The CEO Sage

There's a misguided belief among entrepreneurs that team building should be fast and easy and that you shouldn't have to slow down to do it. However, if you're trying to cut corners here, it will be obvious in your outcomes.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Do you feel like Kris' client? "I feel like adding people to my business is slowing me down."
2. If you take the time and do it right, you can magnify the effort of your business through 10 people instead of just one.
3. Investing in your human capital isn't unique to you. It's the same across all industries.
4. There's a right way to invest in, and develop, the human capital part of your business.

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What do your employees say about working for you? Do they say, "she's a beast" or do they say, "I feel like I won the lottery"? Here are some things to consider when thinking about your employees' experience of working with you.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. If you treat your employees like you treat your clients, you're going to get the most out of them.
2. Think about who are you as a leader and how you act with your employees.
3. How do you want them to experience various things like a performance review, getting an assignment or not meeting an expectation?

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Kris talks with Ruthie Schulder, CEO of The Participation Agency and one of Inc. Magazine's top 100 female founders. Here she shares many of the challenges she has faced managing people and one thing people need to know in order to have the best chance at succeeding.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. What Ruthie believes was the most startling part of hiring people.
2. What Ruthie considers to be her greatest challenge.
3. When it comes to how you want people to get their work done, this approach is the one female visionaries are most uncomfortable with.
4. Let's Work events occur every month in New York, quarterly in Los Angeles and are rolling out soon in Chicago.
5. One thing Ruthie feels people need to know in order to have the best chance at succeeding.

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These are the five key relationships every female entrepreneur has. And as she scales her business, she may find that one or more of these becomes an issue. That's totally normal and part of the process. Here's what to do.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. The five key relationships are with: time, money, your team, your business, and yourself.
2. Which relationship most entrepreneurs are terrible at.
3. Whether or not you have a "servant leader relationship" with your employees.
4. Your business is outside of you. There's you and there's the business.
5. Everything requires brain-keeping.

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What's your vision for your business? Do you have to look it up - or is it short and sweet and fits on a bumper sticker? Here are some tips for what your vision statement should look like and how to create one.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. How I came up with my vision "sentence" - "She changed the way that people think."
2. Examples of some great vision statements.
3. For your vision statement, make sure: you really understand it, you can translate it into business results, it's well communicated, it can fit on a bumper sticker.
4. Lastly - live the vision!

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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Once you reach that one-million-dollar mark, you can't rely on revenue to tell you how well you're doing as a leader. You have to start using other methods that create a foundation for how you scale, manage and grow your business.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Most of us hit points where our revenue exceeds our ability to scale and overwhelm sets in.
2. The two expectations we have in our brain related to revenue and confidence.
3. When it's time to work with a coach to start learning the fundamentals you need to have as a manager.
4. What to look for to tell you how you're doing at managing your business.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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Values are the rudder for your business and have to be an extension of you. There are no right or wrong values. They just need to be honest, because values determine who you hire.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Start by asking yourself, "What do I value in other people?" Do a brain dump. Start big and pare it down to three.
2. What happens when you hire people who don't align with your values.
3. Once you've determined your values, then you need to communicate them to the team.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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As an entrepreneur, your brain is the directional force for everything that does or does not happen in your business. If your brain gets messy and cluttered, so does your business. Let's do a little brain-keeping today!

What you'll find in this episode:

1. The Thought Model and how it affects your ability to grow and love your business.
2. How decision fatigue, control imbalance, mistaken tolerance and over-importance affect the cleanliness and tidiness of your brain.
3. Why you need a coach or colleague to help you dump the weight you're carrying around of a very messy brain.
4. How to know if you're in need of some brain-keeping.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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Kris talks with Jennifer Hood, owner and director of Jump Gymnastics. Jennifer was exhausted and struggling with performing most of the roles in her business. Now that has turned around and Jen shares advice on how she was able to maximize results with people.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. The first thing that Jen learned that helped her be engaging from a leadership and management perspective.
2. A valuable tip for other women out there who are doing well on paper but who are still struggling in the people aspects of their business.
3. How her team responded to all the changes.
4. The top three bits of advice for other women out there who want to maximize their results with people.

© 2019 Kris Plachy

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What's your relationship with money? There's no right or wrong way to think about it, but the way we think about money does impact the results that we get related to money.

What you'll find in this episode:

1. Be clear about why you started your business.
2. What is your relationship with your money?
3. Do you have symptoms of reverse entitlement?
4. Exercise: Make a list of all your employees and write down how much money you pay them. How does that amount make you feel about each?
5. There's your money and the business's money. Do you keep them separate?

© 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