Are you Investing in Acceleration or Paying for Speed?
Title Slide reading: Are You Investing in Acceleration or Paying for Speed, with an image of a rest stop near Banff AB.
I attended a conference where I shared individual strategic consultations with 19 real estate professionals. Yesterday, I filled my giant teal Yeti with water and hit the highway home invigorated. I planned to enjoy an inspiring drive, synthesizing information and stopping to write reports in the breathtaking Rocky and Kootenay Mountains.
I got a biological urge while listening to a podcast, somewhere outside of Banff. My Yeti empty, I put my foot on the gas, hoping to find a restroom quickly. Not a moment later, I made eye contact with a police officer tucked into the side of the road.
As he wrote my speeding ticket, he assured me a rest stop was just around the corner. Moving quickly was reckless, and it cost me.
I paid for speed.
I reflected on one of my last sessions, during which I suggested efficiencies for a team. My recommendation was to increase their time with clients and decrease the inevitable team friction when people have dependencies on each other that slow things down. As a creative person, I get bored with processes and paperwork, so I want to create opportunities to do more of what I am good at and simplify the checklists and paperwork. I built a similar system for my team just last month, and it’s reduced text messages that interrupt workflow and client care.
A highly productive and successful team with incredible systems can leverage technology by consolidating all its tasks in one place. They can identify their dependencies and priorities and move projects or files forward smoothly and accurately.
As I drove with my fresh speeding ticket on my passenger seat, I visualized what 22 years of my experience might look like:
A pie chart indicating the portion of Jennifer’s experience used to implement a project management software for the Human Ideas Team
I have implemented many tech platforms in my career. This pie chart represents the most recent.
This pie chart indicates the past three months of planning, building, and executing a project management software for Human ideas.
If you hire Human Ideas to build your system and show you how to use it, you’ll pay for acceleration.
This pie chart represents the benefits of investing in an experienced consultant to accelerate your project.
In my one-hour consultation, I recommended a platform and suggested that they could implement it, or that my team could do it for them.
There is no wrong answer.
They will either pay for acceleration or do it themselves… when they have the time.
There is a third choice. It’s the path most often taken, called the status quo. Many organizations fear the pain of change more than they welcome the ease of efficiency.
