2018 Business Excellence Forum - Blinding Flashes of the Obvious Part 3

• YES is easy.  NO is the master skill
• 3 Activities - consider:

o   What should I have said NO to last week?

o   What should I say NO to next week?

o   What should I say NO to on my Idea, Project, Commitment & Communication Lists?

• "To many choices create paralysis"
• Warren Buffet’s Method

o  Step 1 – WRITE all your priorities

o  Step 2 Narrow the list down to your TOP 3

o  Throw the rest of the list away

• Don’t mistake:

o  Movement for Achievement

o  Activity for Productivity

o  Rushing for Results

• Create a “Give Up” list
• Identify your Vital Few Functions

o  Delete / Delegate

o  Find & Focus on and leverage VITAL FUNCTIONS

• “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.” – Peter Drucker
• To be a SUPERACHIEVER

o  Stop doing

o  Master the Vital FEW

o  Out FOCUS

o  Out LAST (consistency)

o  Out GROW

o  Out FAIL - learn from mistakes

Our next speaker was Travis Bell, The Bucket List Guy.  Travis was a speaker at the 2017 BEF (see 2017 Business Excellence Forum – Blinding Flashes of the Obvious Part 4 for my BFOs from 2017).  Travis repeated a presentation he delivered to the ActionCOACH coaches only.  This year he presented to the entire audience.  There is a few additional BFOs added to last year’s Travis Bell BFOs:

• The ultimate KPI is How Many People Come to Your Funeral
• Go from Selfish to Selfless
• Separate bucket list from to do list

Our next presenter was Steve Rogers, CEO of Alchemy Advisors.  Before founding Alchemy Advisors, Mr. Rogers was the President of Berkshire Hathaway Home Services.  Here are a few of the many BFOs from Mr. Rogers:

• There is no perfect
• The constant question - What will have occurred in the next 12 months to consider it a very successful year?
• And

Brad Sugars took the stage to wrap up day 2:

• All of my clients have a Future Organization Chart (3 to 5 years in the future) These need to add a Timeline & Triggers to each new position on the chart
• "Saving a wage cost me a fortune" - Brad Sugars
• Hiring is not the same as Recruiting
• Have at least 1 personal goal in your 90 day plan
• Success: stands for:

See Your Goal

Understand The Obstacles

Create a Positive Mental Picture

Clear Your Mind of Self-Doubt

Embrace The Challenge

Stay On Track

Show The World You Can Do It

Day 3 – A few BFOs from the coach’s session

From ActionCOACH Kevin Simpson, a coach in Canada.  A few insights from his clients:

• His bike shop client reduced the number of bikes on the sales floor, resulting in selling more units at higher prices
• Conversation around what is possible.  In the 19th century during the construction of a railroad, 32 spikers hammered in 63,000 spikes, each averaging 600 blows per hour for 14 hours.  They constructed 6.3 miles of track that day, which at the time was a record.  So the question is – Do we limit ourselves by our perception of what is possible?
• To eliminate Bottle Necks - Communicate Priorities

• be in Area 4
• Area 1 - Intention & Attention / no money - EXCUSE (below point of power)
• Area 2 - Money & Intention / no attention - BLAME
• Area 3 - Money & Attention / not aligned - DENIAL
• Area 4 - Congruency (above the point of power)

And finally, from a couple of conversations during breaks:

• A business is finished (Step 6 of 6 Steps to Massive Results) when it achieves the ActionCOACH definition of a successful business
• Content is GREAT / Context is IT!
• "Where there is SHIT, there is FERTILIZER"

I hope you have formed your own BFOs from this blog series.

The 2019 Business Excellence Forum will be in Charlotte, SC from February 17th to the 19th.  If you wish to join me and about 1,000 other business owners, CEOs, leaders, executives and business coaches, or if you would like to accelerate your success, please contact me or any of my ActionCOACH colleagues.  Our mission is to create

World Abundance Through Business Re-Education