The CEO Sage

Leaders today are so fearful of confrontation and giving feedback that they're not holding employees accountable. Here's the big mistake we all make, and how to keep it from being a drag on your business.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Accountability is your ability to account for someone else's ability.
2. If we, collectively, as business leaders, decided to consistently account for our employees' ability, we would change the world.
3. People who don't care or want to be held accountable don't hate you. They don't like the transparency of witnessing their own inadequacy.
4. Age is not related to accountability. It's experience, and it's the way people think.
5. The first mistake we all make is hiring someone and assuming they'll hold themselves accountable.
6. Thinking about hiring someone to solve a problem is the seed of accountability. Once you know what the solution looks like, now you know the role that position must fill.
7. Accountability is not a corporate thing – it's a relationship thing.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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Gossip is "talking to anyone about anything who doesn't have any control to solve it." It's destructive to your business, and here are the foundational tools you need to fix it.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Why you have to know what your values are in your business. Listen to the previous podcast called "Entrepreneurial Values" here.
2. The importance of setting expectations based on your values.
3. How a company manifesto and a team book (not a policy book) can help.
4. If you have all of that in place, and you still have an issue – you have an accountability gap.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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If you feel exhausted and impatient, it could be burnout. But your burnout is not because of your business. Burnout comes from your brain. Here are 5 things that are likely causing your burnout.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Burnout comes from your brain, and your body follows your brain. What are you indulging in your mind?
2. Another cause of burnout is lack of decisions. Kris' coach used to say, "Do it. Dump it. Delegate it." Right now.
3. Burnout comes from overworking in unproductive effort.
4. Your lack of boundaries is also another cause of burnout. You're too available.
5. Another, you're buffering. Entrepreneurs use their businesses to avoid feeling things.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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Kris talks with Eleanor Beaton, founder of Fierce Feminine Leadership, an organization that helps ambitious women develop the confidence, presence, political savvy and influence they need to smash the glass ceiling.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. One of the most important factors for a leader is embarrassability.
2. What Eleanor thinks makes a great team. "For me, the thing that threads a team together is this sense of trust in one another." – Eleanor
3. A great team is a group of men and women who also challenge our sense of who we are and cause that to expand. I have found as I brought people into my team, that they have their own zones of genius and that allows me to continue to withdraw from certain areas and focus on a smaller area that has broader impact. – Eleanor
4. Eleanor's vision.
5. "I love the men! I coach men! I love the men! But women lead differently." – Kris Plachy
6. "Delegation does give you time… eventually." – Kris Plachy
7. "As soon as you have the right team, everything is exponentially better." – Kris Plachy
8. "To do consistent effort over time, we have to be able to rest and catch our breath through the hard things." – Eleanor
9. "Don't worry if your body shakes, it's just weakness leaving your body." - Kris' yoga instructor

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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We recently looked at when to fire a team member. This episode is about when NOT to fire a team member. It's a step by step thought process and it's NEVER easy.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. First, you have to do the audit.
2. Second – question your reason. Are you in a position of emotional reaction to what someone is doing?
3. Third – ask your business. Would you apply this decision to fire this person to anyone else on your team or is it just this person? Would you be consistent.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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Finish this sentence – "I will finally feel relief when …" What is that "thing" that, when finally achieved, will cause the overwhelm and stress to end for you? Good news! Here's how to feel the joy sooner rather than later.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Relief doesn't come from the "thing," it comes from the way that you think.
2. If you're telling yourself that there is relief out there "when," then you're setting up a tension between where you are today and where you think the relief exists. That just sets you up to be uncomfortable chronically.
3. Of the five relationships you must develop as an entrepreneur, the relationship with your brain is the most powerful and least utilized performance tool.
4. Your exercise is to answer the question – what are you telling yourself right now is your relief point?

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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Here are the basics you have to have in place in order to know when to fire someone and when NOT to fire someone.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. #1 – Set clear expectations.
2. #2 – Review their work.
3. #3 – Give them feedback.
4. The way you know it's time to fire is you've set the expectations, you've reviewed their work and given them the feedback and they're just not meeting the objectives of the role.
5. The way you know it's not time to fire is when you're bent out of shape and in total judgement.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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Are you having unsupervised thinking? You're not alone. Many of those thoughts are probably negative in some way. Here's a list of thoughts you can think instead.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Your business is hard because YOU THINK IT IS!
2. Things to think instead:
   • I'm getting better at it every day.
   • Look at what I've built.
   • I'm in the process of figuring it out. A la Danielle LaPorte
   • Of course it happened that way.
   • I'm totally capable.
   • I can and will ask for help.
   • I'm not alone.
   • I'm really good at failing so I can succeed.
3. The worthiness of you is always innate. It doesn't go away. You've always had it and you can never lose it.
4. Comparing thoughts is detrimental. Other people's wins don't compromise yours.
5. What would your future self tell you to do and what to think about this?
6. Write down all the things you're thinking that aren't helping.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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Typically, it's a bad idea to make assumptions. But in this one case, I want you to always assume this one thing! It will be better for you, your business and your employees.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Always make this assumption – when someone on your team doesn't do what you want, I want you to assume it's your responsibility.
2. When we see someone not do something the way we thought they should do it, it's human nature to blame them for it.
3. Blame creates lag.
4. You need to make sure you:
   • Have a clear vision for the business
   • Have clear values
   • Have clear expectations for every team member. Common sense is not common.
   • Are delegating and not abdicating
   • Are following up with people and looking at their results
   • Are giving feedback

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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If you are a female entrepreneur, and you're either in, or considering getting into, a partnership or working relationship with your spouse, there are some absolute fundamentals we need to address.

What you'll find in this episode:

1) A marriage operates very differently than a business.

2) You need to have clearly defined roles in the business for each of you.

3) You need to have a clear definition of who does what and who owns what and what decisions each of you make.

4) You have to decide how you will communicate and have a scheduled, dedicated assigned time and a clear agenda; no after-hours discussions.

5) You have to talk about how you're going to disagree; decide what the process will be.

6) You have to have clear values, a clear vision and a clear manifesto.

7) You have to have a conversation about how you want to be as leaders and managers of this business.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

Visit: KrisPlachy.com Email: [email protected] Kris on Facebook @KrisPlachy on Twitter @krisplachycoach on Instagram Kris on LinkedIn Produced by Podcast Prowess