Jack Thursday - Deadlines Deliverables and Communication (LA 1721)

Transcript:

Steven Jack Butala:

Jack and Jill here.

Jill K DeWit:

Hello.

Steven Jack Butala:

Welcome to the Land Academy Show, Entertaining Land Investment talk. I'm Steven Jack Butala.

Jill K DeWit:

And I'm Jill DeWit, broadcasting from the valley of the sun.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today is Jack Thursday, and I'm going to talk about deadlines, deliverables, and communication. Yes, there is a possibility that Jill's going to be bored out of her skull.

Jill K DeWit:

Because I've already had this team meeting. I've had to sit in it several times. I have it down.

Steven Jack Butala:

All kidding aside, I just developed this thing recently, because we were having trouble getting stuff done in the education companies, like we call it around the office. Not so much the land companies, we've got that licked. Mostly because the people who have been working in the land companies under Jill's direction, they just understand each other really well. But, our education companies are getting bigger and we're hiring more staff and we needed a better way. And we built this deadlines, deliverables and communication thing after Jill's model. She didn't have a cute little label for it, and maybe I don't either. I don't know. But we built it off of what she's been doing with her land transaction coordinators and people that work there and it's working great.

Jill K DeWit:

Thank you. I appreciate the compliment.

Steven Jack Butala:

The goal is to never talk to your employees and never have them talk to you. And that's what this accomplishes.

Jill K DeWit:

That's the whole point here. That's what he paid attention to. Like, wait a minute. I'm like, "No, Jan, I go weeks. We don't, I feel bad, we don't talk." We have to like every two weeks we kind of sit down like, "How are you? Check in. You got 10 minutes?" "Sure." And we catch up real quick, but all of our communication is all online and we don't miss anything.

Steven Jack Butala:

Yeah.

Jill K DeWit:

Thank you.

Steven Jack Butala:

Before we get into it, let's take a question posted by one of our land... Our members on the landinvestors.com online community is free. And don't for forget to subscribe on the Land Academy YouTube channel and comment on the shows you like.

Jill K DeWit:

Chuck wrote, "Does anyone have a LinkedIn profile in which they have info about their land investing company and their current job on it? I love to see how much you lay out. I don't know much about designing it."

Jill K DeWit:

I do.

Steven Jack Butala:

I do too. Everyone does. I think LinkedIn, is it LinkedIn? Yeah. LinkedIn is a great place to put, just to lay it all out. Everything. Yep. I graduated from college or I didn't graduate from college. This is a formal education I have. I'm still in college. Doesn't matter. This is the 21st Century now. Nobody cares about that stuff really anymore. Unless you're, you know,...

Jill K DeWit:

A doctor, attorney maybe...

Steven Jack Butala:

A doctor, a lawyer, and you're going to work for a high price firm and that whole old school kind of concept. That's all kind of gone. I say, just throw it all out there. Say, you know, "I live with my two dogs and my favorite person on a boat and wherever..." It just makes you that much more interesting. "Yeah. I've got this job over here. Sometimes I moonlight over here and I buy and sell land with Land Academy."

Jill K DeWit:

Perfect.

Steven Jack Butala:

I think I, you get my instant respect if you just, if you got a lot of stuff going on,

Jill K DeWit:

I agree.

Steven Jack Butala:

Today's Jack Thursday. I'm going to talk about deadlines, deliverables, and communication. This is why you're listening, or maybe not. Jill has a system set up and she's going to explain it to us in great detail in a second here, because I modeled my education company system after her land system. It took her two years to do it,