The second shift
One owner. Two jobs.Nobody pays for the second one.
The first job finishes when the work does. The second one starts after that, and it is the reason the week never closes. It is not a work ethic problem and it is not time management. It is one person being the only way through.
60 minutes, one on one, and a $1,500 value. It costs nothing and you are not obliged to buy anything. Built for owners already turning over $10k a month or more.
Where it stands now
What you have already tried
Getting up earlier. For years.
Blocking out a day in the office that gets eaten by a job.
Promising yourself this weekend is the one where you catch up.
Hiring somebody, and discovering you now had to train them and check their work.
None of it moved, because none of it removed the bottleneck. It had your name on it.
Why this is not coaching
We sold the coaching. Then we admitted it was not enough.
For ten years we did what everyone else does. Training and coaching, 9,000+ trade business owners.
And we learnt something it cost us a lot to admit.
Training on its own does not change a business.
Because the advice underneath it was always the same. Hire someone, buy back the time.
Which means you need the time and the money before you can start...
Not any more.
The systems get built and put in at a pace that does not care whether you have a spare day.
And the quoting, the chasing and the reporting go to agents that run on their own.
Which leaves you and your team doing the part a person was actually needed for.
That is why we stopped calling it coaching. The business gets built, and you own it.
The hard part of building a business system is knowing how the business actually works. You have known that for twenty years. What used to sit between you and a working system was code, and that part is gone. You describe it in plain English and it gets built.
How it works
How the second job actually comes off
It gets described, not coded
You already know how the job is meant to go. That was always the hard part, and it is the part you have had for twenty years.
It gets built in the room
Not set as homework. The Pathway runs in a fixed order, six phases and 21 build steps, and you leave sessions with something running.
Then it keeps running
A system built once on your own numbers does the job again next week without being asked, and without a wage attached to it.
On the call
You will leave knowing
Which job in your head to write down first, and why it is usually not the loudest one
How much of your week the second shift is really taking, counted rather than guessed
What it looks like for a quote to be drafted before you have left the customer
What the handover actually costs, which for most of these is nothing but the describing
What it is actually for
What you get back is not time to do more admin
It is the four things the second shift has been taking from you.
The evenings
The quote stops being the thing standing between you and the end of the day.
The customers
More of the week spent in front of the people who decide whether you win the job and whether they call you again.
The team
Time to actually develop them, which is the only thing that makes a business run without you in it.
The headroom to grow
Taking on more work without taking on more overhead. That is the difference between growing and just getting busier.
From the room
One of them, in their own words
Been away in the UK for a month, left the team running things. They have done well without us. We are starting to build the systems now so the team can take over properly. That is the shift we need. Not building a job, building a business.
Individual results. Where a member is quoted, it is in their own words. What any owner gets out of this depends on their business and the work they put in, and any cost or saving named here is an example rather than a quote for your business. Results vary.
Keep reading
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Your next step
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