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Are you ready to push the boundaries and take your company to the next level? I'm Stacey Goodman, founder of Organic Solutions, and we're here to be your copilot, navigating you to operational excellence and helping you level up with love. Connect with us on LinkedIn, Facebook and at our website, organicsolutions.com. That's ORIG AM icsolutions. com. Together we will find solutions and prepare you to sort. Alright, ohh attempt. So you had dropped the an acronym on us before and I just wanna go back. You know, I come from the military. We are the the kings of acronyms. That's going to impact once again, we're gonna keep drilling that down until there's no question. Give us that methodology, the the, the meaning of the letters. Sure. So we have our infrastructure, which is your organizational infrastructure, your tools. We have your measurements, right? The numbers, the data that we're going to run our businesses on. We have our plans, right? How are we going to plan to execute whether continuing our operations or building new ones act as our execution. We have continuous improvement, which is and control. There's two continuous improvement obviously those enhancements like we talked about control is putting in our quality assurance is the product or service doing exactly what we want. And then we have transparency or transition transparency and data to make sure we can continue to grow or transitioning out of a project with range equipping the business owner to be effective in that process. So Stacy, you've brought under new employee and his name is Jim Blizzard. Jim. He should be from somewhere like Minnesota. Jim Blizzard. OK, so we've had the conversation about growing your business, what it's like to absorb another employee. You would say, are we down to the size of a? Peach bringing on a new employee. I'm getting better at getting better every time we bring on so he's gonna be he's he's graduating up into a full time employee. So one of the. One of the learnings that I have found over the years of being in consulting companies is you don't know you have the work until the, the purchase order is on the table signed. So you can, you can anticipate that work coming. So with him and what we've been able to not, can't do this without everybody, you know, it depends on people's individual situations. But with him we're able to bring him on hourly until we can get up to 40 hours steady and then I can bring him in as a. Um, salaried employee, but he also is being motivated. He's going to help us grow our mid tier business. What does that mean? So mid tier is you're over 25,000,000 in revenue. So you've, you've exceeded small, so small by definition of the state is. Under 25,000,000 Under. Under 50 people, I think 25 to 50 people and then over that is our mid tier. So you're a local big company like a Surf Pro would be a good example from our chamber, a CNF bank, those types of things. They're, they're bigger, They're not your capital ones, you're not your tears. They're called mid tiers. And so we, we have the experience because Jim and I have both been, you know, working for large government. Agencies and the big Fortune 500 companies for, you know, most of our our experience of our decades in business, but we've also worked for with mid tiers. And then I grew up with small business. So I have gravitated down into the small business space to help out. And he has a heart to do the same. But he has but he's, you know, he's going to be able to help build out another element that allowed Tim and I to focus still. Or in the small business and I'll flip between the two. So what does Jim bring? You always bring in people to. To complement the team. What is Jim's area? That that's his thing. Jim brings a lot of strategic work. No, he's that guy. He's the guy who can see it and figure out what the plans gonna be, and then he can still tactically execute it if he needs to. He also brings in a deeper knowledge of the technical skill tools and skill sets that help to support the operational components. So he knows what we call. Enterprise architecture and so that is all the different technical components say for the county right of Chesterfield and how do they all work together and he can see that map of all those those technical solutions supporting all the different business functions. He also has a lot of years of project management and talent development that he can bring in. So that gives me extra support for bringing in younger talent and so I have. Another person with the same and similar years of experience and he and I had impact makers when I first started. He and I were hip to hip on building a lot of the internal structure of how do we price out, you know, an engagement, how do we build a talent development strategy and. What are those different levels mean and how do and, and a growth, you know, where we can hand it over to Tim and go, alright, here's the growth plan, go train, you know, train him up on how to do that. So he has the bigger picture and that allows me, I like to play more in the mid middle tactical. So he's a nice compliment. Alrighty, Tim, you guys always come with a topic that you want to touch on. What are we touching on today? Yeah, So the importance of concise communication, right? Being able to take those big words and break them down into plain English like enterprise architecture, Yes. Something there those are big words and we in consulting, we have a lot of big words that we use. But if you he was if you know what you're doing, you can break it down into something that's more accessible and you call it English. Yes right, speaking English. So that's one of the skill sets when you're transitioning from the big businesses to a mid tier or to a small business, you have to use different language to explain the same concept and what we want to be able to do. One that's a critical skill for anybody that's going to work it work comic because you need to be able to run the spectrum. But for our small businesses and our education program that we're going to be building up, we want to help them level up through gaining new vocabulary and understanding the industry vocabulary and how that translates into English because. If you're a kid in school, right, you start out with the C spot run, right? And then you grow up into see spot run down the street and get a bone. You know, it starts to add more details. But then as you grow up and in the school level, you have to read more and you get exposed to more bigger words and sometimes you have to go look up those words. My son is going through that now with the EMT program that is in and one of. Our team members who is a college student is helping to tutor him with regards to how to read and write his notes. And one of the things she told him this summer was when you don't know a word, look it up and put it in your notes. Because your brain, if you can see it, hear it, understand the definition and then apply it into a sentence. It allows your brain to to move and into a bigger vocabulary, which makes you more articulate, helps you understand big words when you go into. Other environments it's just like learning a language. I can say, see, yeah, Holla. And then when I listen to some of the, you know, Latinos come in and do their show, they may be saying different words. My husband and I went to Boston. It was Hispanic Heritage Month, and there was a band out there, big band with lots of horns. We were following sounds through the city, but didn't. We got to the band and she's saying everything in Spanish. I had a couple of years in Spanish class in high school. I was able to pick out certain words, right? And so it's the same thing if I go into a business environment, I'm using acronyms. Or you can start to put the puzzle pieces together, even if you don't have all the experience. So leveling up with your vocabulary is just as critical in business as it is in real life. And so reading, that's why we offer the books on our on our newsletters, because reading the books. Is more than. Here in the YouTube right where you might get the verb, the word and the context, but. It has an absorbed as much. So that's one of the things we want to do. And then being able to break that down to English, English, because if if I talk to you in big words and you will understand a word I'm saying, I'm not very effective. I haven't added value to your life. If I say it in a regular terms that you can understand and you can connect with. Now I have some sense of value that I've added into.