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It’s a new year and the theme this time of year is ‘let’s start strong. The question is always what are you are going to do differently. This is great, as it is important to keep improving and that often means some change. But the lost question amongst that thread is what you are going to keep doing? It is important in business and in life to be reflecting on what is working. It might be improvements you are making. It might be a subtle change to the way you have been doing something that is now generating better results. It might be doing something completely separate that just makes you happy and gives you the energy and motivation you need elsewhere. The key here is be conscious of the things (new or old) that are working and make those things a focus. We all become so busy with life pulling us in every direction that we often end up off-track, and not focusing on the key priority movements needed, to accelerate the business and your approach to it.
This is the real navigation tool for your day-to-day decisions. Quick tip to get started – set some focus for this year. Look at our values when you first started and check in if these are the same or they have evolved over time. What inspires you to provide our product or service, what is unique about your business, what is the problem you are trying to solve and what’s the purpose to get up and go to work each day.
Pro tip – let us know what that is so we can support you along the way!
That means you are responsible to be the best leader you can be, and your business will follow suit. If the business makes a mistake, you need to look into your part in failing your employees. Did you Induct them correctly, do they need training? Do they need support. The buck starts and stops with you. This doesn’t mean you can’t take time away and you have to micro-manage our business. However, it is your responsibility to ensure that your team has all the necessary tools to support them and in turn keep the momentum of the business moving in the direction you want.
Organise moments throughout the year to reflect and review so you know you are focused or whether you are off track, distracted by putting out all the fires and back on the hamster wheel. If you are an established business client here at Inspire each year, we host available appointments for you to book an annual strategy meeting where we review the past year and set some key performance indicators and goals to achieve to give you a sense of direction.
Quick tip to get started Pre-schedule meetings to review and add people in to keep you accountable. You can tie us in to do this or you can grab a fellow employee or advisory member of your business.
Take a moment to stop and appreciate your team and how they are upholding the values of the business, and moving in a way that supports the direction of the business and ensure you pull them aside and confirm them this year. Sometimes we are led to believe it’s the big gestures or the expensive gestures that go a long way, but we are finding it has nothing to do with monetary value with retaining a loyal team and everything to do with being attentive to training them well and pulling them aside and confirming that ‘you see them’ and you appreciate them that is making the biggest impact at all.
So, this year don’t set yourself a complicated list of goals that you are never going to be able to achieve. Simplify everything and keep a watch out for trying to complicate it because it is just ‘too simple’. Silly to say it but if you look back at the simplest tools, and lessons in business, we always seem to manage to over-strategize and in result over-whelm ourselves before we actually get into the momentum.
