095: From Scavenger Hunts to Speedy Retrievability with Nick Sonnenberg

Do you feel like you are wasting precious moments just finding things? Today, I’m speaking with Nick Sonnenberg, CEO of Leverage, about the importance of optimizing your business for retrievability. Nick’s sweet spot is teaching companies how to reinvent the way their work gets done by focusing on building a culture of team productivity, instead of merely focusing on individual efficiency. More about Nick: Nick Sonnenberg is the founder and CEO of Leverage, a business efficiency consultant, Inc. columnist, and author of Idea to Execution: How to Optimize, Automate, and Outsource Everything in Your Business. He hosts the Leverage Podcast, where he and his guests discuss how we can live a better life, build a fruitful business, and be more productive. His next book, Come Up for Air: How Your Team Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work is in progress as we speak. 🌟 3 Key Takeaways: Being productive and efficient as an individual can conflict with the necessary ingredients for teams to be effective. Switch from speed of transfer as the measure of operational efficiency to retrievability Assign work levels to tasks and projects in your business, with 1 being the easiest (and ripe for automation) and 5 the most complex. 📝 Permission: To share links, not answers when your team or clients ask you a question. ✅ Do (or Delegate) This Next: Set up a Zapier alert to send you a text or Slack message when customers purchase your highest-priced product so you can roll out the red carpet as soon as they enroll.  📘 Books Mentioned: Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One 🔗 Resources Mentioned:  Nick on the web, Instagram: @nicholassonnenberg, LinkedIn, Facebook Nick’s podcast: Leverage Podcast Nick’s column: Inc.com PDF: Work Levels Tools: Asana, Zapier, Slack, HelpScout, Notion, Free Time Operations Dashboard, HubSpot, Text Expander Related Podcast Episodes:  066: Tasks vs. Templates 058: Look for Measureable Loops Moving from Friction to Flow with Jenny Blake Dynamic Role Optimization, with Nick Sonnenberg   🛠 Access Free Time episode transcripts on Podscribe »  ❤️ Enjoying the show? The best way to thank us is by leaving a rating or review. Consider becoming a podcast BFF and you’ll get access to a monthly Q&A call with Jenny, a private feed, and access to a community forum with fellow Heart-Based Business Owners. 💌 Subscribe to the Time Well Spent newsletter: http://itsfreetime.com/join 🛠 Get instant access to the Free Time Toolkit: http://itsfreetime.com/tools  💬 I’d love to hear what’s on your mind! Take the Free Time listener survey 🗣 Submit a voice question or comment for future episodes: http://itsfreetime.com/ask 🎧 Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts 📝 Check out full show notes and links from this episode and share it with a friend! https://itsfreetime.com/episodes/095 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices