Wim GE De Vos

Small businesses with a BIG impact

Building a Culture of Winning 🏆

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“Winning 🏆🏆🏆 is the result of #thework, #mindset and #teamperformance.
It is an #outcome 🌟, not a single magical 🪄 act.”

Building a culture of winning
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Nobody said it was going to easy…

Building & maintaining a #cultureofwinning requires 👇

⛰ set clear goals
📍 put the right person in the right position
🐣 look outside (customer happiness) not inside
🧭 align the team
📗 create a culture code (a Manifesto)
🔍 be brutally honest (the good and the bad)
✅ focus on results (outcomes)
🖐 build accountability
📟 communicate often
🥂 celebrate wins
🛟 create a safe space (absence of fear)
🏋🏻 thy shall expel complacency
♻️ grind every day

How are you building a Culture of Winning?
#sanantoniospurs

📸 screenshot of our internal Slack channel… let’s see what happens when all 29 of us start playing ball 🏀 again in 2024.

Simplify 🟡 & Triumph 🥇

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Simplify something for your customer and you may have a viable business.

If not, you won´t. It is that simple 😉.

Your consumer wants to have as little complexity as possible. And will pay and reward you with loyalty if you do it for them.

Forget image, forget positioning, forget marketing for now. These are secondary.

❶ Answer the following 5 questions:

  • What portion of your business (people and process) faces the customer?
  • How can you make each element of your business less complex for your customer?
  • What can you reduce from 3 steps down to just ONE?
  • What can you do for your customer so that they don’t have to do it themselves?
  • How can you save time, hassle, headaches, stress for your customer?

❷ Now get your team together and list small improvements for each of these 5 topics.

❸ Give full autonomy to each and every one and act daily to make life simpler for your customer.

Making things simple is a craft. Simplicity is art.

Simplify something for your customer and you may have a viable business.

Simplify something every day for your customer and you will become a Small Giant.

more on the power 💪🏻 of simplicity 🟡:
There is beauty in simplicity

Simplify. Everything. Always. Everywhere.

Owning underperformance

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If you are the Boss/Owner/Manager/Team Leader/… and the people in your team are not performing that is 👉 on you.

The solution 🧪 can be broken down into 4 steps:

  1. Own it. Accept and let everyone know this is on you.
  2. Improve your communication. Build a coalition around solving the problem through dialogue.
  3. Be clear about the underperformance and then ask what you can do to help.
  4. Then actually start helping… (this is often the secret ingredient…😉)

Underperformance is not fatal. It is the inability to take the above 4 steps that often proves to be fatal…

Small decisions ✅ with a BIG impact 🚀.

Building a small giant

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Rome had no written constitution, just a common understanding of how people should behave. When that fell apart, the Roman Empire did, too.

#culture is that unwritten constitution.

#smallbusinesses can be places where people lead fulfilling lives, and to create such a business is a quest that is a fulfilling mission in itself.

Building a #smallgiant is what we are doing at Genesis. Together as a team. Together with our partners.

Join us.

Join the movement.

Together we can build great things.