TOPIC: Business Operations

AI TOOLS to Streamline Your Business with Amelia Lee, Undercover Architect

[Watch time: 1 hour & 3 minutes ] Join Amelia as she shares some of the latest in AI and AI tools to help streamline your business, marketing and projects.  Amelia will share some great tech tools to speed up your work, simplify your tasks, and also help support your team overall. Learning Objectives: from…

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Getting Up to Speed with Industry Changes with Amelia + Duayne

[Watch time:  1 hour & 6 minutes] There’s been a lot of change in the industry over the past 12 months. Regulatory bodies and clients alike are linking building health and human health, and as builders, it’s important to keep up to date. In this call, Duayne and Amelia will give a run-through of key…

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The Importance of Scheduling Your Team Support with Amelia + Duayne

The Importance of Scheduling Your Team Support with Amelia + Duayne

[Watch time: 1 hour & 6 minutes] In this session we explore The Importance of Scheduling Your Team Support. This is all about how you might schedule your annual calendar for yourself and your team members.   Like anything in your business, what gets scheduled gets done. We’ll be looking at how to review your team…

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Building Specifications with Amelia + Duayne

[Watch time: 1 hour & 12 minutes] Video and Audio file of our ELEVATE Group Session: Building Specifications. In this session Amelia and Duayne discuss using the new Live Life Build Template: “Building Specifications”. You’ll see how you can use this template to: Set expectations with your client from the outset of your working relationship…

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Successful Client Handover with Amelia + Duayne

[Watch time: 1 hour 13 minutes] In this session Amelia and Duayne discuss ‘Successful Client Handover’. Learn how to manage handover successfully. We’ll take you through a new template you can tailor for your own projects, to ensure that handover goes well, and effectively sets expectations with your client. Resources inside ELEVATE that are relevant…

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Of course I'm a professional John Tonkin

“Of Course I’m a Professional!” with John Tonkin, from Brain In A Box

[Watch time: 1 hour] Our guest expert in this session is John Tonkin from Brain in a Box. There are two dimensions of ‘Professional’ – Profit and Operations.  If the operations side of your business creates value for your client and a profit for you, consistently over time, you can certainly wear the ‘Professional’ badge. …

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Processes - We've Done It All Before with John Tonkin, Brain in a Box

Processes – We’ve Done It All Before with John Tonkin, Brain in a Box

[Watch time: 1 hour] I often answered my kids with words to the effect, “Everything in life is an experiment – let’s work it out,” when they asked questions like, “What should I do?” or “What’s going to happen now?” While it sounds simplistic, there’s a lot of truth in the answer I gave. There…

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When Projects Fall Through, with Amelia + Duayne

[Watch time: 1 hour, 22 minutes] Video and Audio file of our ELEVATE Group Session: When Projects Fall Through In this session Amelia and Duayne discuss what to do when projects fall through. Learn tips to navigate these times including: Avoiding quiet times What you can [and can’t] control Knowing + reviewing your numbers Project…

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Builders and Their Ecosystems with John Tonkin, Brain in a Box

[Watch time: 1 hour, 10 minutes] This session is about Builders and Their Ecosystems. Only 43% of the cells in your body are human cells, with the microbiome made up of a huge ecosystem of complex organisms, including bacteria, yeasts, fungi, viruses and protozoa that can weigh up to 2kg in each human. Interesting…  but…

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Systems Are All About People with John Tonkin, Brain in a Box

[Watch time: 1 hour, 18 minutes] Our guest expert in this session is John Tonkin from Brain In A Box. Mention systems and many people will think of dry, boring pages full of black ink that were written by someone from the last century. Sadly, some companies have folders full of these pages and are…

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