#105: How to Scale Your Business Without Burning Out Your Team
The StoryBrand Podcast
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4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Is your highest business expense people's salaries? If so, managing people and productivity is vital to your company's ability to scale. If you want to make your business operationally effective, there are only two options: you either have to decrease the cost of your labor or make your labor more productive. But how can you increase productivity without burning people out?
In today's one-on-one coaching conversation, Donald Miller gives you the solution to increase productivity while also increasing company morale and employee job satisfaction. You'll learn how to install 5 strategic meetings that ensure productive labor and protect your team from burnout. When you implement these 5 meetings, your team will be more productive and you'll have more time to focus on the big picture things that will actually grow your business. Listen in now to learn how to scale your business while energizing your team!
Go to BusinessMadeSimple.com/FiveMeetings to get everything you need implement a repeatable system to replace organized chaos with 5 meetings. Get the system and tools you need to focus and align around the things that will truly move your business forward at BusinessMadeSimple.com/FiveMeetings.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we dive into today's episode, I want to tell you about the online marketing |
| 0:03.6 | made easy podcast hosted by my friend Amy Porterfield and brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast |
| 0:09.6 | Network, the audio destination for business professionals. With a focus on online business, |
| 0:15.2 | including digital courses, lists, buildings, social media, content, and webinars, |
| 0:19.8 | every episode of online marketing made easy is designed to get you more results with a whole |
| 0:24.4 | lot less stress. Here are some great episodes to check out right now. Six fun strategies for a |
| 0:30.4 | quick cash injection on this episode, you'll learn how to invest in your business while having |
| 0:34.0 | the extra cash on hand to make it happen. How to host a live virtual event that will wow your |
| 0:39.4 | audience. On that episode, you can learn how you can pull off a live virtual event like a pro |
| 0:44.0 | and why memberships are the future of online. Learn how to determine what kind of membership is |
| 0:49.2 | best for your business, the recent changes memberships have faced, and what that means for you. |
| 0:54.4 | If you are needing to break down big ideas and strategies into actionable step-by-step processes, |
| 0:59.7 | listen to online marketing made easy wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:08.0 | Here's what kills most successful businesses, and you heard me right, |
| 1:11.4 | what kills most successful businesses is the dreaded S-curve. That's where I found myself |
| 1:17.1 | six years ago. The company was doing extremely well, but I found myself running the business rather |
| 1:22.4 | than doing what I do best, which is content creation, creating frameworks, writing books, |
| 1:26.8 | so I had to figure out a way to scale up and create these systems and processes. |
| 1:30.5 | I bring all of that up because if you have got to professionalize your operation, |
| 1:35.3 | if you've got to get a management and productivity system in place that will allow you to |
| 1:39.3 | scale your business and get back to what you do best, get back into your sweet spot, |
| 1:44.5 | this is your episode. And with that, I want to welcome you to the business-made simple |
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