Does better equipment always give better results?
Welcome to today's episode.
My name is Tom Rolley and excited to be sharing with you the new setup.
Yes, this is the first time that I've actually successfully gone live with the external mic using the s 10.
And the DJI on four is all very impressive, but the idea is to get better audio, and a better connection to Facebook, I actually tried an additional piece tonight, which was the connection to the Ethernet.
However, it appears that for whatever reason, Facebook will not take an Ethernet connection from the phone.
Instead, it says, hey, you need to have Wi-Fi.
I'm like, mate, hey, look, we got a direct Ethernet connection into the phone, but you're not willing to take it.
Okay, look, I don't know, that's fine.
I can deal with Facebook's idiosyncrasies.
But the interesting question is, will this better equipment give better results? I don't know.
We're running the test right now.
It's not until this Facebook Live finishes.
We go to post-production pull out, hey, is this audio better? I don't know.
But I want to run the test.
I'm hoping it will.
I'm hoping that the investment in the equipment will give a better experience for you as the end-user.
But I don't know, I went on YouTube and I looked it up.
I was like, hey, what do you use? How do you turn a smartphone into a better recording device?
They said to do this and now this is the test.
Now what's interesting here is that the increased investment in how this entire setup runs should give better results.
And if it does, then it's a worthwhile investment.
And what I want to bring you back to is the idea that how this setup is structured is determining its function.
Having a better external mic means that the sound is clearer, and you're more easily able to understand what I'm saying which is beneficial.
It means clear audio, as well as a better video.
One of the problems that I had with my pre-existing setup, going right back was literally just using this phone here, this phone is a one plus 70 Pro doesn't really matter, it had a couple of interesting things.
Number one, there was no external mic.
And number two, for whatever reason, when I use the selfie cam on that one, it put it out in this weird kind of super skinny format.
And so if you go back from previous videos, you may see black bears, and they aren't black bars.
So I upgraded the phone and upgraded the mic.
And the idea is that the structure, that the equipment that we've got is getting better results.
And this is applicable across the board.
I haven't run the test yet.
Do you know what running it right now? Well, no.
But if it is true, and it should hold firm, then this is applicable in your business as well.
And the one place that I want to bring your attention to is how you organize the work in your business.
You see just like the difference between using this phone and the current setup that I'm recording on the way that you set up your work and the business will have a direct impact on the results that you get one of the more common things, it's just to allow people to do whatever they want to do their best.
But remember that many people have not been trained in getting work done.
They haven't been trained in project management.
They're just doing their best.
But these leads to a lot of different outcomes about how you should build work.
And this can often lead to very confusing mechanisms or not mechanisms, but ways of tracking work.
And what it does, means that everybody in your business has a different way of getting stuff done.
Now, even if it is successful, which is a question mark,
but let's say that across all the areas of your business, the work is getting done successfully.
But everybody's using the tools of project management and SOP management differently.
What you're going to end up with is that your people in each area cannot be moved to another area.
Now, this is a problem.
Why is it a problem? Well, it means that if someone's sick, you can't easily cover them.
You have to get the other members of that team that know how to do the work that particular way to cover that work.
Also, someone gets headhunted or they decide to quit.
This means that you Now down a team member while you scrambled to hire.
And until that point in time, you will be down a team member.
Notice also that we've discussed this before that recovering from down periods recovering from having a team member lose your business takes you much longer to recover from than you might expect, even if you come back and bring on that next team member at that exact time, let's say a month later, and they're now doing the work that was being done before, you will never catch up, you will always have this backlog that exists.
And the only way that you can recover from that backlog is to put more people into that particular area.
But notice that the work is getting done a particular way.
And so you now have to hire an additional person to cover the backlog.
This means that you're always running extra people to keep on top of the work.
Now I want to present to you a different option.
Imagine that every part of your business was set up the same.
So if you had a shortage, somebody's sick, somebody quits, somebody gets headhunted, what you can do is take team members out of other areas that aren't as busy at that time and deploy them into that area with the shortage.
And because the work is set up the same way, they may not be able to work at 100%.
But they can certainly work at 70%.
And if you need them to stay there for an extended period of time, they will get to 100%.
Very quickly.
This requires you to set up how you do the work of your business the same way.
This means your systems are consistent across every area of your business.
Now, will there be tweaks and differences? Sure, but the overall fundamental structure of how you set up your work will be the same.
This gives you what is termed redundancy, the ability to take team members out of one team and deploy them into another while you increase your overall headcount if you need to increase your team, and it also gives you the ability to meet deadlines, to redefine who's working where to get stuff done on demand.
This gives you a very powerful position.
This gives you and your management teams a very, very powerful position in order to redistribute the people to get the work done when it's required, and cover any problems in staffing.
If this is something that you're interested in.
If you're like you know what, we actually have very inconsistent methods of how we do things across our business and you'd like to resolve that then head over for free training at systemio.dev.
Thanks for tuning in today.
I hope you got a lot of value out of today's session.
I look forward to seeing you tomorrow as we continue this journey into the power of systems with great results.
See you then.
