588: How are you learning and implementing daily?

Today I want to talk about something that holds businesses back more than anything else. Continual learning and implementation. Thanks so much for listening in today, Thomas Joyner with Business on Purpose here. One of our core values here at BOP is learn and implement. We want every conversation with business owners, every coaching meeting, and shoot every time we show up to work to be a learning experience. Relentless and never-ending. We never just want to step back and look at our content, our roadmap, and think…man it’s perfect! Because the business world is always changing. It morphs and moves and the climate it operates in changes. We have to be willing to learn and adapt and change with it. Now, we don’t want to change the core of who we are, but operationally and strategically we can be out in front as we respond to all of that change. But here’s the thing, we don’t just want to learn. We want to adapt and implement that learning into our every day. It’s next step that so many businesses fail to do today. And that, specifically, is what I want to talk about today. When we see businesses stall, or plateau…9 times out of 10 it’s because this thought has entered their mind and not been kicked out like a kid acting out in class. They will think… well, that’s just the way it is and I don’t ever see it changing. They have waved the white flag on whatever their problem with and growth cannot happen in that vacuum. You see it’s that fixed mindset, we seem to have talked about that a million times, that holds business owners and their teams back. I was working with someone the other day and here’s what they said…that schedule has always been chaos. And we don’t see that changing anytime soon. We’ve done this for 30+ years and it’s always chaos. So here’s where I pushed back. If you believe it’s going to be chaos, then you’ve already given your consent to your team that it SHOULD be chaotic…and that’s a problem. What part of the process do we have control over? Well, a lot of it. The business owner said. Great! Let’s start there and work backwards. So we built out a 12-week plan to get better at the things they control. We wrote out every step of their process with dates that corresponded. Even invited several of their team members into the process to make sure that the next time they walk through this…it may still have some components of chaos, but at least they will own the parts they can control. That’s game-changing business ownership. Understanding what you control, and even if 100 times over you fail, taking what you’ve learned, growing from it, and implementing it into a new process that can lead your team to a more efficient and enjoyable experience.  It’s why we get out of bed every morning at BoP…to liberate you from that chaos! So…where have you thrown your hands up in your business and just said, it will never change? Where have you just gotten so frustrated and stopped learning, have made the choice to crack the door and make chaos normal. You cannot tolerate it or it will spread every which way in your business and hold you back from growth. So today, take the time to think through it. Then, do something about it! Put a plan in place. Figure out who needs to be in the room, discuss what you can control in the process, and become experts at the things you control. Shoot, maybe it’s inviting other businesses who are a part of it too, and ironing out a process together.  Because newsflash, eliminating chaos helps them too!!! I can promise you if you can take a step back to provide yourself with some margin, it is never the wrong thing to do. It will help in all areas of your business! And here’s the last thing…if we can help, please reach out. It’s our specialty! Walking along business owner’s to figure this stuff out. Because it helps you make time for what matters most in your life. Not just putting out fires, but family and building your team and not having a heart attack! And maybe finally running your business instead of your business running you. Hope that makes sense today! Have a great one.