything that goes wrong.
Your day becomes filled with interruptions as you constantly manage your people.
As your business grows, so does the workload. If your to-do list is getting too long but you’re also struggling to manage your expanding workforce, you need to watch this video.
Good systems and cross-functional teams make you and your employees happier and more productive! But are you spending too much time managing them?
Avoid the team trap and learn how to optimize your workforce and stop the siloing.
Ever put together a Lego kit? How about doing it without looking at the instructions? Your results were probably different!
The truth is, while you could always guess your way through a project, there’s usually a process that makes it easier.
How can you apply this to your business? Watch the video to find out.
Most of us take out the trash for granted… unless it gets forgotten.
Yet, this is a simple system. Every week the bins must be taken to the curbside.
How you remember to do this is applicable in your business as much as it is at home.
Surfing requires multiple skillsets. Paddling, duck diving, reading the waves, etiquette, breath holding, standing up, riding the waves. All of these are necessary to surf successfully.
Business also requires multiple areas of mastery at the same time. When all of these work together, you have a highly successful business.
You cannot be strong in just one area if you want to surf or run a great business...
Business is challenging. You must have a way of recovering from the inevitable difficulties you will face.
Meditation is a requirement for you and for your team to perform optimally in business.
Pick a form of meditation and practice it. Then, when you do need it, knowing you have reps already done makes all the difference.
A blind lego challenge is where you buy a Lego set, and you choose not to use the instructions. You can look at the pictures on the box.
It is a lot slower to build Lego without the instructions.
Businesses must have a way to keep their SOPs continuously updated!
Recipes are single systems for the consistent production of food.
The ingredients are the raw inputs, the recipe is the processes, and the finished meal is the output.
Following a recipe is why to use SOPs!
Video has a valuable place in the documentation of systems.
But video documenting also has limitations that you should be aware of!
Changes to videos are difficult to make. Making text changes to systems is a LOT easier.
Document what is being done now with video then optimise systems using words.
It was just not possible to work out how to build the X-Wing without the instructions.
The analogy is that if businesses have their systems and procedures documented - everything becomes more straightforward.
This experience showed just how slow and difficult it was to try and achieve a set outcome without the instructions.
Fixing a pothole is much easier in the short term. But every time it rains you have to fix it again.
Repairing the road is slow and difficult. But once it is done, it lasts a long time!
As your business grows, repairing potholes becomes ever more frequent until you just can’t keep up anymore. This is bad for you and your business. You must learn how to fix the road properly!
Easy conditions may allow what looks like success to occur.
Difficult conditions will expose errors.
Regression back to easier conditions may be required to get the proper techniques in place for challenging situations.
How things function is a result of how they are structured.
If your procedures are not written down, then the consistency of the business will be weak.
It can be very difficult for a business that grows without documenting its procedures.
Habits are automated systems for humans.
Not acting from a habit must be from a significant disruption to the routine.
Changing a system will cause a change in the outcome.
The target of a business is to put money in the owners pocket without them working.
If they have to work at all in the business, then they have a job.
Paying for work to be done by other people or other companies must be done if the business is to run without the owner working.
**Video is a powerful tool for documenting existing systems.
Text is an excellent choice for processes under improvement.
Once optimised, documenting processes with both text and video is best practice.**
You may have created an elegant system, but it is useless if it does not solve the right problem.
Life can end up very dark at times.
There always remains a choice to get better.
The systems mindset is transformational.
You may have created an elegant system, but it is useless if it does not solve the right problem.
What is your exit game plan for your business?
How long until you have executed your exit?
What must be in place for you to make your exit a reality?
You can leverage your marketing efforts by creating additional content out of live videos.
Depending on the expertise and experience of people executing a process, including what NOT to do may be beneficial.
Even large businesses can be exposed to have inadequate systems
System failures damage reputations and risk future business.
Assessing your supplier’s systems is worthwhile to limit your risks.
Focus on one problem and fix it. Fixing your systems improves your entire business. Systems create consistent results.
The result of a fully systemised business is that it can run without you.
Systems mean you can leave the business for four weeks or more.
And come back to a company working better than when you left.
Do you want to be addicted to something that makes no difference in the world? Or do you want to get addicted to getting your business to run better… So it can impact the world in a better way?
**Meetings require a lot of resources.
Work should go in to ensure that these meetings have valuable outcomes.
Decisions made at the meeting REQUIRE further work to ensure they get implemented!**
If your team has been trained that you will troubleshoot all their problems, they will keep coming to you with all their problems!
There are minor errors that you don’t know are there unless you use the processes when doing the work.
You can see whether a systems business actually has systems that work by its front end advertising consistency.
When a team member leaves and has no SOPs, you lose more than just someone to do that work.
If you have a system that backlogs, it gets tough to stay on top of the work, and you risk your system decaying entirely.
When systems and processes are lacking in a business, many different problems can appear.
As you run the system, you will find what you thought was required in a process does not work.
- What is an entrepreneur?
- An entrepreneur was someone who creates systems and processes so other people can do them.
- The problem is where the payday is. Bigger problems? Bigger paydays.
- Assessment of downside risk is important.
- Unexpected events that consume large amounts of time are costly.
- What barriers should be in place to prevent significant disruption to productivity?
- Your capacity to thrive depends on your ability to extract that which already works and apply it.
- Don’t seek to reinvent the wheel.
- Seek to do that which is already known to work.
- There are consequences to not have even basic systems in place.
- Systems are being run - they are just in people’s heads.
- People are hard to manage if the work is in their head.
- There is a bug in the facebook live studio making my audio and video out of sync.
- I had to review the videos to see this.
- Changes can only be made by assessing the result your systems are currently delivering
- Reading a book alone gives you new ideas.
- Taking those ideas and converting them to action gives you results.
- Taking the actions and making them systems gives you consistent results.
- For years, I thought marketing = organic SEO.
- This had a huge impact on my business: but not in a good way :(
- Getting clear on why organic SEO should be considered “Advertising” opened up a clear understanding of what “Marketing” is.
- Managing a team when you don’t know what you are doing is expensive and painful
- Processes benefit from explicitly having their purpose written down
- Getting better at the processes means you don’t need all the instructions yet they are there if you need them.
- Automations can get out of hand very fast.
- Actions repeated daily become habits
- Your habitual actions create your… results.
- If you want different results in your life, you must work out how to install new habits.
- Daily habits allow you to run processes without instructions. Irregularly required work, i.e. on-demand, or once every 4 weeks will be much more difficult to run without any instructions.
- For regular occurring events in your business - either the marketing or the fulfilment : How do you know that everything got taken care of?
- How do you improve your processes when you find something is missed or incorrect so that it is handled for next time?
- Trying to remember where everything is in your business either means you have to keep everything extremely simple, not do critical events or accept you will have errors.
- When is it appropriate for a process to be memorised?
- Why does an entrepreneur face such difficulties in the early stages of business?
- What is the way out when they have grown enough to actually have a systems and process problem?
- How do you identify what processes you are using in your business?
- How do you know if they are working?
- How do you get your people to change if they are not work?
- Big multinational companies clearly are run on systems and processes
- Yet businesses can typically get by just fine without them up until about 5,6 or 7 team members.
- What problems suddenly occurring at this number of team that before simply never arose before?