Visionary CEO Podcast – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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It All Comes Down To This

Saison 1 · Épisode 10

mercredi 10 mars 2021 • Durée 31:15

About This Episode

You need to step out of your own way as the visionary CEO of your business. To do that, you need to step into your leadership mindset. Breanne and Jill reveal how applying team leadership, client leadership, and self-leadership consistently at every step of the Academy framework will deliver the results and outcomes necessary to scale your business. In this episode, you will understand how leadership interweaves at every point of this season's Visionary CEO Podcast.

Key Takeaways

[3:23] We need to apply what we have learned over the last nine episodes so that we don't get in our own way.

[4:53] Math problems vs. drama problems.

[9:40] The answer to drama problems isn't mysterious, it’s leadership.

[10:58] Team leadership.

[13:55] Client leadership.

[18:02] Self-leadership.

[24:07] It all comes down to this: The work you have done scaling your core offer, scaling your delivery model, aligning your team, and the Visionary Pyramid – it’s all about leadership and getting out of your own way!

[28:15] You’re invited to the Visionary CEO Academy.

[29:22] We’ll see you in Season 2. Get ready to take your business to the next level!

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We're Back! Kicking Off Season 2

Saison 2

mercredi 7 avril 2021 • Durée 05:35

About This Episode

Using examples from real-life case studies featuring our amazing clients, we take the lessons you learned from season one into season two of the Visionary CEO Podcast. We will be focusing on three common problems that we find people encounter as they go through the promotion process to becoming a Visionary CEO: organizing teams, time management, and promoting yourself up the Visionary Pyramid. Let's dive into the details of what to look for when applying the knowledge we gained in season one to your business.

Key Takeaways

[0:16] We’re back! Did you miss us?

[4:53] Season Two sneak peek: tangible examples and how it applies to your business.

[4:31] Topics this Season: time, teams, and promoting yourself.

[5:13] First episode drops next week!

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The Thing About Time

Saison 2 · Épisode 1

mercredi 14 avril 2021 • Durée 29:52

About This Episode

When it comes to time, it's really more about priorities than about time itself. Breanne and Jill introduce you to a method they call the "Apocalypse List" to help you figure out your priorities. Plus, learn the most effective way to block your time so you're kind to your future self. Listen to this episode of the Visionary CEO Podcast to see how to find time to create the systemic and structural changes you need to reduce the number of items on your to-do list.

Key Takeaways

[2:35] Time is the number one challenge business owners face when they come to us.

[4:25] What do you do when you know time is your problem, but you don’t have the time to fix it?

[6:56] What should you be prioritizing? Start with the “Apocalypse List”.

[10:46] Time-blocking done the right way – be kind to your future self!

[17:41] The key isn't to manage time, it's to manage energy.

[23:53] Setting and maintaining boundaries.

[27:51] In our next episode, we're going to be talking with one of our clients as a case study who implemented these time management techniques and sharing those results.

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A Conversation with Keila Hill-Trawick

Saison 2 · Épisode 2

mercredi 21 avril 2021 • Durée 30:38

About This Episode

Keila Hill-Trawick joins us this week for a conversation about time and how she was able to get more of it in her business. In this case study, Keila demonstrates how focusing her core offer and aligning her team brought more time into her accounting firm. By building the foundations learned in Visionary CEO Academy, she now has the flexibility to take time off during weekends and the year. Her team has also found empowerment during the process, further adding to Keila’s bank of time. Learn how Keila was able to do it on this episode of the Visionary CEO Podcast.

Key Takeaways

[1:00] Meet today’s guest Keila Hill-Trawick, owner of Little Fish Accounting, a CPA firm serving online businesses across the country with accounting and financial guidance.

[3:54] Keila’s struggle with time: working too many hours each day, burned out, and exhausted. Sound familiar?

[6:00] Making the changes by building in time-off and times of business closure, and the positive effects on the team.

[8:57] Keila was able to make these changes by focusing her core offer down and narrowing it down to what created a sense of partnership with her clients.

[11:51] How Keila is leading her clients and giving them responsibility in the relationship.

[15:59] Empowering the team - Keila brought her team into alignment and accelerated productivity and gained time for everyone.

[19:50] The entrepreneurial journey isn’t about SOP’s and processes, it’s about the mindset and foundations that you build moving up the visionary pyramid.

[25:20] Actionable advice from Keila: if you want to make changes to your time management, be intentional with how you treat your relationship with time.

[28:50] Next episode we’ll debrief this conversation and give you tips on how you can apply some of what Keila talked about to other kinds of businesses.

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How You Can Get More Time

Saison 2 · Épisode 3

mercredi 28 avril 2021 • Durée 32:16

About This Episode

Breanne and Jill dig into Keila's case study from the previous episode to glean some lessons that can be applied to a larger set of businesses. Keila shared with us three key elements for gaining control of how time flows in her business: creating partnerships with her clients, empowering her employees to collaborate, and stepping into a leadership role. Listen to the Visionary CEO Podcast to find out how you can apply the same principles to your business so that you have more time flexibility and keep yourself out of the day-to-day weeds.

Key Takeaways

[00:00] Thoughts on the recent Derek Chauvin trial verdict and Breanne reads attorney Desiree Attaway’s statement, followed by a moment of silence for all Black lived ended too early.

[4:13] Today we dig into Keila’s case study from the last episode to pull out some of the lessons to help apply them to a broader set of businesses.

[6:57] Creating partnerships with your clients.

[8:39] Putting some of the work back on the client - the difference between the guiding hand and the leading hand.

[12:01] Why you need the opportunity to fail.

[13:09] Minimize obstacles so long as it doesn't negatively impact the outcome – your clients need to be challenged to learn.

[15:31] Getting your team members to ask the question, “How can I do better?” so that the business gets better.

[16:39] Leadership’s role is to remove obstacles that are preventing your team from doing their best work.

[25:01] Stepping into leadership and putting boundaries in place for how you manage and budget your time and knowing when to say no.

[30:14] Next time, we’ll be covering the thing about teams and delegation.

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The Thing About Team

Saison 2 · Épisode 4

mercredi 5 mai 2021 • Durée 30:36

About This Episode

When you empower your teams with ownership, the real magic happens. It is true ownership when your team members understand what is best for the business and want to learn how to make better decisions on their own, freeing you from bottlenecking the process. When Breanne and Jill show you what authentic team empowerment looks like for your business, you may learn that you were doing it wrong. In this week's episode of the Visionary CEO Podcast, find out how to empower your team to avoid feeling burnt out.

Key Takeaways

[3:01] The thing about teams - giving ownership to team members. I thought that’s what I was doing but I’m still working too hard and making too many decisions. What am I doing wrong?

[3:47] How teams get bottlenecked: the dogwalker scenario or the hub and spoke scenario.

[7:32] What team ownership looks like, illustrated with an example.

[14:16] When expectations are not met, resist jumping in and fixing it. Give your team members ownership by performing a gap analysis to see where a mismatch in expectations or lack of clarity exist.

[19:37] Giving your team ownership is a skill: learning to lead our team members, learning to communicate with them, and learning to set expectations.

[20:23] What true ownership means.

[27:07] Ownership perception: you are responsible for making sure your team is empowered, not responsible for how they execute.

[27:59] Join us next time for a conversation with a client’s manager, who was both empowered and able to empower other team members with powerful results.

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A Conversation with Jeni Bee

Saison 2 · Épisode 5

mercredi 12 mai 2021 • Durée 30:38

About This Episode

We talked with Jeni Bee about how she rejected the typical top-down management styles and opted for team ownership and empowerment in its place. She managed a group of contractors into a seamless team by aligning on communication, building culture, and removing the owner from the sole decision-making process. This led to a highly motivated and productive team, a fun and inspiring work environment, and a management position open for strategic roles rather than micromanagement. Learn how Jeni made the transition on this episode of the Visionary CEO Podcast.

Key Takeaways

[2:24] Jeni Bee joins us for a conversation about management and giving teams ownership – how she transitioned from a self-employed copywriter consultant to an employed management position.

[6:49] Why Jeni went from a contractor with her current employer to a full-time employed manager, why the switch made sense for her, and why it may make sense for you to ask your best contractors if they would consider making the same switch inside your business.

[9:59] Assembling the team and establishing communication systems, a sense a culture, and alleviating the owner from being the centralized hub for decision-making.

[16:48] Jeni explores how she was able to take ownership and then be able to give ownership to her team as well, and how that was different from how she had been managed in the past.

[20:16] If Jeni is trying to be an anti-patriarchal, decolonization of work-type manager, where does she spend her time as a manager? Breanne wants to know! She’s freed-up to be more strategic.

[22:59] Letting your team members work in their zone of genius.

[24:47] Jeni’s message to CEOs and founders as a manager of a high-performing team.

[28:25] Next time, we’ll be looking at how you can apply some of what Jeni has learned and is doing to both take ownership and give ownership to your team members in your own business.

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How To Empower Your Team

Saison 2 · Épisode 6

mercredi 19 mai 2021 • Durée 30:11

About This Episode

The secret to super-profitable teams is to build a culture that empowers and creates efficiency. We learned from Jeni Bee last week that she accomplished this by effective management. Her managerial role was that of a facilitator and learner, not a dictator; Jeni inspired and empowered her high-performing team. In this episode of the Visionary CEO Podcast, Breanne and Jill discuss how you can use Jeni's management techniques to give your team ownership in your online business.

Key Takeaways

[2:21] What it means to manage in a way that doesn't turn you into a dictatorial jerk – allowing your team members to operate in their zones of genius in a way that is multiplicative.

[5:12] Debriefing Jeni Bee’s conversation from last episode: Why transfer of ownership fails; was a space for ownership created?

[7:59] How Jeni was able to create space for her team’s ownership.

[9:52] Jeni’s job as a manager was amplified by putting herself in a learning mindset with her team members.

[13:01] Getting the team to work together so all of the work doesn’t have to filter through the manager.

[18:16] Be human with your team and set a regular communications rhythm to get to know and care about your team members.

[22:53] Getting the team to know each other.

[27:57] Next time, we’ll be looking at what you want your job description to look like and what do you want to promote yourself to?

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