Episode 316: TMBA316: How Much Should I Be Meeting With My Team?
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2015
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
http://www.tropicalmba.com/meetings/ In this episode Dan and Ian offer thoughts, suggestions and ideas on the best way to handle meetings as your business – and number of employees - grows. You’ll also get the chance to ‘listen in’ on a Tropical MBA/Dynamic Circle team meeting involving Dan, Ian, Jessica and Alex – and hear about Dan and Ian’s very different styles of management.
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| 0:00.0 | And I thought it was funny if you could open up with your last thing or you were asking everybody |
| 0:03.3 | if they felt like they had clear goals. Does everybody feel like they have well-defined goals for the next |
| 0:08.8 | two to four months? |
| 0:14.6 | Hey, podcast, listener. Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, |
| 0:19.3 | right now in your earbuds, you are joined |
| 0:21.1 | by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, |
| 0:26.9 | location independent businesses. If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download |
| 0:31.6 | our entire back catalog, check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:46.5 | Well, it's Christmas Eve and all through the house. |
| 0:50.1 | The only person that was stirring was the mouse that ate Ian's internet cable. |
| 1:28.6 | I have no internet for two days, and it's killing me. We watched Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer the other day to celebrate and I got to say, surprisingly good kept me enthralled the whole time. It holds up. You know, I didn't know that you were watching that, but we watched the same thing. The stop animation from like 20 years ago, 50 years ago, whatever it was. It was awesome. And for Christmas from my uncle, I got one of those hats that Cornelius has in the movie, the guy who licks his pick, the hero of the movie. Interesting. Feeling very good. I think I found my look. Hey, boss man, today we are talking about meetings. Those necessary evils, we're going to talk about it. We're going to talk if they have a place in location independent businesses. |
| 1:33.5 | And towards the end of this episode, we're actually going to bring the microphones into a team meeting. |
| 1:36.9 | You'll hear firsthand Ian's ruthless management style. |
| 1:38.2 | So that should be exciting. This episode was inspired by a voicemail we received from Robert Brandel. |
| 1:43.4 | So let's play that. |
| 1:45.2 | Hi, Dan and Ian. It's Robert and I run a website called WebsiteTooltester.com. |
| 1:51.2 | I just hired my third employee and realized now that I need to level up my management skills |
| 1:56.5 | as my own role is really changing now. Recently, I stumbled upon the concept of one-on-one meetings that I want to give a try. |
| 2:04.9 | What else is there? |
| 2:06.1 | What employee management techniques can you recommend? |
| 2:09.4 | Thanks. |
| 2:10.3 | First off, congratulations, Robert. |
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