

Shannon Waller's Team Success
Shannon Waller
Shannon Waller, author of The Team Success Handbook, has been the entrepreneurial team expert at Strategic Coach® since 1995. Shannon Waller’s Team Success podcasts are a series of insights around teamwork and success that she’s gained from working with entrepreneurs.
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Apr 6, 2023 • 23min
How To Tell If Your Idea Is A “Compelling Offer” Or A “Convincing Argument”
Will Duke is a business owner who has been using Strategic Coach® concepts to help his clients think differently about security. Here, Will tells Shannon Waller how he discovered the difference between a “compelling offer” and a “convincing argument.” Entrepreneurs are great at crafting compelling offers for those around them, but what does it mean if you can’t get your team on board? Here’s how to identify when a compelling offer is actually a disguised convincing argument.
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Mar 23, 2023 • 53min
What Kind Of Assistant Is Best For You? With Steven Neuner And Ryan Cassin
Discover the value of having an assistant for entrepreneurs with Shannon Waller and Superpowers partners Neuner and Cassin. Learn about different types of assistants and how to choose the right one based on your goals. Explore the role of an executive assistant in integrating personal and business aspects, maximizing time for personal relationships, and finding the perfect match for effective teamwork.

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Mar 9, 2023 • 51min
All Things Assistants—Do You Deserve One?
Discover the transformative impact of having a strong partnership with an executive assistant, the value of recognizing unique abilities and embracing teamwork, and the importance of investing in a skilled assistant to enhance productivity and drive business growth.

Feb 23, 2023 • 20min
The Partnership Mindset—A Relationship Superpower
Those who pay a lot of attention to other people’s positions, titles, accomplishments, or money unknowingly create a gap in those potential partnerships. Shannon Waller instead sees all people, no matter their status, as potential collaborators. Listen as Shannon explains how to unlock the superpower that creates teamwork opportunities with anyone.
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Feb 9, 2023 • 58min
Come Up For Air, with Nick Sonnenberg
Is email eating into your time? Do you have to keep asking what’s happening with projects and waiting for a response? If you want to boost the results in your business, listen in as Shannon speaks with efficiency expert Nick Sonnenberg about his new book, Come Up for Air, and learn about his simple yet powerful “CPR” framework.
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Feb 2, 2023 • 13min
Why I Hate The Word “Sure”
You’re going back and forth with a team member over something you disagree about, when they say, “Sure.” That “sure” makes Shannon Waller crazy. It means that the person has shut down and isn’t fully in agreement. If you’re committed to team success and having a Self-Managing Company®, Shannon has tips for how to re-engage both sides in this conversation.
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Jan 26, 2023 • 40min
Multiplication By Subtraction … In Real Life, with Ben Laws
It’s one of the hardest conversations you’ll have as an entrepreneur. You want the business to have a bigger future, but someone on your team isn’t aligned with that growth. Ben Laws is here this week to talk Multiplication By Subtraction and how to do it so everyone wins.
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Jan 19, 2023 • 10min
The Importance Of Keeping Pace With Yourself
Are you keeping pace with yourself? Are you aware of all the progress you’ve made—all your wins, all the things you’ve learned, and all the capabilities you’ve grown? Or are you more focused on a future ideal you’d like to reach? In this episode, Shannon walks you through the importance of keeping pace with yourself and how it affects your confidence, performance, and personal growth. Keep listening to learn more!
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Jan 12, 2023 • 42min
How To Hire And Retain The Right-Fit People For Your Business
Not having the right person in a leadership role in your business is costly on many levels: recruitment and resource expenses, opportunities lost, your culture poisoned, and on top of that, more stress and less freedom as the business owner. An industry leader in hiring for critical roles in entrepreneurial businesses, Alec Broadfoot has the formula for avoiding all of that. In this conversation with Shannon, Alec outlines his process—with an outstanding success rate that is 36% better than the industry average—for hiring and retaining the right people.
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Dec 22, 2022 • 14min
If Your New Ideas Are Causing Chaos For The Team, Try This Approach
You may not know this, but if you’re the visionary in your business, your team may think of you as the chaos agent. Why? In this episode, Shannon explains how to set up this one crucial bit of context when you’re discussing new ideas with team members so you can prevent teamwork chaos, confusion, resentment, and frustration.
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