Working Triggers

Does your work environment speed you towards business success?

Engaging Tweets

When you choose your work environment triggers you encourage the right habits in your business

Your business wins when you take control of your work environment triggers

Be the Team INEOS of your market and give yourself competitive edge when YOU choose your work triggers

Create an environment for world class results in your business by choosing the right triggers

Did you know your business success is determined by your working environment?

Because your business matters to you, make sure you choose the right working environment for your team

Why risk the success of your business by not taking control of your working environment

Do your work environment triggers support great performance or just ‘good enough’ performance in your business?

Good enough, is NOT ‘good enough’ when it comes to the right environment for success in your business

What happens to the success of your business when you settle for just ‘good enough’?

Your business is at risk if you settle for a ‘good enough’ working environment

Make the right behavioural changes in your business so that you are more than just ‘good enough’

Why risk the success of your business, work on creating an environment with your team that is so much more than ‘good enough’!

‘Good enough’ will not bring your business the success or profits you want
How to be so much more than ‘good enough’ when you use the right triggers to change your working environment.

Are you treating your work environment seriously enough?

Triggers and the power of habit – how to use them in the right way for profit growth in your business

Change the behavioural triggers in your business to give your business a competitive edge

When you choose the right triggers, you get the right behaviours and results in your business

How do you change the behaviours in your business by choosing the right triggers?

Because changing the behaviour in your business is hard, it pays to use the right triggers

Triggers help you change the behaviours in your business and your working environment.

What happens when you use triggers to positively change the behaviour in your business?

Don’t dance to someone else tune, choose the right work triggers for your business success?

Lead with structure for your business success

Manage the success of your business and manage your triggers with structure

Structure is the future of your business

Manage the triggers that affect the behaviour in your business with structure

Why risk the success of your business by not managing the behavioural structure of your team

Time to use triggers to manage the behavioural structure of your team

How to use triggers to change the behaviour of your team by introducing structure

Structure – it’s a proven fact that we could all do with a little more structure in our lives.

What can your business learn from the CEO of the Ford Motor Company

Learn how one meeting and structured time can help your business just like it did for Ford Motor Company

What happens to the future of your business when you apply the same simple structure that Alan Mulally did as CEO of Ford Motor Company

Time to build some structure into your working environment and change the future of your business, like Alan Mulally did at Ford Motor Company

Manage your work triggers by adding structure to your business, like Alan Mulally did at Ford Motor Company

What can your business learn from Adam Peaty and 56 seconds?

How can you make your business more successful by learning from the working environment of a world record holder?

Stop letting your work environment hold your business back, be like Adam Peaty…

Use your work environment to create motivation and discipline in your team – learn from an Olympic success…

What can you learn from a swimmer, his coach and project 56 about changing your work environment?

Improve your work environment and you improve the results of your business

Only if you change your work environment will you change the working habits of your people

Don’t risk the success of your business by ignoring the behaviour triggers in your work environment

Take your work environment for granted and you run the risk of derailing your business

LinkedIn Updates

Update 1

As a business owner you probably unaware (for the most part) the habits triggered by your working environment and the effect they have on you, your team and the success of your business. Click here to learn how much better your business would be if you could create the best environment and structure to trigger the best results from all your people?

Update 2

I’m sure within your team you have highly motivated, enthusiastic people…however it may be that even they need help finding the discipline and the structure to get things done.

Click here to learn how Dave Brailsford created world beating results by making the working environment of his team THE most important priority and how you can do the same in your business.

Update 3

Click here to learn how creating the right working environment will have a big impact on the habits and behaviours of your people and help your business improve its results and be more successful.

Update 4

Don’t allow your working environment to be just ‘good enough’ - aim for ‘exceptional’! Just ‘good enough’ will negatively affect your business’s growth and profitability. Click here to learn how to create the best working environment you can in your business to encourage the best of everyone within it.

Update 5

A behavioural trigger is any stimulus that reshapes your thoughts and actions. We are surrounded by triggers in our personal and working lives, most of them we’re unaware of! Click here to learn that only if you choose the triggers in your business can you truly choose your behaviours and results.

Update 6

Our environment is ‘jam-packed’ with triggers! At work you are also surrounded by a glut of visual, language and other behavioural triggers. These triggers will repeat regularly and mostly go unrecognised. Click here to learn how to change these behavioural triggers in your business to give your business a competitive edge

Update 7

Structure can come in many forms, but they are all beneficial, whether personal or professional. Click here to learn how leading your team with structure increases your chances of business success and improves efficiency on the way to achieving it.

Update 8

Manage the success of your business and manage your triggers with structure.

How often do you use checklists and structure in your business to manage the work triggers of your people? Click here to learn the difference structure can make to your business success.

Update 9

Click here to learn that your business will not be the success you want it to be unless you address the destructive habits within it (the behaviours holding your business back), and then replace them with the constructive habits that can drive your business forwards.

Update 10

Alan Mulally turned around Ford Motor Company by introducing structure, one meeting a week was all it took to make the team accountable and drive up standards.

Click here to learn how simple structure can help you change the triggers and the habits holding your business back.

Update 11

Click here to discover what can the success and application of Olympic gold medallist and world record holder Adam Peaty teach us about our working environment?

Update 12

Click here to discover how environment and structure have helped Adam Peaty become the best and fastest in the world and how his coach understands only too well the importance of his working environment to Adam’s success.

Update 13

Click here to discover that we are mostly unaware of the triggers that affect our working environment. Learn how to affect the destructive or constructive triggers that prompt behaviours that can undermine or support our business and personal success. When you improve your work environment you improve the results of your business.

Update 14

Click here to learn how you can make the changes needed to create a better working environment that will deliver better behaviour from your team and better results for your business?

Facebook Posts

I’m sure within your team you have highly motivated, enthusiastic people…however it may be that even they need help finding the discipline and the structure to get things done.

Click here to learn how Dave Brailsford created world beating results by making the working environment of his team THE most important priority and how you can do the same in your business.

Manage the success of your business and manage your triggers with structure.

How often do you use checklists and structure in your business to manage the work triggers of your people? Click here to learn the difference structure can make to your business success.

Alan Mulally turned around Ford Motor Company by introducing structure, one meeting a week was all it took to make the team accountable and drive up standards.

Click here to learn how simple structure can help you change the triggers and the habits holding your business back.

Click here to discover what can the success and application of Olympic gold medallist and world record holder Adam Peaty teach us about our working environment?

Click here to learn how you can make the changes needed to create a better working environment that will deliver better behaviour from your team and better results for your business?

Blog Posts

BLOG 1 – Improve the success of your business by improving your working environment

As a business owner you probably unaware (for the most part) the habits triggered by your working environment and the effect they have on you, your team and the success of your business.

How much better would your business be if you could create the best environment and structure to trigger the best results from all your people?

I’m sure within your team you have highly motivated, enthusiastic people…however it may be that

even they need help finding the discipline and the structure to get things done.

Let’s look to the very best world-class sports coaches to see how important the working environment is…

Dave Brailsford, General Manager of Team INEOS (formally Team Sky) believes that the working environment is paramount to the success of his cycling team.

It’s been called ‘marginal gains’ – the small things that, although the team are on the move all the time, keep the environment around them the same and one of success.

Brailsford states:

“Take beds for example, different beds every night, with different mattresses and pillows affect performance, especially if the rider does not sleep well, so the solution was to create our own bedding for each cyclist and take it everywhere with us, so Chris Froome has the right mattress structure which is right for his spine and he sleeps on it every night”

The environment Brailsford and his team create helps determine the world-beating results they achieve – its why they have won 7 of the 8 tours up to 2019.

Click here and take responsibility for your work environment also – why not take charge of the triggers in your work environment to prompt the best working behaviours and results.

BLOG 2 – ‘Good enough’ or ‘exceptional’ in your business? You decide!

Creating the right working environment will have a big impact on the habits and behaviours of your people and help your business improve its results and be more successful.

Don’t allow your working environment to be just ‘good enough’ - aim for ‘exceptional’!

Don’t get me wrong, ‘good enough’ isn’t always bad thing… in many areas of life chasing perfection isn’t necessary and ‘good enough’ will sometimes do. Chasing that little bit of perfection is not always worth the time or effort.

However, when it comes to your business just ‘good enough’ is a real problem.

Just ‘good enough’ will negatively affect your business’s growth and profitability.

And if the work environment of your business is only just ‘good enough’ then it makes sense that the behaviours and work done by your team and their approach to your suppliers and customers will be the same.

In your business you only want the highest of standards, you only want ‘exceptional’…

Therefore, it pays to create the best working environment you can in your business to encourage

the best of everyone within it.

Click here for insights to help you create a working environment that fully supports and encourages high performance in your team.

BLOG 3 – Encourage the right triggers in your business for success

A behavioural trigger – any stimulus that reshapes your thoughts and actions.

We are surrounded by triggers in our personal and working lives, most of them we’re unaware of!

And our environment is ‘jam-packed’ with triggers!

Think about driving your car. What environmental triggers are there?

A road sign triggers you to slow down as you pass a school

The brake lights of the car in front trigger you to brake too

The lines on the road trigger you to get into the right lane

Your petrol light flashing triggers you to stop and fill up

These triggers mean a change in your behaviour, but you don’t think about it. The trigger happens, which sets off an impulse, which moves you to act.

At work you are also surrounded by a glut of visual, language and other behavioural triggers. These triggers will repeat regularly and mostly go unrecognised. You and your team will respond to behavioural triggers without even thinking.

“Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.” – Normal Vincent Peale.

So, who is pulling your trigger and how to do you change repeating behaviour?

Only if you choose the triggers in your business can you truly choose your behaviours and results.

Unless you actively choose your work triggers, you’re dancing to someone else’s tune and your behaviours will be on repeat.

Click here to learn to consciously choose your work environment triggers and set your business up for greater success.

BLOG 4 – Make your business a success by leading with structure

Leading your team with structure increases your chances of business success and improves efficiency on the way to achieving it.

Structure can come in many forms, but they are all beneficial, whether personal or professional.

The life of an airline pilot has many structures, none more important and valuable than their pre-flight checklist. This checklist is arguably responsible for flying being the safest form of transport known.

When you do your weekly shop, you use a list, this provides the structure of what you need to buy and puts a limit on your spending - it also makes shopping easier and more efficient.

Following a structured recipe when cooking a meal means you get the right ingredients, simplify the complexity of cooking and increases the likelihood of the food being edible!

Using an agenda in your business meetings brings structure and means the only the relevant points are discussed and the meeting keeps to its time.

How often do you use checklists and structure in your business to manage the work triggers of your people?

And how many of your team have a structured diary or priority list? Arranging the structure of your diary is simple but can profoundly increase your productivity. Nothing focuses the mind like a ‘to do’ list!

In his book ‘Triggers’, Marshall Goldsmith states “Imposing structure on parts of our day is how we seize control of our otherwise unruly environment”

Click here to discover how to manage your work environment and working triggers by using structure with your team.

BLOG 5 – Make structure work for your business just like Alan Mulally did for Ford Motor Company

Your business will not be the success you want it to be unless you address the destructive habits within it (the behaviours holding your business back), and then replace them with the constructive habits that can drive your business forwards.

Depletion is your enemy, if, by then end of the day, you are tired and stressed, this will affect behavioural discipline and expose bad judgement and undesirable actions.

It also means that you and your team fall into habitual behaviour, good and bad, and this behaviour without intervention will be repeated day in and day out thereby hard-wiring the habit.

So how do you change this?

You change the working structure triggers in your business.

Introduce new meetings, different processes, visible accountability and reporting, create structure through checklists and projects.

You change the destructive malaise and replace it with opportunities for improvement.

In his book ‘Triggers’ Marshall Goldsmith shares a great landmark tale about structure.

Alan Mulally was the president of Boeing Commercial Aircraft. In 2006 he became the CEO of Ford Motor Company. When he retired in 2014 Fortune Magazine ranked him as the third greatest leader in the world!

Goldsmith wrote “No idea looms bigger in Alan’s mind than the importance of structure in turning around an organization and its people.”

When Alan arrived at Ford, he instituted a weekly Thursday morning meeting, known as the Business Plan Review (BPR) with his 16 top executives. Attendance was mandatory, no exceptions, no side discussions, no jokes, no interruptions, no phones, no delegation.

Each executive was expected to articulate his group’s plan, status, forecast and areas in need of attention. Each leader had a mission to help – not judge – the other people in the room.

Mulally managed the work triggers by structuring the meeting tightly and therefore limiting the options the executives at Ford could use.

What would happen if you applied the same structure to a weekly meeting in your business?

Why would any of your team say no to a little more structure and remember the simpler the structure the more likely it is that you and the team will stick to it.

Click here to read more about Alan Mulally and the success that one meeting brought to Ford Motor Company. Learn how simple structure can help you change the triggers and therefore the habits that are holding your business back.

BLOG 6 – What happens to your business when you change your work environment like Adam Peaty did?

What can the success and application of Olympic gold medallist and world record holder Adam Peaty teach us about our working environment?

Adam Peaty is a 100m breaststroke swimmer who has taken his event to unprecedented new heights. He is European, Commonwealth, World and Olympic Champion at the 100m breaststroke - recently breaking his own world record to become the first man to ever swim the event in under 57 seconds – awesome!

Environment and structure have helped Peaty become the best and fastest in the world.

Peaty’s coach Mel Marshall understands only too well the importance of his working environment to Adam’s success.

Which is why she moved Adam from his home in Derby to a house in Loughborough, where there’s world-class sports science facility just 10 minutes away.

Adam Peaty now trains at Loughborough, swimming 7 miles a day with gym and land training plus psychology sessions too. All done to a very well planned and structured schedule.

The environment change triggered several small changes that enabled him to shave off the extra milliseconds to bring his time sub 57 to 56.88s.

How often have you looked at your working environment as having a direct effect on the overall success of your business?

Click here to discover how a change in your working environment can transform the success of your business.

BLOG 7 – How to take charge of the triggers in your work environment and make your business stronger as a result

We are mostly unaware of the triggers that affect our working environment. Destructive or constructive triggers that prompt behaviours that can undermine or support our business and personal success.

But the question is, how can you make the changes needed to create a better working environment that will deliver better behaviour from your team and better results for your business?

Here are 4 steps to take to help you take charge of the triggers in your work environment:

Start seeing your work environment as a source of behavioural triggers.

Take responsibility for the habits within your working environment and identify the good habits and the bad ones.

Remove the triggers that encourage destructive working habits.

These are the work habits preventing you from achieving your best results. Knowing that a repeated event (a habit) is a response to a trigger, you must identify these triggers and take action to remove them from your working environment.

Install triggers that encourage constructive working habits.

Having removed the destructive triggers, you can now focus all your time and energy on triggers that will support and encourage the right behaviours enabling your business to flourish.

Use structure in the work-place to help reinforce the triggers, behaviours and results in your business.

Structures likes agendas, checklists, daily priorities, calendar management, visually displayed score boards in the offices of your team will help drive through the change to make the new triggers habitual.

Click here to help make your work environment and the work environment of your team one of your top priorities and drive through the change to encourage high performance and success in your business.

Engaging E-mails

Business Breakthrough Subscriber Resources