
Shannon Waller's Team Success
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.
Latest episodes

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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Dec 15, 2022 • 17min
When The Who Is You: A Simple Thinking Process For Powerful Teamwork
Have you ever wondered when to bring someone else onto a project—and when not to? That makes most of us! Every person on your team wants to be useful, but not everyone knows how or when their contribution will make the most impact. That’s where the “When The Who Is You” exercise comes in. Listen in as Shannon walks you through this simple, quick exercise designed to help you facilitate incredible Unique Ability® Teamwork and take the guesswork (and guilt!) out of asking for help.
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Dec 8, 2022 • 25min
ADHD As A Gift, with Faster Than Normal Author, Peter Shankman
For years, people have jokingly used the term “ADHD” to explain their distractions and mistakes. But now there’s a growing awareness of neurodiversity as a different way of processing experiences, which, in addition to some challenges, also comes with certain abilities and advantages. In this episode, Shannon interviews Peter Shankman, keynote speaker and author of Faster Than Normal, about his experience of learning how to capitalize on his ADHD and how companies can benefit from including team members who are neurodivergent.
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Dec 1, 2022 • 7min
Are You Guilty of Drive-By Delegations?
Entrepreneurial companies thrive when their team members are engaged and bring their whole selves to work. It’s more fun, and it produces great results. But if the entrepreneur forgets to genuinely connect when handing off tasks and doesn’t seem to care enough to check in along the way, they risk having their team members drift off into disengagement. Here’s how to make sure that never happens.
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