Taking Care of Your Team - Josh Flynn - Leaders Who Scale - Episode # 019

Every year, seasonal businesses that rely on manual labor are losing valuable, knowledgeable employees every year and incurring the costs of finding new hires. Thankfully they don’t have to! Josh Flynn is the CEO of Seabreeze Property Services and has grown the company by over 50% since 2019. This episode covers how to prepare your business for growth, what to consider when implementing new software, and guiding your team to reach the solution they need. 

 

Takeaways:

• Despite the most carefully laid plans for your company’s growth, sometimes scaling happens in bursts. When that occurs, you need to know what resources will be needed and you will discover how it will impact your company’s culture.
• As you grow, your company will face new challenges that you would not have run into at a smaller size. When these new challenges pop up, you need to develop new processes to handle them. 
• The implementation of new ERP software takes a considerable amount of time and effort, especially for companies that are transitioning from a paper-based system.
• Creating systems and implementing technology that can capture the data from the work that your company does is a crucial part of scaling. There are many insights and benefits that come from having a tool integrated into your company. 
• Promoting from within is a great way to make sure that your managers and leaders within the business are very well aware of the workflows and processes that the business is built on. 
• When hiring, make sure you are picking the right people and not just warm bodies that will get in the way of the company’s processes.
• If your company is not project-based and not a fit for EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System), you still need to make sure that the senior leadership team has time to meet and that KPIs are being reported.

 

Quote of the Show:

• “Here's the big thing that we're going after. How do we break it down into more palpable tasks and things that don't overwhelm you?” - Josh Flynn

 

Links:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josh-flynn-694164145/  
• Company website: https://seabreezepropertyservices.com/  
• Company Phone number: 207-775-3454
• Company Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seabreezeportlandmaine/  
• Company Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/seabreezepropertyservices/   

 

Ways to Tune In:

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• Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/leaders-who-scale/id1609131634
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5PFtdxDlXcnaojG8jJk74T
• Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubGVhZGVyc3dob3NjYWxlLmNvbS9mZWVkLnhtbA
• YouTube: https://youtu.be/zD6RMWxEz88 

 

Leaders Who Scale is sponsored by Siegel Solutions, providing world class accounting, advisory and QuickBooks and Acumatica Cloud ERP Services. Learn more at https://siegelsolutions.com/ 

 

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