Building Teams with TEAMES & CO

In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike interview David Harkins who is a strategic change consultant and a professor of entrepreneurship. Show Highlights: David shares the process that he follows as a coach for entrepreneurs and businesses from current state assessments to implementing a culture change process: 1:58 Tracy and David discuss making decisions without all the information that they woul...

In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike interview Tracie Sponenberg, Chief People Officer of the Granite Group. A great conversation on how leaders can build communications, support their teams and ultimately put people first.  Show Highlights: Tracie S shares more about the Granite Group and her role as the Chief People Officer, including the most pressing challenges coming out of COVID, and...

In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike interview Michelle Tracz, CPA, CFE,PLLC. Michelle is the founder and owner of Michelle Tracz CPA firm, and an active leader in the North Carolina Business community. We spoke to her about how she and her team help organizations build a strong foundation, adapt to changing conditions and how she integrates into their teams to support their growth. Show Highlig...

In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike interview Jon Jones, the president and CEO of Anthroware. Anthroware’s mission is to untangle the complexity in routine workflows by creating digital tools that automate, streamline, and simplify processes. Anthroware believes that software doesn’t have to be hard to use, and business doesn’t have to be complex; your team can stop worrying about busy work and...

In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike interview Scott Rutter, a trusted advisor and community influencer on how he has built a strong network and works to support his community and teams.   Show Highlights: Scott shares his perspective on building authentic, human centered, relationships. (2:05) Mike and Scott discuss the difference between transactional relationship building (networkin...

In this week’s episode,  Tracy speaks to Chris Gorges, Founder and CEO of Thompson and Prince , a Branding and Creative Agency. We cover a variety of topics, but focus on how Chris has built an incredible network, how this “extended team” helps him better serve his customers, and how he approaches providing an exceptional customer experience. As a brand builder, Chris has a unique perspective...

This week we are revisiting best practices in leadership training. As we prepare for the TEAMES Global launch this week (June 29th),  we have been receiving many inquiries about leadership training and how to best train leaders at each stage in their career. We hope you enjoy this re-play. Sign up for updates from TEAMES Global and all of our courses as they launch! And all students can reque...

Show Highlights  In this week’s episode, Mike interviews Kaleb Hupp, a former infantry officer in the army, and currently an owner and partner at Rally Point Wealth Management . Mike and Kaleb talk about Kaleb’s experiences in the army and how his lessons in leadership, organizational effectiveness, and strategy have translated to his career as a management consultant, and now as an entrepren...

Show Highlights  In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike speak about the launch of TEAMES Global. This is a great episode where the TEAMES & Co team highlights how they practice what they preach – listening to customers and developing products based on customer demand. They walk through the intent behind their TEAMES Global launch and the products that they’re creating.  Are you ready...

Show Highlights  In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike speak about Strategic Planning. This is a great episode that builds off of our previous discussion on Current State Analysis. As organizations are in new phases of planning, we highlight some tips and insights that we have learned from leading a variety of strategic planning processes. Are you ready to kick off your strategic plan? Tune...

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames and Mike Vaggalis interview Clyde Brown, Vice President of Program Management at RTriad Enterprises, LLC. Clyde shares with Mike and Tracy more about RTriad’s work to build the field of cyber security while also supporting people as they look to join the growing field. Through their KnowWon community and apprenticeship program, they are leading the way in expand...

In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike discuss how leaders can use a current state analysis   Show Highlights  Related Links Learn more about how TEAMES & CO builds effective and empowered teams that deliver results at https://teamesandco.com/teams/organizational-design Follow TEAMES & CO on Facebook   LinkedIn , Twitter (@teamesandco) and Instagram ( @teamesandco ) Wan...

In this week’s episode, Tracy and Mike discuss how leaders can best support their teams as they navigate hybrid work or continue working from home. We discuss how to build feedback loops and help teams transition into a new phase of our work processes. For your team this may be coming back to the office, continuing to work from home, or a hybrid work model.  Show Highlights  Why a “Team...

In this week’s episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Catherine Hayes, DMD, SM, DMSc, CPCC, PCC. Catherine is the Author of “Everything Is Going to Be Okay!: From the Projects to Harvard to Freedom” . In addition to being an acclaimed author, Catherine is an Enneagram expert, and shared her insights on how the enneagram can help team members build self awareness and foster better communicat...

In this week’s episode, Mike and Tracy speak about Bridging the Gap in OnBoarding. As leaders, we invest an incredible amount of time in hiring just the right people, but often skip the most important step: On-Boarding. Whether welcoming a new member of the team to your company, or a new team member from within your organization, a well planned onboarding process makes an employee feel valued, wel...

In this week’s episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Geraud Staton, Executive Director of Helius. Geraud shares how Helius provides training and coaching for small businesses and necessity-driven entrepreneurs. They work closely with small business owners to help them earn and pay a fair living wage. The program starts with a 10-week business training program that ends with participants ha...

In this week’s episode, Mike and Tracy speak about Gaps in Leadership Training. We have exciting news that we will share, and will answer our listener questions.  Show Highlights  Tracy & Mike share exciting news on the launch of a new TEAMES & CO tool, TEAMES Global, an online learning platform aimed at helping every team member build skills, develop stronger teams, and accelera...

In this week’s episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Jeff Kaplan Director at Venture Asheville and Co-Founder and CEO of Just Kibbitz. We speak about start-ups, growing your team, and how learning about your customer is your best investment.  Show Highlights  What is Venture Asheville and how does it support the start-up community  (1:59) Celebrating entrepreneurship and the...

In this week’s episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Leah Craig Fieser, Executive Director at Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. In honor of National Adopt a Shelter Pet Day we are interviewing Leah Craig Fieser, the Executive Director of Brother Wolf Animal Rescue in Asheville, NC. We invited Leah to speak with us about her team as one of our goals is to bring awareness to adopting senior pets,...

It is a Throwback Thursday!! Today we release an archive from our podcast file! Recently you have heard some of our new podcasts with guest experts, but today’s episode is a throwback from a discussion on organizational design that Luis and Tracy had at the end of last year. We thought it would be fun to take a trip back to the archives and share this short episode on organizational design. ...

In this week’s episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Brett Hampson, a Finance leader at a Fortune 100 company. Brett is an experienced Finance leader, with extensive knowledge about leading teams and executing on results.  Brett and Tracy speak about how to set expectations with your team, support them through change like working from home, and how he is changing the way he plans with...

In this week’s episode we had the pleasure of speaking with Nicole Belisle, Co-Founder & Lead Facilitator, of Collective Channel. Nicole and Tracy speak about the Service Leadership Mentality, building authenticity, and the role of a leader. It is a great episode for all those listeners looking to build better communication and collaboration, while driving results! Show Highlights  How to...

This week Tracy Eames, Founder of TEAMES & CO, sits down with Troy Johnson, CEO of YM4C, a non-profit enrichment program that is committed to building strong, trusting relationships, positive attitudes, and life skills in youth through practical teachings and social entrepreneurship.  YM4C is a community centric organization that partners with local businesses, public schools, community c...

We are thrilled to be kicking off Season 2 of the podcast with our guest Susana L Harris, from PhD Balance. Susanna shares the mission of PhD Balance, a community creating space for academics to learn from shared experiences. They want graduate students to be able to openly discuss and get help for difficult situations, from navigating academia to dealing with mental health struggles.  We als...

Welcome back to Building Teams with TEAMES & CO podcast. TEAMES & CO is rooted in the idea that effective teams deliver memorable customer experiences and exceptional business results. Our goal on this podcast is to help you bring together your team, strategy and customer experience to accelerate the growth of your business. Today are sharing an exciting announcement as we prepar...