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The Formula 1 Netflix series is about so much more than cars and racing, and in this episode, Amy is going to prove that to you. She has learned A LOT from the show as a personal brand, entrepreneur, and team leader, and now she's sharing some of the best key takeaways. In this episode, she gives you 6 principles from the show focused on mindset, team dynamics, leadership, and fear of failure that you can apply in your life or business. Read the recap of the episode: go to www.fastforwardamy.com/78. If you want 29 of Amy's best success principles to implement in your business today, download the Business Bible at: www.fastforwardamy.com/businessbible.
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Parenting, coaching, and building a team are not that different. At least that's what Amy has come to realize after taking on a new role as a plus mom. In this episode, she opens up and shares several parenting and leadership lessons she has learned over the past year and answers some of the questions she has received on Instagram about being a plus mom. She shares 5 lessons learned that have been extremely helpful to navigate (plus) parenting land and to make everyone in the house feel much more at ease. Read the recap of the episode: go to www.fastforwardamy.com/77. Download Amy's Books at www.fastforwardamy.com/amysbooks.
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Did you know there are four massive mistakes most online business owners and entrepreneurs make when it comes to building a team?
If you’ve been in business for a while, chances are you’ve made some of these hiring and onboarding mistakes too without even realizing it. But not to worry.
Inside today’s episode, I’m walking you through what you need to perfect your interview process, hiring process, and onboarding process so you know exactly what steps to take — and mistakes to avoid — when it comes to making your first (or next) hire.
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If you’re like most online business owners, your business started with just you.
You doing the writing and you creating the graphics. You building your website, setting up your marketing strategy, figuring out how to create a Facebook ads campaign, and managing your social media accounts. You acting as customer service and bookkeeper and tech support.
And this could have gone on for years, with you doing everything.
Eventually, this shifts. You make enough consistent revenue or get enough clients to hire some help. And you now have a team.
But does that mean you’re actually allowing people to help you as much as they can once you build your team?
In my experience... No.
When I first started managing online course launches, I had a team of 10 to delegate to. Every capacity filled: Admin, customer service, copywriter, graphic designers, community manager, tech support…
With a team this size, and with everyone in their niche role, you would think it would be easy to delegate. But in the middle of a launch, in the middle of all the chaos and last minute changes, and even in the months during planning in the pre-launch phase…
I would tell myself things that I later realized were extremely common among multi-talented online entrepreneurs:
(These are lies that were holding me back, by the way)
Usually there are areas so outside of your expertise as a business owner that you can easily delegate them. Maybe the tech and graphics aren’t your strong suit so you delegate those every 👏 single 👏 time 👏. But there are usually 1 to 2 areas that you’re pretty good at, maybe even great at, that you’re putting off delegating to other people because of the learning curve or impatience.
I’m here today to tell you that: THIS IS HOLDING YOU BACK!
As humans, there are a lot of things we’ll do to procrastinate on the hard or uncomfortable stuff. We’ll avoid things that could take us to the next level and free up our time, because we don’t want to do them ourselves, and we’re too afraid to let someone else do them...
(And I know it can be hard to let go of all the extra work when your self-worth is attached to being busy or a hard worker or a hustler. But reminder: you’re worthy because you’re alive.)
Maybe you think I’m going too much into this. But understanding why you’re not delegating certain tasks, or why you’re choosing to do everything yourself, is important.
You need to know that, yes, your employees won’t be able to do certain things as well as you can in the beginning.
It will take them longer to do it.
It’ll take time to teach them how to do it.
And it will take you time to correct them and fix errors.
But the time you put into delegating and teaching is not wasted. It’s an investment.
An investment in a future where your team supports you and is even better at tasks than you are.
Can you believe in that potential?
Each time you teach a member of your team to do something you usually do yourself, you’re buying future time. You’re buying time for yourself when you don’t have to do that thing anymore. Buying time to do you things that only you can do, things that will up level your business.
Like...
Creating the vision, connecting with the soul of your business, opening up potentials & portals of expansion...
...while your team ensures your business runs smoothly.
Does delegating seem more like it’s worth it now?
Good. Now, let’s get on to how we actually do it.
Every time a task comes up that’s not in your zone of genius, commit to delegating it. Even when you don’t feel like it.
Start with those super common repetitive tasks that you don’t like doing. This will free up your time and energy to delegate more of your business, and it will free up more and more of your time for more important things - whether that’s a time for your business, travel, or just playing with your tarot deck.
Create step-by-step instructions that are documented and can be referred to again and again. This can be in a Google Doc, this can be with Loom — any tool you want to use that will physically document how you do it.
Don’t assume your team knows anything. Include links, passwords, examples, templates. These will become your Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
The future phase of this will be making these so detailed that someone off the street could do what you want just by reading your directions. This may sound stupid or unnecessary, but you’re setting your business up to run without you. AKA, it will give you the freedom you dreamed of when you started your business in the first place.
For smaller tasks, this is a simple due date. For more complicated tasks this may be deadlines for different versions of drafts or different phases of a project.
If your team doesn’t know what success looks like then they won’t be able to give you what you want. Define your key outcomes and make your desired result clear.
Don’t just set a deadline and assume that your team will hit it.
Especially in the beginning: remind remind remind. Send an email or Voxer a few days beforehand asking the status of a project and if they think they’ll get it done in time.
This will help ensure everyone is on the same page.
Especially when you’re getting started with delegating, you probably aren’t explaining things as clearly and step-by-step as your team needs. That means you actually have to be easy to get a hold of to answer questions.
Remember, your team is there to support you, and they want to support you. So you need to set them up for success by answering the questions that they have.
If they do it wrong, don’t just redo it yourself. Even though you’ll be very very tempted to do this.
Give feedback on how you’d actually like it to be. This is an important step of the process, not just for your team but also for you to learn how to delegate better. Because if you delegated it perfectly the first time, they’d have already done it perfectly 😜
Of course, a key component to all of this is that you need to be open to being supported. Your team needs to have the opportunity, time, and space to get the job done.
You’ll be tempted to disappear into your office alone and get everything done yourself. Don’t do it!
Be open to having the support of your team. If you find that you have a lot of inner push-back against the idea of other people “doing your job” or assisting you, take time to meditate on and think deeply about why that is. And then change it. Your business will thank you & all of the additional people you can serve by being able to SCALE your business will thank you too.
Delegating is a choice, and it will get easier once you begin to consistently choose to do it. At first it might feel like an upward climb for you and your time, with all the new SOPs and documents you have to get together, but in the long run it will transform your business for the better.
After all, when it’s time to scale your business, having these instructions ready to go will make your life much easier.
With enough practice, your team will know exactly what you want. And they’ll begin to consistently give that to you.
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This week on the podcast, I am joined by a very special guest. I’m so happy to welcome Alex Charfen, my coach and mentor, who’s helped me scale my Credit Repair Cloud team to over 70 employees and build an empire.
Alex is renowned in the entrepreneurial world for helping people scale and grow their business. In fact, our current processes and systems are entirely based on his brilliant training and programs.
For the last 20 years, Alex has been working on guiding entrepreneurs to better business. With remarkable success, I may add!
Today he’s working with hundreds of businesses worldwide and helping them make their greatest contribution.
So if you’ve started a credit repair business, but just can’t seem to figure out the next step, you HAVE TO listen to this episode!
Trust me, when it comes to scaling your business to a new level, there’s no better person to turn to than Alex Charfen.
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The forming–storming–norming–performing model of group development was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965, who said that these phases are all necessary and inevitable in order for the team to grow, face up to challenges, tackle problems, find solutions, plan work, and deliver results.
It is an effective guide for leaders wishing to develop a team, improve team performance or understand their role in team achievements. By providing experiences that allow the team members to move through the stages of development a leader can be assured they will produce a unified team.
The underlying themes of trust and respect permeate this model and all models of team building. Without these two foundational pieces a group will not become a highly effective team.
Building trust is a leaders primary objective when developing high performing teams. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, The Neuroscience of Trust, scientist, author and speaker, Paul J Zak found that people employed at high trust companies reported 74% less stress, 106% more energy at work, 50% higher productivity, 13% fewer sick days, 76% more engagement, 29% more satisfaction with their lives and 40% less burnout.
Leaders can develop trust by respectfully being interested in their teams long term goals, prioritising face to face communications and providing direct and regular feedback.
Learn more in episode 10 of Leadership on the run.
In today's episode, Jennifer Drabble, Director of Product & Data Science at Barclays, will talk more about creating Product & Data Science Team and how to build multi-skilled team in large and diverse organisation like Barclays.
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