Entrepreneurs are usually full of hustle. They're scrappy and all about winning. And that works for a while, but it often leads to burn out and overwhelm. Despite all the winning, they may find that they don't even love what they do anymore. Truth-be-told, scrappy and hustle isn't a long term business strategy. Today we're talking about the importance of "the way" - not just "the win." So what does the way look like for you?

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. Entrepreneurs are often so focused on winning, winning, winning.
2. What the scrappy, hustle mentality looks like.
3. How many entrepreneurs lose the love for what they do.
4. What winning looks like for Kris and her team.
5. Determine what it is that you just "have to do" in your business – then find another way. Be a maverick!

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Find out more about the How to CEO Program here. https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/about-how-to-ceo

© 2021 Kris Plachy

If you're having a hard time finding good talent, and nobody's coming to the interviews, or those who do come aren't the people you'd hire – listen in folks. Don't come at this from a place of scarcity. Regroup and rethink the way you hire. This is about making your work environment the one that everybody wants to work for, and I can help you do that.

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. Vital lesson - you can do anything.
2. 2020 was the "what if" year.
3. There are really talented, ethical, honest, good people who want to work. You just have to attract them.
4. How you hired people 16 months ago probably needs to change.
5. Do you have an appealing, exciting, interesting, worth it place to work for the people you want to hire?
6. Be careful about slipping into certain belief systems; then you don't invest in opportunity.
7. How to be more competitive as an employer? Employee niche, vision and values, job description, compensation - this is all work I do in How to CEO with my clients.

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Find out more about the How to CEO Program here. https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/about-how-to-ceo

© 2021 Kris Plachy

So, you're thinking about promoting someone in your business. How do you know if it's really time – if they're really ready? CEOs need some kind of litmus test to use when they're considering promoting someone. Here's the test!

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. You should have a clear job description for this person's current role - clear goals, and some sort of measurement process that you're following to tell you if this person is performing well in their current job.
2. Define the new role – a clear job description, the key objectives, and day-to-day responsibilities.
3. Interview that person against the new job description.
4. Have them do a project as a test.
5. The final hurdle - they must have a track record of consistent success.
6. Pay them based on the role they're going into, not based on what they're making now.
7. Who you promote speaks volumes about who you are and what you value.

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Find out more about the How to CEO Program here. https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/about-how-to-ceo

© 2021 Kris Plachy

These are the key roles every woman who is leading a business and running a life must have filled. Every female CEO needs these people in order to be supported – not just in her business, but everywhere in her life.

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. The importance of having someone who tells you the truth about money.
2. Having a person to help take care of you.
3. The necessity of a solid team.
4. You need a coach.
5. Why you must have a really good organization system.
6. Having a really good friend is so important.
7. Why you need a colleague who understands being an entrepreneur.

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Find out more about the How to CEO Program here. https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/about-how-to-ceo

© 2021 Kris Plachy

In today's interview, Kris talks with Dr. Shanita Williams, a TEDx Speaker, HR Leader and author of the newly released book, Feedback Mentality: The key to unlocking and unleashing your potential. Shanita specializes in helping people S.I.F.T. through the feedback that causes anxiety or stress and gives ideas for taking action in a healthy way.

TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRnsF_L9atU

Feedback Mentality Book: https://www.amazon.com/Feedback-Mentality-unlocking-unleashing-potential-ebook/dp/B08KJTGH3V

Website: www.feedbackmentality.com

Instagram: Feedback_Mentality

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. How her book, Feedback Mentality, was born.
2. How someone can get conscious enough to really develop that feedback mentality.
3. "It's the person giving the feedback that has to change the way they give it so I can hear it." Why that's a myth.
4. What it means to get clear about your own personal triggers.
5. Things to remember when delivering feedback.
6. Throwing stones versus stepping stones.

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Find out more about the How to CEO Program here. https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/about-how-to-ceo

© 2021 Kris Plachy

You know that person. The one who is jealous and full of envy and has to go out of her way to minimize anyone she believes is better than her or has more than her. She's usually insulting, rude, dismissive, and mocking. She wants you to tone down your leadership and your role. She wants you to play small and dim your light.

That is the very thing we're trying to get away from as women. We have to be willing to honor the light of every woman we meet. And we have to be willing to honor it in ourselves. Don't back down. Don't apologize. Don't minimize yourself and slow down, get quiet, be soft, dim your light. Don't!

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. How the ladies interact with one another in the How to CEO program.
2. Kris's daughter's experience.
3. Why leadership is feminine.
4. Step back and look at how you treat the women who work for you.

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Find out more about the How to CEO Program here. https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/about-how-to-ceo

© 2021 Kris Plachy

So what is your "tax season"? Is it April 15th? Maybe it's Christmas or Mother's Day. But what about pre-season or post-season? The reason this is a problem, whatever your "season" is, is because you don't have the team to support you.

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. I'm not trying to minimize the level of work that people have. But we all have a tax season.
2. The importance of having a team that supports you.
3. Why you must get rid of the mind drama that says you can't leave because it won't be done without you.
4. The florist and taking time off.
5. Why it's awful to become an entrepreneur in order to create a lifestyle for yourself, and then to chain yourself to your business and miss out or use it as an excuse.
6. Failure is a part of it all, and your team is going to fail whether you're sitting at your desk or whether you're in Tahiti. Let's go to Tahiti!
7. When it's time to hire more people.

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Find out more about the How to CEO Program here.

© 2021 Kris Plachy

I cannot believe how lucky I am to work with such amazing women leaders every. single. day. I had a Q & A call with a few of my current and former How to CEO clients and, I won't lie to you, it was FIRE. We discussed their motivations for joining the program, what it was like as they went through the course, and what they took away from it. I can't wait for you to listen!

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. Erika owns a commercialization company that helps pharmaceutical companies launch their brands.
2. Zahnia – CEO of Affinity Residential Care and Affinity Care MN.
3. Rebecca – real estate developer.
4. What has been the most potent, powerful, meaningful moment of learning that you didn't expect?
5. Why invest in this kind of work?

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Find out more about the How to CEO Program here. https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/how2ceo-bring-it

© 2021 Kris Plachy

Has your shining team member turned into a shiny team member? The terms are pretty similar, but the motivation of each is quite different. The ugly truth is that they can't be rehabilitated. So, let's talk about what to do when those high-performing types become business-destroying, gobbling-up creatures.

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. A shining team member is someone who is luminous and illuminates the entire team. When they shine, everybody else shines.
2. A shiny team member is busy focusing on their own light. Their light doesn't extend out to others. It actually does the opposite.
3. A high-performing, business-destroying monster believes that they are untouchable. They are arrogant, demanding, entitled, privileged, noisy, and even in some cases, threatening.
4. You feel that losing them in your business would be so catastrophic that you can't see past it.
5. Here's how to handle the high-performing, business-destroying monster.

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Find out more about the How to CEO Program here. https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/how2ceo-bring-it

© 2021 Kris Plachy

Accountability - making a commitment and then following through on it. You wouldn't think it's that hard to do, right? Yet every day, we are surrounded by people who think they're above accountability. And many leaders, in order to avoid difficult conversations, let it go. They don't address it, and therein lies the quagmire. We leaders are negatively reinforcing the very behaviors we say we don't want. So here's my suggestion…

What you'll learn from this episode:

1. The responses people demonstrate as a result of being confronted with their own lack of results.
2. People-pleasing and the lack of accountability.
3. Accountability and the entitled generation.
4. Spiderman and accountability - with great power comes great responsibility.
5. Holding onto people because we're afraid to address their performance is diminishing the ability and the engagement of the people we really want.
6. How to change all that – and change the world!

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Find out more about the How to CEO Program here. https://krisplachycoaching.mykajabi.com/how2ceo-bring-it

© 2021 Kris Plachy