Business Leader Breakthroughs

Welcome to Business Leader Breakthroughs Minisode Series. Every Friday, we will post a shorter version of a popular previous episode so you get all the best bits in half the time. This week, Mike and Ryan discuss the importance of working ON the business as opposed to IN the business. Many leaders in businesses get stuck in the operational tyranny of getting things ticked off the to-do list and fire-fighting the urgent issues. 

Mike and Ryan suggest taking a step back and having a greater awareness of the bigger picture of where you want to take the business and what you need to do to get there.
They talk about the importance of religiously making time to carve out a day in the week solely focused on working ON the business. This is referred to as a Development Day; a day focused on the future of the business. They use the framework of improve, develop, transform to help guide this type of work. 

• Improve: Improving existing products, services and processes, develop and train staff
• Develop: New initiatives such as new products, new technology, new processes, new markets
• Transform: What your business might it look like in the future, where is the industry heading? 

It’s simple but not always easy to do because the urgent always speaks louder than the important. Working on the future of your business is absolutely critical. 

Links

• Watch the full video on YouTube here change
• The Breakthrough Company: https://thebreakthrough.co/ 

Engagement in the workplace has been a focus in the leadership space for the last 10-15 years. While it’s important for employees to be engaged, focusing on engagement as a target can be limiting and is often challenging to measure. While engagement will have an leading influence on business performance measures, like contribution and productivity, it doesn’t provide value in of itself. 

In this week’s podcast, Mike and Ryan discuss how we can accurately measure engagement and direct it in a way that does provide value to both your business and your employees.

Welcome to Business Leader Breakthroughs Minisode Series. Every Friday, we will post a shorter version of a popular previous episode so you get all the best bits in half the time. This week, Mike and Ryan talk you through why busyness isn't a good thing and how being productive is an entire different ball game.

Business owners today seem to be have become obsessed with keeping busy. Creating ridiculously long to-do lists and check boxes that often lead to an overwhelming sense of busyness that isn't productive in growing the business - which should be the end goal to all your tasks in the first place.

Links

• Listen to the full episode here 
• Watch the full video on YouTube here
• The Breakthrough Company https://thebreakthrough.co/

Mark McCrindle is an award-winning social researcher, best selling author and influential thought leader. The focus of this podcast is on workplace wellbeing. 

No, we aren’t talking about the ‘fluffy’ feng shui, yoga and fruit bowl in the office. We talk data driven, cultural aspects of workplace wellbeing. Data that says “40% of workers reported that work was a key source of stress” makes it clear how important this is. 

Mark shares real benefits of focusing on workplace wellbeing. This including lower employee turnover, higher engagement, and higher productivity, all leading to better ROI. Even the biggest skeptic can’t argue with that! He gives us an easy to understand equation called CPI to help make work a place for individuals, teams 

and communities to thrive.

This podcast is bursting with interesting talking points such as the importance of true leadership vs management. You’ll hear about the three circumstances which cause real growth in our lives (spoiler alert: extreme diversity, massive dissatisfaction and exposure to a world class leader). Mark also shares how absolutely anyone in an organisation can influence change, yes, even you!

Check out Marks business here
If you want to get in touch with Mark, you can find his details here
Purchase Marks book here 

Welcome to Business Leader Breakthroughs Minisode Series. Every Friday, we will post a shorter version of a popular previous episode so you get all the best bits in half the time. This week, Mike and Ryan talk you through the four unlikely principles you need to follow if you want to achieve success. 

Being a business leader is stressful. You have both the urgent and important screaming at you to be complete, but you don't even know today's date. It's time to change that. Mike and Ryan share with you the four success principles that they use in order to make the business thrive, as well as their personal lives. In this podcast you'll learn why limiting your hours, having a day to develop the business every week, creating and sticking to personal lives and prioritising health, family and THEN work will boost your life and your business in ways you've never imagined.

Links

• Listen to the full episode here 
• Watch the full video on YouTube here
• The Breakthrough Company https://thebreakthrough.co/ 

In the full episode linked above, they share a range of examples as to why a boringly predictable business is the new fashion. This podcast episode was recorded in 2019 and mentions programmes and workshops that are no longer running at The Breakthrough Co. If you wish to see what programmes we are running in 2020, click here.

Failure is something we all fear, but failure doesn’t have to be bad thing. While we should always strive for success, success doesn’t allow us an opportunity to learn and grow. Mike and Ryan give insight on their own business failures and what they learnt from them, along with questions you can ask yourself if you feel yourself heading towards a disaster. And after a failure has happened, what steps you can take to assess what happened and learn from them so that you improve your chances of long term success. Failure is inevitable so the most important thing people can learn is how to fail successfully.  

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/

Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco

Welcome to Business Leader Breakthroughs Minisode Series. Every Friday, we will post a shorter version of a popular previous episode so you get all the best bits in half the time. This week, Mike and Ryan discuss why having a boring and predictable business is the best way to ensure a 20% growth in profit.

You’ll certainly be demanding a boringly, predictable, profitable business after having listened to this podcast. The challenge that most businesses face is inconsistency. They often don’t have the systems in place and are chasing their tails, encountering the same problems over and over. They tend to be trapped in start-up mode and haven’t worked out how to stop fires from breaking out. Mike and Ryan discuss the importance of locking in a method, one that you can refine, perfect and practice.

In the full episode linked below, they share a range of examples as to why a boringly predictable business is the new fashion. This podcast episode was recorded in 2019 and mentions programmes and workshops that are no longer running at The Breakthrough Co. If you wish to see what programmes we are running in 2020, click here.

Links

• Listen to the full episode here
• Watch the full video on YouTube here
• The Breakthrough Company https://thebreakthrough.co/ 

Dermot Crowley is the founder of Adapt Productivity and is a well-known thought leader on Personal Productivity. His company ‘Adapt’ provides training and coaching programmes that change behaviours and help participants to apply the concepts discussed in Dermot’s best-selling books ‘Smart Work’, ‘Smart Teams’, and his latest release ‘Urgent!’

This week, Dermot joined Ryan for a discussion around all things productivity, from how to increase productivity from home to his famous ‘PASS’ process that he uses every day to set his schedule. He shares tips on how to get the coveted empty inbox, including reducing the number of emails coming in the first place. Dermot touches on urgency vs importance and where ‘senseless urgency’ can come from. He gives practical tips on how to start discussions with management to shift the whole organisation to decrease urgency resulting in less stress and higher productivity. Win-win! Dermot also takes us through some of his life lessons and his morning routine (Spoiler: it’s not what you’d expect from this productivity guru). 

Links 

• Check out Dermot's website http://www.dermotcrowley.com.au/
• Check out Dermot's productivity programs here
• Purchase Dermot's first book "Smart Work: Centralise, Organsie, Realise" here
• Purchase Dermot's second book "Smart Teams: How to Work Better Together" here
• Purchase Dermot's third and best selling book "Urgent!: Strategies to Control Urgency, Reduce Stress and Increase Productivity" here
• Connect with Dermot through Linked In

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/

Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco

Welcome to Business Leader Breakthroughs Minisode Series. Every Friday, we will post a shorter version of a popular previous episode so you get all the best bits in half the time. This week, Mike and Ryan discuss the importance of getting your head, heart and hands working together to succeed in your endeavours.

In this podcast Mike and Ryan use a 'home made' framework- Heads, Hearts and Hands, to show how you can propel your business forward. They discuss the importance of not only coming up with a winning idea, but then aligning your heart with what you want to get done, to make your hands follow with action and only then, will you see the success you desire.

In the full episode linked below, they share a personal story, with in depth examples and their thought processes, to show how you how they used this framework to generate a previous course The Breakthrough Co had running during the time of recording.

Links

• Listen to the full episode here
• Watch the full video on YouTube here (needs to be updated)
• The Breakthrough Company https://thebreakthrough.co/ 

So Auckland is back in Level 3 lockdown. This certainly will have an impact on your business going forward, but logistics aside, what about your people? Productivity, efficiency and contribution are 3 things that all business leaders expect from themselves and their teams. Mike and Ryan discuss why contribution should be at the forefront of leaders' minds right now.

Mike and Ryan speak extensively on contribution and what that means in a larger sense. The idea of contribution is an important concept for yourself, what you do for your organisation, your customers, your community, our society and our wider planet. Mike pulls from his own research around contribution that he's written into an article he has put in for review to the Harvard Business Review. He speaks about how contribution is doing something for the business that wouldn't be in your job description (Eg. be a shoulder for co-workers to lean on). They both talk about their personal experiences around contribution, highlighting how important it is at not only an individual level, but the wider view.

Links

• Read Mike's Culture of Contribution article he submitted to HBR here
• Link to the image Mike and Ryan reference here

Where else you can find us

Website: https://thebreakthrough.co

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/the-breakthrough-company

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thebreakthroughco/

Podcast: https://thebreakthrough.co/podcast/

Blogs: https://thebreakthrough.co/blog/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thebreakthroughco