Your success depends on your ability to manage and develop the people who work for you!

Natalie Dawson, our guest for today’s episode, is an expert in developing people and building scalable teams. She has interviewed, hired, trained, and led thousands of employees over the course of her career, most recently as Co-Founder and Partner of Cardone Ventures, a management consulting, joint ventures, and private equity firm that helps business owners achieve their personal, professional, and financial goals through the growth of their business. With no cost of capital, no outside investment, in 30 months Cardone Ventures has generated $60 million in revenue and over $30 million in EBITDA. Natalie is responsible for the operations and finding, hiring, aligning, developing and retaining the team that allows the business to scale profitably. She is the host of the WorkWoman Podcast and also the author of the #1 Amazon best seller for her book “Teamwork” which details exactly how she has built a highly engaged, highly aligned, high performance team in order to accommodate the business opportunity and growth.

Travis and Natalie talk about the importance of being a good listener to connect with people, her challenges proving herself and leveling up as a business woman and  how she built her trust on her contributions to any business. 

She also shares how to hire people effectively when growing a company, how a business process specialist can contribute to an organization’s success and why most business owners fail at engaging and managing their team.

Key Highlights: 

 

[00:01 - 12:05]  Taking Control and Listening

The first book that kicked off Natalie’s curiosity on business development

Dropping out of college and following that decision through

How Natalie learned to connect with people at a young age 

 

 

[12:06 - 18:28] Leveling Up

Natalie’s career that started from transcribing leadership content

Natalie’s challenges she faced leveling up

Being confident in her contributions to any organization

 

 

[18:29 -27:15] Cardone Ventures

The importance of revenue targets 

Finding the right people who truly are 10X

The first hires when growing an organization

What a Business Process Specialist is

 

 

[27:16 -42:48] Team Work 

Business owners missing to have a system in place for their people

The blueprint on how to engage with your team

Time and resources being wasted by poor time management

Incentive metrics that forces you to take a deep look at your business

 

Tweetable Quotes: 

“I read every book I could find on management, leadership, organization development and structure so I knew what I was talking about when I had my opportunities ” -  Natalie Dawson

“When you are growing a business,  the main thing is figuring out how to sell and market your product and also find people that competently can work on it ” -  Natalie Dawson

“A lot of business owners don’t spend their time properly so they will refuse to look at where their team are spending their time” - Natalie Dawson

 

Connect with Natalie:

LinkedIn

 

Order Natalie's book:

Team Work: How to build a High-Performance Team

 

Follow Natalie on:  

Instagram: @natalieworkman

 

Listen to the WorkWoman Podcast here

 

Book Mentioned:

The Starbucks Experience

                                                                                                                                                   

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