Give Your Team The Tools To Win

Are you treating your team like a line item—or like your greatest multiplier? In this episode, Shannon Waller shares why a small, smart investment in your team’s self-awareness and capabilities can pay off in better decisions, less drama, and a lot more freedom for you as the entrepreneur.

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Show Notes:

• Investing in your team’s growth is one of the simplest ways to hit bigger goals without working harder yourself.
• Profiles like Kolbe and Working Genius® give team members self-knowledge that leads to greater confidence, mutual understanding, and improved communication.
• When people feel like an investment instead of a cost, they naturally bring more creativity, commitment, and initiative to the business.
• Entrepreneurs who invest in their team create multipliers who run with ideas instead of dependents who wait to be told what to do.
• The right kind of training gives you clear thinkers, confident decision makers, and proactive problem solvers instead of order takers.
• Knowing your team’s strengths and striving instincts makes leadership feel lighter and more natural because you stop trying to force people into the wrong roles.
• Role alignment protects you from one of the most expensive entrepreneurial mistakes: smart people stuck in the wrong seats.
• When team members spend most of their time in their Unique Ability®, your culture gets more energized, collaborative, and attractive to top talent.
• Focusing on strengths instead of fixing weaknesses speeds up progress and keeps your best people excited about growing with you.
• Using profiles strategically shows you exactly where you need complementary capabilities instead of pushing yourself to be good at everything.
• When people are self-aware, they move through tough moments with less drama and more clarity, so the team can stay focused on results.
• Developing “leaderful” team members means people at every level provide direction in their area of expertise instead of waiting for permission.
• Treating people as entrepreneurial partners rather than employees shifts them into owner-like thinking about results and client impact.
• A well-developed team is a safer and more predictable investment than a marketing campaign because you can see the behavior and results up close.
• Capability-building gives you back time as team members take on complex, draining tasks and solve problems without escalating everything to you.
• Networked, interdependent teams allow capable people to act autonomously within clear roles.
• Investing in your team is one of the most powerful retention strategies because people stay where they feel seen, valued, and developed.
• Even simple, low-cost assessments can quickly pay for themselves in better decisions, saved time, and fresh opportunities.
• You don’t need to implement every profile or tool at once; pacing your investments keeps the focus on doing great work, not constant workshops.
• Bringing in experts to deliver assessments and coaching lets you upgrade your team quickly and efficiently without derailing daily operations.
• Building a Self-Managing Company® requires self-managing, self-aware people who are well-trained, trusted, and energized by the roles they play.​

Resources:

Kolbe A™ Index

Working Genius®

CliftonStrengths®

DiSC® Profile

PRINT®

The Predictive Index

Unique Ability®

The Team Success Handbook by Shannon Waller

The Self-Managing Company by Dan Sullivan