World's Greatest Boss

In the last episode, we talked about the SIMPLE and easy way of tracking your team's happiness. In today's episode, I am joyed to be joined by one of my former bosses, Lyndal Larkin. We will be diving into the topic of quiet quitting; the reasons why it happens, how to avoid it as a boss, and the experiences that both Lyndal and I have had with it. Lyndal Larkin is an accomplished and passionate L...

Employee happiness can be a difficult thing to measure. We're talking about implementing a simple method to help you measure your team's happiness over time. We will review some examples of how it should and should not be implemented from my past experiences. You will be able to immediately use these tools to help your own businesses thrive with happy employees since people are the backbone of all...

Llisa Prater is an innovative leader with a proven track record for helping assess, plan, and execute all things diversity and inclusion, human resources, and people and culture. Llisa has worked in a variety of industries, including entertainment, academia, retail, non-profits, and start-ups. She is currently an independent consultant you can hire to come in and help with the conversation around...

Development plans are an important component of supporting your team and helping them grow. To illustrate how helpful it can be to provide your team with the resources to create a development plan, I am sharing a bit about my experience with them and diving into a great framework you can use to create development plans with your team. *Find the Development Plan Template here: https://docs.google.c...

Lindsey Schwartz is a best-selling author, master community builder, and the founder of Powerhouse Women. She is fiercely committed to supporting other women. Lindsey invests her time mentoring women and girls of all ages, from high-achieving entrepreneurs to high school students. Lindsey is also a real estate and angel investor for female-founded companies, including the beverage brand Lite Pink....

Any entrepreneur knows that hiring great people takes a lot of time and effort. Business owners also know it's crucial that they make smart choices with what they spend their time and energy on. Thankfully, recruiters are available to support your entire hiring process by saving you time, providing expertise, and creating a great candidate experience so that you can turn your applicants into emplo...

In the last episode, I shared why I believe it's important to incorporate personal development tools into your business and provided some tips to help you start incorporating them into your business. Now I am excited to sit down with Stacy Gissal and dive into a tool that is new to the business world that will help you understand your team members, how to bring out their best work, and how you wor...

I am REALLY passionate about creating more meaningful workplaces, especially within small businesses. One way to do this is to incorporate personal development tools into your business and culture. In this episode, I share experiences that lead me to believe incorporating personal development into your business is so important. You'll walk away with five tips that you can start using today to inco...

Jackie Serviss is a seasoned Human Resources Executive and Certified Executive Coach (CEC) with over a decade of experience assisting leaders in aligning people strategies and talent acquisition best practices to scale their organization. As a business owner and people strategist, Jackie leverages her leadership and integrated approach to drive strategy around talent planning and forecasting, orga...

Shannon Weinstein is a CPA and fractional CFO who helps online entrepreneurs build their businesses and grow with confidence while keeping more of what they earn. She delivers tech strategy services to help her clients think strategically about their money, financial strategy, and cash flow forecasting so they can reach the next level in their business without stressing over the numbers. I love Sh...

Ensuring your business complies with all applicable laws may not be a glamorous task, but it is of the utmost importance. There are different federal, state, and local regulations you must follow depending on how your workers are classified, where they work, and how many employees you have. I'm sharing a compliance checklist that you can use to ensure that everything is in order and you aren't uni...

In the previous two episodes of the Back to the Basics series, we discussed establishing your mission and core values and creating and executing your vision. Now it's time to talk about the dreaded "M" word....meetings. So many people hate meetings. They try to skip them altogether or multi-task through them because they are often thought to be inefficient. However, if you have a structure for how...

In the last episode, you heard how to become clear on why your business does what it does, its purpose, and the core values that you hold within your organization. Now we're going to establish a vision for where you're going. We're going to cover how to create your vision, set a strategy you can execute, and make it come to life with your team. *connect with me on IG @jackie.koch_ *find more infor...

To kick off our new season and new branding, we're going to start with a five-episode Back to the Basics series. This series is meant to help you take a step back and create some core principles that will support you in building and leading a great team. I am going to help you think through some of the crucial things that you need to have a healthy organization because the health of your organizat...

Throughout my career, I’ve noticed five common hiring mistakes that the entrepreneurs, hiring managers, and founders tend to make. I break down exactly what those are and share different tools and strategies that you can put into place to avoid those same issues. I highlight some antiquated hiring and interview approaches that don’t work in today’s employment market, and explain how you can update...

I’m joined by Ivan Alo & LaDante McMillon, co-founders of New Age Capital, a seed stage venture capital firm and lifestyle company that invests in tech and tech-enabled startups that are founded and led by Black and Latinx entrepreneurs. We discuss their journey to launching New Age Capital, common hiring roadblocks they see in the startup world, and what traits they look for in the leaders th...

Firing is one one the not-so-fun parts of managing a team, but it’s crucial for the success of your business. There are six main signs that it might be time for an employee to leave your company, and I break down how to recognize them and approach performance reviews. I explain how to set up a 30-day improvement plan, investigate why someone has stalled out in their role, and optimize one-on-one c...

Today I am chatting with Ashley Herd. Ashley is an attorney and HR leader with experience in a global law firm and companies including Yum! Brands and McKinsey & Company. She now leads Manager Method®, an HR and legal firm providing scalable employment documents and tools for companies of all sizes, to help employers and employees work together. Listen along as Ashely and I share our advice an...

Today’s episode will make you feel more empowered about figuring out the right time to give feedback to your team and how to do it. It is your job as a boss to give feedback and to have these hard conversations. You want to create a culture at your company where team members, including you, feel comfortable and confident giving each other honest feedback, face to face, and in real-time. Listen alo...

In the world of remote work, a regular one-on-one meeting is so critical and so important to make sure you're keeping in touch with your team members. Not only is it a great way to help you build alignment and help them develop, but it also allows you to get to know them personally, which is strongly valued by staff. One-on-ones give you a set-in-stone place where you share information and communi...

I recently read a study that found 11% of people change their minds after signing an employment offer. There are so many factors that go into that, but how can you help your new hires feel excited and solid in their decision so that they don’t back out before the first day? I’m sharing my top five tips for creating a seamless onboarding process, including how to prepare beforehand and what to do d...

In last week's episode, I mentioned that paid parental leave is something that’s becoming more of a table steaks benefit during the hiring process. No one knows that better than today’s guest, Allison Whalen, the co-founder and CEO of Parentaly, a business service that helps companies improve the experience of paid parental leave, so that employees feel supported and businesses thrive.  We di...

As a small business owner, offering benefits to your employees can feel a little bit intimidating and costly. I break down the different benefits you should consider offering, including health insurance, paid time off, retirement solutions, and other perks that really help you stand out to potential employees.  I share some simple tools to help get started with setting up a health insurance p...

When most people think of work culture, their mind goes to happy hours, gifts, and other incentives. But work culture goes so much deeper than that一it’s who you hire, how you communicate, build trust, and make decisions. I believe that a blend of in-person and remote work is here to stay, so I’ve been doing alot of research on how to cultivate collaborative, inclusive, and thriving online teams.&...

I’m joined by business coach and entrepreneur Jess Glazer to talk about her transition from a burnt out solopreneur to a visionary business leader. We discuss why setting up systems before you hire is so critical, how to truly delegate as a leader, and what it looks like when your ego is in the way of your own success and ability to scale. Jess breaks down her experience with bartering and shares...