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Business Excellence - TOP 5 Series

Rael Bricker and Lindsay Adams

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In keeping with the theme of our podcast, "Business Excellence" we have decided to release a new edition, the Business Excellence Top 5 Series. In this series we interview the best contributors we can source to tell us about their Top 5 tips, tools or ideas relating to their topic around business and / or life. Hosted by Lindsay Adams OAM CSP and Rael Bricker CSP bringing 60+ years of entrepreneurial success and professional speaking together.
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“Augment human intelligence with artificial intelligence by using it to deal with your weaknesses rather than your strengths.” Ronsley Vaz Top Five Tips For Ethically Integrating AI To Grow Your Business 1. Augment human intelligence with AI by using it to deal with your weaknesses rather than your strengths. 2. Understand AI as a silicon-based int…
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“If you don't understand it, don't do it. Because there is no such thing as get rich quick. I've tried, been down all those roads... Just be wise, and know the area that you're stepping into before you start.” Zach Oehlman Top Five Tips For Mastering Finance and Building Wealth 1. Understanding Financial Statements 2. Effective Budgeting and Cash F…
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“The problem as you can probably see, though, what if you're practising fear? What if you're practising anxiety? You're then wiring that into your brain into your nervous system again, that's why tip number one, what is strongest within your mind is what you do over and over again, what you practice, you get better at.” Craig Meriwether Top Five Ti…
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“We’re essentially just replacing the form of which they're getting a lift or a boost, and we're not allowing that lift or boost to be so high that then it crashes.” Anthony David Hartcher Top Five Tips For Breaking Addictions 1. Live by your values 2. Seek to understand what is driving your addictive behaviour 3. What are more resourceful ways you…
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“I want to create a business that people want to work at. That's my first way of getting around the people shortage.” Richard Walsh Top Five Tips For Escaping The Owner Prison 1. Understand what the owner prison is and how entrepreneurs get trapped in the repetitive 2-year cycle. 2. Automate, delegate, and eliminate tasks to free up time and scale …
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“First, you decide that it has to be there somewhere. And then you keep looking for it until you find it. And when I started doing this, when most people start doing this, I tell them, when you get up in the morning, say you're going to find one thing, one person one event, one experience that you can say, hey, that was pretty good. And then build …
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“ I think it's about getting clear on what your method of problem solving is. And if somebody doesn't have that, if they're not exactly sure why or how they did something, that's an easy no for you. And those people who understand from their mistakes, who can talk you through their logic, their thought process, what the algorithm they have programm…
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“ Focus on solving the big problems that difficult problems the easy ones will resolve themselves.” David Ednie Top Five Tips For Aligning Strategy and Execution 1. Raise your standards 2. Align your people 3. Sharpen your focus 4. Pick up the pace 5. Transform your strategy TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:34 What are you focusing on? 06:05 Raising the bar 1…
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“I think we live in a world people are too, quick to throw stones throw sticks and point fingers. None of us are perfect. I certainly am not. I'm a very temperamental reactive sort of person. So, I have perfected the art of saying I'm sorry. So, I think it's really important that if you're doing something in the world, and you think, Oh, that wasn'…
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“There's much more to learn and a lot of research happening on what a healthy gut actually is. What it's starting to show us is that if your gut is healthy, then your overall well-being your overall health is pretty good.” Stephanie Polson Top Five Tips To Improve Your Gut Health 1. Increasing fibre consumption and how to do this in a way that make…
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“We don't want to be learned know it all’s. Instead, we want to be learned balls.” Amber Perry Top Five Tips For Turning Small Steps Into Big Impact 1. People remember how you leave more than what you did. 2. Growth mindset. 3. Fail forward. 4. Daily discipline. 5. Leverage your gifts to serve. TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:14 Exiting with excellence 05:29…
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“...it can be done in inductions, but they're still moving to that portal because a lot of organisations are now either hybrid or remote. And so, it's not as easy as just kind of raising your hand or watching what you know Tom does and how he that he fills out a procedure or whatever it is. People need to be able to be empowered to work independent…
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“Usually when the business stops growing, it's my fault. And sometimes it's not that comfortable to admit that. But the truth is, if you want to get great talent to follow you, you have to be a great leader.” Kody Thompson Top Five Tips For Building Offshore Teams 1. Get your own mindset and leadership skills up to scratch, as the entrepreneur/lead…
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“You can't delegate successfully, if you haven't followed tip number one, documenting, right. If you don’t that, you're going to spend hours on calls, trying to explain things to people, you're going to get frustrated team members, because they don't understand what they should be doing. And then you'll probably think that they're incompetent, and …
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“Too many people spend money, they don't have, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.” Rand Selig Top Five Tips For Thriving Personally and Professionally 1. Be a Lifelong Learner 2. Establish Great Habits and Routines 3. Figure out How Much is Enough 4. Leadership 5. Power to Make choices TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:10 Persona…
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“Time is always moving forward, tomorrow is going to come whether you want it to or not. And so, you need to be aware of that and you need to plan for it.” John Foster Top Five Tips For Making Your Kids Savvy 1. Failure isn't Fatal (it's essential). 2. People WANT to Meet You (and want to know, like, and trust you) 3. Don't Make an Enemy on the Way…
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"I believe human beings are built for growth. We're like elastic bands, you know, we're built to be stretched. It takes two things, it takes a mentality, to want to do that to want to put yourself out of a comfort zone. But then action is also required, small steps. And the more and the more small steps you do when you're trying to do something for…
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"Drama kills deals, and this isn't a big one. It can mean drama in terms of not taking care of some of the stuff we read for instant number one, you know, a financial misstep or a tax liability or maybe you have a threatened lawsuit from a formerly disgruntled employee that you don't disclose to the buyer you forget about and there's nothing worse …
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"I think that there is some freedom and some flexibility there. And your staff members need to know, okay, my boss is available at this time. And you also need to know from your staff when they're available. So, if there are contractors, it might look a little different than if there are employees. But there should be some set time when everyone kn…
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“So don't discount that just because I'm learning how to negotiate today that this is one and done. It can really serve you for your life on all of your career discussions. And even sometimes, where you go to lunch, where you decide where you're going to pick dinner with your spouse, it's always helpful to have these skills in your fingertips” Doro…
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“A personal brand is exposure, like repeated exposure to someone and what they post online, really sets the perception that other people have of you. So, you don't control what people say about you, but you can curate that perception.” Annie Margarita Yang Top Five Tips For Personally Branding Yourself As An Industry Expert 1. How does personal bra…
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Release the outcome, you have the right to action, you do not have the right to the results of your action. Danielle Matthews Top Five Tips For Entrepreneurs 1. Be present 2. Accept the polarity of life 3. Understand your inner reaction creates the outcome 4. Look for the lesson in everything 5. Release the outcome TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:21 Why bein…
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“You have got to get engaged where you're passionate.” Peter Winneke Top Five Tips For Using Philanthropy To Build Life Purpose & Legacy 1. Pause and think about your legacy 2. Think about what upsets you about your community or the world 3. Develop a structured approach to your giving 4. Get the family engaged 5. Best practice giving TIME STAMP SU…
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"You do actually need to know who to contact and know how to find the right support. And whether it is the right legal professional, or whether it is finding a mediator, or whether it is going to your business coach as the first step to find someone to be referred to. Knowing your first steps and finding the right support is really key. We don't wa…
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“I always work with my clients to help figure out what that problem is. And then let's spotlight it. Then when you think of an analogy of a spotlight, anything that's in the spotlight is brightened up, and you can see it crystal clear...” Bruce Scheer Top Five Tips For Getting Your Sales Story Straight 1. Target the Right Buyers 2. Spotlight the Pr…
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“And because you've got no cash flow, you still can't leverage that… How many times have you heard people in their 60s, people in the 70s, say I'm asset rich, but cashflow poor? Yeah, happens all the time. And it's because they've injected all this money into the asset, which gives them a lot of equity, but they've started to run out of money.” San…
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“I think brutal focus is the key. So, you know, often when we start to think about a performance, one of the biggest questions people come and talk to me about is like, Oh, I'm trying to do so much. I have no time. I'm trying to figure out how to fit it all in. And I think it's really interesting that when we think about performance, we often appro…
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“There are victories to be found even within failures. Because failure is part of the process of learning and achieving success. And through trial and error. Life is one long, ongoing boxing match. Losing one round or failing at something does not make us a failure for our entire lives. Even the greatest of the greats, Muhammad Ali, Joe Frazier, th…
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“Third is vision. You know, there's a proverb that says, without vision, the people perish. We've got to cast a vision for what we're trying to accomplish. And so, while I tease people by saying what do you want to be when you grow up? There's a lot of truth to that. Where do you see yourself? If it's a sales culture? Where do you see your customer…
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“Challenge yourself. Pick something that is so far outside of your lane, something you never thought you would do because it scared you and say no, I'm going to learn this. I want to develop more skill and then set out and create that course, create that curriculum of what you're going to do to get to where you're going to be.” Joe Curcillo’s Top F…
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“There is a famous saying isn't there, you always start out with the end in mind. And I guess that is very relevant to anyone listening to this podcast because we're all in business. I think that advice would flow through to even to all bricks and mortar businesses as well. What does a potential exit look like? Who would we sell it to? And how do y…
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"Trust is really a two-way street. And in order to build trust, there has to be a first mover. As a leader, it's incumbent upon you to be the first mover. And so, if you want to create a trusting environment within your team, you have to offer trust. And that means trusting that your folks have the organization's and the team's best interests in mi…
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“It's a simple breathing technique. You breathe in through your nose. So, you hold your breath for seven counts. And then you breathe out through your mouth for eight counts.” Joni Peddie Top Five Tips That Help You Feel On ‘Top Form’ Daily 1. Sleep is your Superpower. 2. Brain food is good food. 3. Stress- less. 4. 'Open your heart'. 5. Micro move…
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Our beliefs create our reality, basically. So, for example, if we're running on the belief that we're not good enough, or we're not intelligent enough, or you know, if it's a business owner or an entrepreneur, that there's too much competition, whatever the belief is, if it's a negative belief, it's going to impact your life, your business, your pe…
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“We all need to embrace self-stress reducing techniques. Maybe meditation, you're taking time, five minutes a day, twice a day even, just to settle your mind. And I don't mean that we have to get rid of all our thoughts. It's just that we have to focus, instead of on our thoughts, to drop down into our body and see what's going on in there. It can …
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“Why don't you feel good in your clothing? And why do you keep peeling back? You need to ask yourself, Why about five times, and don't let yourself get off the hook because it becomes more and more difficult, the more you do it. However when you do, you're really going to get to the core. And oftentimes, it can be different to what you think your o…
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“Adopt an MVP mindset. MVP stands for minimum viable product and kind of iterating quickly. And essentially, the thinking there is that you need to build your kind of minimum, to the problem as quickly as possible, put it out there, get people testing it, using it, and then iterate it, you know, improve it, and change it up based on feedback.” Karl…
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"If you don't promote yourself, who else should promote you? It is your responsibility.” Sylvie di Giusto Top Five Tips For Discovering Your Fair Advantage 1. What is your Fair Advantage? 2. The Necessity of Visibility 3. From first to lasting impressions 4. The 5 Ways to infuse your fair advantage 5. Sabotaging your Fair Advantage TIME STAMP SUMMA…
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“Branding is really the key. A lot of people think , “I want to market my business, I want to sell more”, but branding is actually the key foundation of your business. And there's different elements of your brand. There's personal brands, and there's business brands.” Athin Cassiotis Top Five Tips For Business Growth 1. Mindset – our beliefs create…
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“The next thing I was going to talk about is continuous learning, and continuous improvement. And I think this is key, both as a company and as individuals, because we are also responsible for the future of all of our employees and all of our team members.” Dr Soumyadip Rakshit Top Five Tips For Consistent and Meaningful Growth 1. Embrace connected…
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“ My tips are really grounded in trying to take it from, as I say, less mysterious art to science. And tip number one for me, whenever we get an innovation brief, I'm always keen to think about, are there different angles to the problem? Are there ways to reframe it, and you can do this by a series of thinking habits. So, they're giving you a reall…
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“Trust equals transactions. Essentially, if you have trust with a buyer, the sale is easy. Where you have got to kind of finagle and overcome objections and battle them, is really what they're saying is, I don't trust you, I don't trust your process. I don't trust you. I don't trust the company. And so, you need to build more trust.” Dustin Bogle T…
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“Ensuring that you can also create an out of pattern, noteworthy experience through your message on that channel based on everything else at that channel exposes that prospective customer or existing customer to the right information. That kind of attention is currency at this stage in the game, something that's out of pattern, something that catal…
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“I have long ago embraced, and it came from a weird place, that most things don't work. Failure is actually really my goal…The goal when you compete for strength is absolute failure. You haven't tried hard enough until you failed…” Erin Marcus Top Five Tips For Conquering Your Business 1. Commit to being in charge and taking personal responsibility…
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“The first word in a question is often the most important. So, if you ask, Why did you do that, then that comes across as accusatory. And then you're setting up a more aggressive space, but if you open instead with what was going on for you, or tell me what was going on for you? Or how did that arise? Or where did I go wrong? So those first questio…
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“And I guess the other thing that is that, to get clarity, a good question to ask is, are you winning from love? Or are you winning from fear? What's your modus operandi. And are you what are you sacrificing for your success? Because success without fulfilment is a pretty awful place to be” Gerard McCarthy Top Five Tips For a Brilliant You 1. Clari…
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“I think the first tip is really using your email list to book your calendar solid. And because we're what we all basically need to need to look at is very similar to Stephen Covey's begin with the end in mind with everything, so it's all great to be able to go on to chat GPT and whip up an email quickly. But at the end of the day, I look at it as …
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“ You need to align your purpose with your profession. So, what this essentially means is that if you want to be successful in sales, you really need to believe in what you do, people will assess you based on your level of conviction. So, if you don’t believe that what you’re doing is of great value to the people that you’re serving, then you’re no…
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“Salary can only go so far in your work experience. And I have always been under the impression that there's always somebody out there that's going to pay more. But when you pay the house high salary, and they actually get in the job, this is where sometimes some of the disconnects, start to happen. And if you don't have strong relationships and le…
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“When was the last time you actually laughed and giggled until you had a sore stomach, or had a massive smile on your face, that your cheeks started to get sore. Probably when you were a child or when you went to Disneyland 20 years ago. So, it's really important, you know, especially since COVID, and since all the lockdowns we've had people have b…
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