Stop Bottlenecking and Start Scaling
01/06/21 • 57 min
About This Episode:
What would happen to your business if you suddenly had 10, 20, or 50 new clients wanting to work with you? Could you take an unexpected leave for a few days and your business will carry on perfectly? Does your team get things done without you having to manage every little thing?
If you answered ‘no’ to any of these, you’re not alone. In fact, you’re like most of the online business owners and entrepreneurs we talk to every day. We're looking at the top three challenges that prevent business owners from scaling -- and revealing what the solutions are to each -- today on the Visionary CEO Podcast.
Key Takeaways
[1:25] Introducing three of the top challenges online business owners face as they go to scale.
[2:20] What it means when your offer isn't scalable.
[7:46] Stop recreating the wheel and scale what you already have.
[17:01] How to overcome the challenge of when you are both the product and the bottleneck in your business.
[26:58] Allow your business to ‘grow up’ and remove yourself from the product, let your team deliver.
[33:38] How to manage your team and avoid getting stuck in the day-to-day mess of constantly putting out fires.
[41:37] Learning how to delegate, and effectively communicate delegation.
[46:07] How to transfer responsibility of ownership to a team member.
[51:13] Litmus test: Are you ready to scale?
Sponsors
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visionaryceoacademy.com/podcast
https://www.facebook.com/visionaryceoacademy
Read the full transcript of this episode.
Production for Visionary CEO Academy Podcast is provided by Podcast Taxi.
About This Episode:
What would happen to your business if you suddenly had 10, 20, or 50 new clients wanting to work with you? Could you take an unexpected leave for a few days and your business will carry on perfectly? Does your team get things done without you having to manage every little thing?
If you answered ‘no’ to any of these, you’re not alone. In fact, you’re like most of the online business owners and entrepreneurs we talk to every day. We're looking at the top three challenges that prevent business owners from scaling -- and revealing what the solutions are to each -- today on the Visionary CEO Podcast.
Key Takeaways
[1:25] Introducing three of the top challenges online business owners face as they go to scale.
[2:20] What it means when your offer isn't scalable.
[7:46] Stop recreating the wheel and scale what you already have.
[17:01] How to overcome the challenge of when you are both the product and the bottleneck in your business.
[26:58] Allow your business to ‘grow up’ and remove yourself from the product, let your team deliver.
[33:38] How to manage your team and avoid getting stuck in the day-to-day mess of constantly putting out fires.
[41:37] Learning how to delegate, and effectively communicate delegation.
[46:07] How to transfer responsibility of ownership to a team member.
[51:13] Litmus test: Are you ready to scale?
Sponsors
Mentioned in This Episode
visionaryceoacademy.com/podcast
https://www.facebook.com/visionaryceoacademy
Read the full transcript of this episode.
Production for Visionary CEO Academy Podcast is provided by Podcast Taxi.
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Visionary CEO Podcast Introduction
With more than twenty combined years of experience in operations, finance, team building, and business development, Breanne Dyck and Jill Joevenazzo have helped hundreds of entrepreneurs structure their businesses for sustainable, profitable scale.
Visionary CEO Podcast aims to help the coach, strategist or the consultant, who have built their thriving business. Perhaps you have moved beyond the beginner stage; making good money, but the business is almost grown to the point where the growth has become a problem. Overworked or overwhelmed. When you are past the beginner stage. What happens then?
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Rewind (featuring Breanne Dyck and Jill Joevenazzo of Visionary CEO Academy Podcast)
About This Episode:
From the importance of structure, to the danger of unclear expectations, to the time when Jill made Breanne sign a contract about what it means to "make a plan" ... we wanted to share some of the hard lessons we’ve learned about growing and scaling our business, so you can save yourself from some of those headaches.
Key Takeaways
[0:34] Hop in our time machine and find out what our corporate jobs in higher education was like before we decided to go out on our own.
[5:04] The turning point: We wanted autonomy and empowerment from our work.
[8:49] Taking the leap – conversations that needed to happen, the type of support you need around you.
[12:37] How do you clearly communicate expectations?
[19:53] Transitioning away from you being the business to having the business be its own entity.
[25:39] How an intrapreneur transforms into an entrepreneur.
Sponsors
Mentioned in This Episode
visionaryceoacademy.com/podcast
https://www.facebook.com/visionaryceoacademy
Read the full transcript of this episode.
Production for Visionary CEO Academy Podcast is provided by Podcast Taxi.
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