Organize Chaos
By Chris Ronzio | Trainual
Every weekday on Organize Chaos, get entrepreneurial and small business leadership advice from the Founder and CEO of Trainual, Chris Ronzio. From people to processes to productivity, and how to organize your life around it all. SMB insight in snackable episodes published Monday and Wednesday, plus feature interviews and live exclusives published every Friday!
Organize ChaosJun 03, 2021
Live Q&A with Alli Webb | Playbook 2022
We've formatted our epic Playbook 2022 sessions for the podcast so you can take them on the go wherever you are. This episode features Alli Webb of Drybar hosted by myself and Jonathan Ronzio.
How did Alli Webb scale Drybar to 150+ locations and a product line that she sold for $255M? We'll dig into this and more during a fireside chat.
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Leveling Up Your Biz with Candy Valentino and Connie S. Falls | Playbook 2022
We've formatted our epic Playbook 2022 sessions for the podcast so you can take them on the go wherever you are. This episode features Candy Valentino and Connie S. Falls, hosted by Trainual's Partner Manager, Joe Corcione.
We unpack top tips from one of our favorite business consultants, Candy Valentino! If you ever wanted to learn how to experience more profitability, productivity, and freedom inside your business, this is the session for you. We unpack top tips from one of our favorite business consultants Connie S. Falls! If you ever wanted to learn how to experience more profitability, productivity, and freedom inside your business, this session is for you.
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The Weight Of Internal Intros
The owners word weighs a ton. Or the weight of internal intros. Have you ever heard that phrase before? I first heard it from Basecamp Co-founder, Jason Fried. It's an important lesson for owners and leaders to understand that your comments and opinions carry a certain level of urgency for your employees if context is not handled properly. Share this episode with anyone on your leadership team or in a managerial position!
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This Is How You Do It with Montell Jordan | Playbook 2022
We've formatted our epic Playbook 2022 sessions for the podcast so you can take them on the go wherever you are. This episode features singer-songwriter Montell Jordan, hosted Jonathan Ronzio.
Join us for a Live Q&A with the Grammy nominated legend himself, Montell Jordan. We'll talk about what he's been up to lately and the awesome creative campaign we ran with him last year.
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Are You The Technician, Manager, or Entrepreneur?
A throwback reference to The E-Myth by Michael E. Gerber. Would you call yourself the technician, manager, or entrepreneur? As a business owner there is no doubt that you've worn one of these hats at some point. I'll breakdown how I define each in this episode.
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When Should Your Business Hire Specialists Vs. Generalists?
Are you a generalist or a specialist? And which should your business hire? Do different stages of business require a generalist vs. a specialist? All of that, in today's episode.
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Marketing Innovation That Builds Buzz with Lisa Barnett | Playbook 2022
We've formatted our epic Playbook 2022 sessions for the podcast so you can take them on the go wherever you are. This episode features Lisa Barnett of Little Spoon, hosted Jonathan Ronzio.
How do you stay innovative when marketing your business? And how do you turn customers into passionate, raving fans? In this session, we’ll break down the tactics that Lisa Barnett, co-founder, president and CMO of Little Spoon, used to generate buzz and captivate an audience that keeps coming back for more — baby food, that is. You’ll walk away inspired to apply her mastery to your own business.
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When Reliability Becomes a Liability
From the top down, you should be reliable with your work. You want your business's reputation to be known as reliable and you want your employees to be reliable with the work you require from them. As a result, people will come to you because they know you can deliver a result on time. On the contrary, can being the "go-to-person" become a liability? My thoughts in today's episode.
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The $25,000 Dinner
A restaurant in Arizona offers a meal for $25,000!! Your first thought probably is, who would ever pay that? To my surprise, the restaurant consistently sells this dinner to patrons. Of course, my mind goes to business strategy and being able to charge more for less customers. I'll break down this analogy and maybe you can create the "$25,000 dinner" in your business.
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How To Get Out Of Your Team's Way With Jason Fried | Playbook 2022
We've formatted our epic Playbook 2022 sessions for the podcast so you can take them on the go wherever you are. This episode features Jason Fried of Basecamp & 37 Signals, hosted by myself.
Delegation is an art form. It starts with hiring — you need to have the right people in the right roles. And once you have that, you need to trust them do their thing. No micromanaging, no red tape — just let them show you what they’ve got! Join us as we dig into how you may be inhibiting your team’s success with co-founder and CEO of Basecamp, Hey, and 37 Signals, Jason Fried.
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How To Handle Copycat Competition
No one likes copycats, especially those who are copying your business. Copying the idea that you have worked on for years and put your heart and soul into. There are certainly some legalities to this, as I'll mention in this episode, but it's also a mindset on how to can choose to handle a copycat competitor. I hope this helps if you find yourself in this frustrating situation.
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How Entrepreneurs Can Avoid Decision Paralysis
How to overcome decision paralysis. In this episode, I share some useful tactics around overthinking and decision fatigue.
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Cooking Up a Winning Company Culture With Mignon Francois And Natalie Dao | Playbook 2022
We've formatted our epic Playbook 2022 sessions for the podcast so you can take them on the go wherever you are. This episode features Mignon Francois of The Cupcake Collection and Natalie Dao of Liquid Death Mountain Water, hosted by Jonathan Ronzio.
There’s a balance between keeping your employees happy at work and making sure that things are getting done the right way. Both of these are key to retaining employees and actually being able to do things at scale. In this panel, meet the people behind two fast-growing companies, and learn how they trained their teams and built long-lasting company culture along the way.
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Strategy Determines Tactics
Why does Southwest have open seating and other airlines don't? I had an assumption about this and took this question to LinkedIn. The response I got was perfect and I'll share the answer with you in today's episode, but there's also a business lesson we can all take away from why Southwest set up their seating this way.
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What Ironman Races Have Taught Me About Building A Business
2022 was my third year competing in the Trainual IRONMAN 70.3 Indian Wells – La Quinta, near Palm Springs, California. In the most recent race, I competed on a relay team as one of three teammates instead of doing the entire thing myself. This decision came from an epiphany I had, and that epiphany is the perfect metaphor for building your business. And more importantly, building the right team around yourself as the business owner.
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Frictionless Sales And Operational Success With Mikita Mikado | Playbook 2022
We've formatted our epic Playbook 2022 sessions for the podcast so you can take them on the go wherever you are. This episode features Mikita Mikado of PandaDoc, hosted by myself.
So, you have the right people in place, but your processes…? Not so much. And that can cause bottlenecks in your business, making it difficult to hand off tasks and almost impossible to achieve the same results over and over again. In this session, learn how Mikita Mikado, co-founder and CEO of PandaDoc, turned his e-signature SaaS company into a self-sustaining operation thanks to some smart process planning.
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My Advice To The Next Generation Of Entrepreneurs
In 2021, there were 5.4 million new business applications, up almost a million from 2020! The barriers to start a business are lower than ever and technology is more widely available. People young and old are making the shift to entrepreneurship. The question I got asked was, what is my advice for the next generation of entrepreneurs? If you are an aspiring entrepreneur, here are my 5 tips for you!
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Celebrate Experimental Failures Not Performance Failures
It's important to create a culture that celebrates failures as a result of pushing the boundaries. Trying something new. As leaders, it's our job to create a physiologically safe space to give employees the confidence to experiment. I also believe their are two types of failures in a business, experimental and performance failures. I'll go into more detail on each these in today's episode.
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Marketing Your Mission And Personal Brand With Caitlin Crosby | Playbook 2022
We've formatted our epic Playbook 2022 sessions for the podcast so you can take them on the go wherever you are. This episode features Caitlin Crosby of The Giving Keys, hosted by Jonathan Ronzio.
If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. Heard that one before? Well, the same goes for your business. A clear and heartfelt mission is what makes people believe in your product or service — and that’s exactly what Caitlin and her team have developed at The Giving Keys. Listen as we unpack their brand story and dig into how Caitlin’s personal brand is fueling growth for the business, too.
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Creating A Culture of Autonomy
How to create culture of autonomy and self discovery for your employees. And how this becomes increasingly more difficult in a remote work setting. This clip is from Chris' guest appearance on the New World of Work podcast with Ryhs Black. You can listen to the full conversation on the New World of Work podcast, in the episode titled How to develop processes that work for your team with Chris Ronzio, founder and CEO of Trainual.
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Process Documentation = A High Growth Business
What if I told you that process documentation could be the missing link in helping your business reach high-growth potential. While I may be biased because of how strongly I believe in this: wink-wink, Trainual, I truly believe there is a strong correlation between businesses who prioritize process documentation and their growth potential. I'll explain 4 reasons why process documentation leads to more revenue in this episode.
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How To Make Your Business Investable // Troy Henikoff
This episode's all about how to make your business investable. Troy is the managing director of MATH Venture Partners, which happens to be one of Trainual's investors. He sits on the Trainual board of directors and he's been a great friend, advisor and mentor for us over the last few years. So, we get into the story of how we built Trainual, how we met, and Troy's background before we ever intersected. He was a serial entrepreneur, one of the founders of Sure Payroll, which is the first online payroll company in the U.S. and he teaches entrepreneurship over at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Business. He's on the board of the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center and the board of a bunch of other companies that he's invested in over the years.
So, what I love about this episode, if you have ever considered raising money, raising venture capital for your business, this is the hour of content to listen to, or even less than an hour. We packed so much into this conversation about whether or not your business can grow at the trajectory to be investable, about what you should do to formulate your pitch and make sure you've got the right metrics to be investible by an investor, about the types of investors you should look for. Should they be active? Should they be passive? How frequently should we be checking in with these people? And then why would you raise money and what is it supposed to do in your business?
So from start to finish, we talked about Troy's journey getting into investing, and then we broke down the details of how you can do this for your business. So, this is a great episode to share with anyone that's interested in raising money for their business, and if you are growing a company that could take investment, please listen to this.
Educational content from Troy and MATH Ventures about raising capital. Check it out!
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8 Tips For A Successful Event Sponsorship
We sponsor a lot of events here at Trainual. It can be a really affective brand awareness play and become an acquisition channel for your business. Recently, we had a sponsorship spot and booth at the EntreLeadership event out in Nashville, TN. It was an extremely positive sponsorship for us. Here are my top tips we learned from this event sponsorship, so you can build this marketing channel for your own company.
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100 Hacks To Improve Your Business Pt. 10
From the years of consulting and his business experience, Chris Ronzio wrote: “100 Hacks to Improve your Business,” covering topics to improve your lifestyle, personal productivity, marketing, sales, finance, and much more. This segment includes tips #91 -100.
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How Long Should Onboarding And Training Take?
How long should it take to onboard and train a new employee until they reach full productivity? Well, it probably depends on who you ask. In fact, our 2023 State of Small Business Report found that High level leaders are 3x more likely to think that onboarding and training only takes a week compared to low level leaders. I think it's closer to 90 days. So how come there is such a disconnect? Some leaders say 1 week, while others say 30, 60, 90 plus days is more realistic. Let's dig into it in today's episode.
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3 Tips To Prepare For Business Forecasting | December, 2022 Best of Moments
Monthly, quarterly, and yearly forecasting is important for every type of business. Without it, it can be difficult to navigate and gauge the trajectory of your goals, both strategically and financially. Before you get into a forecasting session with your team, here are 3 tips to prepare for business forecasting. This clip is a best of highlight from December, 2022. You can listen to the entire conversation in the episode titled Finance Follows Strategy: Annual Forecasting With Drew Romney.
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How To Have An Unlimited Marketing Budget | December, 2022 Best of Moments
Is it possible to have an unlimited marketing budget? I asked Trainual's Director of Finance, Drew Romney how a business can unlock unlimited marketing spend. This clip is a best of highlight from December, 2022. You can listen to the entire conversation in the episode titled Finance Follows Strategy: Annual Forecasting With Drew Romney.
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The 4 Stages Of Growing a People Operations Team
This episode is all about People Operations for SMBs and the four stages of growing your People Ops team.
Now, maybe that just starts with you as the founder, but as you grow a business, you then start to lean on other people. Maybe it's an office manager, an assistant, a director of operations, somebody that helps you wrap your arms around the structure of the business and train the new people that are coming in. As your business grows more, maybe you bring on that first HR person or People Operations person, and then eventually they build out their team with all the different functions.
This was a really fun conversation where we dug into the three different people, four, including me, who have held those roles so far at Trainual over the last four or five years. We broke down each stage, the things that we were good at, the things that we were not so good at, and the things that maybe you should be thinking about in your business as you grow to develop an incredible employee experience. Enjoy, dig in and hear our story for how we've grown People Ops at Trainual.
Shoutout to Sasha Robinson, Chelsey Krisay, and Marlowe Everett for jumping on the podcast to discuss all thing people ops with me!
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Making Fans Out Of Rejected Candidates
How to make fans out of your rejected candidates. It sound counterintuitive, right? Why would someone still love your business after getting rejected for the position? You'd be surprised at how an incredible interview process, treating candidates the right way, and giving them constructive feedback can leave a positive impact on everyone that applies. That lasting impression can come back to benefit your business even if you didn't hire them. With our incredible recruiting and interview team, we've seen this happen with our candidates, time and time again. I'll break it down in this episode.
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Why You Should Schedule All Your PTO In January
What should be top of mind for you starting the new year? I say, PTO! Everyone loves time off. Right? In order to maintain priorities and a work life balance throughout the year, I think you should be scheduling your PTO sooner rather than later. In this episode, I'll explain why I think everyone in your company should schedule out all their PTO in January.
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Why A Lack of Process Can Increase The Risk of Burnout
I think there is a huge correlation between process documentation and burnout. How a lack of SOPs can result in burnout and this feeling of "spinning your wheels" without improving. I talked about this topic on The New World Of Work Podcast where I was asked the question by Rhys Black. You can listen to the full conversation of my guest appearance on the New World of Work podcast, in the episode titled How to develop processes that work for your team with Chris Ronzio, founder and CEO of Trainual.
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Supercharge Your Inbound Marketing ft. HubSpot Legend, Dan Tyre Pt. 4
Marketing is a rapidly changing landscape. Your business needs to nail the fundamentals and stay up to speed on the latest trends. Today's episode is part 4 of 4 showcasing my livestream conversation with the HubSpot legend, Dan Tyre. Get practical tips to navigate this constantly changing landscape, common pitfalls to avoid, and which strategies your business should be focusing on in 2022 and beyond!
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Supercharge Your Inbound Marketing ft. HubSpot Legend, Dan Tyre Pt. 3
Marketing is a rapidly changing landscape. Your business needs to nail the fundamentals and stay up to speed on the latest trends. Today's episode is part 3 of 4 showcasing my livestream conversation with the HubSpot legend, Dan Tyre. Get practical tips to navigate this constantly changing landscape, common pitfalls to avoid, and which strategies your business should be focusing on in 2022 and beyond!
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Seth Godin on Mastering Your Marketing | Playbook 2022
We've formatted our epic Playbook 2022 sessions for the podcast so you can take them on the go wherever you are. This episode features marketing mastermind Seth Godin, hosted by myself and Jonathan Ronzio.
Seth Godin. No intro needed. But hey, let’s do it anyway. Seth’s the mastermind behind 20 best-selling books like “Tribes” and “Purple Cow,” and he’s created the altMBA, a 31-day online workshop designed for high-performing individuals who want to level up and lead. He’s also written ebooks, given TED talks, and pioneered ethical online direct marketing, which is now a $30B a year industry. Because of his influential work, Seth is a part of the Guerrilla Marketing Hall of Fame, the Direct Marketing Hall of Fame, AND the Marketing Hall of Fame. He’s known around the world as a marketing master and we want to take a deep dive into his story.
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Supercharge Your Inbound Marketing ft. HubSpot Legend, Dan Tyre Pt. 2
Marketing is a rapidly changing landscape. Your business needs to nail the fundamentals and stay up to speed on the latest trends. Today's episode is part 2 of 4 showcasing my livestream conversation with the HubSpot legend, Dan Tyre. Get practical tips to navigate this constantly changing landscape, common pitfalls to avoid, and which strategies your business should be focusing on in 2022 and beyond!
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Supercharge Your Inbound Marketing ft. HubSpot Legend, Dan Tyre Pt. 1
Marketing is a rapidly changing landscape. Your business needs to nail the fundamentals and stay up to speed on the latest trends. Today's episode is part 1 of 4 showcasing my livestream conversation with the HubSpot legend, Dan Tyre. Get practical tips to navigate this constantly changing landscape, common pitfalls to avoid, and which strategies your business should be focusing on in 2022 and beyond!
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Running the Business with Allyson & Wes Felix | Playbook 2022
We've formatted our epic Playbook 2022 sessions for the podcast so you can take them on the go wherever you are. This episode features Allyson & Wes Felix of Saysh, hosted by myself and Jonathan Ronzio.
From the track to the board room, this brother and sister duo know how to strike gold. And over here at Trainual, we believe that how you train in life is how you run your business. Hear how Allyson and Wes Felix have made the transition from athletes to business owners at Saysh, a lifestyle sneaker brand designed for and by women.
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How To Kickoff The New Year With Your Team
This is one of my favorite times of the year because you get the chance to reflect on what you've done this year and your future plans. In this episode, I'll be sharing my two tips for kicking off the new year with your team. How to write a "Letter from the CEO" to share your yearly reflections with the company and how to structure a yearly kickoff all-hands meeting.
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Organize Chaos Giveaway! *Win $100 Gift Card To The Trainual SWAG Shop*
Hey, everyone! We are running an end-of-the-year giveaway, where you could win a $100 gift card to the Trainual swag shop!
All you have to do is go to trainual.com/ocsurvey, enter your email - that’s how we will notify you if you’ve won - and answer a few questions about the show.
All of the questions are centered around you, your listening experience. It’s the perfect opportunity to provide feedback on what you want more of on the show. I’ll be reading every response.
That’s it! Again, go to trainual.com/ocsurvey and we will contact the winner on December, 23rd 2022 via email.
Thanks for participating and I look forward to building the best possible show for you all as we head into 2023.
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Find The Wrigley's Chewing Gum In Your Business
Did you know Wrigley's originally sold soap and baking soda? In the baking soda, they included free gum. Eventually, they realized people were more interested in the gum. Now it's the chewing gum giant we know of today. If you haven't got the hint yet for how this translates to your business, click play and I'll explain.
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As A Business Owner, How Much Should You Pay Yourself?
If you are growing a company or just starting one, how do you know how much to pay yourself? Maybe it's very little or nothing at all. I run through a few different scenarios that you may find yourself in and how it will affect the amount of money you pay yourself.
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Debunking 3 Process Myths | Best of Moments From Nov. 2022
Business owners and entrepreneurs are quick to make excuses for why they can't document the processes in their businesses. In this video, Lisa González and I debunk the three most common process myths.
This November highlight comes from my conversation with Lisa González. She's a speaker, author, a process fanatic, EOS implementer, and the co-author of the book, 'Process!'
Listen to our full conversation in the episode titled, Process Will Set You Free // With EOS Implementer, Lisa González.
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Every Business Owner Should Read "REWORK" | Best of Moments From Nov. 2022
This "Best of Moment" comes from my livestream chat with Jonathan Ronzio, where we went back and forth about some of our favorite takeaways from Playbook 2022. During Playbook, I got the chance to interview Jason Fried, author of REWORK. This book and Jason had such a profound impact on the way I think about running my business. Hear why in this episode and then go pick up a copy of this book!!
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Finance Follows Strategy: Annual Forecasting With Drew Romney
In this episode, I'm talking with Trainual's Director of Finance, Drew Romney. This episode is about structuring your annual forecasting and why finance follows strategy.
The holiday music is playing when you walk through the retail stores, and that means it's time for strategic planning and forecasting. So as we approach the end of this year, I thought what better conversation to start to surface than one about how we do forecasting inside our business.
So I invited our director of finance, Drew Romney, onto the show. We talked through how Trainual does forecasting, how you should think about forecasting in your business, what metrics and numbers you need to have in order to do the forecasting exercise, and how to communicate it to your team. So if you are thinking about forecasting, about budgeting, about your numbers for next year, then you're going to get a lot out of this conversation.
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Productivity Paranoia?? More Like A Lack Of Trust & Autonomy
Productivity paranoia? Let’s call it what it is: Lack of trust and autonomy. I think this increased paranoia from managers and boss' really stems from a lack of trust, autonomy, and clear exceptions, not a remote work environment. Let me explain in today's episode.
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What Running Has Taught Me About Business
There's something about doing challenging things, you come to realize that the hardest part is often just starting. That is what running has taught me, along with some other lessons and how I've applied them in my business. Take a listen on your next run!!
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Process Will Set You Free // With EOS Implementer, Lisa González
In this episode, I'm speaking with Lisa González. This is almost a little meta because her playbook or her book is called 'Process! How Discipline and Consistency Will Set You and Your Business Free.' Like mine, hers is all about creating a playbook for your business. And so a page from Lisa's playbook is a book about playbooks, like my book about playbooks. So this one's fun!
You're going to like this if you like anything about process and operations. Just hearing Lisa's story, how she grew up in an entrepreneurial family, how she became the EOS implementer that she is now, how she got involved with the community and co-authored this book was awesome. We loved talking about it and having this banter around process.
After applying all of the EOS principles in her companies and intersecting with Gino Wickman, reading 'Traction,' EOS had made such a profound impact on her businesses that she wanted to share her expertise and process with other growth-minded companies.
Today she's a speaker, an author, a process fanatic, and she's, like I mentioned, the co-author of this book, 'Process!' So dive in, dig in, take some notes and I hope it helps you better document your processes.
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My Employee Gave Me An 8 Month Notice!!
What is the appropriate amount of notice an employee should give before they leave? 2 weeks, 1 month, 8 months!?! 8 months might sound rare, but I actually received an 8 month heads up from one of our senior leaders on the team. Super generous! It got me thinking, what is the right amount of notice and what should this transition out of your company look like?
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Theme Your Workday To Increase Productivity
A happy workday is a themed workday. Over the past couple of years I've continued to refine my calendar. The result has been putting a theme to each day. Here's how I break down my week and how you can implement this strategy into your work.
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Biggest Takeaways & Behind The Scenes Of Playbook 2022 // With Trainual CMO, Jonathan Ronzio
In this episode, Jonathan Ronzio joined me for a live discussion on recapping our incredible, annual small business event, Playbook. So this year, Playbook 2022 was epic! We had something like 5,000 virtual people registered and this was the third year we've put the event on. So, as always, we put together incredible speakers and this lineup consisted of marketing guru Seth Godin, Allyson and Wes Felix of Saysh, Montell Jordan, and tons, and tons more!
In this conversation we casually break it down, talk about the behind the scenes and biggest takeaways from those speakers. All from the perspective of the hosts of the event, which was my brother, Jonathan and I. For those of you who don't already know, Jonathan Ronzio is Trainual's CMO. So the two of us were lucky enough to be on stage together, having a lot of fun, talking to some incredible guests. Now we're going to break it down for all of you here in this podcast.
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