Q: Dear Tristan, I’m CEO of a fast growing business and I’ve heard that you work from home, is that true? If so, why do you do it? How do you do it? And what impact do you think it has on your team? I’d love to work from home but I’ve no idea how to do it. Please fill me in - EK
A: Dear EK,
Yep, I sure do work from home 3-4 days every week and have been for the past 18 months. It’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Here’s how I’ve made it happen..
In short, here’s my week. I’m..
Excited - about The Physio Co family’s 8th birthday party coming up on Saturday. (It’s a ‘Magic’ Theme!)
Sharing - The Physio Co’s 2012 Culture Book with the TPC team at our birthday party. (There MIGHT be some copies available for members of the Culture is Everything community, please let me know if you’d like a sneaky peek inside The Physio Co family)
Pleased – to officially welcome KW back to The Physio Co team (for just a few days!)
Attending – the monthly committee meeting of Prom Country Aged Care
Finishing - a few books that have been hanging around including Fascinate & Reality Marketing Revolution.
Planning – the Culture is Everything Book Club. Interested in joining and reading/discussing a book with me regularly?
Reviewing - a few posts I missed from the archives of Verne’s Insights
Training - 3 hours in the pool, 7.5 on the bike & 5.5 hours on foot this week. Only 11 weeks until Ironman Australia!
If you want to grow your business faster, you’ll need more meetings. That’s right more meetings, not less. Here’s why..
Businesses generally have annual planning days, monthly management meetings and a semi-regular weekly meeting. This approach can work for businesses growing at 10-15% per year. If you want to grow at 30%, 40% or even 50% per year, you’ll need to compress time and have many more meetings.
In a fast growth business there is so much happening that a year can feel more like a decade and a quarter more like a year. With this in mind, you’ll need to talk strategy at least every quarter, measure performance every week and pulse with a short huddle every day.
The best way to start a faster meeting rhythm is with a daily huddle. This is where we started at The Physio Co, we call our huddle To The Point and it’s become the most important meeting we have.
Pulsing faster by committing to a regular meeting rhythm and almost religious discipline are some of the keys to fast growth.
PS – Want to know more? Check out this post: a 12-minute meeting that works.
PPS – If you’d like to see our daily huddle in action, come and join us!
How often do you seek feedback? Is there ever enough?
Today a good mate called me for some feedback on a tricky work situation. I was a long way removed (different business, different industry, different state!), but I was hopefully able to help out by providing a different perspective.
When the phone call ended, I sat in the car smiling. I was impressed by this person’s commitment to constantly improving his performance. The situation he’d been dealing with had eased and he could’ve patted himself on the back and moved on. Instead, he relentlessly reviewed his performance and sought input from people he trusted.
This thought, reflection and effort to seek feedback is the sign of a true champion.
Feedback. Learn to love it.
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