Plumbing & Gas Business | How I Grew to 7 Work Vans

This week on the podcast Martin Lockhart discusses his biggest challenge of hiring the wrong ops manager and the lessons he learned from it. He shares the importance of proper onboarding and aligning values with new hires.

Martin also talks about his journey into the plumbing industry, starting his own business, and the overwhelming experience of the first few years. He highlights the need for conscious growth and systematisation to create freedom.

The conversation also touches on the challenges of managing people and the importance of communication and praise. Martin and Greg discuss the challenges and lessons learned in hiring an operations manager.

Martin shares his experience of losing key team members and the stress it caused, but also the growth and resilience that came from those challenges. They emphasise the importance of setting goals and timeframes to push oneself and the benefits of taking holidays to motivate systemisation and improve the business.

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