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Time Blocking - Gain Control of Your Calendar - Chris Cotton

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• Every day, we juggle competing demands on our time and, as a result, experience more chaos than clarity.
• Luckily, there’s a solution: time blocking. This is a terminology change for me, I’ve always called it making appointments with myself but time blocking is the correct verbiage,
• With time blocking, you can gain control of your calendar in order to focus on what truly matters to you and the business. Time blocking can help you align your attention with your intentions, so you always prioritize the right work at the right time. What is time blocking?
• Time blocking is a time management strategy where you schedule out every part—and I mean every part—of your day. With time blocking, you’re effectively breaking the work week into bite-sized time slots where you check your email, work on projects, take a break, or even exercise.
• Like most time management strategies, time blocking is a way for you to reclaim your day and get a better sense of where your time is actually going. By scheduling blocks of work, you can not only ensure you’re completing your important tasks, but also make sure you’re setting aside time for rest and self-care.

How time blocking works:

• To create a time block, group like tasks and schedule a block of time to work on those tasks. There are two main fundamentals of time blocking:
• Visually scheduling time blocks on your calendar, so your work can’t be interrupted or scheduled over.
• Grouping like tasks into one concentrated block of time.

Coach Chris Cotton

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Show Notes:

I'm sure you've read articles about the importance of "culture" to shape the behaviors of your employees. One of my favorite descriptions of company culture is that it is "the invisible hand that shapes team behavior when there is no defined process or system to tell them what to do."

But understanding the concept of culture doesn't give you a nuts and bolts path to intentionally build it. Here are seven leadership habits that I've emphasized with my business coaching clients over the past decade.

1. Be on time, all the time.

2. Meet your own deadlines (and take responsibility for when you can't).

3. Clarify all action items and deliverables in writing at the end of every meeting.

4. Clearly state what you can't commit to so that you don't lower the accountability bar in your company by missing a "phantom deliverable."

5. "Close" the accountability loop.

6. Ask, don't immediately solve.--Coaching Opportunity!

7. Celebrate progress

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What is Backbone?

Marshall defines backbone as "firm and resolute character". In action, she says, it might look and feel like courage. The word "integrity" also describes someone with a strong backbone. My belief is that everyone can grow a backbone and that business is a perfect place for you to learn how.

The Three Components of Backbone:

According to Marshall there are three components of backbone: competence, the ability to take purposeful risks, and confidence. Each component interacts with the other.

1. Competence. Be open to growing your ability in every aspect of your academic career, and not just knowledge of your field. Seek out help in improving your writing abilities, time management skills, and ability to deal with others, for example. Cultivate experiences that will help your competence grow. List all your talents and abilities, and be aware of how much you've accomplished in the past few years.

2. The ability to take purposeful risks. As Marshall says, this is "the ability to engage in intelligent, purposeful ventures on behalf of your career." By taking on appropriate challenges, you will not only succeed some of the time, but you will get practice in learning how to cope with setbacks, criticism and disappointment.

3. Confidence. This is a natural outgrowth of the first two components and will lead you to take on more challenges. Knowing that you can survive the negative consequences of the risks you have taken will actually increase your courage and self-esteem. Having more competence, of course, will make you more calmly confident in yourself and your abilities.

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As a preface to todays show I would like you to go and listen to: Common Issues with Financial Statements from Hunt Demarest: https://huntdemarest.captivate.fm/episode/02

What I Want You To Take Away:

• Understanding why you need to put Profits First
• Understanding why putting Profits First is Important
• How to set up Bank Accounts
• How to start making Allocations
• A better understanding of your Income Statement
• What it means when Accounts are Over & Short
• Commitment to Implementing & when you will have it completed

Have a great day and Rise and Grind Everybody!

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Don't Just Celebrate Wins - Savor Them!

1) Reminds you of the goal you set and why you set it in the first place.

2) Reminds you that a good, focused goal-setting process works.

3) Motivates your team to continue delivering good work.

4) Unifies the team around a positive outcome.

5) Reminds the team that they work for a winning organization.

6) Forces you and your team to concentrate on the positive rather than the negative.

7) Builds momentum for you and your team.

8) Gets you away from mundane day-to-day tasks.

9) Allows you to connect with colleagues and co-workers in a way that is not just work-related.

10) Allows you to reward specific employees.

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• If you haven’t listened to the other episodes in the series please go back and listen to Episode 39, Series overview, Episode 41 Phase 1, Episode 44 Phase 2
• Are You happy with the shop you have?
• What’s Next, expansion into multiple locations?
• Exit Planning and Strategies
• Developing Leaders, not managers
• Making Employees comfortable
• Identifying a potential owner in the business
• Insurance in the business
• Is your REd Envelope/Yellow Envelope done?
• 529 Plans for your children, maybe one for your employees?
• Profit-sharing plans
• Retirement Planning, don’t depend on the sale of the business to fund your retirement.
• Who holds who accountable, who is taking over for you?

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1. Women in the aftermarket auto repair industry.

2. Embrace Zoom to meet with clients.

3. Overpay great employees!

4. Know the numbers cold

5. Say no more often

6. More Content

7. Ability to throw out the playbook!

8. Pay yourself first

9. Remember and share the good, let go of the bad

10. Don’t get involved in gossip, shut it down on the spot

BONUS

11. Don’t let the bad employees run off good ones

12. Implement Auto Shop Profits and Cashflow

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1. Giving to others, making a statement—putting it out to the universe, we live in a world that is louder about negativity and quieter about positivity,

2. Our plan for the year—give monthly

3. Gift for January, H.E.A.T. Texas State Chapter

4. Others we’ve given to: https://ambucs.org/ , https://warriordogfoundation.org/ give to local needs, if you can’t give money give time.

5. 501c for Auto Repair Shops struggling from Natural Disasters

6. Helping others, Gary Vee, Giving without expectation, but donating time without expectations, Don’t join a non-profit board for the networking, do it to actually make a difference in someone's life, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do0gIzPa-f8

7. Donation program for business

Also, find an episode from Remarkable Results Radio speaking fo Joel Ayers from the Automotive Aftermarket Charitable Foundation Inc.

https://remarkableresults.biz/remarkable-results-radio-podcast/e128/

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Rocket Fuel Chapters 4 - 7 Five Rules

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A collection of episodes on the Entrepreneur Operating System (EOS); the overall components of Rocket Fuel. From the Remarkable Results Radio Podcast. https://bit.ly/3ISwXbq

CHAPTER 4: THE ACCOUNTABILITY CHART The Accountability Chart is a supercharged organizational chart that forces you to be intentionally proactive about your structure, rather than reactively adapting a structure to fit your current people.

CHAPTER 5: THE 5 RULES You need absolute core alignment in your Visionary/Integrator relationship to harness the power of the unique combination.

RULE #1: Stay on the Same Page. This is accomplished through the Same Page Meeting.

RULE #2: No End Runs. It’s essential for the Visionary or the Integrator to not impede the effectiveness of the other.

RULE #3: The Integrator is the Tie Breaker. The basic rule of thumb is that the Sales Leader owns decisions on Sales issues, the Operations Leader owns Operations issues, and so on.

RULE #4: You Are an Employee When Working “in” the Business. If you are a Visionary or an Integrator and also an Owner, you must recognize that your role as an “Owner” is very different from your role as an “Employee.”

RULE #5: Maintain Mutual Respect. As a dynamic Visionary/Integrator duo, you must truly respect each other.

CHAPTER 6: FINDING EACH OTHER Choosing an Integrator entails hard work and takes time. Before you begin this important search process, you must make sure you are ready to commit.

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As you get into today’s episode, Phase 2- Repairing YOUR Auto Repair Shop, you may know someone in your network who can benefit from what I’m talking about today, please take time to share personally or through your social network.”

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1. Growth Mode–Productivity tracking, What’s your shop capable of doing?

2. Employee Handbook–a mechanism to enforce the rules overall

3. Employee Job Descriptions–Accountability

4. Employee Pay Plans

5. Marketing and car count, Determine if you need more cars to reach our shop's capability or just do a better job with what we already do.

6. Auto Shop Profits and Cash Flow, Controlling your money, Identifying the percentages for your business, setting up bank accounts, making an allocation chart, making sure the accountant is on board-if not time to find another one. Start making allocations–slow and steady wins the race.

7. Identify Key Employees, some can only get you so far, realize who those are and replace them if necessary. Keep the great ones!

8. Training for Everyone! It’s your job as an owner to elevate the abilities of everyone in the business. Don’t be afraid of training them and having them go somewhere else…..You can’t live/run a shop in fear

Coach Chris Cotton

AutoFix-Auto Shop Coaching

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