Big Dreams Great Teams® with Paula Maidens

Finding a rockstar to work with you in your business all starts with hiring the right person. I know this can often feel impossible and many entrepreneurs are lost for where to begin. To help you set your intentions, I’m sharing where it all started for me with a clear purpose, a strategic method and defined expectations.  This episode is a personal reflection and a behind the scenes view into the...

At the end of the year, we all sit back and reflect on the year that has been. It’s the perfect time to set goals and intentions for the new year and your team is no exception. As a leader, you can guide your team into this reflection period with confidence and excitement in you and your business. In today’s episode, I discuss how important it is to make your team members feel great about themselv...

It can be very dangerous to rely too heavily on any one person when you’re scaling your business by growing your team and shifting the workload to other people. I know you’re thinking that you have the most incredible, amazing person handling these tasks for you and nothing will ever change.  BUT, regardless of how amazing you or your business are, people will move on - life happens. I’ve seen thr...

This topic is one of the biggest organisational problems I see all of the time.   What do you do if you don’t have enough time to focus on your team? This includes setting up systems, having conversations with employees about their mistakes or performance, and improving communication processes inside your business.  Now, I completely get it.  You’re a successful, amazing, business owner who’s flat...

Have you ever had someone major leave your business?  I’m talking about someone so integral that you completely depend on them for almost everything.  In this episode, I’m chatting with one of Australia’s leading transformational coaches, Lisa Corduff. Lisa is a force of nature when it comes to mindset and shifting limiting beliefs to guide women back into their personal power.  I connected with L...

When you’re a high performer, it can feel as though nothing is ever good enough. We have such high expectations and standards for ourselves and of others. Unfortunately, a flow on effect from this characteristic is often it makes us difficult to work for.  I know, it’s not a very popular topic to talk about but I feel it is such an important aspect of building and keeping a great team.  Don’t get...

How can you stop finding and fixing your team’s mistakes?  We all know how incredibly busy we are as entrepreneurs. When faced with this problem, many of us will make the decision to hire staff to help with our immense workload. Only to find out we’re now spending the time we hoped to save fixing their mistakes! Leading to the question,  was there any point?  I understand. Every single entrepreneu...

I’m chatting with the amazing Jazze Jervis today, a lawyer turned 7 figure Business Coach and Network Marketing Mentor for women in business. Jazze grew her business from $400k to $1 million in just 12 months and now she’s on a mission to show other women how to create unwavering belief and unstoppable results through her business coaching program. In addition to running three businesses, Jazze ha...

It’s been 11 years since I jumped into being an entrepreneur and hired the first person to work for me. My journey since then has been jam-packed full of lessons from my own experience and from working with so many amazing clients doing amazing things in their own businesses. In this episode, I share my top 11 lessons on all things hiring, leadership, and general tips for being in business. From c...

Welcome, everyone! I’m so excited to have you here for the very first episode of Big Dreams Great Teams.  My name is Paula Maidens and I’ve been a coach and consultant for 11 years now. I specialise in teaching incredible entrepreneurs how to hire the right people and build strategic systems that give you the time to focus on running your business.  As your business grows, you’ll need help from tr...