EOS for a Better Business, Better Life

Scott's book is called, "The Entrepreneurs Field Guide - Design your life before someone else does it for you!" but in fact, you could insert any other phrase in there - 'your year', 'your day', 'your business' etc. Success isn’t rocket science. It’s all about getting clear on what you want and focusing on it. Take a moment and ask yourself, what would happen if you set huge ambitions and designed your life around making these things real?  So, as we head into the New Year, have you planned out what you want that year to look like.  Are you serious about what is truly important & have blocked time out for it in your calendar? Do you know the optimal number of days that you want to work in the year? Have you planned out all your holidays & family events?  Are you choosing the people you spend time with? Do you fire friends who don't share the same values? Do you use the delegate & elevate tool to decide what's important to you in your personal life In this episode, Scott shares how he plans out his year to suit his life, how he uses the EOS People Analyser to decide which family & friends fit into his 5, 15, 150 model & how he uses the Delegate & Elevate tool to understand what he should spend his time doing. If you're ready to make 2022 your best year yet then you listen in & hear how the EOS tools can help you to design your year before someone else does it for you! Scott's book: https://scottrusnak.com/entrepreneurs-field-guide  Head to our website to get the top 3 tips along with all the resources that Scott shares - https://www.debrachantry-taylor.com/podcast Debra Chantry-Taylor Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner #betterbusinessbetterlife #entrepreneur #leadership #eosimplementer Professional EOS Implementer Australia Professional EOS Implementer New Zealand

Sara is on a quest to help owners get what they want from their family business and build lasting legacies. As the former director of the nationally recognized Family Business Center at the University of Saint Thomas, a Certified EOS Implementer™ and the founder of The Sage Pages she helps her clients get real, simple results. In this podcast Sara shares many real-life stories & tips from working with hundreds of family businesses. As her name suggests, Sara knows how to B Stern with her family clients to ensure that they get the next from their business & their life & she has had many successes in this area. Sara's top 3 tips are based on the Harvard Business School's Three-Circle Model of the Family Business System: She recommends getting clarity on the Vision for each the 3 points: - Ownership - Family  - Business Sara is also an Author & you can find her book, Start Here: A Guide for Family Business Succession (The Sage Pages) at the link below. https://www.amazon.com/Start-Here-Family-Business-Succession/dp/1726710610  Or https://www.thesagepages.com/  Head to our website - https://www.debrachantry-taylor.com/podcast Debra Chantry-Taylor Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner #betterbusinessbetterlife #entrepreneur #leadership #eosimplementer Professional EOS Implementer Australia Professional EOS Implementer New Zealand

Wade Jackson is a master storyteller, the founder of Covert Theatre and 'Sexy Monkey Pants' at Inspired Learning. He is also an author of several books, including Jolt Challenge, a manual and workbook to deep dive into oneself.  In this episode, he discusses how improv is a form of genuine play that teaches you about yourself and connects you to others. It creates a truly safe environment where failure is just as okay, it's part of the learning process. He opened Covert Theatre's doors to make space for anyone to come self create, self discover and self express. As a high performance coach, he takes the principles of improv into the corporate world. He aligns them to business needs, using improv exercises as a reflective mirror to help leadership teams develop self awareness. He also works with companies in the human-centred design space, helping create a strong culture where creativity flourishes.  Find out how to get started with improv and the tools he teaches for creating creativity & building a life filled with meaningful happiness.  Wade's Top 3 Tips 1. Find your purpose and passion It comes down to, how do you want to contribute? And also, what excites you? What are you enthusiastic about? If you can figure out what it is you're enthusiastic about, then you're playing in that ballpark of your purpose and passion. But I think in Western society, we've overblown the word purpose and made it too big. There's different ways you can contribute, you can contribute through through your work. Or you can contribute in the community in different ways. So what is it that feeds the soul? Jolt Challenge manual was a process of helping you discover it. 2. Have a plan There's a Chinese proverb, 'There are many moons of the mountain, but only one moon to be seen from at Summit.' So you may have a plan, but don't be rigid. You might be shifting paths. You might get to the same goal, but how do you get there will be different. Have a plan that you hold loosely. 3. Persevere Just keep going. There's a lot of noise out there like social media. I mean, I see some of the statistics around what it does to mental health and well being. Just ignore the noise and don't play that game. Play your own game. Jolt Challenge & other resources: https://www.inspiredlearning.global/store  Head to our website - https://www.debrachantry-taylor.com/podcast Debra Chantry-Taylor Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner #betterbusinessbetterlife #entrepreneur #leadership #eosimplementer Professional EOS Implementer Australia Professional EOS Implementer New Zealand

Ken Brickley is CEO of MacroActive, who has a vast range of experience from working in Silicon Valley and large businesses like GE, to founding his own startup. In this episode, he shares the life lessons he's learnt on the journey from Silicon Valley employee to co-founder and CEO. He discusses how to capture world class talent long before you're technically hiring for the role and growing at a pace that puts clients first.  Find out the biggest challenges he's faced as a CEO, how he streamlines his focus & energy to free up mental headspace and how to feel the happiness of swimming downstream every day!  Ken's Top 3 Tips 1. Read The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt The theory of constraints is, imagine a box, like a manufacturing line, and you think of where the bottleneck is in your manufacturing line. You solve for that bottleneck. Treat your business, your startup the same way and ignore everything except the bottleneck, within reason. Then when that bottleneck is solved, it immediately shifts to somewhere else on the manufacturing line, and you immediately have a new bottleneck. And so then focus on that new bottleneck, but try as hard as you can, to really just focus on those bottlenecks. 2. Define your why in a single word Really understand and know and define your why. My challenge is to try to write down a word, a single word that resonates so much with you that that word could answer the reason why you were put on this earth. It's going to be a different word for every person, right? But then really ask yourself, am I going to work and living by this word? If you're not, you're swimming upstream and if you are, it legitimately feels like you are swimming downstream, it is the coolest feeling in the world. I have done both and I can tell you hand on heart, swimming downstream is lot easier and more fun. It's profoundly impacted my overall happiness in life and I recommend it for everybody. 3. Have core values entirely aligned with your co-founder The core team that you start with, your co founder or your first hires, make sure that your values are entirely aligned and they're really clearly spelled out. If your values are not aligned, when the downs come - and they will come, things are gonna wobble. Being super aligned on those core values makes the tough days so much easier. You know you've got each other's back. The alignment of values is one of the core ingredients in building trust. And if you don't have absolute complete trust, with your founder, or your first hires, it just makes it really hard. Listening to this right now you might be thinking, oh man, I kind of know that person is not the right person, or whatever. I will tell you this, walk away from it. There's gonna be another idea. Idea is 1% execution is 99%. If you guys are not on the same page, the execution is gonna go wrong later on down the road, and it's going to be exponentially more difficult to unwind yourself, when you've had investors and all that kind of stuff. Make sure that you and your partner have a circle of trust that's unbreakable. Head to our website - https://www.debrachantry-taylor.com/podcast Debra Chantry-Taylor Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner #betterbusinessbetterlife #entrepreneur #leadership #eosimplementer Professional EOS Implementer Australia Professional EOS Implementer New Zealand

Tim Jones is the Grow Good Guy, who works with businesses to find their purpose and attain their B Corp certification. A certified B Corporation meets the highest standards of social and environmental impact - this transparent and meaningful contribution to the world is one of Tim's core passions. In this episode he shares the subconscious awakening that led him to pivot away from the medical device industry, to join the movement of companies that were aiming to be the best for the world, not the best in the world. "It seemed all anyone cared about was making money. They didn't care about whether people or the planet got destroyed on the journey.  That was the thing that really wasn't sitting with me and that was where my daughter really played a part. Hang on a minute, what world am I creating that she's going to inherit?" He also discusses economic benefits of the B Corp movement and the difference it makes from a business point of view.  Learn more about getting aligned with your purpose, reflecting your authentic self in work and the future of the movement that uses business as a force for good.   Tim's Top 3 Tips 1. Get the alignment of you and your business If you don't actually know who you are, and you don't actually know what you stand for, you're always going to be suffering from what I call the authenticity gap. You're going to be doing things at work and wanting to build a business that's not actually reflective of who you really, really are. That's the hard, hard sort of mahi that needs to be done that so few people actually want to do. But I and my business are one. Everything that I think and feel I get to express in my business, and that is liberating and exciting in equal measures. 2. Do more outbound sales activity If you're in a business and you think you're doing as much as you can, you're not. You can always do more. Just as an example, I sent 500 emails out a month ago about a campaign I was initiating. From that I got probably 30 to 40 replies 'yes, I want in'. About a year ago I did another campaign, I sent 1000 messages via LinkedIn. Got 100 replies and got 30 clients. Just do more of it. They might be sitting there going, 'Oh, my word, if only there was someone out there who could solve it and help us.' That could be you. 3. Aim to be the best for the world, not the best in the world When we're talking about purpose versus money, can you name the company that was listed number three on the NZX in March 2013? No course you can't, because no one cares. But you can remember a brand or a company that went out of its way to do something good, that was meaningful and made a contribution. Really think about how your organisation can make a dent in the universe. You're going to be remembered for the thing that you did and how you made people feel. Mentioned in this episode: In pursuit of purpose video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFcmGvFvJZg Free ebooks & resources: https://www.growgood.co/freeresources Head to our website - https://www.debrachantry-taylor.com/podcast Debra Chantry-Taylor Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner #betterbusinessbetterlife #entrepreneur #leadership #eosimplementer Professional EOS Implementer Australia Professional EOS Implementer New Zealand

Shelley Woodrow is a certified EOS Implementer who walks the EOS life - doing what she loves, with people she loves, making a huge difference while having time to pursue other passions.  Born and raised in an entrepreneurial family, she learnt how to run & own your own business and lead people effectively. Working extensively in media then following her passion for coaching, she discovered EOS and fell in love.  In this episode she shares her favourite tools and case studies of how EOS has transformed the businesses & leadership teams she's worked with.  People, especially entrepreneurs, tend to over-complicate things, making it harder than it needs to be. Find out how you can simplify to optimise, isolate & delegate what you don't love to do and have the right people in the right seat - including yourself!    "Get great energy that's derived from the things that you like and love to do. You're focused on your strengths & talents, and you're able to focus in the business where you want to add the most value. And so you get to live the EOS life. Part of the joy for me is helping you see beyond the business results. What kind of life do you want to live?" Looking to figure out what your definition of EOS life is or how you can live it? Don't miss the full episode!  Shelley's Top 3 Tips 1. To think is to create The lesson that I've learned is, thoughts are things. I want my input to be positive and the things that I think about to be positive, so that I create and manifest the things that I want in business. To think is to create so be careful what you think about. In the EOS process for sure, be careful what you ask for because you will get it using this process. 2. When intention is clear & I take action = 100% results I found when my intention is clear, when I know what I want whether it's in business or in my personal life, the mechanism will show up. The mechanism will appear when I am clear. So put out there into the universe what I want. Setting that intention, then taking action and mobilising energy towards that intention equals 100% result. Because the way that I will get there may change a million times, but when I'm clear, I usually get that thing that I want. 3. Read The EOS Life book If you haven't read The EOS Life book, read it. For me and for my clients, my wish is that we all can live our best EOS life. Get the things that we want from our businesses, but also get the things that we want in our personal lives and have that balance, however we define it. I wish for all of you to live your best EOS life. Head to our website - https://www.debrachantry-taylor.com/podcast Debra Chantry-Taylor Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner #betterbusinessbetterlife #entrepreneur #leadership #eosimplementer Professional EOS Implementer Australia Professional EOS Implementer New Zealand

Mel Rowsell is a leadership coach & facilitator, as well as co-founder of Vend, a tech startup with rapid growth. Affectionately known as camp mother, she managed People & Culture as Vend grew from 0 to 250 employees.   In this episode, Mel discusses the constant feeling of imposter syndrome while wearing the many, many hats founders & entrepreneurs are required to wear. After leaving day-to-day operations to start her coaching practice, she was surprised at her own resilience and resourcefulness. She shares how she overcame imposter syndrome and the ups & downs of a founder's journey. An expert at human connection in the workplace, she also shares tried and true advice on creating a curious & empathetic workplace culture. Find out if you're inadvertently rewarding behaviour that's harming your company and how to lead in the Fourth Imagination Age. Mel's Top 3 Tips 1. Hire for culture add, not just culture fit You need to be very careful with your hiring. Don't just hire for culture fit, because then you can get a whole lot of people who are all the same, but hiring for culture add and trying to get that diversity. People who share those same values as the organisation who really dig the things that the organisation digs, but who don't all look the same. So that's the most important thing in hiring, and not being scared to hire people smarter than you. 2. Onboard new employees carefully People would come into Vend with very different stories and different experiences of how to work in an organisation, especially as it was growing. We were at maybe 150 people plus. So we were kind of larger, but we acted very differently to other organisations of a similar size. We had a really intensive two week onboarding process, where people would learn about the organisation, learn about how we did things, make friends, learn about the entire ecosystem, about customers & the customer perspective. It was a real hard and fast introduction to everything to do with Vend. So we didn't leave them to get this idea of what it was like to work at Vend through osmosis. We managed that really, really carefully. 3. Develop your leadership team Leadership is so important. So that's why I think development in startups are so important because when you have your founding team, and especially if you are being driven by investment, so you've grown really quickly, it's a race to try and develop your founding team to the same velocity as the organisation is developing. So for example, let's say your Chief Revenue Officer or Chief Marketing Officer or whatever, comes on board when you are at 30 people. Then you grow to be 250 people, in multiple markets and in multiple countries, and this person all of a sudden, has a much bigger remit, a much bigger team, having to think much more strategically and deal with large, multi-national partners. The stakes are considerably higher. Yet this person has grown with you and they might be a really great cultural fit. However, there's a real risk that they're not going to be able to grow fast enough to be able to do the job competently, when the organisation is much bigger. If you bring in someone from the outside, then you have all the risks of, are they going to be a good culture fit? What dynamics are they going to bring into the leadership team? Or you've got, can I grow this person so that they can do this role competently? With mentorship, coaching, training, education, etc. Head to our website - https://www.debrachantry-taylor.com/podcast Debra Chantry-Taylor Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner #betterbusinessbetterlife #entrepreneur #leadership #eosimplementer Professional EOS Implementer Australia Professional EOS Implementer New Zealand

Danny Mishek is President and Visionary of VistaTek, a family owned full-service manufacturing company in the US. One of his proudest achievements is recently publishing a children's Christmas book that gets everyone talking about their fondest, warmest memories.  In business, he puts innovation at the heart of VistaTek. They strive to be world-class innovators, not just competing in the Midwest, or the US.  He shares how EOS has helped him delegate and elevate, freeing him up to do what he's best at & loves doing - connecting with people and discovering growth opportunities.  In life, he consistently pushes himself outside his comfort zone, like riding a real bull or writing and self-publishing a book. He discusses the importance of sharing your personality and true character, which in turn opens you up to interesting conversations and deeper relationships. Find out why he wrote a Christmas book seemingly out of the blue, his experience in a family business that went through a merger & EOS implementation and what it actually felt like to ride a bull!  Danny's Top 3 Tips 1. Try to look through other people's lenses I think that helped me a lot in writing the book. I used an illustrator who did an amazing job. Her name is Megan Shumway. She put a person in a wheelchair, people with different skin colour tones so no matter who looks at this book, it's through their lens and they can see what they want to see. So when you make decisions for your person, for your employees, for your vendors, what are they looking at, through their eyes? Some people get excited about the holidays, because they get to travel. Other people, it's heartbreaking because the bills go up, so what's it like through their lens? 2. Get out of your comfort zone then share it! I've had more success being uncomfortable, and getting out of my comfort zone widens it too. So when somebody thinks they're going to bring in an uncomfortable situation, to you that's not very uncomfortable. You can deal with it easier. And when you get out of your comfort zone, share that with people. Share your personality and your character, because it's been so fun to talk to people about my book, but it's grown into other relationships. People want to know, how is it to have a beehive and to write a book, to be self-published; they want to talk about manufacturing and manufacturers. There’s not that many of us in the US, people say, ‘Oh, you make something? How? How does that work? What kind of schooling do you need? Do you have internships?' 3. Be yourself Being different, being out there and sharing that you're different. We’re trying to be the same. Don't be the same. Be who you are, but then share it loud and proud. Have your core values, you should have the business ones and your personal ones. But just be true to yourself. If you know what your intentions are and they’re pure, we're all going to make mistakes, but if you have good intentions, people are going to understand when you have to apologise. They'll say, ‘Yeah, I get it. You screwed up, but you owned it.’ I'd say as long as you're transparent and with good intentions, you're going to go far in life. Head to our website - https://www.debrachantry-taylor.com/podcast Debra Chantry-Taylor Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner #betterbusinessbetterlife #entrepreneur #leadership #eosimplementer Professional EOS Implementer NZ Professional EOS Implementer Australia Professional EOS Implementer New Zealand

Adam Harris is Frank and Fearless. As a leadership coach, consultant and facilitator, he applies this approach in all areas of his professional and personal life. In this episode, he discusses why so many great companies miss out on their potential and shares the important questions all business owners must ask themselves. He stresses the importance of having difficult conversations - avoiding them is a disservice to everyone involved. Despite the discomfort, disagreement and uncertainty then creates opportunity. His mission is to create the space to have the right conversations, at the right time, with the right people. Having worked with 25 businesses to implement EOS, he also tells us his favourite EOS tools and how they’ve transformed his clients. Find out how leaning into being frank and fearless has taken him to incredible and challenging new heights, both figuratively and literally! Adam's Top 3 Tips 1. Clarity creates confidence Human nature dictates that we, our bodies and our minds will take the path of least resistance. We're fundamentally lazy. So if people, the business owner, the members of the organisation, the stakeholders - when people don't have clarity, their minds start wandering and they start going off into tangents, creating however many God knows different stories. So when you're able to give people clarity, it actually means that you put their mind at rest. So where are we heading as an organisation, where and what is it that I want right now, communicate it through. People then become self-assured. It goes back to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I feel safe and if I feel safe, then I can do what's definitely needed. 2. Create an environment where you're being challenged I believe that we all need to be challenged. It's actually about having our questions questioned, not necessarily our questions answered. The tool for that is going to be different for each individual. So some people may get that from listening to podcasts, reading or listening to books. Some people it may well be one-on-one coaching, it might be mentoring, mastermind groups or EOS. Where and what is it within your professional and personal life that you are being challenged? It may be the case that actually you outgrow the intervention that you've got. You need to be walking away thinking that's a really good question. So it's topping any of the challenge that you're doing from an internal perspective. When you get to that stage, you're now working on self-limiting beliefs, on self actualisation. You're in a different growth area to being in the comfort zone. 3. If it's not working in the boardroom, it's not working in the bedroom Life is life. Anything that is impacting you from a personal perspective is naturally going to be impacting you from a professional perspective, and vice versa. Have the awareness of that and ensure that you are dealing with what you need to deal with. As a leader or business owner, you have to work out and decide what sort of leader you want to be, but there needs to be a level of humility in the fact that if somebody is not performing, what is going on in their life which is meaning that they're not performing? If you're a humble leader and you're building relationships and rapport, how you support people when they're going through the bad times will actually mean that you will have far greater times. So I think there's an aspect of humility - humanise to professionalise. Head to our website - https://www.debrachantry-taylor.com/podcast Debra Chantry-Taylor Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner #betterbusinessbetterlife #entrepreneur #leadership #eosimplementer Professional EOS Implementer Australia Professional EOS Implementer New Zealand

You will know CocoVinny from Shark Tank and The Profit - his passion for his company Coco Taps is contagious!  CocoVinny Zaldivar has been an entrepreneur since 16 years old. Through his experiences, he narrowed down his three non-negotiables.  Whatever he did next needed to be good for people, good for the planet, and it had to be fun. With Coco Taps he found his life-long passion, building something of value that continues to create value.   In this episode, he shares his ups and downs through the pandemic and how he's never had an exit strategy. Despite the uncertainty and losing several million dollars revenue in the lockdown, CocoVinny used this time to focus on what was really important for the future of his business and stepped on the gas. He went full steam ahead on the development of a new machine, reached out to potential investors and got creative with marketing strategies.  He shares that EOS helped Coco Taps respond to COVID with agility.  "It's probably one of the best things that happened to us during COVID. We did everything remote, but it was still helpful to go through these processes and still learn how to pivot and learn how to adapt." Fortunately, he was able to keep all his staff. The lockdown helped his team focus and re-focus. With all their future planning, they were able to bring ideas forward and use this difficult time as an opportunity to innovate. He also shares that the way Coco Taps is run is so tied to their core values that they don't have to fire people, they just self-select out if they're not in alignment. Listen to the full episode to find out how CocoVinny approaches business, life and the beautiful future of Coco Taps!  CocoVinny's Top 3 Tips 1. Failure isn't a person. It's a moment that you can change. Don't take anything too seriously. I say every setback is a setup for a comeback. Even failure is not a person, it's just a moment. And you can change that moment, just keep going. Don't stop, don't give up. You just have to keep things in perspective. Life is short, none of us are getting out of here alive. So that's it, you just gotta laugh, have fun and do whatever you can to keep going on. That's what I try to do. 2. Audiobooks I have a hard time reading. True story, if I read a physical book for more than 15-20 minutes I kind of zone out, I almost fall asleep. So I try to listen to audio books. One of my staples is Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich. I got through the whole Shoe Dog book recently, which is the Phil Knight Nike story. 3. Weekly Level 10 meetings My favourite EOS tool that we do weekly is our Level 10s. We sometimes miss it but it is really good to keep everything on track or to realise that you're off track. Head to our website - https://www.debrachantry-taylor.com/podcast Debra Chantry-Taylor Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner #betterbusinessbetterlife #entrepreneur #leadership #eosimplementer Professional EOS Implementer NZ Professional EOS Implementer Australia Professional EOS Implementer New Zealand