Challenge #8 – Work on The Right Things
Business Made Simple Podcast
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4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Many small business owners and their teams spin their wheels when it comes to productivity. It feels like everyone is doing a ton of work – and you probably are! But since your effort is going in so many directions, your business isn’t gaining meaningful traction. That’s exactly why setting a limited number of priorities – and touching base on them weekly – is so important.
It’s Day 8 of the Double Your Revenue Challenge, and today is all about productivity! Donald Miller teaches you how to increase your productivity not by working more – but by working on the right things. If you and your team would only set and follow through on strategic priorities, you’d not only get more done – you’d actually make a whole lot more revenue. Tune in now to learn how!
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| 0:00.0 | the money that you get in return for your labor investment is not correlated with the amount of money |
| 0:05.1 | that you're spending on that investment. Hey friends, welcome to the business paid simple |
| 0:11.7 | podcast brought to you by the HubSpot podcast network. I am your host, Donald Miller. |
| 0:16.0 | It is day eight of the Double Your Revenue Challenge. For eight days now, I've given you a task |
| 0:21.6 | something that you can do to double your revenue. Today is day eight and I've got a really good one. |
| 0:26.0 | If you have not joined us on the challenge, go to businesspaidsimple.com slash challenge. If you |
| 0:31.1 | go there, you're going to get a checklist of all 10 things that you can do to double your revenue. |
| 0:35.2 | If you really want to double your revenue, check off all 10. Today I want to talk about productivity, |
| 0:39.1 | we've given you a lot of really specific sales and marketing techniques, but today I want to talk |
| 0:43.7 | about how to get more productivity out of your entire team. Let's be honest, the remote work and |
| 0:51.0 | the hybrid model work is getting mixed reviews at best. A lot of us are happier. We're getting more |
| 0:57.4 | time with our kids, all that kind of stuff, but the studies are saying productivity is down and |
| 1:04.5 | especially creativity is down. It makes so much sense because we're not in the same room throwing |
| 1:09.5 | the ball around anymore. There's been times where I've met with one of my teams and then a |
| 1:15.2 | month later met to check up on progress and they had forgotten what we had talked about. That |
| 1:19.8 | wouldn't have happened if we would have been together the next day. What you've got to do is this |
| 1:24.4 | is a communication problem. Here's how we solved it at businesspaidsimple. Everybody on my team has |
| 1:30.5 | five priorities. They decide what those priorities are in coordination or in alignment with their |
| 1:36.1 | direct report, but everybody has five priorities and they write those priorities down. I can stop anybody, |
| 1:44.2 | any of my 30 employees in the hall and say, hey, man, what are your five priorities? They're |
| 1:47.6 | going to say, well, this, this, this, this, and this. It doesn't mean that those are the only five |
| 1:51.6 | things that they're working on. It just means those are the five most important things. The human |
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