091: Are you working on your business not in it? You might need to make it better before bigger!

Are you working on your business not in it?  Making Conversations about better before bigger Count! "I think business owners can learn a lot from sport and look at that analogy. If you want to play at the top level, you've got to also give yourself periods to recover, regroup, rethink and all those lovely re prefixes that are really important." Nick Cramp, Making Conversations Count - (July 2022) Psst! Low on data? Here's a lower bandwidth version for you. It's one of the most important questions to ask yourself. Are you working on your business or in it? This is the most important KPI for any business owner to understand and measure. How much time you're spending 'doing' the business rather than growing it. Nick Cramp is an expert on this. He's all about getting better before bigger. In other words, nurturing the business so you can scale it. After listening to this episode, you'll understand what your own status is, and then hopefully apply that knowledge to grow it to where you need it to be. Enjoy this new episode of the "Making Conversations Count" podcast!  You'll learn.... What Nick does Working on your business not in it Good rules and habits Nick's conversations that counted A poignant moment from the episode: "I think right now, all leaders need to be stakeholder focused. They need to be spending time and giving enough time for the depth of conversation with those different stakeholder groups. So whether that's employees, whether that's suppliers, whether that's contractors and customers, it's actually entering to a two way dialogue and saying right now, Wendy, right now, given everything's happened, how are you feeling? What do you need from us right now? What does this look like? What have we learned together? Because that's what we need to do is we need to reinvent the relationships at that next level up. Do we actually need to get together and meet or can we do all our business on zoom is a really relevant question for a lot of us right now, isn't it?" Click here for the full transcript What IS Making Conversations Count? "Making Conversations Count" is a podcast from WAG Associates founder and telemarketing trainer Wendy Harris. Missed our previous episodes? You can catch up with any of the other guests we've been making conversations count with, here: https://makingconversationscount.com/episodes/ Listen to Making Conversations Count On your mobile device? Hear them in your favourite platform (Apple or Spotify etc) here: https://makingconversationscount.studio/listen Once you've listened, remember to leave us a review!  https://makingconversationscount.studio/Review-all-episodes