Julie reveals a few key elements that you can implement fairly quickly to help your key employees become leaders in your business. And remember, the term “key employee” could also mean a really important contractor or your entire leadership team.
Sometimes business owners get into a swirl and a spin. There are many decisions to be made. Many lives that could be impacted by those decisions. In this episode, Julie shares a story about being in that overwhelmed space, and how her key employee said one sentence that helped pull Julie out of it. In this reflective podcast, Julie also shares how important these statements are to being a leader of leaders.
They Don’t Teach This in Business School is a podcast where our award-winning host, Julie Bee discusses the behind-the-scenes realities of being a business owner. As a part of each episode, she talks about lessons learned on the business owner journey, that only experience can teach and this week, Julie has a conversation with William McKee, Founder and a Managing Partner at Knowmad Digital Marketing. William founded Knowmad to pursue his passion of helping clients to use the web and digital technologies more effectively. In today’s business climate, digital marketing is it is constantly changing and it's always about figuring out what that next space is to move into or how to go about moving into that space. William’s primary role at Knowmad is around sales and ensuring that they’re bringing in the revenue to support the ever-growing team and evolving team. One of the most important items William would recommend business schools teach their students is how important it is for leaders to groom and mold employees to be the best of their ability.
The right people make business owners happy. The right seats on the right bus are what make your staff happy. If you want to keep your best employees, sometimes you must change their seats (and maybe even their bus).
Learn about the three individuals business owners need in their support networks, and why it's important to build this network. Being a business owner can be lonely, and it's important to have a support network around you.
Every leader and manager’s dream is to have a team of capable, self-reliant individuals who answer their own questions on a regular basis. Who can make judgement calls without bringing them to their boss. Here's some advice for the key employees and the boss.
Business schools teach what organization charts are, how they are used, the different types, and how to fill them out. But you know what business owners can only learn through experience – how to communicate and work with the people who fill the org chart. In this episode, Julie shares some resources to help the top of the org chart (that’s you, business owner) better communicate with the people who fill them.
Most leaders and business owners are big-picture thinkers. They can see the end result but often have a hard time getting to that end result. Often, there is one key role those big-picture thinkers need to turn their ideas into a reality.
There are three questions that each team member and employee should be able to answer about your business and their role in it. As a business owner and a leader of leaders, it's important that you train your team to be focused on these three questions.
A decision most successful business owners face.
