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319: Create a Team That Loves Your Business Like It’s Their Own with Kristy Smith


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No successful business owner reached their goals alone. We are supported not just by our external communities and networks – but our TEAMS. And our guest today is a trailblazer when it comes to building smart, rock-solid teams.

But how can you create a high-functioning, loyal team of people around you who care about the success of your business as much as you do?

Kristy Smith of Virtual Elves knows exactly how – as she has provided hundreds of clients with outsourced, highly skilled VAs. She is an expert on creating a loyal and supportive team culture and has so much to share with you about how to hire, manage, and grow with your team.

Here’s What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

  • The invisible ties that keep you focused on the WRONG things in business and how the “30% Burden” creeps up and steals your time
  • How to strategically identify what is taking your focus and preventing you from stepping into the CEO role (+ what needs to shift!)
  • The “SADD” method: Kristy’s sworn-by framework that you should run EVERY task in your business through (this will make your business more efficient, and it will make you LESS sad )
  • Why leaning on people around you – and constructing a support system – is essential to free your time
  • How Kristy has developed such incredible loyalty within her team (with multiple team members working with her over a decade) – and why team culture is key
  • The big mistake business owners make when outsourcing team members, and why transactional thinking can backfire
  • How to prepare in advance to onboard, and why cultivating systems beforehand is essential
  • The 3 things you need to do before hiring anyone (or hiring anyone ELSE!)
  • Why building strategically over time and putting in place a strong foundation has paid off for Kristy in the long run (tortoise > hare)
  • How Kristy built a team culture so good that all of her current managerial positions started not as new hires, but as loyal team members with potential
  • And so, so much more

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