What’s holding you back? | Issue #233
The seven most common problems that could be holding your business back
You’re the CEO of a fast-moving business. All the stars are aligned. You have a strong strategy, white space in your market, and a great value proposition. In fact, your business has started to grow exponentially. Yet there are problems. Cracks are beginning to show, and you’re unsure how to fix them.
We see this time and again in the businesses we coach. Big problems hit our CEO clients, and they need our help. Sometimes, they’re easy to identify. But often, when we start working with a CEO, they struggle to articulate their difficulties.
That’s why I refuse to send a proposal until we’ve identified the problem. I want every new client to understand that their investment in our coaching will reward them with a 10x return on our fee. And they won’t value our input until they know exactly what it’s worth.
These conversations are revealing. Specific themes emerge over and over again. We also work through exercises like Stinky Fish and Brutal Truths that give us unique insights into the issues holding fast-growing businesses back. So what are these common difficulties?
E238 | Building a Better and More Efficient Onboarding Process with Brad Giles
Does your organisation suffer from onboarding debt? It’s the difference between what people should understand and what they actually understand about how to succeed in their role. This debt manifests itself through low retention, poor cultures and frustrated leaders. But it doesn’t need to be this way.
In his new book, Onboarded: How to bring new hires to the point where they are effective, faster, Brad Giles gives a simple step-by-step process that leaders can use to significantly increase the effectiveness of new hires and existing teams. And this week, we got the chance to learn more from him on a new episode of The Melting Pot.
Brad is a business coach based in Perth, Australia, and this week he joined us to talk about how to get new employees to deliver faster, how to get clear on expectations and the impact that will have.
Don’t miss this fantastic conversation. Download and listen to learn more.
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Expert Secrets by Russel Brunson
Master the art of what to say in your funnels to convert your online visitors into lifelong customers in this updated edition from the $100M entrepreneur and co-founder of the software company ClickFunnels. Your business is a calling. You’ve been called to serve a group of people with the products, services, and offers that you’ve created. The impact that the right message can have on someone at the right time in their life is immeasurable. Your message could help to save marriages, repair families, change someone’s health, grow a company, or more. But only if you know how to get it into the hands of the people whose lives you have been called to change. By positioning yourself as an expert and telling your story in a way that gets people to move, you will be able to guide people through your value ladder, offer solutions to their problems, and give them the results they are looking for. This is how you change the lives of your customers, and this is how you grow your company.
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Quote of the week
“There’s nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.”
Peter F. Drucker
Dominic Monkhouse
Dominic offers business coaching and management development, strategy planning and organisational change, using tried and tested methods to launch your organisation onto an unparalleled growth trajectory. His programme is a function of his broad experience, his deep expertise and a proven process used by over 2,700 firms worldwide.