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032: Culture Clash and Control of your Organisation

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Are you a content creator or a content consumer?

People are the key to your business’ success. This is why learning to communicate well as a leader is essential to strengthening your team and building your business. 

One of the challenging aspects to navigate as a leader is workplace culture. Culture clashes within the workplace comes from friction, from different ways of thinking, communication, and behaviour. Poor culture is usually rooted by lack of communication and understanding.

In this episode, we delve into the culture clash within an organization during structural changes and how leaders can handle this to create a sense of safety within the business. As leaders, it’s essential to approach this challenge with open communication and understanding your team.

Let’s dive in.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Integrating the business (3:03)
  • Fear of change (3:25)
  • Structural changes (4:18)
  • Conflict of team structures during the integration (5:30)
  • Building trust (6:13)
  • Creating a sense of safety (6:18)
  • Inherent idea of hierarchy with roles and titles (6:54)
  • Social hierarchy (7:54)
  • Transitioning roles and helping empower your team (8:50)
  • Change management framework (9:20)
  • Setting the right vision and the why (10:20)
  • Fear of the team during change management (11:17)
  • Finding the middle ground between rocking the boat and keeping the team happy (13:20)
  • People are the key to your business’ success (14:10)
  • Learning to communicate (15:32)
  • Building your brand (17:25)
  • Controlling only 80% of your business (20:00)
  • The culture of your business is valuable (23:35)
  • Reinforcing and adjusting the culture towards your vision (24:10)
  • Change is not simple and fast (25:12)
  • Dealing with culture clash within your company (27:45
  • Clashing of different cultures (36:02)
  • When the team starts being unharmonious (37:50)

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
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PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
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031: Creating vs Consuming on Social Media and Clubhouse

Are you a content creator or a content consumer?

In this day and age, it’s a powerful position to be a creator on social media. You can reach and share your message with a larger audience. But there is also value in being a consumer, and finding the balance between the two is key. 

In this episode, Carl and Peter share their insights on the good, the bad, and the ugly of social media creation and consumption. How can you do both in a healthy way that also gets good business results? 

Let’s dive in.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Curate what you receive (3:00)
  • Difference between a creator or a consumer (3:52)
  • Positioning yourself as an influencer (5:48)
  • How is consuming impacting your life? (6:30)
  • Being intentional on social media (7:30)
  • Posting what you want (7:55)
  • Instagram vs Facebook (10:00)
  • Personal connection on Clubhouse (11:30)
  • Repurposing your content (12:25)
  • Efficiency and different types of engagement (13:00)
  • We only have so much bandwidth (15:30)
  • Social media being time consuming (17:00)
  • One of the best parts of Clubhouse is the engagement (17:30)

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
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PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
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Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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030: Increasing Customer Engagement in a Subscription Service Business

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The law of nature is that value diminishes over time for most things. 

In a subscription service business, how can you make sure that your services are valuable enough to become an intrinsic part of your customer’s business? How do you ensure that you are valuable to your client over a longer period of time? 

If you have a subscription service-based business and are looking for ways for your customers to stay longer, this is a great episode for you. 

Let’s dive in.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Chasing clients for content as a subscription-based business (2:39)
  • Challenges of subscription-based businesses (5:30)
  • The balance of value-exchange (6:30)
  • How to increase customer engagement (7:11)
  • How to become an intrinsic part of your customer’s business (8:22)
  • Diminishing value over time (8:40)
  • The pain of disconnect (10:22)
  • The importance of the perception of clients (13:30)
  • Connecting with client’s perceptions (15:20)
  • It’s all about relationships and connections (16:53)
  • Developing the people in the business as humans (17:20)
  • Intimacy and vulnerability (18:10)
  • Building trust (19:00)
  • Creating a culture of vulnerability (21:10)
  • Building empathy (21:58)
  • Emotional awareness of self (21:25)
  • Finding the balance of reaching out to clients (24:45)
  • Processes and systems as your business grows (34:08)
  • Lead magnet ideas (41:00)

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Like this episode? Have topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
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PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
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029: What’s Real For You In Feb 2021

In this episode of Entrepreneurs Rising, we are doing something a little bit different. 

We are sharing a new section we want to call “What’s Real for Your Right Now,” giving a snapshot of what we’re working on in our business, our views, frustrations, and what we’re excited about. 

What’s real for you in your business? What are you working on in your business or something you’re struggling with now? 

Share it in the comments, we’d love to hear from you and we may even choose you to feature in our upcoming episodes. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Slow down in new client sign ups (1:35) 
  • Removing yourself in your business (2:30)
  • Deciding which fires to let burn and to put out (3:49)
  • Write down your action items (4:39)
  • Being ruthless with your time (7:30)
  • How do we bridge the gap between customers who stay and those who don’t (8:04)
  • Google workspace (8:50)
  • The most effective thing you can do as a business owner (9:11)
  • Automating of manual work (10:50)

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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021: Aligning Your Business with Personal Fulfilment

Is it possible to be successful in business yet not feel fulfilled? The answer is a definite YES. 

In order to find fulfillment in your business, ask yourself “does this business align with my purpose in life?”

In this episode, we delve into how to align your values and purposes in your business in order to attain personal fulfillment. 

The principle of lifestyle design means designing the life you want where your occupation does not feel like work but doesn’t also consume your world completely. It is essential to have an occupation that is by choice fulfilling to you because that will literally extend your life. 

Remember that life is just a game and you get to play it any way you want to play it. You get to design the life you want, on your terms. 

How do you find fulfilment in your business?

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Running multiple businesses and splitting your focus  (5:08)
  • Is this the thing that lights you up? (5:30)
  • Treat the business as a means to an end (5:46)
  • Look at what lights you up and how you can bring that into your business (6:10)
  • Getting clear on your life purpose (6:50)
  • Motivation vs purpose (10:48)
  • Knowing your values (11:05)
  • Organizational flow (12:40)
  • Heart-centered leadership (14:39)
  • Optimization and seeing improvement (16:13)
  • Checking in with what’s important in your business (17:20)
  • Your purpose depends on where you are in your business (19:44)
  • Life is a game (20:30)
  • Have an occupation that lights you up (21:48)
  • Lifestyle design (22:23)
  • Having a life on your own terms (22:53)
  • Consciously going through life (23:41)
  • What brings fulfillment? (24:33)
  • What’s the progress and the next level? (25:29) 
  • Mindset shift (28:03)
  • Look at your business and look at how you can realign it to your purpose (30:20)
  • If your business was more fulfilling, would you change your mind on selling it? (33:30)
  • Business is the best personal development journey (35:19)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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020: What’s Stopping You From Growing Your Business

Do you enjoy a good challenge? 

As entrepreneurs, we’re wired to create solutions to problems, innovate, and take on new challenges. But there are times when we feel like our business has plateaued. We either push past the plateau or sit in comfort.

In this episode, we delve into how to recognize when your business is at a plateau and how to grow past that. We unpack the four questions you can ask yourself to change your mindset and get comfortable with growth.

Welcoming the feeling of being uncomfortable during growth means changing your mindset. Are you robbing yourself of growth by having a mindset to be comfortable and be scared of change, or taking on more risks? Stop thinking about yourself and how you want to stay comfortable. Instead think about how you can help and serve others. 

It is only with pressure that growth is achieved. 

What thoughts are stopping you from growing your business?

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Growth is our own responsibility (3:20)
  • We can only operate at the level of consciousness we are in (3:30)
  • What’s stopping you from where you are now to where you want to get to (4:25)
  • Make your own success (5:10)
  • Getting stuck in a plateau (6:00)
  • 2 types of plateaus (6:10)
  • Growth to plateau to growth (6:45)
  • Feeling uncomfortable during growth (8:35)
  • As the business grows, so do the stakes at risk (10:12)
  • How to recognize when you are in a plateau (14:18)
  • Taking big actions and decisions (16:15)
  • The leader in the business is the bottleneck (18:45)
  • What is the mindset that stops the growth of a business (19:00)
  • Growth equating to more work (19:16)
  • More clients means more workload (20:20)
  • There will always be mistakes in your business (21:44)
  • Feeling comfortable and not wanting to grow (21:54)
  • Stop thinking about yourself instead think about how you can help others (23:19)
  • Optimizing for time and impact (25:40)
  • What drives people? (27:18)
  • Asking yourself these 4 questions when deciding how to grow your business (30:36)
  • 1. Is that true? (31:28)
  • 2. Can you absolutely know that this thought is true? (32:00)
  • 3. How do I react when I believe this thought? (33:05)
  • 4. Who would you be without that thought? (35:05)
  • Feeling unworthy when you make mistakes (36:50)
  • You are exactly where you need to be (38:36)
  • Swap your “have to’s” with “get to’s” (39:36)
  • Choices are gifts and opportunities (40:35)

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below.