Unlocking Your Business Potential
Having been a Business Mentor and Strategist for over 20 years, I am obsessed with business growth. There is nothing more fulfilling than having your own business, setting the direction you want to go and seeing your plans come to life.
Unfortunately for many small business owners this is not reality. No matter how hard you work, you are continually frustrated when the business fails to reach its full potential. The potential you know it has. If only you could find the secret.
If this is your business, then I have great news for you. Having collected small business case studies over the last two decades like others collect vinyl records, I have been able to go back through the archives and create a system of success.
Building Your Ecosystem
The challenge with transformation is it can be difficult to know where to start. There is a saying, “if you keep carrying the same bricks from your past into the future, you will end up building the same house.” We know we must do something different - but what?
For any business transformation to succeed, it must have solid foundations from which to launch. No doubt you will have at some point been energised to do things differently, do things better, only to find that you have tinkered around the edges and change, if any, is fleeting.
I have developed four key ecosystem fundamentals to facilitate lasting change:
Start by deliberately setting the personal and professional legacy that you aspire to.
Set the values and behaviours which will govern how you operate.
Commit to the discipline and focus required to stay the course, and
In doing so build sustainable reputational resources.
Without a strong business ecosystem fuelled by structured thinking, our transformation efforts are unlikely to succeed.
Business System
The business system is how we compete. Designing your future business direction requires an Indiana Jones style leap of faith. It demands the courage to peer into the future and recognise faint ripples of opportunity.
Whist thriving in an incredibly dynamic and fluid business world is a daunting quest, deliberately creating a business system by your design is imperative for business success.
If we do not set direction and deliberately map out our business future, we will burn scarce resources fumbling around in the dark hoping to bump into opportunity or worse, do more of the same and drown in the status quo.
When we have the ecosystem in place and a well thought through business system, we create possibility.
Operating System
Knowing where we are going and laying the foundations is critical but its not going to get the job done. We must have an operating system that, like the step counters in our phones and watches, spurs the action which delivers on the business potential.
The key to getting momentum in execution is to build a daily, weekly, and monthly cadence that creates the process which in turn facilitates the results we are looking for. When we focus intent solely on the outcome, we flounder.
Having laid the foundations through our ecosystem, set sail for our horizon through our business system and created the actions to build cadence and momentum in our operating system, we have laid the path to genuine business transformation and we can reach our business potential.
Accelerate Program for Business Owners
If you would like to unlock your potential, fast track your business transformation, break the status quo and reimagine your legacy, my 8-week Accelerate Program for Business Owners might be what you are looking for.
To learn more please visit www.chrisgreen.au/accelerate