Stacking Your Team: Growing Teams And Team Building For Female Entrepreneurs | Women In Business | Small Business Owners

Feeling rejected when team members quit is a universal emotion that all business owners go through — especially when it’s unexpected or when it’s your highest performing people who announce their departure. Such a bummer. I get it. Rejection burns, and any kind of team turnover creates work – work finding, replacing, and onboarding someone and then getting them up to speed so that they perform as you hoped they would – it all affects your bottom line and energy level.     Free Resources: Click here to get the advanced leaders assessment. Click here to get the spot your leaders assessment. Click here to GET THE GUIDE and leverage everything you’ve got to attract the very best candidates to join your team. Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter

Here’s what can happen in small business: you hire someone, bring them onboard, show them a few things, tell them A LOT OF things, and then hope they get it after a while. Instead, how about putting together some structure in your small business that helps each person, including new hires, know if they are doing well within their roles? Tune in and hear 5 ways you can help your team know how to win at work.      Apply now to join the NEW Leadership Lab 101 program Free Resources: Click here to get the advanced leaders assessment. Click here to get the spot your leaders assessment. Click here to GET THE GUIDE and leverage everything you’ve got to attract the very best candidates to join your team. Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter

It’s time that the decades-old label of "soft skills," that is slapped onto anything people and communication-related, needs to be ripped off quickly like a bandaid. In today’s episode, we will quickly compare common soft skills and commonly known hard skills. Are you ready to do a personal skills inventory while you hear them?      Apply now to join the NEW Leadership Lab 101 program Free Resources: Click here to get the advanced leaders assessment. Click here to get the spot your leaders assessment. Click here to GET THE GUIDE and leverage everything you’ve got to attract the very best candidates to join your team. Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter

Epic communication fails. Ugh! Everyone has them, some people seem to have them over and over again. Some instances are cringeworthy and yet again, some people rarely mess it up.   That’s what today's episode is all about. How to ensure you don’t damage your working relationships by paying attention and creating new habits for speaking to your team.     Apply now to join the NEW Leadership Lab 101 program Free Resources: Click here to get the advanced leaders assessment. Click here to get the spot your leaders assessment. Click here to GET THE GUIDE and leverage everything you’ve got to attract the very best candidates to join your team. Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter

Want your small team to have a big impact? Size doesn’t matter.  What matters is who’s at the helm, who’s setting the pace, and the direction and the structure of how you get work done. Tune in to hear 3 strategies to ensure your small team can have a big impact when you embrace some foundational leadership tools.      Apply now to join the NEW Leadership Lab 101 program Free Resources: Click here to get the advanced leaders assessment. Click here to get the spot your leaders assessment. Click here to GET THE GUIDE and leverage everything you’ve got to attract the very best candidates to join your team. Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter

How do you ensure that the people in a leadership role are taking on the ownership of growing their own effectiveness to lead? Grab your copy of the Advanced Leader Assessment I share today, and together you and your leaders will be able to agree on how to maintain the impact they’re already having and improve any of the opportunity areas you both identified.     Apply now to join the NEW Leadership Lab 101 program Free Resources: Click here to get the advanced leaders assessment. Click here to get the spot your leaders assessment. Click here to GET THE GUIDE and leverage everything you’ve got to attract the very best candidates to join your team. Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter

Your business is growing, and it’s no secret that you can’t do everything yourself. We need to structure your team so that you can transfer some trust and authority over to a few key team members who can lead people, processes, and profit centers. Let’s start with identifying WHO is ready to take on a new level of responsibility with the assessment I share with you today. Be sure to download your copy of it!      Apply now to join the NEW Leadership Lab 101 program Free Resources: Click here to get the spot your leaders assessment. Click here to GET THE GUIDE and leverage everything you’ve got to attract the very best candidates to join your team. Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter

Leadership is visible. Every chance you get to deepen the connection you have with your team, take it.  Today, I will share some simple and practical strategies you can apply to improve how you show up as a leader who develops people. That style of leading people creates a deeper connection with your team.   While you adopt these actions, you’ll also further develop yourself.       Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter

Leading creative people requires an awareness that they need physical and mental space to allow their ideas to flow. You’ll get their best performance when you provide both, and clients will notice.  If you have creative roles as part of your team structure and operations, you’ll want to hear from Amy Demas, CEO of AD&Co., who joins me today.  She’s stacking a team of creators who thrive to ensure their beauty, fashion, and wellness brands stay relevant in this modern brand-building world.     Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter Connect with Amy Demas: Website Instagram LinkedIn

Your team culture is a big part of what and how you get work done in your business. The larger your team, the more difficult it is to keep your core values and team culture in place. It can get especially challenging when you have multiple locations or if your team is remote. You take core values and team culture seriously, so I’m talking tough with you today and sharing this key move that may sound hard, but you can do it.   Get the Guide and leverage everything you’ve got to attract the very best candidates to join your team.   Apply now to join the Leadership Lab Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter Other Stacking Your Team Episodes Mentioned:  268: What If You Could Reclaim 4 Hours a Week?

You deserve quality time away from your business without fretting about what’s going on. Today’s episode is a mini-training, and it’s accompanied by a workbook that you and your team can use to prepare for your time off.   I encourage you to go through the workbook together with your team reinforcing the strong level of ownership and confidence in their ability to run the business in your absence.     Grab the free workbook at StackingYourTeam.com/timeaway Apply now to join the Leadership Lab Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter Get the Guide and leverage everything you’ve got to attract the very best candidates to join your team.  

I’ve got my bolt cutters ready to snap the lock off and bust you out of the 4 common leadership mindset traps you can find yourself caged in. You may not even remember how you fell into the trap and may not clearly understand how long you’ve been captured. Join me today, and let’s set you free.     Apply now to join the Leadership Lab GET THE GUIDE and leverage everything you’ve got to attract the very best candidates to join your team.   Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter Other Episodes Mentioned: 268: What If You Could Reclaim 4 Hours a Week?

Vita Vygovska is a member of the Leadership Lab who has been leading her micro niche design business for 18 years and I’m here to tell you….she’s in it to win it, and she’s a big deal.  After one dream workspace literally went up in smoke, she sprang into action, rallied her team and family together to recover and has recently rebuilt the ruins of that place into an effective workplace that is both lovely and efficient for both her team and her clients. Vita is the CEO and creative director of the renowned all-inclusive window treatment design studio, Vitalia, Inc. She parlayed her former corporate marketing experience into her growing business and now teaches other window treatment designers how to build their own profitable business. Apply now to join the Leadership Lab enrolling to start July 2023 Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter Connect with Vita Vygovska: Website Instagram Facebook LinkedIn  Other links me

Scaling a complex design firm can be challenging, especially when you’re focused on efficiencies, profitability and consistent client experience.   When you add rapid growth to the mix it’s incredibly important to have a team and a workspace that lends to easily following work processes that become the foundations of everything you do, while not stifling your team’s creativity.   Jenni Egger is the creative CEO of her premier design firm specializing in custom cabinetry and stunning finishes. A pivotal wake-up call in her personal life led her to realize the immediate need to scale her business both in team size and designing a space where everyone would work.    Apply now to join the Leadership Lab enrolling to start July 2023 Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter Connect with Jenni Egger: Website Facebook Instagram LinkedIn  Learn more about BRCA2 positive test results  

A lot of coaches will claim to save you time, but do they actually show you how? On today’s episode, I’m unlocking the secret of getting more time with 3 key strategies that will help you regain 4 hours back into your week.   I’ll also tell you the worst thing you can do that will put you right back into the time trap you were originally suffering from.   Apply now to join the Leadership Lab enrolling to start July 2023 Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter

I’ve seen repeatedly that problems on the perimeter of your large team can be more easily overcome when you have a strong core team. Throughout a myriad of disruptions and distractions, your core team can be the warm blanket that calms everything down in your day-to-day operations.  When you’re facing rapid growth due to high demand it’s essential that you build in more continuity and capacity with a core team.     Apply now to join the Leadership Lab enrolling to start July 2023 Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter Connect with Amanda Hunter: Website Facebook Instagram LinkedIn

Building a Leadership Team to carry out the daily operations while you focus on what only you can do to move the business forward is a winning strategy. But it’s not one that can be thrown together hoping that it will all work out beautifully. No, it takes more than that. Let’s see if you have the capacity to grow with your current team or not by looking at 3 levels of team members that can be found in any team.   Click here to apply to join the Leadership Lab Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter Other links mentioned: Special Announcement Episode Patrick Lencioni - The Table Group  Bruce Tuckman - 1965 Team Development Model

Becoming a trusted partner and key advisor for your clients is the superior reputation and relationship to build over time. Today you’ll meet a member of the Leadership Lab who has done this! Autumn Witt Boyd is a very warm and whip-smart attorney who built a firm that serves many clients that we would describe as celebrities. But you don’t have to be a celebrity online business owner to get the right level of legal support to do things properly. Tune in and you’ll also get some straight-up talk about trademarks and intellectual property protection. Autumn will help you better understand if you need it, or if it is all just hype and vanity.   Click here to apply to join the Leadership Lab Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter Connect with Autumn Witt Boyd: Website Instagram LinkedIn Facebook  Legal Roadmap Podcast Get Your 2023 Legal Report

Finding top talent can feel incredibly hard right now, especially with so many people deciding to change careers altogether. So what can you do when your business provides professional services and you keep growing?  You’ve not only got an immediate demand for qualified candidates, but you’d like to have an easier way to find them each time you need to hire. Join me today as I map out a few ideas for you.   Click here to apply to join the Leadership Lab Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter

If you think owning a well-established business for 10 years means that you can essentially put your operations and team on autopilot and you’ll continue to remain profitable and relevant, you’re wrong.  It takes an intentional strategy to ensure longevity for your next 10 years.  Join me today and meet Jennifer Luna, CEO of TheKindship.com, where she leads 25 team members with 4 brands, 4 locations, wildly popular e-commerce platforms, and an event space to host creative workshops. Click here to apply to join the Leadership Lab Connect with Shelli Warren: Email: leader@stackingyourteam.com Instagram LinkedIn Subscribe to the Stacking Your Team Newsletter Connect with Jennifer Luna: Website Instagram Instagram LinkedIn