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Your Helicopter is Waiting for You

When was the last time you went in a helicopter? 

If you’ve not done it for a while or never done it, you might wish to read on.

Are you ready for the ride?

Time for you to stop the work you are doing now. Leave your computer and smartphone behind, step away from your desk and come on outside for a very special experience… Your helicopter is waiting for you, ready for take-off. Now, don’t think this is going to be a pleasure ride, this is not meant as a leisure activity. The time you spend in the helicopter is crucially important, you need it in your role as a business owner and your business needs it too.

Let me explain.

If you were asked how many hats you wear in your business, what would your answer be?  Most business owners recognise that, in addition to providing their service to their clients or manufacturing the goods they sell to their market, they also have to spend time, energy and resources managing their business. So, the maths is simple, that makes 2 hats. More than enough? Read on…

Wearing these two hats is enough to keep anyone busy – yes, very busy. I don’t know about you, but I often meet people who are just too busy to grow their business. Strange, isn’t it? They seem to run ragged overseeing the top-class service being provided to their customers on one hand and, on the other hand, managing the business day-to-day or week-to-week with an endless “to do list” to be ticked one item at a time, just to keep on top of things. As a result, they can’t see the forest for the trees.

Sounds familiar? 

Some people call it “the hamster wheel”, I just think it’s slavery. Too often, I meet business owners who work very, very hard, too hard in fact to properly grow their business. They are just too “busy”:

B – Bound
U – Under a
S – Slavery
Y – Yoke

Sadly, the common belief is that success is to be attained with “more hard work.” No! The opposite is true. The solution is in fact to work less and rise above your daily activities to get a broad view from an altitude.

So, if you’re ready, let’s get in the helicopter. This is where you find your third hat. In the helicopter you can at last be entrepreneurial about your business.  But what does it mean to be entrepreneurial?  The helicopter view gives you the following entrepreneurial benefits:

1. Looking down at yourself below and see whether your being busy is giving you the results you want
2. How your business is working and whether its component parts are interacting with each other the way they should
3. How your business is generating profits
4. How well it is progressing on the road to achieving the success goals you have set
5. How your vision for the future is working now and how it is impacting all of your operations

There is much more to say about taking a helicopter view of your business and the need to dedicate segments of time in your weekly diary to look at your business from an entrepreneurial perspective. More on this subject in future articles.

In the meantime, let me ask you: what is your experience of the helicopter view for your business and what benefits have you gained from it?  I look forward to reading your feedback.

The good thing about your helicopter is that it is always ready for take-off, any time you want.  Of course, the more often you do it the better…!

#entrepreneurial skills; #business turnaround

Olivier Carion

Olivier Carion is a Sales Masters Guild Personal Business Mentor

 

With a real passion for the psychology of communication and the architecture that underpins accelerated growth, you’ll quickly realise why Olivier is the man who will help accelerate your business to a whole new level.

 

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