Can your business run without you? Discover the signs that you're the bottleneck of your business with organisational systems expert, Kristin Skinner.
Every business owner eventually asks themselves one question: Why does everything still come back to me? Every task. Every decision. Every question from the team. Let's talk about how to create systems that build a business that can run even when you're away — so you can confidently answer "yes" to the question, "Can your business run without you?"
In the first few years of business, we're used to doing everything ourselves. But most business owners don't shift how they opperate as they grow, which creates a business that is fully owner-dependent. That business can still be successful. It can still be profitable. It can still thrive.
But it all relies on the energy of one person: you.
Kristin Skinner is here to help your business run without you, and she's got a pretty impressive resume of doing the same for others. She has spent twenty years scaling design organisations across Fortune 100 companies, leading teams from 30 to 12,000 people. She's helped scale companies including Expedia Group, Chase, Capital One, Adaptive Path, and Microsoft, and she's the co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs. Today, she helps leaders redesign the systems in their businesses so the bsuienss can fun like a machine, while the owner gets to be human (instead of superhuman).
Can your business run without you? You'll be able to answer after this episode. Kristin shares the signs you've become the bottleneck, how to run a diagnostic on your business to see if it can run without you, and the systems that let you finally get out of the day-to-day.
Capable leaders often don't fail because they lack determination. No one doubts the work-ethic of business owners, or the grit. But too often, business owners build businesses that require them to be at the centre of everything in order to keep things running.
And the solution to that is never to 'just work harder'. It's to build the systems around you for support, so you get to take on the CEO role, while the business works in the details.
Can Your Business Run Without You? Here's What You'll Discover In This Episode:
- The clearest sings that you've become the bottleneck in your own business.
- How to honestly answer the question "Can your business run without you" by running Kristin's test.
- Why "I've explained this a dozen times" is a glaring red flag that you've got a structure problem to deal with.
- The calendar test — and how to spot the "work about work" eating up 60-70% of your week.
- Why the decisions you make don't stick… and the three things every decision needs to get follow-through.
- Kristin's People, Practice, Programs framework for designing a business that scales and can run without you.
- How to build a living operating system (vision, principles, strategy, roadmap) that you can actually use.
- When to tweak your business… versus when to rethink the whole system.
- The one blind spot that keeps experienced women owners stuck being the "invisible infrastructure".
If you'd like to have these kinds of conversations with ambitious women who understand the realities of building a business over the long term, learn more about the HerBusiness Growth Network at HerBusinessNetwork.com.
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