This week I wanted to really focus in on my Why. With recent events that have happened, leaving my attraction business, my Gran passing away, and being more mindful about what I want from life. These things have enabled me to really focus on the important things in life and where I can make the biggest impact and difference, achieving the things I want to achieve.

Will I take the road to politics, or steer away to a more business led journey?

I also highlight recent sickness reports within our business and the impact employee sickness has on an organisation.

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Last week I handed in my resignation as Marketing Manager of the Attraction Division.

It may sound strange resigning from a position within my own business, but as Owner, Founder and CEO I have held multiple roles over the years many of which at the same time.

My business has now reached a stage where it needs someone who can provide it more than I am able to give in this role. It's not a question of want or willing (that I have in spades) but one of knowledge and expertise.

I also said goodbye to my last surviving grandparent, as my grandmother passed away a few weeks ago and last week was her funeral. My Gran had a huge impact on me and gave me numerous lessons, learnings and advice on running a business. These lessons that have stuck with me to this day and some of the fundamentals that underpin The Campbell Group.

Having to re-record episode 11 as the original version breached an NDA.

This week I discuss moving the businesses into a divisional model and replacing myself as the director in the attraction division.

I talk about using agencies and why I have recently terminated one of our contracts.

Plus the main section, and on topic, as to why I would be a shit Prime Minister now, but in 10 years’ time I could be one of the best we have ever had.   

I wanted to explain a little about how my mind works and how I perceive and analyse daily occurrences. I don’t think this is completely unique but does reflect the entrepreneur within me.

I announce the big decision I just made about appointing a new attraction division director and who is taking on this role.

And following on from episode 9, last week’s podcast I discuss the challenges you face when people don’t agree with your decisions and how to handle this.

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Not making a decision can be more costly than making the wrong decision. I know it sounds hard to believe but it’s very true.

Each of us faces many decisions each day, but how do we know the choice we make is the right one?

We don’t is the short answer.

We use our experiences to choose and deal with the outcomes.

Consider how your decision could affect 75 people, their wider families, suppliers’ business and 100,000+ visitors and does that make a change to the process you would follow?

In episode 9 I discuss making decisions, not making decisions and the impact for both. I also pick up on Entrepreneurs being born and not made and how we lose so many entrepreneurs early in their life. Again, this comes back to a decision.

In episode 8 I discuss allowing people to Take, Take, Take, and where to draw the line.

After a recent experience with an organisation who literally took the piss, I wanted to explain why we will never (big word) let our services and products be used for free again.

This is an episode I hope I would never have to record and its sad that this can happen, but I felt it was important to share the experience.

In this episode I wanted to cover how I value our business and what metrics I use to do this initially.

I look at valuation of our business in 3 ways,

1. The value of our individual products & services, the current position and growth of these

Plus I come out with a HUGE statement – We don’t pay our employees enough.

I spent a few days in Somerset visiting the team at Shepton Mallet Prison and was incredibly impressed by how well organised and together the whole team was.

I spent some time reflecting on what makes a good manager and the difference between this and a good leader. That brought me to the realisation that I’m not a good manager (something I have known for while, but not said). Having me managing people has probably slowed down our growth and this is something I’m trying to rectify in coming weeks.

This week delivered me a wakeup call, reminding me to continue to challenge myself, not to get complacent or comfortable.

The last week also brought more emphasis on employees and what I see as the top things employees should get from their job.

Plus, I talk more about the future growth and plans for TCG and the vision to grow to £100million business

I spent a few days away from the business last week, where I went on a short holiday with my childhood friends. This was a great chance to just take a breath and enjoy a few days out of the grind.

Upon coming back to the office, I had a bomb dropped on me. After taking a couple of hours to digest this it brought me to the next stage in the journey which is looking to change the employer landscape with employees who are considering leaving our organisation.