When To Push And When To Pivot

As a business owner, you’re always trying new things. 

Always looking to make the business better & more efficient. 

Trying new ways to grow, win new work and increase revenue. 

But how long is long enough to know if the strategy or new initiative you’ve implemented… 

Is actually going to work? 

Vs 

Not wasting your time on something that just isn’t going to return you a result? 

From our experience… 

2 months. 

2 months is long enough to test something and get enough feedback. 

To know whether it’s worth pursuing long term. 

Or cutting it and moving on. 

So that new BD strategy you’re trying out. 

Or the internal team initiative to improve culture. 

Or the client relationship plan to increase client satisfaction. 

Give it 2 months. 

Go all in on it for 2 months and do everything you need to give it a red hot crack. 

And at the end of 2 months. 

Sit down, review and assess. 

Is this working? 

Do you continue? 

Do you tweak and go again? 

Or do you cut it and move onto something new? 

If you approach anything new in your business like this. 

You won’t be wasting months or years on things that were never going to work in the first place.  

Give it a go.  

Hope this helps. 

And if you’re interested - we’re running a 2 x day Business Growth Workshop at the end of November. 

You can join us in the room in Sydney or online over Zoom. 

We’ll be covering content and strategies highly useful to business owners of engineering, town planning, surveying and architecture consultancies. 

You’ll also be masterminding and networking with other like-minded business owners.  

We can’t overestimate how valuable this workshop could be to you and your business.  

If that’s all sounding pretty good, send me an email with the word ‘WORKSHOP’ and I’ll send you more details. 

To your success. 

Josh 

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