Leaders Love Company

Many people cringe when they hear the term “Human Resources” but our guest today, Ashley Cox, is the most welcoming and knowledgeable Human Resources expert. She is the founder of SproutHR, where she helps entrepreneurs learn all about how to hire, train, and lead a thriving team.

She joins us today to share her insight on how you can hire your first (or next) employee the right way. Ashley explains what specific and unique challenges small businesses face when they’re hiring and managing team growth.

What You’ll Learn in this Episode

• What is the purpose of a human resources department? What are they meant to do?
• How important is it to have someone who is in charge of people operations?
• What is the perfect time to hire help and start building out your team?
• What can you be doing right now as a business owner to prepare yourself to hire others who are aligned with your values and are excited to serve your customers
• The steps business owners can put in place to prepare themselves to hire their first employee 
• How to get honest with yourself to discover your strengths and weaknesses and why that’s important to understanding who you hire 
• What to do if you’re unsure of how to approach hiring help even when you know you desperately need the help
• Can roleplaying the interview process lead to a better hiring decision?
• Some good quality questions to ask your interviewee to get the information you need to hear, not what you want to hear
• What Ashley thinks about the “hire slow, fire fast” expression
• Why it’s important to hire people who are better than you, smarter than you, and offer a different skillset than yours if you want to drive creativity, productivity, and profits in your business

Resources

Interview with Heart - 100 questions + template + guide (for purchase)

Contact Information:

www.sprouthr.co

Instagram: @sprout_hr

Facebook: facebook.com/sprouthr

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Many people cringe when they hear the term “Human Resources” but our guest today, Ashley Cox, is the most welcoming and knowledgeable Human Resources expert. She is the founder of SproutHR, where she helps entrepreneurs learn all about how to hire, train, and lead a thriving team.

She joins us today to share her insight on how you can hire your first (or next) employee the right way. Ashley explains what specific and unique challenges small businesses face when they’re hiring and managing team growth.

What You’ll Learn in this Episode

• What is the purpose of a human resources department? What are they meant to do?
• How important is it to have someone who is in charge of people operations?
• What is the perfect time to hire help and start building out your team?
• What can you be doing right now as a business owner to prepare yourself to hire others who are aligned with your values and are excited to serve your customers
• The steps business owners can put in place to prepare themselves to hire their first employee 
• How to get honest with yourself to discover your strengths and weaknesses and why that’s important to understanding who you hire 
• What to do if you’re unsure of how to approach hiring help even when you know you desperately need the help
• Can roleplaying the interview process lead to a better hiring decision?
• Some good quality questions to ask your interviewee to get the information you need to hear, not what you want to hear
• What Ashley thinks about the “hire slow, fire fast” expression
• Why it’s important to hire people who are better than you, smarter than you, and offer a different skillset than yours if you want to drive creativity, productivity, and profits in your business

Resources

Interview with Heart - 100 questions + template + guide (for purchase)

Contact Information:

www.sprouthr.co

Instagram: @sprout_hr

Facebook: facebook.com/sprouthr

Thanks for Checking Out the Show Notes and for Listening!

I really hope you enjoyed this episode. I would really appreciate it if you shared this show with a friend who could benefit from listening to this particular episode.

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Leaders sure do love company so be sure to get social with me: 

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Is it important for your employees to feel like they belong at work? Who’s responsible for creating that sense of belonging – the employees themselves or the organizational leaders? In this episode, Neha Sampat, founder, coach, and consultant at GenLead|BelongLab, joins us to share her insight on how organization leaders should and can create a place of belonging so that employees feel engaged and feel like they’re being heard.   

A little more about our guest:

Neha Sampat, Esq. is founder, coach, and consultant at GenLead|BelongLab, where she helps organizations create peak-performance, inclusive teams and empowers individuals to develop job situations that engage both their hearts and their minds. She cultivates profound transformation through writing, speaking, consulting, and training on bias, inclusion & belonging, Imposter Syndrome, leadership & people management, career transition, and generational diversity. She also co-founded and co-chairs San Leandro Women Entrepreneurs. Learn more about her work at www.genlead.co and www.facebook.com/belonglab, and contact her at [email protected].

What You'll Learn in this Episode:

• How a sense of belonging builds loyalty
• How organizations can make their employees feel like they belong
• Why it’s more difficult for ethnic minorities to find their voice and feel like they belong at a company, and what company owners can do the change that
• Why truly inclusive organizations are much more creative in their problem solving
• Should we shift the conversation from diversity and inclusion to belonging?
• What can org leaders really do to find out the specifics of how each employee can feel like he/she belongs?
• What are some impediments to belonging that are brought about by the employees themselves?
• Is it even the responsibility of employers to help employees work through any impostor syndrome issues they might be experiencing?
• How can leaders who exercise vulnerability help employees share their own vulnerabilities
• Is there a business case to be made for the affect of belonging on the “bottom line”?

Contact information: 

Website: www.genlead.co

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/belonglab 

Email: [email protected]

Thanks for Checking Out the Show Notes and for Listening!

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My guest, Randy Hawthorne, co-Founder of Nonprofit Hub, joins us to discuss why every he believes every business needs to have a powerful mission statement. Randy also breaks down his method that business owners can implement to begin crafting their dynamic mission statement.

What You’ll Learn:

• What is a mission statement and why does every business need one?
• Why your mission statement is one of the first things you should focus on and create when you launch a business
• Deciphering your “why” is more than just a cool fad to participate in
• What is the key component when you want to get started when creating your mission statement?
• The best way to start crafting your mission statement is to start by telling stories about how you want your product or service to affect people when they interact with it
• Should you create your mission statement alone or with others?
• How often should you update your statement?
• Why it’s important to share your mission with your employees and customers in order to get others to get excited and buy into your mission statement
• Does the mission statement play into the hiring process?
• Why super aspirational and convoluted mission statements are useless

Resources:

Nonprofit Hub’s workbook on how to craft a mission statement

Contact Information:

[email protected]

Social media: @rdhawthorne

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Whether you consider yourself an entrepreneur or a business owner (apparently, there's a difference), this episode will help guide you through the various stages of growth of your business. 

In today's episode, I'm joined by Professor Emeritus and organizational growth expert, Professor Eric Flamholtz. 

Prof. Flamholtz is a Professor Emeritus in the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and holds a PhD in Organizational behavior and human resource management. He has helped hundreds of organizations make successful transitions at different stages of growth and development.

Why this episode will make you a better leader

• What’s the difference between an entrepreneur and a business owner? Is there a difference?
• What role does the founder play in the growth of a business?
• What is the classic problem of companies that grow too quickly?
• What is organizational cancer?
• What are the 7 key stages of growth that a company goes through
  • New venture, rapid growth, metamorphosis, consolidation, continued growth, integration, decline and revitalization.  
• Why it’s important for an entrepreneur to build a team, especially because they might not have all of the required traits or characteristics to lead their business through the 7 stages of growth
• 3 key factors to be an effective leader throughout the growth of your company
• What are the 6 key strategic building blocks of successful organizations?

Contact Information:

[email protected]

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What is the purpose of business? Nobel Prize winning economist, Milton Friedman, said it’s to maximize profit for shareholders. Peter Drucker, management expert, stated that the point of business is to create customer. Today, Professor Michael Dorff, a law professor at Southwestern Law School and the director of the Technology, Law, and Entrepreneurship program, joins us to set the record straight as to why businesses exist. 

How this episode will make you a better leader:

• How Henry Ford and the Dodge Brothers helped shape the type of business you’re building today
• What is the purpose of business anyways?
• How you can almost always justify whatever good act the company wants to do to maximizing shareholder profits
• What we can learn from Craigslist’s statement that their main goal wasn’t to make profits for Ebay (it’s owner)
• How the CSR governance movement changed the responsibilities of corporations
• How you can be pro-social with your business
• What is the BIA-certification by B-Lab and is it something your company needs?
• What is a benefit corporation?
• Can a limited liability company have the “benefit” designation?

Resources Mentioned:

Lynn Stout 

B-Lab

Laureate education

Etsy

Contact information

[email protected]

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Welcome to my brand new show, Leaders Love Company! I'm so happy to meet you. In this inaugural episode, I share a little bit about why this show exists and why you should keep tuning in each week. 

Of course, I tell you a little bit more about myself. 

Please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE so you can get each new episode delivered directly to your podcast player of choice. 

Leaders sure do love company so be sure to get social with me: 

Instagram | Facebook | Twitter 

Or email me at nicole[at]nicoleabboud.com 

Welcome to my brand new show, Leaders Love Company! I'm so happy to meet you. In this inaugural episode, I share a little bit about why this show exists and why you should keep tuning in each week. 

Of course, I tell you a little bit more about myself. 

Please don't forget to SUBSCRIBE so you can get each new episode delivered directly to your podcast player of choice. 

Leaders sure do love company so be sure to get social with me: 

Instagram | Facebook | Twitter 

Or email me at nicole[at]nicoleabboud.com