Graham Robins: Cultivating a Google Workspace Culture
“If you’re running two systems, you’re running that second system for the lowest common denominator - the people who are slow to change… I don’t make a lot of time for the lowest common denominator - I just go for it.”
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About Graham
Based in Surrey, British Columbia, A & A Customs Brokers makes borders disappear for importers and exporters.
In this episode, Graham Robins shares how he juggles being CEO, a podcast host, computer nerd, lifelong learner, YPO participant, father of four, wake surfer, and car enthusiast - and how he dove head-in with Google Workspace to help focus resources on adding value for customers.
Highlights
Instead of fighting half of the war against complex and clunky technology that appears to be more of a challenge than anything else, A&A’s employees will concentrate on connecting with their customers.
Christian and Graham talk about the importance of IT departments and how Google Workspace helps scale down and streamline the technical needs and processes of a company to make them more effective.
Graham discusses his early Google Workspace experiences, including how Gmail was one of the first Google apps that opened his eyes to the Google ecosystem's potential and convinced him to make the switch over.
The two talk about how much technology has progressed in the last few decades and what is yet to come.
Graham addresses the difficulties of retaining old systems when attempting to implement Google Workspace. He concentrates in particular on the resistance that will be faced from within the organization and how to cope with it in order to get people to unite behind and commit to the transition.
Time-blocking is a technique used by many people to manage their time and become more productive. Graham outlines a couple productive hacks that he uses Google Workspaces for and how they benefit his life.
Graham opens his Google Workspace toolkit and shares some of his favourite tips, tricks and add-ons.
and MUCH MORE!
Links
The Graham Robins Podcast (Apple Podcasts)
About Google Workspacers
Google Workspacers is the only podcast dedicated to stories of Google Workspace transformation.
Host Christian Newman interviews business owners and technology leaders to discover how they’re using Google Workspace to strengthen their digital culture, and bottom line.
About Christian Newman
Christian Newman is the CEO of Rise Digital - a Google Cloud Partner based in Vancouver, Canada helping make organizations more productive with Google Workspace.
