🎙 Steve discusses the challenge of projects not progressing without his involvement. He shares the frustration of micromanaging and spoon-feeding his team. He recounts a personal experience where a project stagnated. This was due to a lack of clear direction and a formalized Project Vision Board.
Steve emphasizes the importance of aligning projects with company goals and outlining the desired outcome. Furthermore, by empowering the team to push back and ask for the necessary information, projects can progress independently, saving time and resources.
Additionally, Steve highlights the value of proper planning and systemizing project implementation to avoid stagnation and ensure successful outcomes.
KEY TAKEAWAYS – Project Vision Board
- Planning is crucial for project success: Steve emphasizes the importance of creating a formal vision board and planning out projects before delegating tasks. This helps ensure clear direction and alignment with company goals.
- Empower your team to push back: Steve encourages team members to ask for the information and resources they need before starting a project. This helps avoid confusion and misalignment, allowing projects to progress more smoothly.
- Avoid stagnation and wasted resources: Without proper planning and clear direction, projects can stagnate and become a drain on resources. However, implementing a structured system and empowering the team allows for completing projects more efficiently and effectively.
- Replicate successful processes: Steve highlights the value of creating a system for project implementation that can be replicated for future celebrations or milestones. Moreover, this allows for continuous improvement and efficiency in future projects.
- Avoid demotivating your team: Failing to see projects through to completion can demotivate team members. Therefore, providing clear direction, resources, and support makes team members feel valued and ensures their work is not wasted. Consequently, this leads to increased motivation and productivity.
BEST MOMENTS – Project Vision Board
7:36 – 💬 “By putting a little bit of time upfront in planning the project, it means people can progress without your involvement.”
8:26 – 💬 “The staff member’s responsibility is to ensure that they have everything they need to do great work. And if they don’t, they have to go back and ask for that before they crack on with stuff.”
9:17 – 💬 “If you’ve got stuff in your business and you’re getting frustrated that your team isn’t just getting on with stuff…you need to empower your team to push back on you to give them the information they need to crack on without your involvement.”
13:55 – 💬 “Make your team feel that their work is valuable. Because the most demotivating thing for them is when they start a project, they put time, effort, and energy into it, and then we don’t do anything with that work.”
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TIMESTAMPED OVERVIEW – Project Vision Board
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14:05 Failure to complete projects is demoralizing.
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ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business, but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change how he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely. After totally nailing this concept, he spent his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve’s been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in Computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing Methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
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