Help! My Business is Growing

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Running a business can get highly stressful. 

Sure it's a lot of fun when you start, and it's very rewarding to see yourself achieve your goals and overcome all the hurdles in your way. 

But as your business continues to grow, your workload naturally gets heavier, your obstacles more challenging, and it feels like there are more and more responsibilities coming your way.

You're stretched thin and unwittingly become the source of any - and maybe all - bottlenecks at work. Entrepreneurial burnout sets in, often hurting one's emotional, mental, and physical well-being. 

So how can you avoid entrepreneurial burnout and manage its impact?

And how can you use it to help you grow into a better and more effective leader?

In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing; I talk to our guest Priscilla Stephan about entrepreneurial burnout: what it is, what are its signs, and what it's trying to tell you about how you work. 

She gives us tips on how to avoid and overcome burnout and embrace it as an opportunity for reevaluation, realignment, and a repositioning of your role and your role in the business.

Priscilla Stephan is an Intuitive Business Strategist and creator of the Soulfluent® Leadership Archetypes.  She helps soul-driven women entrepreneurs create sustainable, world-changing businesses that support the greater good. 

Through a powerful combination of practical business strategy and soul guidance in the Akashic Records, she excels at helping people identify their zones of genius, step into powerful leadership, and live their purpose profitably.

She is the author of the international bestselling book "Soulfluent® Leadership Business Guide: Amplify your Message, Visibility, and Profits by Leveraging your Archetype", which supports leaders to stay grounded in their vision and primed to lead themselves and their organizations boldly into the future with confidence, courage, and sustainable growth. 

In this week's episode, we discuss:

02:41   What is "burnout", and what are some signs you see when working with people experiencing entrepreneurial burnout? 

06:33  What is burnout telling you about how you currently work and how you should reevaluate your mindset about work?

10:33   What are some of the ways, or small tweaks, you can do to help prevent entrepreneurial burnout? 

17:04  While in the middle of burnout, is it more beneficial to stop and take a break from your business or to deal with it head-on?

31:39  If someone is on the verge of burnout or already there, what is the one actionable step they can take this week to address it?

Resources:

Priscilla Stephan, Founder, and CEO of Soulfluent LLC.:
https://priscillastephan.com/

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/priscillastephan/

Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/priscilla.stephan.1

Priscilla's Book:
https://www.amazon.com/Soulfluent-Leadership-Business-Guide-Visibility/dp/0578358808


Kathy Svetina, Fractional CFO:
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/

Blog post | How To Identify, Avoid, and Overcome Entrepreneurial Burnout
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/post/how-to-identify-avoid-and-overcome-entrepreneurial-burnout

Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?

Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.

Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan

Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint

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Your relationship with yourself is the most important and consistent relationship you will ever have. It will have a direct impact on how you lead your growing business. 

In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing; I talk to our guest Tomika Snodgrass about why cultivating a good relationship with yourself is vital to running a growing business.  

She walks us through the benefits of this relationship, not just to your business but to almost every other aspect of your life, and gives us actionable tips on how to start. 

Tomika Snodgrass is the Founder and CEO of Confident Heart Coach. She is a Certified Business Coach, Relationships Strategist, Elite True Colors Facilitator, and Motivation Speaker, known to set the stage on fire as she powerfully delivers on topics that include leadership, women's empowerment, and the power of positivity.  

As a result of her relationship and business development programs, Tomika's clients push beyond their doubts and fears, walk boldly in their purpose with an abundance of joy and happiness, and show up in every aspect of their lives fully and unapologetically, with confidence and enthusiasm. Tomika's mission is to help every phenomenal woman to spark joy & happiness in her personal and professional life. 

In this week's episode, we discuss:

03:09 Why is cultivating a good relationship with yourself essential to someone who is running a growing business?

04:19 What are some of the things happening in a growing business when the owner/founder realizes they need to cultivate a relationship with themselves?

06:23 What is the process of cultivating a good relationship with yourself? How does it develop self-esteem, self-worth, and confidence?  

09:00 Does having an accountability partner or group help you achieve the things you need to accomplish that are important to the business?

10:43 Where can you find accountability partners to help you achieve your goals?

13:07 What other tools and techniques can you use to develop a better relationship with yourself?

17:03 How can you help founders and business owners who work all the time, including the weekends, to stop cold and take a break? 

19:46 What are some great examples of people taking care of themselves? What have you seen that helped beyond setting rituals, taking breaks, and finding accountability partners?

21:26 What is the next tangible step to take this next week if you want to start having a better relationship with yourself?

Resources:

Tomika Snodgrass, CTACC; Founder and CEO, Confident Heart Coach:
https://confidentheartcoach.com/

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomikasnodgrass

Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/confidentheartcoach

Kathy Svetina, Fractional CFO:
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/

Blog post | Building a Better Relationship With Yourself & Your Business
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/post/building-a-better-relationship-with-yourself-your-business

Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?

Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.

Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan

Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint

Comments? Suggestions? Text the show here!

CRM or Customer relationship management software is vital for any growing business.

CRM is an extremely powerful tool that allows you to focus on your customers by building relationships with them, providing solutions, and meeting - and exceeding -  their expectations. 

CRM makes it easier to close sales if you harness the data it gathers about customer behavior and preferences. And with pipeline information,  it also helps to predict your financial performance. 

But seamlessly integrating your CRM with your current systems and workflow may not be smooth sailing.

There is a lot of prep work involved to get it right.

So how do you decide what is the right CRM for you and/or if it’s time to update your existing one?  

In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, my guest  Maryanne Renzetti talks about Customer Relationship Management (or CRM) Solutions and how they can help you forge meaningful customer relationships that will inspire customer loyalty and retention.

Maryanne is a CRM specialist and founder of Virtual CRM Solutions, catering to entrepreneurs that need Help streamlining their systems, integrating, and setting up their CRMs. 

Essentially, she enjoys taking disorganized, high-level information and breaking it down into manageable steps--making sure business systems work for business owners, not against them.

In this week's episode, we discuss:

03:50 What are some operational benefits of having a CRM in place?

05:19 How do you determine which CRM is appropriate for your business and the particular stage it's in today?

07:38 What are some examples of CRMs that businesses in the $1M to $10M revenue range use that is not complex to use but still provide the same benefits? 

08:52 What are the main differences between HubSpot and Salesforce?  

10:20 What are some common mistakes that businesses make when they're trying to integrate a new CRM into their operations on their own?

11:56 How should businesses prepare before buying a CRM? Should they map out all the systems and workflows on paper first? 

15:12 How do you prepare your team for a new CRM? How do you manage that transition?

17:37 What is the best way to structure how your team should learn your new CRM? 

19:58 What are some examples of how to keep staff accountable after giving them time for change management with a new CRM?

20:52 How do you deal with clients that implemented their CRMs on their own, which went horribly wrong?

24:53 What tangible next step can businesses take next week to get them started on implementing a CRM?

Resources:

Maryanne Renzetti, CRM Consultant and Founder of Virtual CRM Solutions:
https://www.maryannerenzetti.com/

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maryanne-renzetti-3a891126/

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/maryannerenzetti/ 

Other Resources mentioned in the episode:

Salesforce:
https://www.salesforce.com/

Hubspot:
https://www.hubspot.com/products/crm

Salesloft:
https://salesloft.com/

Kathy Svetina, Fractional CFO:
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/

Blog post | How to Choose a CRM
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/post/how-to-choose-a-crm

Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?

Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.

Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan

Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint

Comments? Suggestions? Text the show here!

Over the last few years, the concept of personal branding has taken the business world by storm. Fueled partly by the rise of social media and the need to rise above the rest of the pack, it establishes your public persona for your target audience. 

It is your thoughts, beliefs, and values and how you present them to the world, keeping you in control over how people should perceive you - and by extension, your business.

Personal branding brings many benefits, such as increasing your visibility and making you stand out amongst the crowd. It also helps grow your network, gain customer trust, and spread your influence. 

But most importantly, it directly impacts your business, helping you attract opportunities that ensure success.

So how do you develop your personal brand and leverage its power to help grow your company?

In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, our guest Erica Castner and I talk about Personal Branding, what it is precisely, and how it can benefit not just your life but also your business.

She shares how you can successfully build your personal brand and tips on leveraging it to grow your confidence, influence, and business.

Erica Castner is a Brand Strategist and Founder of Castner Consulting. For over two decades, she has helped business owners + personal brands expand their reach and online presence. 

Her business, Castner Consulting, specializes in helping business owners and creators find, connect, and convert prospects into clients. She is also the host of the Voices of Impact podcast and recently became an Ironman.

In this week's episode, we discuss:

02:53 What is personal branding? And how do you leverage it to grow your business? 

05:25 How do you expand your reach and personal brand beyond social media or LinkedIn, such as summits and face-to-face interactions?

12:17 What are some other ideas for expanding your reach besides connecting with other people, providers, and complementary businesses?

15:25 What are the steps to take if someone wants to speak on a bigger platform such as a TEDx talk, for example?

20:11 What was the process for starting on videos? What is that journey like, and how can one get good at doing them? 

24:35 What are some significant and positive changes in the business when the owners or founders successfully implement personal branding? 

27:00 How is personal branding different from paid ads?  

29:37 What is the one tangible thing a founder or CEO can do this next week to get them closer to building their personal brand?

Resources:

Erica Castner, Brand Strategist and Founder of Castner Consulting:
https://ericacastner.com/

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericacastner/

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/ericaqueeniecastner/

Podcast | Voices of Impact: 
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/voices-of-impact-with-erica-castner/id1488325449

Kathy Svetina, Fractional CFO:
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/

Blog post | How Personal Branding Helps Business Growth  
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/post/how-personal-branding-helps-business-growth

Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?

Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.

Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan

Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint

Comments? Suggestions? Text the show here!

What happens when your branding doesn't work as well as you would like? 

Maybe it doesn't differentiate your business from the rest of the pack, or your company has evolved, and your existing branding no longer represents what your company is today. 

This can be a sign that you might need to rebrand your business.

And while the process may seem easy enough on paper, it might cause more harm if not done right. 

An effective rebrand will not only provide your company with a new look or logo but also a new brand identity, one aligned with your business values and the service you provide your customers. 

If not, it can alienate your loyal customers and confuse everyone else. 

So how do you successfully rebrand your business?

In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, our guest Kelly Wittman shares her valuable insights on strategic brand building, particularly rebranding, and how - if needed - it can benefit your growing business and lead to continued success.

Kelly Wittman is a Brand Strategist, Visual Designer, and Owner of Witt and Company, a brand strategy and design studio that helps small business owners amplify their purpose through consistent and cohesive branding. Before the unplanned start of her business in 2017, she spent six years in marketing, event management, and fundraising, specifically in the nonprofit and startup space. 

Now, she happily wears the title of ‘unemployable’, is proud to have a business that supports her life, and is on a mission to help entrepreneurs create their version of success.

In this week's episode, we discuss

03:38 What are some of the issues businesses face that trigger a rebrand?

05:25 Is there more to branding beyond its visible elements, namely the colors, logo, and website? Is there anything else that can change how people think and feel about your brand that might not be as obvious?

07:54 How can a company find the balance between the founder's personal tastes and the clientele they're trying to serve when rebranding? 

09:35 How should the management or marketing team document the different elements of a company's brand like the brand voice, and brand personality to ensure that everyone in the company is on the same page?

13:30 What is a realistic and reasonable timeline to evaluate the effects of a company rebrand? 

15:56 What are some examples of rebranding that have gone exceptionally well? 

17:55 What are the different goals people can have for their website, and how does that drive how the website is created?

19:40 How would two websites with different goals, like booking a consultation versus subscribing to an email list, differ? What elements would each have to drive the audience to the desired action?

21:20 What do businesses struggle with during the rebranding process?

24:38  What are some valuable techniques to help companies figure out how people are experiencing their brand to help them figure out what direction an impending rebrand should take?

26:23 What is one tangible thing that founders and businesses can do next week to get them closer to achieving a successful rebranding?

Resources:
Kelly Wittman, Brand Strategist, Visual Designer, and Owner, Witt, and Company:
https://wittandcompany.com/

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kellymsnyder/

Facebook

Kathy Svetina, Fractional CFO:
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/

Blog post | How to Rebrand Successfully
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/post/how-to-rebrand-successfully

Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?

Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.

Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan

Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint

Comments? Suggestions? Text the show here!

One of the biggest weapons in your marketing arsenal is copywriting, and it uses words, images, and video to tell the world about your products and services. 

It tells your story, evokes emotions, and engages attention as it ultimately persuades, influences, and convinces your audience to buy.

Sounds easy enough, but it's not. Excellent and effective copywriting is both art and science and a great way to boost your profits.

So how can you make the most out of copywriting to help your growing business?

In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, our guest Samantha Burmeister and I chat about the importance of copywriting and how you can maximize its benefits to fuel the growth of any business.

Samantha Burmeister is the Founder and Lead Copywriter of Nomad Copy Agency, crafting bespoke copy for her many clients to help them turn their sales process into a hands-off, high-conversion experience. 

Sam has worked on dozens of online service provider launches, which earn the client six figures (or more!). Ultimately, her goal is to empower the entrepreneurs she works with to sell more - so that they can focus on delivering & designing the life of their dreams. 

In this week's episode, we discuss:

02:01  What is the difference between copywriting and content writing?

03:15 What makes a good copy?

04:43 What does the A/B testing process in copywriting look like in practice?

06:35 How does the copywriting process like? 

09:01 What are the usual copywriting issues that push companies to hire copywriters?

10:33 What are the benefits of having a copywriter versus getting the services of a marketing agency? 

14:01 What is the vetting process for a copywriter? What are some of the qualities or characteristics to look for?

18:14 Is the current rise of AI copy a threat to the entire industry, or is it something that might enhance what copywriters are doing right now?

21:23 How do copywriters find the right brand voice, especially if there hasn't been one developed before? And how do you refine it if it is muddled due to the number of copywriters who have worked on it before? 

28:12 What can clients prepare or give to newly hired copywriters to make the writing onboarding process easier? 

30:47 What is the next tangible step founders and leaders can take in the next week if they want to hire a copywriter to develop sales copy? What can they do to ensure they have a great copywriter and are prepared for them? 

Resources:

Samantha Burmeister, Founder and Lead Copywriter of Nomad Copy Agency:
https://nomadcopyagency.com/

LinkedIn:
www.linkedin.com/in/samanthaburmeister

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/nomad.copy/

Kathy Svetina, Fractional CFO:
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/

Blog post | How to Find and Work with a Professional Copywriter
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/post/how-to-find-and-work-with-a-professional-copywriter

Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?

Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.

Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan

Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint

Comments? Suggestions? Text the show here!

One quality that many successful growing businesses share is that they have engaged leaders who like to ask employees questions about what's happening in their company. 

For these leaders, failure or missteps are opportunities to learn. And they use these lessons as a guide to help their teams improve operations, products, and services. 

However, to match this leader, a successful business must also have employees who are curious, who want to learn and take both positive and negative feedback with open hearts and minds, or, precisely, employees who have a growth mindset. 

These are employees who delight in learning and working hard, thrive on challenges, take responsibility for their actions, and see setbacks as a springboard for improvement and growth.

Hiring people with a growth mindset, on top of the right skills and experience, is a sure way to guarantee the success of your business - even when things are tough. 

But how do you hire people with a growth mindset? And what does it look like in the day-to-day operations of your company?

In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, our guest Christopher Gittings shares his experience of how hiring people with a growth mindset helped him drive his business to grow by leaps and bounds.

He shares his tips and insights on how your business can benefit from having a team who wants to grow, improve, and become more effective over time. 

Christopher Gittings is the Founder and President of Cogent Connections, a young sales consulting and marketing firm that helps businesses build genuine, thoughtful, and productive professional relationships. 

He helps clients connect with the right people, initiate productive conversations, and nurture their network. 

In this week's episode, we discuss:

03:15  What is the background of your company, and how did you make it grow?

05:10 Regarding advisors, what type are the best, and when should they come in? At the beginning stages of establishing a business or further down when there are issues that need external help to address?

06:38 How did he use advisory relationships to grow the business and how did that look like?

08:22  How can a business cultivate a culture in a remote and freelance employee/internship setup?

16:44 How much does a background in psychology affect running a business? Does it provide marketing insights and influence hiring decisions?

25:26 How can companies test potential employees for the presence of a growth mindset? Is there a series of tests or questions? Is there a practical way to determine this at all?

31:55 How can companies develop a higher level of trust with their teams?

35:13 What does the process of hiring and managing interns full-time look like daily? Are there still regular team and individual one-on-one meetings? 

37:29 What is the one thing leaders, and founders can do this week if they want to start hiring employees with a growth mindset? How do they become more attuned to this quality, and what processes can they implement to become standard?

Resources:

Christopher Gittings, Founder, and President of Cogent Connections:
https://www.cogentconnections.io/

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-gittings-21a752191/

Kathy Svetina, Fractional CFO:
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/

Blog post | How to Run a Business with a Growth Mindset
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/post/how-to-run-a-business-with-a-growth-mindset

Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?

Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.

Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan

Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint

Comments? Suggestions? Text the show here!

Hiring the right people is the biggest challenge to successful and sustainable growth for many companies.

Putting the right people into the correct positions is crucial to the health of your business - and, of course, your employees too. 

When employees are in the right seats, working within their expertise or zone of genius, they stay happy, engaged, and productive, leading to increased sales and revenues. 

But when you hire the wrong people or, worse, assign work that's not within an employee's wheelhouse, you open up a pandora's box of costly mistakes: Employee morale will drop, absenteeism increases, or you'll have zombie-like employees just going through the motions. 

All of this translates into decreased productivity and lost profits. 

So how can you choose the right person for the right role in your company? And once and for all, remove the barriers that make hiring them difficult?

In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, our guest Danielle Levy and I talk about how to get the right people into the right seats in your company. 

We try to get to the root cause of why this is such a struggle for many a growing business, and Danielle provides insights and actionable tips on how you can get hiring right to boost the growth of your business further.

Danielle Levy is the CEO and Founder of The Boardroom League. She is a sought-after executive who has helped six and seven-figure businesses expand with clarity and efficiency by providing a Boardroom of trusted industry professionals to help them implement and scale their businesses. 

An Integrator at heart, Danielle believes in helping business owners build a trustworthy ecosystem of professional resources so they can focus on their zone of genius instead of being distracted by day-to-day business obligations. 

She holds an MBA, is certified as a Project Management Professional, and is a Certified Online Business Manager. 

In this week's episode, we discuss:

02:26 What does it look like when businesses put the right people in the right seats - and when they don't?

08:59 How do you converse with an employee struggling with tasks you gave them to do that is not in their wheelhouse or scope of expertise?

12:03  Why do many founders or leaders struggle to put the right people in the right seats? What are the barriers that prevent it from becoming easier to implement?

14:50 What are some tips to ensure a better way of hiring people? Are there specific questions to ask or preferred recruitment sites or channels? Where are the best places to find them? 

20:24  What works well in integrating systems and processes in a growing business?

23:19 What are the best practices for setting team or employee metrics? 

26:12 What can business owners do, and what actionable steps can they take in the next week to get them closer to having the right people in the right seats?

Resources:

Danielle Levy, CEO, and Founder of The Boardroom League:
https://danielleclevy.com/

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielleclevy/

Facebook: 
https://www.facebook.com/danielleclevy.co/

Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/danielle_c_levy/

Kathy Svetina, Fractional CFO:
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/

Blog post | How to Hire the Right People for the Right Roles
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/post/how-to-hire-the-right-people-for-the-right-roles

Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?

Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.

Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan

Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint

Comments? Suggestions? Text the show here!

Happy employees are motivated employees: They'll help your company achieve its business goals faster and drive revenues up. 

And while there are tons of project management, chat, and time tracking tools out there to help increase team productivity, these tools can't do it alone. They need your help!

And one of the best ways to do so is to establish clear communications. 

Feedback is vital to the well-being of your employees - and in turn - the well-being of your company. 

It is an opportunity to improve internal processes, give corrections constructively and connect with your employees with compassion.

And holding regular one-on-one meetings is an effective way to have these meaningful conversations with your employees and stay in the loop regarding their morale, performance, and lives.  

So how do you run one-on-meetings that don't waste time and focus on feedback, performance, and personal connection?

In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, our guest Debbie Rosemont, and I take a very deep dive into one-on-one meetings with your employees and how they can boost your team's productivity.

She'll discuss how they are vital to your employee's well-being and give actionable tips on how you can structure them to ensure maximum productivity to benefit your growing business.

Debbie Rosemont is a Productivity Consultant, Trainer, and Founder of Simply Placed, helping busy women who feel overwhelmed and overloaded prioritize what matters, plan their time and produce valuable results with confidence and ease.  

In this week's episode, we discuss:

03:22  What do businesses struggle with the most regarding the productivity of their teams?

04:40  How should business owners define employee goals and KPIs to measure productivity? 

08:47 How would you communicate with your employees or get regular updates about specific objectives to track them effectively?

11:09 How do you structure one-on-one meetings with your team members, so they are productive and don't waste time?

17:42 What are some things that you should avoid or never discuss during a 1:1 meeting?  

19:52 During one-to-one meetings, is there a difference between talking to employees about their (pre-identified) priorities and giving them updates on their current projects?

24:07 How do you make an easy and stress-free transition from not holding one-to-one meetings to suddenly having regular, structured one-to-one sessions?

27:08 What are some examples of the benefits employees can expect from structured one-on-one meetings? 

28:34 What are the benefits of one-on-one meetings to your company if you've never done them before and are only starting to implement them now?

31:01 How do you structure one-to-one meetings when your company is growing, and you have a larger number of employees?

33:58 What is one actionable step business owners can take this week to get closer to implementing efficient and productive one-to-one meetings with their employees?

Resources:

Debbie Rosemont, Productivity Consultant, Trainer, and Founder of Simply Placed:
 https://www.itssimplyplaced.com/

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/debbierosemontsimplyplaced

Instagram: 
https://www.instagram.com/simplyplaced/

Kathy Svetina, Fractional CFO:
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/

Blog post | How To Lead Effective One-on-One Meetings
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/post/how-to-lead-effective-one-on-one-meetings

Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?

Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.

Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan

Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint

Comments? Suggestions? Text the show here!

Team meetings are an integral part of every business. They're a venue for your employees to bond, exchange ideas, and collaborate to help hit your business goals.

They also give you, the founder, a transparent platform to share news, updates, and plans about the business and your industry, and to give and receive feedback. 

But sadly, not everyone is excited to attend team meetings. Many employees whine and gripe about how meetings are often boring, unnecessary ("this meeting could have been an email!"), and a black hole sucking their time and productivity into oblivion.

When done wrong, "bad meetings" can lead to feelings of isolation, lower employee morale, or even a big drop in sales.  

So what do you need to do to get meetings right? What skills should you have as a leader, and what structure should be in place to ensure that you'll have productive team meetings that will motivate your team? 

In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, our guest Danny Hadas breaks down the importance of team meetings and how to structure them to the benefit of your growing business.

We'll discuss how holding meetings will not only foster a sense of collaboration, teamwork, and camaraderie amongst your employees but also have a direct effect on your business finances as well.

Danny Hadas is an entrepreneur and former advisor to the world’s most iconic brands. He is also a #1 best-selling author, and his work has impacted millions of people across 500+ companies worldwide, including Disney, BMW, and AT&T. As the founder of The Emovation Project, Danny teaches service-based small businesses how to double their revenue without doubling their effort using Minimalist Leadership.

In this week's episode, we discuss:

03:03  What happens in businesses that don't have regular team meetings?

04:22  How often should you have team meetings?

06:40 How do you effectively communicate to your team that there will now be regular meetings so they see it as a good thing versus feeling micromanaged?

09:19  What is the best way to structure your team meetings? Is there an optimum or best time to hold them? 

14:39 What is the second item or step on the meeting agenda once you're done revisiting the company brand, values, and mission?

16:43 Is it possible to overshare KPIs or financials?

18:57  What is the third item on the agenda now that you're done sharing KPIs and how the business is doing? 

21:16 What happens if no one shares or contributes - how do you solve this issue?

22:53 After revisiting the vision/mission, sharing KPIs and wins and challenges, what should be the fourth and final item on your meeting agenda? 

25:34 Can you break the rules of these four-step meeting items and change their order? 

27:08 What's the best way to wrap up the meeting?

30:39 How do you structure meetings with a larger number of employees? Is a meeting with 100 people the same as 30 or 50?

33:56 For one-on-one meetings, how long and how often should they take place?

34:48 Should you follow the same structure of team meetings when conducting a one-on-one meeting?

36:20 What is one tangible step business owners can take this week to get closer to getting into the habit of having regular, efficient, and productive team meetings?

Resources:

Danny Hadas, Founder, and CEO of The Emovation Project:
https://www.emovationproject.com/

Kathy Svetina, Fractional CFO:
https://www.newcastlefinance.us

Blog post | How to Have Effective Meetings:
https://www.newcastlefinance.us/post/how-to-have-effective-team-meetings

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