Is building effective teams a priority for you?

In this interview, Tim Hoopmann Managing Director at Cornerstone Group reveals the strategies he implemented to build effective teams in his company and how systematizing the day-to-day operations of the business led to a happier, calmer work environment for his employees.

You will also discover how is able to run his business on the go and live a location independent lifestyle!

 

 

In this Episode You will Discover:

* Why Tim ran into issues with the Australian tax office and compliance when doing work for his clients.

* Why Tim decided to take a look at his entire business, break it up into four pieces, and discuss each part with his team.

* Why Tim and his team chose to systematize the operational piece of his business first.

* How Tim mapped out his business visually to create his manual, checklists and summaries.

* How Tim was able to learn from his corporate experience and how he was able to apply it to his own business.

* How Tim came to realize that he needed to live and breathe the changes that were happening in his business to encourage his team to follow.

* How Tim came to understand that he needed the right people in place handling the right systems.

* How Tim gets his team members to try out systems if they are reluctant to adopt them.

 

Episode Transcript:

OWEN: My guest today is Tim Hoopmann and he is the managing director at Cornerstone Group. Tim, welcome to the show.

TIM: Thanks very much Owen, a real pleasure to be here. I’m all the way from Australia.

OWEN: Awesome. So this interview is all about us getting entrepreneurs like yourself who’ve been able to systematize your business and automated so it runs without you successfully, and I want to share how exactly you would do that. Before we even talk about how you’re able to transform the business so it does that let’s talk about what are some mind blowing results that you now experience as a result of going through the process of systematizing and automating your business.

TIM: Probably one of the most important of mind blowing results has been much happier employees. I’ve got happier employees that lead to a calmer environment, which then leads to happier customers. So what we’ve done is implementing process and systematizing and help save time, effort, and that’s a great result for everybody. And really, if I’ve got a nice and calm environment in the office then my customers further benefit of that. And what I also get is clarification in the office, clarification with my team, and then clarification with the customers. So they’re probably the big, mind blowing things for me, much calmer, much happier people around me.

OWEN: Awesome. How will you say your company has been transformed as a result of systematizing your business?

TIM: One of the key areas is the ability to be mobile. With the changing world we live in, we’re all moving around, people what to run their business in different places. The ability to be mobile is one of the key benefits that I find personally for me because I’m mobile, I travel. In fact I’m going to the US next week, so I can run my business and go. I have everything online. I’m not relying on how you could go into the office, sit at my desk, and sit at my computer. And I can work anywhere and my team can be available. If they’re away from the office for the day they’re still connected. And we can still cooperate and work together.

OWEN: Awesome. Besides being able to be mobile and work from anywhere in the world I’m wondering how else has your personal life been transformed as a result of systematizing your business?...