System & Soul

Every business leader, no matter great they are, experiences ruts—or as Seth Godin calls them, dips—in their business. These dips can be discouraging, draining, and just down right not fun! But as Godin says, don’t think of the dip as a dip. Think of it more like a moat––is just something you have to swim through to get to your business, or “the castle.” The moat is the thing that separates you from the competition. It’s what only you are willing to swim through to create the company you want to create. So, instead of our usual tip this week, we just wanted to encourage you: if you’re in a dip right now, change your mindset and imagine it’s just a moat. If you’re not in a dip right now, keep this in your pocket for a rainy day. S2 Tips are brought to you by Ninety.io. Ninety is a cloud-based collection of the essential business building and awareness tools you need to make running your business almost easy. The clean and extraordinarily intuitive system includes every one of the tools you need to not only run your operating system but cascade it down and throughout your company. Learn more at Ninety.io

There is a big difference between what your company’s culture is and how it makes your people feel. Misaligning people with culture and vice versa can stifle an organization’s growth––leaving people unmotivated and disengaged. We’ve invited Will “The Culture Czar” Scott onto the podcast to talk about his passion and mission to help companies identify, embrace, and implement their core values to create thriving cultures. Will is the author of The Culture Fix: Solving C-Suite Problems at the Ground Level and Founder of The Culture Fix Academy. He discusses his 9-step process for taking organizations from simply having core values to truly having a valued culture. To learn more about Will or connect with him, email him at Will@CultureCzars.com. This episode is brought to you by Titus Talent Strategies. Titus Talent Strategies exists to equip companies to make the best attraction, engagement, hiring, and development decisions to meet their organization’s people and performance objectives. We’re here to help you get the right people, in the right seats and be the best team members they can be, guaranteed. This is not your traditional recruiting model. Our approach has led to measurable results for our clients and lasting partnerships. Learn more at titustalent.com.

If you hate meetings, you’re doing them wrong. Great meetings create progress, alignment, clarity, and control in your business. But too many people think of meetings as obstacles to progress instead of assets to progress. In this week’s S2 Tip, Chris White shares five ways you’re sabotaging your own meetings and what practices you can implement to make your meetings engaging, productive, and, dare I say, enjoyable! If you’d like to dive deeper into how to facilitate great meetings, check out our recent episode called Deep Dive: The Art of Facilitation. S2 Tips are brought to you by Ninety.io. Ninety is a cloud-based collection of the essential business building and awareness tools you need to make running your business almost easy. The clean and extraordinarily intuitive system includes every one of the tools you need to not only run your operating system but cascade it down and throughout your company. Learn more at Ninety.io

Before the pandemic, the workplace was increasingly becoming imbued with distraction, disengagement, and distrust. Unfortunately, the pandemic heightened some of these unhealthy culture symptoms by withholding from employees some of their most basic human needs. Now, before that dark cloud of a paragraph above makes you want to pull out your umbrella, take a breath, and don’t fear, because Scott Mann is hear! Joining us for his third time, retired Green Beret, founder of Rooftop Leadership and The Heroes Journey, Scott Mann teaches us the critical leadership skill of human connection and the role it plays in developing healthy, safe, effective teams and organizations. Scott points out that when we don’t understand our most basic human drives, the more we become removed from them, and the more they show up in our lives, our leadership, and in the workplace. But the leaders who lead with purpose and human connection skills are the ones who thrive, especially during crisis. This episode is brought to you by Titus Talent Strategies. Titus Talent Strategies exists to equip companies to make the best attraction, engagement, hiring, and development decisions to meet their organization’s people and performance objectives. We’re here to help you get the right people, in the right seats and be the best team members they can be, guaranteed. This is not your traditional recruiting model. Our approach has led to measurable results for our clients and lasting partnerships. Learn more at titustalent.com. Resources: Rooftop Leadership Scott Mann LinkedIn Pre-Engagement Prep Tool

Let’s quit flirting with our dreams, and start committing to them. When we don’t take the time to get clarity on what we want for our business or in our life, we create a cloud of ambiguity over our journey getting there. That’s why, at System & Soul, we teach businesses how important it is to get a very vivid picture of their goals. In today’s S2 Tip, Benj Miller talks about the Law of Attraction: the ability to attract the things you desire into your life. After you listen to this tip, we challenge you to grab that one thing that you desire, write it down, and get determined. Then, see what aligns and comes to your aid to make that a reality. S2 Tips are brought to you by Ninety.io. Ninety is a cloud-based collection of the essential business building and awareness tools you need to make running your business almost easy. The clean and extraordinarily intuitive system includes every one of the tools you need to not only run your operating system but cascade it down and throughout your company. Learn more at Ninety.io.

Meeting are the biggest opportunities in your business to get everyone rowing in the same direction. Meetings are necessary, but too often they miss the mark. That’s why great meetings need great facilitators––the people who can direct the human energy in the room towards progress, alignment, and ultimately, clarity and control for your business. Today, Chris and Benj talk about the qualities of a great facilitator, and how possessing these qualities can help businesses build world class senior leadership teams. They also talk about some of the common missteps in facilitation and why it’s important leverage the collective knowledge in the room. To find a certified System & Soul coach for your business, check us out at SystemAndSoul.com. This episode is brought to you by Delegate Solutions. Many entrepreneurs are overwhelmed, burnt out, and frustrated because they aren't able to spend enough time on their highest and best work.  They know they need to delegate to an assistant, but they don't want the responsibility of managing one. At Delegate Solutions, we provide leaders with a different approach to admin support, without the hassles of committing to an employee.  We support our clients remotely in as little as 1-2 hours per day all the way through to full-time. Our systematic approach includes customized delegation coaching to help you figure out what and how best to delegate, coupled with a team of thinkers and doers to continually get those things off your plate. We love to help visionary leaders free up time so they can do more of what they love and have a big impact. Learn more about our delegation support system by visiting www.delegatesolutions.com.

Many business start out as a sales-focused organization with a sales-focused leader. As the leader, it’s so important to understand the best practices and components of building a great sales team from the start. In today’s S2 Tip, Benj Miller invites the newest member of the System & Soul team, Jeff Messner (Chief Growth Officer), to talk about the three components he’s discovered at the most important for a sales-leader to embrace when building his or her sales team. You can learn more about System & Soul at SystemAndSoul.com. This episode is brought to you by Ninety.io. Ninety is a cloud-based collection of the essential business building and awareness tools you need to make running your business almost easy. The clean and extraordinarily intuitive system includes every one of the tools you need to not only run your operating system but cascade it down and throughout your company. Learn more at Ninety.io.

If you’ve listened to any of our past episodes, you know that your business has a soul. And, the most important element of your business's soul is the people. Today we’re bringing you, J. Quincy Evans, President of BCJ Building Services. Quincy is a rare leader who intentionally exercises compassion and commitment to developing his people as individuals. He reminds us that the health fo our business will greatly increase when we love our people authentically and beyond the pragmatic mechanisms of the business. “If you can make the human better, the function of the job takes care of itself. Learn more about J. Quincy Evans and BCJ Building Services at Bcjbuildingsevices.com. This episode is brought to you by KeyStone Search. There is no doubt the right Integrator, COO or President can take your business to new heights. The team at KeyStone Search is expert at helping Visionaries, Entrepreneurs and Owners make this crucial hire. No-one has more experience placing these leaders than KeyStone.  If hiring a rockstar second in command is in your future, visit us at www.keystonesearch.com and reach out anytime for more information.

The whole point of setting your quarterly objectives is to achieve them! But sometimes businesses get lost in the process and create unhealthy habits when setting their quarterly goals. Today on S2 Tips, Benj Miller outlines the Seven Deadly Sins of setting quarterly objectives. No one wants to recite Hail Marys half way through the quarter, so keep these helpful reminders on hand in your next quarterly meeting. You can learn more about gaining clarity and control in your business by visiting SystemandSoul.com. This episode is brought to you by Work from Anywhere. It’s an amazing moment in time, the new era of Work From Anywhere. It’s a time when our post-pandemic environments are opening the door for leadership teams to reconsider how to run great companies in this new Work From Anywhere world. To help with that, our friends at Ninety.io have launched a new channel completely devoted to all things Work From Anywhere, among the leading authorities on Working From Anywhere to support small and medium-sized businesses. It totally makes sense. The Ninety.io technology makes it easy for teams to stay connected as they transition into a Work From Anywhere world. From people and technology, to communication and culture, rely on Ninety.io as a trusted resource for this new era. Stay up on the trends. Explore what’s now and what’s next. Just Google “Ninety.io Work From Anywhere” or Visit them online at WorkFromAnywhereWithNinety.com.

You know who sucks more than people? Bad leaders. Today we bring back an episode from the archives that rings true even more so in today’s leadership landscape. John Richie is a highly-sought after executive coach and long-time mentor to our leadership team. He joined us in 2019 to talk about why some leaders fall short of confronting the demands of reality. Most people would rather live in the world that exists within their heads rather than the world that exists. In this episode we are reminded of how to address the issue right in front of us and embrace the future we envision for our organization. This episode is brought to you by Titus Talent Strategies. Titus Talent Strategies exists to equip companies to make the best attraction, engagement, hiring, and development decisions to meet their organization’s people and performance objectives. We’re here to help you get the right people, in the right seats and be the best team members they can be, guaranteed. This is not your traditional recruiting model. Our approach has led to measurable results for our clients and lasting partnerships. Learn more at titustalent.com.