REIP Inside Real Estate – 25 January 2023

Welcome to 2023.

Like many of you, I have been busy creating my business plan for 2023.

My focus for this year is scale and leverage. With a lot of the groundwork completed during 2022, now is the time to take it a step further and start implementing.

An important part of that planning is to look back on last year so we can celebrate the wins, assess areas where there is opportunity for improvement and define exactly what we need to do to grow our businesses. 

One of the most common conversations I am having at the moment are all related to new leadership challenges. The hybrid workplace, wellness, technology, recruitment and retention are just a few of the recurring themes I’m hearing about. 

It’s important to remember that leaders are not born. Great leaders are constantly investing in themselves and know that  our people are our greatest strengths in business. Today they are asking for a new way to work which is creating challenges on how we can do this and still manage them, hold them accountable and ensure they are connected to our culture and goals.

There is no playbook. In fact, we are writing it as we live it.

Part of my scale plan has been to start a new podcast called Future Fit Leadership. I talk to leaders mostly outside the industry about how they are working through the same challenges we are facing.

Our first guest is Michelle Rigg from Rent West in WA. I chatted to her about her 4-day week trial. Her people are doing 100% of the work in 80% of the time for 100% pay. Pretty cool! Her teams are loving it and imagine being able to say that as your point of difference. You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts here.