Implementing the correct onboarding and training process will set your business up for success.

Cohost: Al Levi - The Seven Power Contractor Series - The ultimate blueprint to finding, training and retaining A-Level Staff

If you've been listening to the podcast for a while, the name Al Levi will be familiar to you.

Al is by far our most requested guest on the show and he's also been on the show more than anyone. I almost feel like giving him a regular gig ;-)

The Seven Power Contractor is his book, which talks about the methodology that he developed while running a New York plumbing company with his Dad and brothers. You can actually get hold of the first chapter of that book through the form below...and I suggest you do because it's awesome!

Anyway, in this series, we're talking about staff. We tried to cover all of the important topics and we summarised it into the topics below.

1. Recruiting your A-Team
2. Onboarding and training your A-Team
3. Retaining your A-Team

In this episode, 'Onboarding and Training Your A-Team', Al talks to us about the critical step that follows the staff recruiting stage, that being Onboarding and Training.

In many cases the success of an employee comes down to how they have been onboarded and trained. Don't fall into the trap of blaming staff and classing them as useless when in 90% of the cases, the responsibility falls on the shoulders of the owner or manager.

• Do your employees have clear job descriptions?
• Do they have clear roles and responsibilities?
• Have they been inducted correctly?
• Have they been taught your way of doing things?
• Do they have someone they can turn to for help? Etc, etc.

Here's the link to part one - 'Recruiting Your A-Team'

Other episodes from Al

• Planning Power
• Operating Power
• Staffing Power
• Org Chart
• Defining roles
• Steering the ship
• When is the right time to expand?

If you'd like to hear Al's awesome and hilarious story, check out the link below.

• From A-B with Al Levi

 

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Want to build a sustainable business? Better start recruiting your A-Team

Cohost: Al Levi - The Seven Power Contractor Series - The ultimate blueprint to finding, training and retaining A-Level Staff

If you've been listening to the podcast for a while, the name Al Levi will be familiar to you.

Al is by far our most requested guest on the show and he's also been on the show more than anyone. I almost feel like giving him a regular gig ;-)

The Seven Power Contractor is his book, which talks about the methodology that he developed while running a New York plumbing company with his Dad and brothers. You can actually get hold of the first chapter of that book through the form below...and I suggest you do because it's awesome!

Anyway, in this series, we're talking about staff. We tried to cover all of the important topics and we summarised it into the topics below.

1. Recruiting your A-Team
2. Onboarding and training your A-Team
3. Retaining your A-Team

This is the first episode, 'Recruiting Your A-Team' and in this episode, Al talks to us about the process that he uses to find the right team members for his organisations and the organisations that he coaches.

Other episodes from Al

• Planning Power
• Operating Power
• Staffing Power
• Org Chart
• Defining roles
• Steering the ship
• When is the right time to expand?

If you'd like to hear Al's awesome and hilarious story, check out the link below.

• From A-B with Al Levi

 

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Time to start selling like a $30 million organisation?

Cohost: Allan Furguson If you're in our awesome facebook community, you would have seen or been a part of many of the discussions that happen in there on selling and how to sell better.

Side note, if you're not in our group, you should be. Click here to apply.

There's a lot of smart cookies in that group and there's a lot of people with a lot of runs on the board in business. Not many, however as accomplished as today's guest.

For those of you that are worried about this being just another podcast on sales, you'd be wrong. Allan is the owner and CEO of The Omega Group, that's on their way to turning $20 million a year. They are a plumbing, heating and HVAC company located in Sydney and they're the real deal.

Allan's knowledge and expertise led him to set up Service Professionals Australia, which is a company that helps trade-based business owners grow and develop a successful and profitable business.

Allan's passion s selling and with a company that's turning over $15 million a year, it's probably fair to say that he's pretty good at it. This conversation is in relation to questions that arose in our facebook community and drew a lot of engagement.

It's a single conversation that I've split into to make it a little more digestible for you, so this is part two. Enjoy the talk and if you have any questions in regard to selling, comment in the show notes and I'll get them answered for you

Anyway, this is part two, so enjoy!

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Time to start selling like a $30 million organisation? Cohost: Allan Furguson

If you're in our awesome facebook community, you would have seen or been a part of many of the discussions that happen in there on selling and how to sell better.

Side note, if you're not in our group, you should be. Click here to apply.

There's a lot of smart cookies in that group and there's a lot of people with a lot of runs on the board in business. Not many, however as accomplished as today's guest.

For those of you that are worried about this being just another podcast on sales, you'd be wrong. Allan is the owner and CEO of The Omega Group, that's on their way to turning $40 million a year. They are a plumbing, heating and HVAC company located in Sydney and they're the real deal.

Allan's knowledge and expertise led him to set up Service Professionals Australia, which is a company that helps trade-based business owners grow and develop a successful and profitable business.

Allan's passion s selling and with a company that's turning over $30 million a year, it's probably fair to say that he's pretty good at it. This conversation is in relation to questions that arose in our facebook community and drew a lot of engagement.

It's a single conversation that I've split into to make it a little more digestible for you, so enjoy the talk and if you have any questions in regard to selling, comment in the show notes and I'll get them answered for you

Anyway, this is part one, so enjoy!

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Are you really spending your time in the right place?

Series: The Top 3 Mistakes Growing Trade Businesses Make Cohost: Danny Kerr from BT Academy

As business owners, we often have to wear a lot of hats. One minute we're sales, the next we're accounts, next we're HR. In this podcast, Danny runs through some frameworks that he teaches that can help you apply your time better within your own schedule and the schedule of your team.

This is part three of the three-part series. Here is the link to episode one - Attracting the right talent. Here's the link to spidoe two - Lack of focus on Gross Profit Margin

Based out of British Colombia, Canada, BT Academy exists to teach businesses how to create a sustainable business structure, using the principles of a franchise model.

Franchises depend heavily on systems and processes, which serves as the fundamental lynch-pin in a franchises ability to operate out of multiple locations while delivering a consistent product/service.

My co-host in this series, Danny Kerr, has a background in franchising. A few years ago, he decided it would be a good idea to educate trade business owners how they can create similar frameworks in their own businesses.

As a result, BT Academy was born and they now help hundreds of organisations, right across Canada and the United States take their businesses to a level that is systemised, profitable and independent of any one person (in most cases the business owner).

In this series, we'll be talking about what Danny considers the Top 3 mistakes that trade business owners make, from his experience with dealing with hundreds of organisations. Those areas are:

1. Attracting the right talent
2. Lack of focus on Gross Profit Margin
3. The wrong prioritisation of time

If you're interested in attracting talent, you'll likely enjoy these past podcasts also:

• How to find the leaders in your organisation - Peter Cox
• Staffing Power - Al Levi
• Implementing an Org Chart - Al Levi
• Defining Roles in your family business - Al Levi
• Identifying and creating roles in your organisation - Greg Hamlyn
• How to find the right staff members for your business - Greg Hamlyn
• How to retain your staff - Greg Hamlyn
• When is the right time to expand? - Al Levi & Ellen Rohr

Wrong Prioritisation of time

If we're honest with ourselves, there's a lot of day-to-day business tasks that we're not good at. In fact, it would be

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"What we measure, we can improve". Let's learn how to improve our profit margin in this podcast.

Series: The Top 3 Mistakes Growing Trade Businesses Make Cohost: Danny Kerr from BT Academy

Let's assume that we're all in business to make a profit. So why do so few of us have such a poor focus on our gross profit margin? In today's podcast, Danny runs us through the framework that he uses and teaches at BT Academy, with the hope that we start giving it the attention it deserves.

This is part two of the three-part series. Here is the link to episode one - Attracting the right talent.

Based out of British Colombia, Canada, BT Academy exists to teach businesses how to create a sustainable business structure, using the principles of a franchise model.

Franchises depend heavily on systems and processes, which serves as the fundamental lynch-pin in a franchises ability to operate out of multiple locations while delivering a consistent product/service.

My co-host in this series, Danny Kerr, has a background in franchising. A few years ago, he decided it would be a good idea to educate trade business owners how they can create similar frameworks in their own businesses.

As a result, BT Academy was born and they now help hundreds of organisations, right across Canada and the United States take their businesses to a level that is systemised, profitable and independent of any one person (in most cases the business owner).

In this series, we'll be talking about what Danny considers the Top 3 mistakes that trade business owners make, from his experience with dealing with hundreds of organisations. Those areas are:

1. Attracting the right talent
2. Lack of focus on Gross Profit Margin
3. The wrong prioritisation of time 

If you're interested in attracting talent, you'll likely enjoy these past podcasts also:

• How to find the leaders in your organisation - Peter Cox
• Staffing Power - Al Levi
• Implementing an Org Chart - Al Levi
• Defining Roles in your family business - Al Levi
• Identifying and creating roles in your organisation - Greg Hamlyn
• How to find the right staff members for your business - Greg Hamlyn
• How to retain your staff - Greg Hamlyn
• When is the right time to expand? - Al Levi & Ellen Rohr

Lack of focus on our gross profit margin

In the previous podcast, Danny taught us the fine art of attracting the right talent into our organisations. Stemming on from that episode is this one, where he talks to us about the importance of understanding money, cash flow and profit margin.

There's a misconception that turnover is the goal that we should all be chasing as business ow

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To build a solid team, you need to be good at attracting talent. In this podcast, we're spoonfed the ultimate framework!

Series: The Top 3 Mistakes Growing Trade Businesses Make Cohost: Danny Kerr from BT Academy

When it comes to building a successful business, there are few things more important than attracting talent into your organisation. Great staff can make, or break a company, which is why Danny has chosen this topic as part one of this EPIC three-part series.

Based out of British Colombia, Canada, BT Academy exists to teach businesses how to create a sustainable business structure, using the principles of a franchise model.

Franchises depend heavily on systems and processes, which serves as the fundamental lynch-pin in a franchises ability to operate out of multiple locations while delivering a consistent product/service.

My co-host in this series, Danny Kerr, has a background in franchising. A few years ago, he decided it would be a good idea to educate trade business owners how they can create similar frameworks in their own businesses.

As a result, BT Academy was born and they now help hundreds of organisations, right across Canada and the United States take their businesses to a level that is systemised, profitable and independent of any one person (in most cases the business owner).

In this series, we'll be talking about what Danny considers the Top 3 mistakes that trade business owners make, from his experience with dealing with hundreds of organisations. Those areas are:

1. Attracting the right talent
2. Lack of focus on Gross Profit Margin
3. The wrong prioritisation of time

 If you're interested in attracting talent, you'll likely enjoy these past podcasts also:

• How to find the leaders in your organisation - Peter Cox
• Staffing Power - Al Levi
• Implementing an Org Chart - Al Levi
• Defining Roles in your family business - Al Levi
• Identifying and creating roles in your organisation - Greg Hamlyn
• How to find the right staff members for your business - Greg Hamlyn
• How to retain your staff - Greg Hamlyn
• When is the right time to expand? - Al Levi & Ellen Rohr

Attracting the right talent

In this podcast, Danny unleashes some absolute gold about attracting talent into your organisation.

Not only does he teach us his 'marketing for staff' tactics, he has also offered up for you guys some amazing frameworks that you can get hold of, for the grand price of NOTHING!

Danny has a brilliant attitude when it comes to hiring staff. One that I think we should all learn from.

To paraphrase the message that I took from this recording, it's not about 'offering a job', nor is it about 'getting your business to the next level'. If you want to hire a successful employee, you need to tie their goals into your businesses.

You need to make them see a clear path of how

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In this episode, Stephen Scoggins joins us back at the microphone to talk about the '8 Pillars' principle that got him to where he is today.

Back in episode 129, ‘From A to B with Stephen Scoggins’, we learned about his amazing journey in business. From living in the back of a friends car to running a $40 million/year company that employs 380 staff across America.

You see, it was a certain framework that enabled Stephen to achieve his success. A firework that he first learned, then adopted, and now refines into his life and business.

With such a successful blueprint at his disposal, Stephen decided to make this method available to others that want to learn it.

Stephen is a large supporter of mental health. He believes that if people [like he was] get exposure to the right tools and people, then they too can achieve success.

The Book that changed it all

Stephen went on to write the best selling book called 'The Journey Principles'. His editor said was so good that he should develop it into a program, so that’s what he did.

Stephen now takes those that want to learn 'The Journey Principles' through the blueprint that he has designed in a format that drives results. In this podcast, he’s sharing that framework with us.

My hope for you is...

That you’ll love this podcast so much that it forces you to take action.

If you want details on the program, you can get them right here..

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Is your business protected against a potential legal onslaught?

When I asked Eliot to come on the show, I was half expecting to hear a bunch of boring stuff about what to do when you find yourself in a ‘legal pickle’.

It was a pleasant surprise to hear the tone of the conversation that formed the fundamental basis of the entire episode was more or less, Eliot telling us how we can inevitably avoid ending up talking to him.

As Eliot jokes a number of times throughout the episode, “Do this, so you don’t have to pay some lawyer loads of money they don’t need”.

The conversation

I approached this conversation with the angle of really trying to figure out what we, as business owners need to have in place from a legal perspective in our business.

I left with a strategy on how to be a better, smarter, more organised and less exposed business owner.

We covered things that I certainly didn’t expect to discuss.

Things like:

• how to employ staff correctly,
• how to let staff go correctly,
• how to establish contracts,
• how to remunerate staff correctly, etc.

Are you a business owner?

If you’re in business, you must listen to this podcast. It’s amazing on every level.

In my eyes, Eliot certainly doesn’t fit the stereotype of a lawyer. He’s a great communicator and a funny story teller, who’ll keep you smiling the whole way through.

If you want to reach out to Eliot, you can do so at Wagonheim Law’s website.

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From living in the back of a friends car, to running a $40 Mill/yr business, this is the story of Stephen Scoggins,. A man that has done it all.

Coming from a broken family, Stephen Scoggins tells us about how he was heading down a path that followed in the footsteps of an abusive father.

That was until when he met someone that saw potential in him and took him under his wing. Stephen is a big believer that the success he has had, came as a result of having a great mentor in his life.

Stephen explains in this podcast, that when he was growing up, almost everyone else had succumbed to the motion that he was never going to amount to much. Stephen’s mentor however, saw a young man with lots of drive and ambition, who needed direction and someone to believe in him.

As Stephen quotes. “growing up, you don’t know what you don’t know”. I love that saying and I use it all the time myself. It’s not that [some] people don’t want to learn, it’s that they are not exposed to it at the right time, but the right people, in the right environment.

It’s one of the main reasons that I record these podcasts. The content that comes as the result brings an entirely new level of awareness to things that may otherwise have gone unnoticed.

There’s a lot of power in believing in someone. Perhaps there's someone in your life that you could be breathing belief into. Maybe you should take that as a challenge. Who could you be sewing belief into right now? Who could you take under your wing?

Who in your life could you be sewing belief into right now? Maybe it's a staff member, maybe it's a friend, maybe it's a family member. Who could you take under your wing?

In this conversation, Stephen tells us of his amazing story.  The good and bad times and the reality of growing and running a $40 million business with 380 staff across multiple states in the USA.

The systems, the processes, the hiring and firing, internal politics, financials and so on.

You can reach find out more about Custom Homes Exterior at teamche.com. Likewise, you can find out more about The Journey Principles at journeyprinciples.com

He’s also written a book named The Journey Principles, which you can get hold of at:

• Apple iBooks
• Amazon
• JourneyPrinciples.com

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