The CEO Sage

Being able to delegate properly is a superpower. Here's a short checklist to help you master that skill.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. A short delegation checklist.
2. Determine if the job or task is tactical or strategic.
3. Write it out. Here's what I want done. Here's the result I want. Be specific.
4. The three steps to properly assigning a task to someone.
5. Why follow up is essential.
6. The importance of giving feedback.

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© 2020 Kris Plachy

Would you say that you're mature – entrepreneurially? Are you willing to understand, confront and acknowledge everything about your business – without emotion? If not, here are some tips for stepping into your maturity.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. The importance of developing maturity in these five relationship areas.
2. Your relationship with Money - what do you tell yourself about money today?
3. Time – what's your relationship with Time?
4. Your Team and Your Business – the relationship.
5. Who You Are – you as a business owner have your own thoughts, beliefs and feelings.
6. Entrepreneurial maturity is a journey not a final destination. You never arrive.

Visit: The How to Lead Podcast for show notes and available downloads.

© 2020 Kris Plachy

Are you frustrated in your business because your employees don't do what they need to do? With these primary tenets in place, holding employees accountable becomes simple math.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Some of the tools that we'll be using in my Founder's Lab this year.
2. The importance of having and sharing your business vision.
3. How to identify your top three values.
4. Why leading with behavior expectations instead of managing to rules is so important.
5. How to create your business manifesto.
6. Where employee goals and benchmarks come in.

Visit: The How to Lead Podcast for show notes and available downloads.

© 2020 Kris Plachy

What are the most common feelings you have every day at work? Frustration? Disappointment? Let me show you why the solution lies in "math" and how you can take the emotion out of that equation.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Performance is not an opinion – it's based in facts.
2. The exercise that will help you identify the problem and address it.
3. Why having clear expectations is so important.

Visit: The How to Lead Podcast for show notes and available downloads.

© 2020 Kris Plachy

"Managing" is not very sexy, but management is what gets it done in your business. Kris shares 10 "truths" about entrepreneurial management so you can be aware of them, accept them and move on.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Leading isn't required to manage, but managing is required to lead.
2. How you go, so it goes.
3. You've got to grow or die.
4. It's not supposed to be fun.
5. People will leave you, and you will leave them.
6. Communication is everything.
7. No one will ever care as much as you do.
8. Every year is a new year.
9. Entrepreneurial management is a relationship, not a job.
10. You are not alone.

Visit: The How to Lead Podcast for show notes and available downloads.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

Kris talks with Heather Dominick, the founder and leader of the Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur® movement.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. The key characteristics of an HSE – Highly Sensitive Entrepreneur.
2. The top three HSE shadows and top three HSE strengths.
3. The three HSE Coping Mechanisms.
4. How "shame" fits into the life of an HSE.
5. Why the thought of hiring and managing people is overwhelming to HSEs.
6. How to recognize when you're in the coping cycle and how to shift from coping into creating.
7. The importance of the "element of community."
8. The key practices Heather has in place, as a leader, that help her lead and also stay in integrity with who she is.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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As we prepare to say goodbye to 2019, here's some help for creating a 2020 plan. Let's acknowledge where we've been, where we are and where we're going.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. First download the free workbook here!
2. Some reflective exercises to take a look at this past year.
3. How to take a dive into your current reality.
4. What "My 25" is.
5. About "goal squares" and what they are.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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Reaching the place of entrepreneurial wisdom is an ambitious and worthy goal. Wisdom never leaves you. It's yours. And it's grounded in facts, real tools, and proven strategies that you get to leverage over and over again.

As an entrepreneur, learning how to manage and lead a team involves a transition from being totally self-reliant to learning how to delegate your abilities and results to other people. FYI - it's totally normal to struggle with that.

Are your employees' mistakes and behaviors really affecting your business or are they just annoyances that are driving you crazy? Let's take a look at the difference and a few suggestions for how to address each one.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Take a step back and look at the mistakes employees are making. Is this a real business issue or just annoying?
2. My advice – say to the employee, "This wasn't done right. Here's what my expectation was and still is. Do it again.
3. The differences between things that people do or don't do and behaviors that people do that annoy you.
4. When you address these things in this manner, you are building your business brain.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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Email: [email protected]

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Produced by Podcast Prowess