Tag: fitness business

Ambition is good. Vision is great but what is more important is profit – profit as determined by you: cash or lifestyle.

Stay tuned as I help you rein in our entrepreneurism and realise big is not always better.

Welcome to FR3 Minutes For Your Fitness Business with actionable tips this week to get the fundamentals right before expanding!

The world we now live in inspires people to open their own business or provides opportunities for the less risk adverse to push up the corporate ladder.  The problem with the world we live in is we are inspiring people to run before they can walk let alone crawl.

The odd individual can run the 100m in world record time but the rest of us are still plodding long after they finished!  We simply should not compare what we are doing to anyone else.

Don’t focus on your competitors . . . focus on your business and the fundamentals of business.  Too many times we want to do Facebook advertising to generate leads and we have no conversion or sales strategy.  Or we have 25 members or clients cancel with us in a month before we realise our business is going backwards.

In business all you have are fundamentals.  If we are using the analogy of catching and passing, then when you can do that with zero mistakes then broaden your vision.  But until your business is so systemised the basics work without thinking about them, then forget about multiple locations and a larger premise or hiring more trainers.

As a business owner or manager or someone who wants a career we must build our business, skill set and career on fundamentals.  Your leadership role is to understand what the catch & pass skills are for your business.  And you need to be able to do these fundamentals in your sleep.  You have to be unconsciously competent at these skills. Period!

Without successful understanding and completion of the fundamentals you are destined for failure . . . you cannot build a house on sand you need a concrete slab.

As I said … ambition is great.  A vision is awesome.  Entrepreneurship pumping through your veins can be your fuel.  But focus your energy and pour everything into making it a business that has a line of people out the door, down the street and around the corner.

Make it a place that cannot be ignored.  And when you have achieved all of that with profit and a smile on your face with no grey hairs, then consider expanding or multiplying.

 

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We spend more time with our work mates than with our friends and sometimes even more than with our family!

We find out about the people we work with through trial and error in communication and their response to our actions.  And very rarely, if EVER, through conversation!

In 3 minutes I’ll share 6 segments for your User Guide, so staff know you.

Welcome to FR3 Minutes For Your Fitness Business with actionable tips this week to have a better understanding of your staff to make them productive!

Igor Krughrud, the CEO of QuestBack, who said he developed a one page user manual so people could understand how to work with him.

He started using this as he noticed staff were treating everyone the same, despite their individual needs, quirks and traits.

The concept of the User Guide is to help people adapt to each other as they understand each other better.

If we can understand how people like to communicate or be communicated to do, that’s gotta help – wouldn’t you agree?

If we know how to bring up problems, issues or challenges with our boss, that’s also gotta help.

And if our boss knows that we are not the energiser bunny and love private praise rather than public recognition – that’s gotta help too – right?

A User Guide is a start to streamlining your relationships with a description of your quirks, values, communication styles and more!

Here are six suggested segments for your User Guide that comes from Abby Falik, the CEO of Global Citizen Year:

1. My Style
2. What I value
3. What I don’t have patience for
4. How to best communicate with me
5. How to help me
6. What people misunderstand about me

Falik suggests that you then add 3 to 5 bullet points under each of those headlines.

Remember, these are specifically designed to minimise – if not get rid of altogether – conflict owing to differences between our team members and us!

These categories help ensure team mates just don’t understand you but also how to productively and positively engage with you.

The most creative and collaborative teams are the ones where team members openly and honestly share without fear of judgement.

The better your team know each other the easier it is to navigate conflict, empathise, critique, share and even praise.

Thanks for watching FR3Minutes for your fitness business now join the Active Management community for more business tips at activemgmt.com.au/membershipoptions.