Serial entrepreneur Dan Rogers knows his place: the future. Whether he’s a week, a month, or a year ahead in creating the vision of an organization, he knows he needs collaborative partners to send insights back to—people with the talents and perspectives to make his ideas real in the present. In this episode, Shannon and Dan talk about how to mesh vision and teamwork, and Dan shares how he uses a few of his favorite Strategic Coach tools.

“Distributed work” and “work-from-home” have turned our lives into an endless game of attention span Whack-A-Mole. So in this episode, Shannon explains why it’s so important to take charge of your own time and attention—giving yourself protected periods to think, to produce, and to unwind. She walks you through Strategic Coach’s Entrepreneurial Time System and shares some specific practices she uses to stay creative instead of reactive.

Many entrepreneurs agonize over hiring an executive assistant and put it off as long as they can, despite knowing that their growth and freedom depend on it. That’s where Ryan Cassin and Steven Neuner’s company Superpowers (superpowershq.com) comes to the rescue, custom matching successful entrepreneurs with the right work-from-home, U.S.-based executive assistant. In this episode, Shannon finds out how Superpowers attracts, trains, and pairs assistants with entrepreneurs and what it takes for a business leader to empower someone else to lead them so that they’re free to be the boss.

Free Strategic Coach download for executive assistants: “My Top Teamwork Tips” by Nicole Pitcher

In The Strategic Coach® Program, entrepreneurs discover that they have a lot more freedom than they’d imagined. But that’s true for the team members in an entrepreneurial business too. In this episode, Shannon describes “The Four Freedoms” that are the key to finding and keeping really great people.

Jaime Taets defines a positive company culture as a place where people leave every day better than when they came in—and she has the measurements and tools to help businesses create that culture. Hear how she fosters leadership and the other L-word (yes, love) to inspire loyalty and stellar results at a time when millions are quitting their jobs.

Bonus: Get Jaime’s free “Culture Guide,” a great resource to understand the importance of culture and a tool to improve it: http://keystonegroupintl.com

Are you looking for new and better ways to attract great talent to your team? In this episode, Shannon shows you how to take the capabilities you already use with your clientele and apply them to attract phenomenal new team members. This is crucially important now, during the current “Great Resignation,” when employees have a lot of choice about whom to work with. Using the approach Shannon outlines, you’ll create a compelling opportunity for right-fit hires that really distinguishes you from others, who are still communicating in outmoded terms like “jobs” and “roles.”

It’s not that team members don’t want to do hard work—they do. But they want to do meaningful hard work. This is where AI can help—not as a buzzwordy technological magic wand, but simply as a teammate whose specialty is taking on the repetitive, time-consuming tasks that prevent people from making their best contribution and feeling fulfilled in their work. In this episode, Shannon talks to Evan Ryan, who loves “electrifying” companies by using AI to automate boring tasks. Evan explains the mindset that will make AI useful to you, provides real-world examples of companies that have used it to exponentially multiply their results, and shares some helpful AI applications you can get started with right now.

Do you bet on yourself? How can you know what’s the best bet for your capabilities, skills, and mindsets? In this episode, Shannon shares some great tools for getting to know yourself better, and some powerful questions to ask, so you can determine which opportunities offer the biggest payoffs for your unique qualities.

In July of 2021, Jayson Lowe drove away from his businesses and didn’t return for six weeks. As Dan Sullivan says, “You never know how good your team is until you leave.” By giving his team an opportunity to run things themselves, Jayson confirmed how very good they were. Not only did he enjoy irreplaceable time with his wife and children, on re-entry into his business, he was also able to refocus his role and activities in preparation for the next leap forward. In this conversation, Shannon uncovers exactly how Jayson prepared himself and his team for his first—but not his last—sabbatical, and why he feels it was so important to take it.

An entrepreneur’s job is to make things up and then make them real. But sometimes there can be a huge gap between your vision and the implementation of it. So how do you connect those dots? In this episode, Shannon Waller unpacks the difference between strategies and tactics, and shows you how to use two favorite Strategic Coach tools to transform the big ideas in your head into your team members’ daily activities, so everyone gets to succeed together.