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Have you ever wanted to introduce a change to your business that your team wasn’t fully onboard with? Rolling out a full-blown change that isn’t welcomed by everyone in your team puts you in a difficult position. But, if you know in your heart that it’s a necessary change that needs to happen to move your business forward, you shouldn’t let fear stop you.  Shelli’s guest on this episode of Stacking Your Team, Micaela Zettel, knew that something wasn’t quite right in her business. Something was missing. Instead of tiptoeing around the issue, she found the courage to introduce the change she needed to scale her business. After making the decision to change her compensation plan, she took a step back to see who would embrace the change, and who would opt out.  Listen in to hear why Micaela decided to roll out big changes to her compensation plan and how she was able to expand her business using this new structure. You’ll also hear how her team took the news and the impact these changes had on the bottom line.  W

Are you struggling to come up with ideas for your next team retreat? Or, maybe you’ve never hosted a team retreat, and you have no idea where to start? If you can relate, you’ve landed on the right podcast episode!  Listen in to hear Shelli break down the true power of hosting a team retreat, why they’re so important and how the simple act of gathering your team together can go a long way in boosting morale.   If you thought hosting a team retreat would burn a hole in your pocket, think again. There are lots of ways you can host a team event with minimal costs. If you’re ready to repair damaged relationships, foster good ones, and spark an atmosphere where the concept of ONE TEAM is the basis of everything your business does, then tune in.  Let’s get ready to show your team how much they mean to you and your business!  On this episode, you’ll hear…  Why you need to host team retreats  How a team building retreat can help boost brand loyalty  A full list of retreat ideas for every budget  Join the BizChix Co

When you think of an employee manual, you probably think of a rigorous handbook that weighs a ton. But, employee manuals have come a long way since then and can prove to be incredibly useful in our businesses. We often hear of CEO’s in the entrepreneurial world who are reluctant or even fearful of dealing with people issues. Rather than overcoming those fears, they keep them bottled up and stay in the chaotic mode of overwhelm far longer than they should. Little do they know that a lot of their problems can be solved with help from an employee manual that includes a few key HR policies. An employee manual can provide you with the confidence to answer your team’s questions while also empowering your team to discover their own answers inside its pages. On this episode of the podcast, Shelli Warren talks to Niki Ramirez about why an employee manual is one of your most powerful tools as a CEO. Niki is the Founder and Principal Consultant at HRAnswers.org, a firm dedicated to providing progressive, practical human

What’s your immediate response when a team member asks for a raise? Sometimes, the question catches us off guard. Other times, we’re left wondering why they didn’t ask sooner. Whatever the case, the big ‘raise’ question is an important one to have with your team. And, it’s even more important that you respond appropriately so you don’t step on anyone’s toes or respond in a way that you’ll regret later. This episode of the podcast is created with you in mind. As the leader of your business, the weight of the raise question falls on your shoulders. How should you react? What should you say? These are just a few of the questions that’ll run through your mind when you’re put on the spot by one of your team members. Shelli dives into this somewhat uncomfortable topic and reveals five of the most common mistakes that leaders make when a team member asks for a pay raise. By the time you finish listening, you’ll have the confidence and insight you need to make the right decision. Make sure to stay tuned till the very

International Women’s Day is one of my favorite celebrations of the year! International Women’s Day gives us a week-long opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women from around the world. It’s about the unity of women and helps shine a light on our local women leaders who inspire and motivate us to stop doubting ourselves and go after the things we want in our lives and businesses. The first International Women’s Day was held back in 1911. Since then, people from around the globe have come together to recognize, honor and celebrate the remarkable achievements of women. So, in this episode, we’re taking the time to show our love, appreciation, and support to YOU – the ladies who listen to this podcast that are leading every day, in every way. Shelli also reveals how she celebrates this wonderful occasion in her hometown and opens up a much-needed conversation about feminine leadership. Let’s celebrate the amazing women in our lives together! In this episode, you’ll hear all about: How to integrate femi

Welcoming new members to your team is exciting. But, finding the right person for the job can take up a lot of your time. On today’s show, Shelli has an on-air coaching session with Amanda Vaughn, the Founder and Tutoring Director at Connections Academics. Shelli helps Amanda discover new ways that she can move a significant portion of responsibility off her work plan and onto her team. As someone who has grown her business from just two to 35 tutors in a very short space of time, Amanda needs a more streamlined approach when it comes to hiring new talent. She’s always searching for passionate teachers and leaders with a wide range of specialities to join the team. With a growing waitlist looming over her, Amanda needs to expand her team, and fast. So, Shelli shares her wisdom and helps Amanda come up with an in-house recruitment and training system that ensures her pipeline of potential candidates never runs dry. If you’re in the same boat as Amanda and you’re thinking about creating an in-house recruitment

It’s a special day here at BixChix HQ as we celebrate the one year anniversary of the Stacking Your Team podcast! What a year it has been! Thank you to everyone who has tuned in, thank you to all of our guests, and I look forward to recording many more episodes to come. Our goal with the podcast has always been to create a space where CEO’s, like you, can come to learn how to build and lead a team. It can be difficult and overwhelming at the top, which is why I get right down to the basics to help you reduce that overwhelming sense of responsibility that weighs down on you. If you’re a leader who wants some practical insight that’s going to structure your life and bring you out of the state of overwhelm and into a new era of preparation, thoughtfulness, and decisiveness in your position as a leader, then tune in! Let’s overcome overwhelm together! We can do it! In this episode, you’ll discover: How you can reduce calendar chaos and revive your sense of leadership How to overcome decision fatigue and meeting

As the CEO of your business, I know that you would like to maximize your team and free up some space on your calendar? Of course you would. I’m guessing that not only is this challenging for you, but in fact, you probably have to fight for some alone time most of the time. Growing accustomed to doing a lot is just part of the job, right? Well, it doesn’t have to be. In this episode, I go back into my toolbox to share a great tool with you that’s going to help get your life back. Delegation can work miracles in the office. But, you’ve got to know what to delegate and who to delegate those things too. When you listen to this episode, you’ll hear my top tips on delegating successfully. Even if you’re a self-proclaimed control freak, you can leverage the power of delegation to help move your business forward while also giving you some much-needed freedom to focus on the most important tasks at hand. In this episode, you’ll discover: The three core duties you need to embrace as a CEO The importance of knowing how

Do you shy away from giving valuable and constructive feedback to your team? Many CEO’s and managers struggle to confront their team with feedback because they don’t know what to say. But, ongoing constructive feedback is important because it motivates your team to perform better and achieve their full potential. There’s a difference between constructive feedback and plain nagging in an unconstructive and often unhelpful way. So, you’ve got to make sure you find the right balance. Your feedback should support and inspire your team, not degrade or humiliate them.  If you want to learn how you can give your team constructive feedback and find out not only what to say, but when to say it, tune in to this episode of the Stacking Your Team podcast.  Shelli shares how you can develop your team using the simplest way to give feedback and how to create a culture where feedback is not perceived in a negative light and is actually welcome. In this episode, you’ll discover: The simplest way to give constructive feedbac

Do you know what your Enneagram superpower is? Determining your personality type through the Enneagram equips you with a greater understanding of who you are. It helps you to take a step outside of your limited perspective to evaluate your own life while lighting the path to help you overcome your blind spots! If this is your first time hearing about the Enneagram, don’t worry! We’ve invited the wonderful Teresa McCloy onto the show, who is a certified Enneagram coach, speaker and the creator of the REALIFE Process to talk about it in more detail. Teresa turned to the Enneagram tool at a time in her life when she struggled to distinguish the difference between being productive and just plain busy. She used the Enneagram to help her understand the way she thinks, feels, acts, and reacts. Equipped with this knowledge of her true self, she was able to create the REALIFE Process and began integrating this approach of intentional living to all aspects of her life. In this episode, Shelli and Teresa explore the ben

Are you fed up with trying to motivate young people on your team? Are you turned off from even hiring them? Whoa! Slow down, because with 75 Million Millennials on the planet by 2020 they’ll be 46% of the working population. On today’s episode Shelli is sharing some war stories, some wins, and some proven strategies for becoming a leader young people actually want to work with. If you’re ready to consider a few strategies to improve how you connect with them, and not write them off as the un-coachable generation and lean into the fact that we need them then tune in. Get our Free Hiring Resource Bundle https://bizchix.com/hiring Other Links Mentioned: Simon Sinek on Millenials in the Workplace YouTube Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU  

Have you had person after person quit on you? It is so frustrating, time consuming and expensive. It is enough to make you want to give up and be a solopreneur forever. But guess, what? There is a solution and you CAN build a team. It will require you to set your ego aside,  peer into the mirror, and do some self-assessment on what’s really going wrong for you; we can make some adjustments in your leadership style that will reduce and downright eliminate people quitting you. This episode is full of tough love! Get our Free Hiring Resource Bundle Check out our 2019 BizChix Programs Work with Us: One Day Mastermind GrowthChix Accelerator Program ProfitChix Mastermind CEOCHIX Mastermind Strategy Session Join the BizChix Community Listen to The BizChix Podcast This episode first appeared on BizChix.com.

On today’s show we learn how Lisa Woodruff of Organize 365 hired 8 new people in 8 weeks through batch hiring and tapping into her own community.   Come and join me as we chat with Lisa and learn how she implemented a batch hire process that enabled her to continue to scale her business using her extensive experience from direct sales to build an incredible business that just keeps growing.  She also shares about how she is leading her team, setting up systems to help her team be more effective and how they decide what is an emergency in the business and what is not.   In the “Ask me anything” segment Lisa asks for insight on how to recruit and hire as she continues to expand her team without her actually being involved as much as she is today. This is a scary thought for her as she is so invested in building her team.   Get our Free Hiring Resource Bundle   Connect With Lisa Woodruff: is the founder of Organize 365, a business she’s been leading for 7 years.  She’s also the creator of the 100 Day Home Organi

It’s the start of a fresh new year! It’s also the perfect time to SET or RESET expectations with your team.   Today we are going back to basics and re-visiting the foundation of how you get work done in your business. It includes how your team will operate as a group.  How they will behave in good times and bad times. It’s that adult agreement that each person agrees to, aligns themselves tightly to, and uses to remind each other if there is any drift off center. Let’s create a team culture that you and everyone on your team can be proud of.   We are going to lean into setting 4 basic expectations: Using Start Up and Shut Down Checklists   Treating Everyone with Dignity and Respect Confrontation Matters Depth of Engagement   Get our Free Hiring Resource Bundle   Stacking Your Team (SYT) Episodes Mentioned: 33: Five Essential Leadership Strategies You Need to Implement Now 35: How to Host a Weekly Touchpoint Meeting with your Team 34: How to Create an Accountability Action Plan for Your Team   Listen to T

CEOs often wonder, “What can I do to stay more connected with my team’s daily activities?” They do not want to be a micromanager, but they want to be in touch with what’s happening on a day to day basis. These are issues that come up often in my strategy sessions. I get it. You’re busy. You know your role includes leading your team, but you’re just not sure what to do. You wonder if this means having to host more meetings or if there is another way? In this episode, I’m going to crack open my tool box once again to share a simple 3-step tip that will inspire your team to want to connect with you. AND at the same time, it will increase your capability to lead them. You can use this tool when you want to host a weekly touchpoint with your team members that is not as in depth as a quarterly one-to-one meeting, but still super effective. I’ll also share with you what to do with all the “stuff” you’re going to receive by using this tool.   Here are the 3 steps for your touchpoint meeting: Share a Win Share a Chal

What can you do to improve and grow as a leader? You've hired your team, and trained them, now what? Natalie Eckdahl joins Shelli to as they discuss an incredible tool that will help you, the CEO, lead your team better, and provide clarity to you and your team members.   Role. Responsibilities. Results. Requirements. Renewal date. These are the 5 Rs that make up this document. Together, they will help you set your expectations out clearly, and walk people through feedback.   Shelli and Natalie discuss the 5 Rs, including why communicating results to the team member is important, the role of metrics in assessing results, and the idea that this is a living document that should be revisited regularly. Remember: Grey areas are frustrating for team members - the more you can convey your expectations in black and white, the easier it is for people to be able to deliver.   How can you integrate this tool into a formal performance review? How can you use this document if the team member’s performance is high / low? S

You’ve told me that you want more insight, more strategies, and more ways to grow your own leadership capabilities as you grow your business and your team.    On today’s episode we’re going to embrace the fact that you don’t have to be a fortune 50 company to have all the things necessary to succeed.  As CEO of your business, you can put into practice those proven corporate team leadership strategies today and watch the transformation begin. I’m going to share with you some of my favorite lessons learned over the many years serving a fortune 50 company and how YOU too can take advantage of their proven practices in your own business.   I’ll give you the lesson, share HOW to put the lesson into play in your business, and convince you why you’d even want to and BONUS! I’ll share a BizChix community example with you.   5 Leadership Lessons from Fortune 50 Corporation People are your greatest asset Leadership starts with you Always be creating high performing teams Invest in continual improvement Adopt agility a

How much does it really cost to hire a new team member? How do employees impact the bottom line of the business? On today’s show Shelli features our community member Hannah Smolinski, Founder of BrightenUp Financial.   Shelli and Hannah share the common money fears we hear most often about hiring.  They also open up the conversation about one-time costs versus onboarding costs and touch on what every CEO needs to think about in terms of how their employees are impacting revenues, even if they are in a role that is not traditionally considered sales.   Get your free download of Hannah’s “Cost of Employee” spreadsheet that she uses with her clients to better forecast spending that clearly shows the actual monthly costs of each employee here.   BrightenUp Financial helps small business owners by helping them become more financially efficient and profitable. We offer CFO services for small businesses, and that includes financial management, planning, analysis, and strategic services that go above and beyond tradi

Which tools should you use for the most effective communication within your team? How can technology support your business and save you time and energy? On today’s show, Shelli features our community member Jaime Slutsky, Founder of The Tech of Business.     Jaime shares her thoughts on a variety of tech tools that are available to the small business owner to help streamline her processes and impact the effectiveness of her team.   Options for the following tools are discussed:   Appointment Bookings Team Communication Calendars Email Campaigns Document Storage Project Management Event Tickets Subscription Box Sales   Jaime Slutzky integrates software systems for creative and out of the box entrepreneurs (so that they can spend their time and energy creating content and engaging with their clients.) She thrives by removing tech as a barrier to letting her clients’ visions shine through.   Jaime hosts the Tech of Business podcast where she showcases the role of software and technology in businesses of every

Have you ever thought of hosting a large event?  On today’s episode we share the behind the scenes of BizChix Live 2018 with CEO Natalie Eckdahl and Tiffanie Jordan, Executive Assistant.    BizChix Live 2018 was incredible and we wanted to show you the structure of the TEAM that helped create our annual leadership conference for women entrepreneurs held in Irvine California each November. Over 140 women joined us from 8 countries and 34 states. The conference provided intermediate to advanced trainings, implementation time, and another epic workbook filled with over 100 pages of worksheets. Shelli, Natalie and Tiffanie share their learnings and some fun insight on the many people who came together to help host BizChix Live 2018.   The BixChix Team The Stage Team The Volunteers The Vendors The Hotel Irvine Team Get your Virtual Ticket that includes your digital workbook. Connect With Shelli Warren: Work with Shelli Connect with Shelli on LinkedIn Connect with Shell on Instagram Connect with Shelli on Facebo