
How to have effective team meetings, with Danny Hadas
07/01/22 • 39 min
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Team meetings are an integral part of every business. They're a venue for your employees to bond, exchange ideas, and collaborate to help hit your business goals.
They also give you, the founder, a transparent platform to share news, updates, and plans about the business and your industry, and to give and receive feedback.
But sadly, not everyone is excited to attend team meetings. Many employees whine and gripe about how meetings are often boring, unnecessary ("this meeting could have been an email!"), and a black hole sucking their time and productivity into oblivion.
When done wrong, "bad meetings" can lead to feelings of isolation, lower employee morale, or even a big drop in sales.
So what do you need to do to get meetings right? What skills should you have as a leader, and what structure should be in place to ensure that you'll have productive team meetings that will motivate your team?
In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, our guest Danny Hadas breaks down the importance of team meetings and how to structure them to the benefit of your growing business.
We'll discuss how holding meetings will not only foster a sense of collaboration, teamwork, and camaraderie amongst your employees but also have a direct effect on your business finances as well.
Danny Hadas is an entrepreneur and former advisor to the world’s most iconic brands. He is also a #1 best-selling author, and his work has impacted millions of people across 500+ companies worldwide, including Disney, BMW, and AT&T. As the founder of The Emovation Project, Danny teaches service-based small businesses how to double their revenue without doubling their effort using Minimalist Leadership.
In this week's episode, we discuss:
03:03 What happens in businesses that don't have regular team meetings?
04:22 How often should you have team meetings?
06:40 How do you effectively communicate to your team that there will now be regular meetings so they see it as a good thing versus feeling micromanaged?
09:19 What is the best way to structure your team meetings? Is there an optimum or best time to hold them?
14:39 What is the second item or step on the meeting agenda once you're done revisiting the company brand, values, and mission?
16:43 Is it possible to overshare KPIs or financials?
18:57 What is the third item on the agenda now that you're done sharing KPIs and how the business is doing?
21:16 What happens if no one shares or contributes - how do you solve this issue?
22:53 After revisiting the vision/mission, sharing KPIs and wins and challenges, what should be the fourth and final item on your meeting agenda?
25:34 Can you break the rules of these four-step meeting items and change their order?
27:08 What's the best way to wrap up the meeting?
30:39 How do you structure meetings with a larger number of employees? Is a meeting with 100 people the same as 30 or 50?
33:56 For one-on-one meetings, how long and how often should they take place?
34:48 Should you follow the same structure of team meetings when conducting a one-on-one meeting?
36:20 What is one tangible step business owners can take this week to get closer to getting into the habit of hav
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Comments? Suggestions? Text the show here!
Team meetings are an integral part of every business. They're a venue for your employees to bond, exchange ideas, and collaborate to help hit your business goals.
They also give you, the founder, a transparent platform to share news, updates, and plans about the business and your industry, and to give and receive feedback.
But sadly, not everyone is excited to attend team meetings. Many employees whine and gripe about how meetings are often boring, unnecessary ("this meeting could have been an email!"), and a black hole sucking their time and productivity into oblivion.
When done wrong, "bad meetings" can lead to feelings of isolation, lower employee morale, or even a big drop in sales.
So what do you need to do to get meetings right? What skills should you have as a leader, and what structure should be in place to ensure that you'll have productive team meetings that will motivate your team?
In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, our guest Danny Hadas breaks down the importance of team meetings and how to structure them to the benefit of your growing business.
We'll discuss how holding meetings will not only foster a sense of collaboration, teamwork, and camaraderie amongst your employees but also have a direct effect on your business finances as well.
Danny Hadas is an entrepreneur and former advisor to the world’s most iconic brands. He is also a #1 best-selling author, and his work has impacted millions of people across 500+ companies worldwide, including Disney, BMW, and AT&T. As the founder of The Emovation Project, Danny teaches service-based small businesses how to double their revenue without doubling their effort using Minimalist Leadership.
In this week's episode, we discuss:
03:03 What happens in businesses that don't have regular team meetings?
04:22 How often should you have team meetings?
06:40 How do you effectively communicate to your team that there will now be regular meetings so they see it as a good thing versus feeling micromanaged?
09:19 What is the best way to structure your team meetings? Is there an optimum or best time to hold them?
14:39 What is the second item or step on the meeting agenda once you're done revisiting the company brand, values, and mission?
16:43 Is it possible to overshare KPIs or financials?
18:57 What is the third item on the agenda now that you're done sharing KPIs and how the business is doing?
21:16 What happens if no one shares or contributes - how do you solve this issue?
22:53 After revisiting the vision/mission, sharing KPIs and wins and challenges, what should be the fourth and final item on your meeting agenda?
25:34 Can you break the rules of these four-step meeting items and change their order?
27:08 What's the best way to wrap up the meeting?
30:39 How do you structure meetings with a larger number of employees? Is a meeting with 100 people the same as 30 or 50?
33:56 For one-on-one meetings, how long and how often should they take place?
34:48 Should you follow the same structure of team meetings when conducting a one-on-one meeting?
36:20 What is one tangible step business owners can take this week to get closer to getting into the habit of hav
Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?
Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.
Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan
Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint
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How to develop an effective and scalable HR infrastructure, with Milly Christmann
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When running a business, you're busy keeping an eye on its finances, ensuring stable production, and implementing your sales and marketing campaigns for its continued growth. This approach makes complete fiscal sense, and it focuses on aspects of the business that will keep it healthy and sustainable.
But what about your Human Resources (HR)? Is it something you're also looking at and actively working on? Sadly, despite it being an essential and crucial foundational piece of any business, it often falls behind and is not prioritized.
HR is every person working for your company, and it is also the department that will manage them. It is payroll, benefits, compliance - and finding and keeping the right people. It will also have a lasting negative impact both operationally and financially on your business if you don't have a long-term HR strategy and don't set up the proper HR infrastructure.
So how do you develop an effective and scalable HR infrastructure for your growing business?
In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, our guest Milly Christmann and I take a very deep dive into the importance of establishing an HR infrastructure for the success of your business.
She'll discuss how having a comprehensive HR Infrastructure can help you attract and retain top talent, support your company's operational and financial plans and align resources to help you hit your business objectives.
Milly Christmann is a Fractional HR Leader and owner of Marathon Growth Management, a Human Resources consulting business that supports small to medium-sized businesses. Recognized for collaborating with leaders to achieve their business goals by unleashing the power of an engaged workforce, Milly uses process improvement, technology, and strong, passionate people skills to attract, develop, and retain top talent, driving change that matters.
In this week's episode, we discuss:
03:48 What are the signs that it's time to plan and implement an HR infrastructure in your business?
06:29 What does a "people plan" look like in planning and growth for your business?
14:50 Should you start thinking about having a dedicated HR professional on your staff when you hit the 50+ employee mark, or is a fractional HR service or an outsourced provider enough to help you manage?
18:25 How are business owners not maximizing their payroll company to its total capacity. What are some examples, and what does this look like?
22:12 What is the scope of a Fractional CHR professional's role in your business? Are they able to provide leadership coaching and advise the CEO on change management?
25:21 What about smaller businesses with less than 50 employees? What HR structure should they implement? Do they need it for compliance and beyond? What is that process like in their space?
30:29 What is one tangible step business owners can take this week to get closer to having an efficient and effective HR structure?
Resources:
Milly Christmann, Fractional HR Leader and Founder of Marathon Growth Management:
https://www.marathongrowthmgt.com/
Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?
Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.
Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan
Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint
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How to lead effective one-on-one meetings, with Debbie Rosemont
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Happy employees are motivated employees: They'll help your company achieve its business goals faster and drive revenues up.
And while there are tons of project management, chat, and time tracking tools out there to help increase team productivity, these tools can't do it alone. They need your help!
And one of the best ways to do so is to establish clear communications.
Feedback is vital to the well-being of your employees - and in turn - the well-being of your company.
It is an opportunity to improve internal processes, give corrections constructively and connect with your employees with compassion.
And holding regular one-on-one meetings is an effective way to have these meaningful conversations with your employees and stay in the loop regarding their morale, performance, and lives.
So how do you run one-on-meetings that don't waste time and focus on feedback, performance, and personal connection?
In this episode of Help! My Business Is Growing, our guest Debbie Rosemont, and I take a very deep dive into one-on-one meetings with your employees and how they can boost your team's productivity.
She'll discuss how they are vital to your employee's well-being and give actionable tips on how you can structure them to ensure maximum productivity to benefit your growing business.
Debbie Rosemont is a Productivity Consultant, Trainer, and Founder of Simply Placed, helping busy women who feel overwhelmed and overloaded prioritize what matters, plan their time and produce valuable results with confidence and ease.
In this week's episode, we discuss:
03:22 What do businesses struggle with the most regarding the productivity of their teams?
04:40 How should business owners define employee goals and KPIs to measure productivity?
08:47 How would you communicate with your employees or get regular updates about specific objectives to track them effectively?
11:09 How do you structure one-on-one meetings with your team members, so they are productive and don't waste time?
17:42 What are some things that you should avoid or never discuss during a 1:1 meeting?
19:52 During one-to-one meetings, is there a difference between talking to employees about their (pre-identified) priorities and giving them updates on their current projects?
24:07 How do you make an easy and stress-free transition from not holding one-to-one meetings to suddenly having regular, structured one-to-one sessions?
27:08 What are some examples of the benefits employees can expect from structured one-on-one meetings?
28:34 What are the benefits of one-on-one meetings to your company if you've never done them before and are only starting to implement them now?
31:01 How do you structure one-to-one meetings when your company is growing, and you have a larger number of employees?
33:58 What is one actionable step business owners can take this week to get closer to implementing efficient and productive one-to-one meetings with their employees?
Resources:
Debbie Rosemont, Productivity Consultant, Trainer, and Founder of Simply Placed:
https://www.itssimplyplaced.com/
Is your growth causing financial headaches? Sales up, but profits lagging? Financial practices stuck in entry level mode?
Don't worry, it's not you—it's your financial setup.
Introducing NextGen Finance Blueprint by NewCastle Finance. This CFO-led roadmap: • Brings fuzzy finances into focus • Gives you a clear money picture • Creates a step-by-step action plan
Ready to level up? Visit newcastle.finance/blueprint
Help! My Business is Growing - How to have effective team meetings, with Danny Hadas
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Kathy (host):
Hello there and welcome back to Help! My Business is Growing, a podcast where we explore how to grow and build a business that is healthy and sustainable. I'm your host, Kathy Svetina.
Kathy (host):
The great Canadian American economist John Kenneth Galbraith once said, "Meetings are indispensable when you just don't want to do anything." This tongue-in-cheek sentiment is a very familiar one because many employees worldwide silently wh
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