How You Can Get More Time

04/28/21 • 32 min

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.

Read the full transcript of this episode.

Sponsors

Visionary CEO Academy

Mentioned in This Episode

https://www.littlefishaccounting.com

visionaryceoacademy.com/podcast

https://www.facebook.com/visionaryceoacademy

https://www.instagram.com/VisionaryCEOAcademy

Production for Visionary CEO Academy Podcast is provided by Podcast Taxi.

About This Episode

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.

Read the full transcript of this episode.

Sponsors

Visionary CEO Academy

Mentioned in This Episode

https://www.littlefishaccounting.com

visionaryceoacademy.com/podcast

https://www.facebook.com/visionaryceoacademy

https://www.instagram.com/VisionaryCEOAcademy

Production for Visionary CEO Academy Podcast is provided by Podcast Taxi.

Previous Episode

A Conversation with Keila Hill-Trawick

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.

Read the full transcript of this episode.

Sponsors

Visionary CEO Academy

Mentioned in This Episode

https://www.littlefishaccounting.com

https://www.instagram.com/littlefishaccounting/

https://www.facebook.com/littlefishacctg

visionaryceoacademy.com/podcast

https://www.facebook.com/visionaryceoacademy

https://www.instagram.com/VisionaryCEOAcademy

Production for Visionary CEO Academy Podcast is provided by Podcast Taxi.

Next Episode

The Thing About Team

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.

Read the full transcript of this episode.

Sponsors

Visionary CEO Academy

Mentioned in This Episode

visionaryceoacademy.com/podcast

https://www.facebook.com/visionaryceoacademy

https://www.instagram.com/VisionaryCEOAcademy

Production for Visionary CEO Academy Podcast is provided by Podcast Taxi.