This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on great business turnarounds and why they happen. They look at getting out of comfort zones to make timely changes, recognising the things that lead to a downward spiral, defining focus vs. awareness, knowing what to go all in on and when it's time to make that turnaround.
Nov 28, 2024•13 min•Ep. 155
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss ways to refresh your leadership. They discuss knowing when to make a change, the journey to becoming the leader you want to be, recognising the signs of burnout, and practising self-reflection and continuous learning.
Nov 21, 2024•11 min•Ep. 154
This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on the business model advantage. Dean and Josh discuss how the traditional real estate business model has changed with technology, why and how small businesses need to scale, the advantages of various models, and making your choice based on your situation, your goals, and what you really want to do.
Nov 14, 2024•11 min•Ep. 153
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss why engagement is necessary to effect change. They look at ways to get everyone engaged, life stages and business cycles that prevent people from buying in, meetings, communication and incentives that can bring them on board, and understanding that leaders are people, too, and vulnerability is where the growth happens.
Nov 07, 2024•11 min•Ep. 152
This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on what creates simplicity and the challenges of implementing it. They discuss using data and doing the basics really well, seeing what's in front of you, making full use of the tools you have, regularly reviewing what works and simplifying what doesn't.
Oct 31, 2024•10 min•Ep. 151
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss how to be a leader. They look at staying fresh and providing great energy to your people, being self-aware, doing self-care, bringing in fresh leadership, the family-village-tribe model, and doing things you know will light you up and keep you fresh.
Oct 17, 2024•10 min•Ep. 18
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss the retention game. They look at why people stay in your business and why they might leave, expecting natural turnover, compensation and benefits, alignment of vision and values, social aspects, career path progression, knowing and supporting their goals and creating an environment people want to be part of.
Oct 03, 2024•11 min•Ep. 149
In this episode of Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan explain rapidly changing market conditions and the ability to respond. They look at getting a business to perform at its best in every market, understanding your customer's needs and adapting those to happen with the state of the current market, and having the fundamental tools, training, systems and accountability that allow your team to be successful.
Sep 19, 2024•10 min•Ep. 148
This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on managing people in a chaotic era. They talk about the reduced predictability and increased instability in the world since COVID, specific areas leaders need to focus on to align and empower their teams, getting your foundations right, and creating certainty in your performance.
Sep 05, 2024•12 min•Ep. 147
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan talk about setting and achieving worthwhile goals. They look at attaching meaning to your goals, how your market position drives strategy, using SMART to set goals properly, and setting supportive sub-goals.
Aug 22, 2024•11 min•Ep. 146
This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on the power of a virtual boardroom. Dean and Josh discuss ways you can explore the minds of the greatest agents and business people, and be inspired to change the way you think and grow your business.
Aug 08, 2024•11 min•Ep. 145
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss financial year planning and what makes a great financial plan. They look at elements of your key strategy, small changes that make a big difference in average sale price, growing your market share, creative strategic planning, and getting connected with your 'Why'.
Jul 25, 2024•13 min•Ep. 144
This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on brand as a platform for success. They discuss brand experience and brand consistency, the power of partnership, building a strong personal brand that compliments your agency, and avoiding brand disconnect by maintaining synergy.
Jul 11, 2024•13 min•Ep. 143
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss the secret to a great merger, and lessons they've learned doing mergers and acquisitions. They look at having a foundation of shared trust, vision and values, a detailed implementation plan, a culture of collaboration, and a thorough understanding of what it is that you're buying.
Jun 27, 2024•11 min•Ep. 142
This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on why the future is talent. They discuss acquiring and developing talent, desire and self-belief, responsive change and innovation, tech-enhanced training and scaling, and automating tedious tasks to unlock and reshape talent.
Jun 13, 2024•11 min•Ep. 141
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss how to beat the market of the day and think differently about markets. They explore staying focused on the things you can control, key elements to have in place, key metrics to stay aware of, knowing how to make the right adjustments as the market changes, and being data-driven and tech-savvy.
May 30, 2024•13 min•Ep. 140
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss leadership skills in 2024. They examine servant leadership and helping your people be successful, leading through transitions in priorities and mindset, open emotional intelligence, reducing the overwhelm, co-creative leadership, and becoming a catalyst for innovation.
May 16, 2024•12 min•Ep. 139
In this episode of Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan explain how to use the big data sets in business, and why they are so often underutilised. They talk about when big data becomes valuable, the problems of storage and security, emerging developments in the industry, and using the capabilities of data technology to optimise your existing systems.
May 02, 2024•12 min•Ep. 138
This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on the secret to great events. They look at defining the purpose for each event, knowing what a successful event looks like, understanding your target audience, making the commitment to do it right, and getting people engaged.
Apr 18, 2024•11 min•Ep. 137
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan talk about growing great teams that work. They list things to look at when you're building a team, behaving your way to success, how individuals fit in, how to facilitate growth, building and teaching systems, and the requirement for psychological safety.
Apr 04, 2024•11 min•Ep. 136
This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on the function of sales leadership and how to fill that role. They discuss placing people in their best performance positions, the sales manager's role, the servant leadership model and using forward indicators.
Mar 21, 2024•11 min•Ep. 135
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss the business of fitness and why business is the greatest sport. They look at maintaining life balance, high performance with chaos and anxiety, building a healthy ecosystem, getting clear on goals and where to start, and establishing a sense of safety and security.
Mar 07, 2024•14 min•Ep. 134
This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on planning as a business leader, and scaling for agents and for life. They discuss planning rhythms, execution and what works, clarity around your vision, planning with your calendar, surface area and foundational situations, and prioritising for balance so you can be your best self.
Feb 22, 2024•14 min•Ep. 133
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss consolidation, and whether that's going to happen inside of the real estate industry. They address why this is the right time to do it, how to make it happen, problems consolidation would solve, how to reimagine what we do, and how consolidation can scale.
Feb 08, 2024•14 min•Ep. 132
In this Fast Pace episode, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan examine quality of data and the data play. They discuss the value of first-party data, how relevancy drives frequency of communication, applying science to our people-based industry, understanding that the data play isn't useful unless it's implemented, making the digital investment, and learning how to use digital technology to build, produce and convert your audience.
Nov 30, 2023•14 min•Ep. 131
This episode of Fast Pace features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan talking about developing a leadership shadow. They look at teams, individuals and the roles they can play, what the leadership shadow can do for you, attributes they should have and skills they need to develop, your role in their growth and success, judging your performance by the capability and potential of your team, and all the little mistakes that eventually bring success.
Nov 23, 2023•11 min•Ep. 130
In this episode of Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan explain how to simplify your business and get back to core. They explore what simplification means, identify core and non-core functions you need, and discuss scaling to access better resources at a lower price, best platforms for communication, broken systems, examples of simplification and added value.
Nov 16, 2023•11 min•Ep. 129
This Fast Pace episode features Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan on shifting performance with top grading. They discuss A, B and C players and how to progress them, challenging the A players, coaching the B players, setting expectations for C players and knowing when they need to be trimmed, and investing time and energy where you'll get the greatest return.
Nov 09, 2023•10 min•Ep. 128
This week on Fast Pace, Dean Mackie and Josh Phegan discuss building a talent development squad and why you need one. They look at having a culture of learning and improving, future-proofing your business, getting clear on what you need, who should do the training, making sure you have the right people, and doing it all consistently and at scale.
Nov 02, 2023•12 min•Ep. 127
In this episode, Josh Phegan and Dean Mackie discuss the critical role an eye on the future has whilst doing great work in the now. From the value of investing ahead of the curve to focusing on core business on the day-to-day. Understand the investment and payoff cycles so you give things long enough time to work whilst being able to make decisions for vital success in the now.
Oct 26, 2023•11 min•Ep. 126