Shannon Waller's Team Success

Give Your Team The Tools To Win

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Are you treating your team like a line item—or like your greatest multiplier? In this episode, Shannon Waller shares why a small, smart investment in your team’s self-awareness and capabilities can pay off in better decisions, less drama, and a lot more freedom for you as the entrepreneur.

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Show Notes:

  • Investing in your team’s growth is one of the simplest ways to hit bigger goals without working harder yourself.
  • Profiles like Kolbe and Working Genius® give team members self-knowledge that leads to greater confidence, mutual understanding, and improved communication.
  • When people feel like an investment instead of a cost, they naturally bring more creativity, commitment, and initiative to the business.
  • Entrepreneurs who invest in their team create multipliers who run with ideas instead of dependents who wait to be told what to do.
  • The right kind of training gives you clear thinkers, confident decision makers, and proactive problem solvers instead of order takers.
  • Knowing your team’s strengths and striving instincts makes leadership feel lighter and more natural because you stop trying to force people into the wrong roles.
  • Role alignment protects you from one of the most expensive entrepreneurial mistakes: smart people stuck in the wrong seats.
  • When team members spend most of their time in their Unique Ability®, your culture gets more energized, collaborative, and attractive to top talent.
  • Focusing on strengths instead of fixing weaknesses speeds up progress and keeps your best people excited about growing with you.
  • Using profiles strategically shows you exactly where you need complementary capabilities instead of pushing yourself to be good at everything.
  • When people are self-aware, they move through tough moments with less drama and more clarity, so the team can stay focused on results.
  • Developing “leaderful” team members means people at every level provide direction in their area of expertise instead of waiting for permission.
  • Treating people as entrepreneurial partners rather than employees shifts them into owner-like thinking about results and client impact.
  • A well-developed team is a safer and more predictable investment than a marketing campaign because you can see the behavior and results up close.
  • Capability-building gives you back time as team members take on complex, draining tasks and solve problems without escalating everything to you.
  • Networked, interdependent teams allow capable people to act autonomously within clear roles.
  • Investing in your team is one of the most powerful retention strategies because people stay where they feel seen, valued, and developed.
  • Even simple, low-cost assessments can quickly pay for themselves in better decisions, saved time, and fresh opportunities.
  • You don’t need to implement every profile or tool at once; pacing your investments keeps the focus on doing great work, not constant workshops.
  • Bringing in experts to deliver assessments and coaching lets you upgrade your team quickly and efficiently without derailing daily operations.
  • Building a Self-Managing Company® requires self-managing, self-aware people who are well-trained, trusted, and energized by the roles they play.​

    • Resources:

    Kolbe A™ Index

    Working Genius®

    CliftonStrengths®

    DiSC® Profile

    PRINT®

    The Predictive Index

    Unique Ability®

    The Team Success Handbook by Shannon Waller

    The Self-Managing Company by Dan Sullivan

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