Ari talks with Joanna, a Less Doing Certified Coach with over 20 years of experience working at mom and pops, non-profits, start-ups, and entrepreneurs as a consultant and coach. She has undergraduate and graduate degrees in the storytelling space, and is adept at guiding entrepreneurs to increase productivity by returning to their own stories. They talk about Joanna’s new coaching and what that’s looking like.

Highlights

Joanna’s new coaching - 1:08
Doing a lot of talking to people - 2:02
Some of the Less Doing principles - 2:14
The importance of asynchronous communication - 3:04
The lack of ability to use Slack - 4:26
Forcing yourself to live with paper - 8:02
Benefits of asynchronous communication - 10:01
Being an active listener - 17:01
So many teams are not good at listening - 17:24
Four KPIs that you have to focus on - 29:10
Making yourself more replaceable - 29:55
Planning your journal - 32:55
Always record a Loom video to explain what you want - 33:32

Episode Resources

476 - Asynchronous vs. Synchronous Communication with Joanna