Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Integrators™ this one is for you. As you're delegating and elevating team members, there's an easy trap to fall into—disregarding instead of developing. In this Tip we talk about the pain point we all experience in passing over ownership, and give a new perspective on how to navigate the process. Tractionv...
Feb 11, 2021•4 min•Season 3Ep. 31
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com What would it look like to play at your peak performance? What if winning was your lifestyle? This week we talk to James "J.R." Reid. He works with leaders and major league athletes to help them reach peak performance mentally so they tackle any obstacle in the field. He shares with us the simple four-step...
Feb 09, 2021•27 min•Season 3Ep. 78
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com How do you create a team with an ownership mindset? Often it starts with clear, documented roles, responsibilities, and results. In this Tip, Chris and Benj share the key components to set your people up to think like owners. Tractionville™ Tips are brought to you by Ninety. Ninety is a cloud-based collect...
Feb 04, 2021•3 min•Season 3Ep. 30
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com What would it take to become unhackable... fully focused, engaged in your ideas, and gaining clarity toward them? Being unhackable is the key to getting where you want to be without sabotage, distractions, and getting derailed. Kary Oberbrunner is the CEO of Igniting Souls Publishing Agency and best-sellin...
Feb 02, 2021•33 min•Season 3Ep. 77
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com This is your secret weapon when it comes to decision-making and people management. Your core values are the gate-keeping mechanism for who you let into your organization, who you let out, and how you foster the culture you envision. Enjoy this quick tip on developing a core values filter. Tractionville™ Ti...
Jan 28, 2021•2 min•Season 3Ep. 29
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Sue is a honey badger. What we mean is, she's got swag and major props as a Certified EOS Implementer™ and the Founder and CEO of Yess! As a long-time coach and facilitator, she talks about what it's been like facilitating EOS sessions remotely during the pandemic, what it's taught her about intentional gr...
Jan 26, 2021•33 min•Season 3Ep. 76
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Processes aren't simply a productivity engine. Processes are a pathway to a healthy culture. This week we're back with the team at Ninety.io to talk about how systemizing and creating processes can be a catalyst for a culture of consistency, growth, and accountability. Tractionville™ Tips are brought to yo...
Jan 21, 2021•5 min•Ep. 28
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com What if your approach was to treat every day as if it was the first day of your business? Glen Jackson calls this quality "preeminence." Glen is a leader and co-founder of Atlanta-based public relations agency Jackson Spalding. He's studied and worked with some of the greatest brands in the world. In that ...
Jan 19, 2021•32 min•Season 3Ep. 75
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com In the middle of winter, there are often competing priorities. As it is the start of a new year, we often want to take off at full speed with our goals. But, there's also a seasonal call to reflect, rest, and renew our thinking. In our book The Clarity Field Guide, we talk about the Cocooning season—the se...
Jan 14, 2021•2 min•Season 3Ep. 27
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Investing can be intimidating, risky, and feel simply like it's out of the question for some small business owners. But Justin Donald—named by Entrepreneur Magazine as "the next Warren Buffett of lifestyle investing"—joins us to talk about the keys to smart, simple, solid investing for everyone. He shares ...
Jan 12, 2021•32 min•Season 3Ep. 74
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Your problem is not HOW. Your challenge may not in strategy or efficiency or your capacity to get things done. It could be more a challenge of finding the right WHO to free you up from the problems you're facing in your business. Dr. Ben Hardy is back with us to explain how a shift in thinking grant you fr...
Jan 05, 2021•36 min•Season 3Ep. 73
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com What are you optimizing for? There's always something. But are you aware of it? Are you actively moving toward it? This week we give you a thought-provoking question to consider as you plan for the coming year. This Tip is sponsored by Ninety.io Ninety is a cloud-based collection of the essential business ...
Dec 31, 2020•3 min•Ep. 25
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com This year has been memorable for so many reasons—good and bad—but we want to end 2020 focused on the moments we had that will propel us into 2021 with insight, perspective, and renewed energy. Enjoy these favorite moments from this year with some of our incredible guests. You'll hear from Sam Collier, Chri...
Dec 29, 2020•25 min•Season 2Ep. 72
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Athletes know adversity as keenly as entrepreneurs. Scott Rusnak is both. He's discovered the gift adversity gives him to run successful businesses, coach clients through EOS®, and become a world-class cyclist and hockey player. He's a strong advocate for training ourselves to face obstacles with tenacity ...
Dec 22, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 71
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com How do you know if an issue your team is wrestling with belongs on the short-term or long-term issue list? This week Chris and Benj unpack the key differences in these types of issues and how to prioritize them. This episode is sponsored by Ninety. Ninety is a cloud-based collection of the essential busine...
Dec 17, 2020•3 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com You already know the value and benefit of taking Clarity Breaks™, but making them as focused and effective as possible is a learned skill. This week Chris and Benj share in-depth insight into their new book The Clarity Field Guide and how this tool can make your year-end reflection a catalyst for an incred...
Dec 15, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 70
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com How many places and platforms do you have scattered data that helps you understand your business? Often, business leaders are tracking projects, processes, and results in several systems making it difficult to answer the question, is it me, you, or our system? This week, Mark Abbott and Christine Watts joi...
Dec 10, 2020•4 min•Season 2Ep. 22
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Casey Graham is unapologetically passionate about his work. He's the founder and CEO of Gravy and an example of what it looks like when founders not only build a great business but also make it a great place for exceptional people to work. Casey shares his personal journey through depression after selling ...
Dec 08, 2020•31 min•Season 2Ep. 69
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com If you struggle with Clarity Breaks™ or taking time to reflect, write, and step away from the day-to-day. We've got a new tool for you. We share how it's changed Clarity Breaks for us and how you can start using it. More info at ClarityFieldGuide.com This episode is sponsored by Ninety. Ninety is a cloud-b...
Dec 03, 2020•3 min•Season 2Ep. 21
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Trey Sheneman is Executive Marketing Director for Ramsey+. He shares his own experience working in a variety of marketing agencies in very different places in their business journeys. Throughout this journey, Trey explains how EOS has forced him to designate more time for strategizing and problem-solving. ...
Dec 01, 2020•26 min•Season 2Ep. 68
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com In this Tip we talk with our friends at Ninety about the power consistent data offers to your annual reviews and feedback loops. Tips are sponsored by Ninety. Ninety is a cloud-based collection of the essential business building and awareness tools you need to make running EOS almost easy. The clean and ex...
Nov 26, 2020•7 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Today on Tractionville™, we are joined by Benjamin Wolf, the founder of Wolf's Edge Consulting and author of the forthcoming book, "Fractional Leadership." Ben is an expert fractional Integrator™ and hiring consultant for companies who have hit a ceiling or don't have the budget for full-time executive pos...
Nov 24, 2020•23 min•Season 2Ep. 67
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com You've hit a wall. You feel stuck, bored, and maybe distracted. What do you do when you get here? Push harder and grind through it? Or create space to understand where the lack in motivation is really coming from? Chris and Benj explore these options and a couple of ways to address this common struggle in ...
Nov 19, 2020•4 min•Season 2Ep. 19
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com You've avoided this for far too long... This week on Tractionville, Chris and Benj share the purpose and power of their new book, The Clarity Field Guide. It's a tool filled with thought-provoking questions intended to help you have effective Clarity Breaks™ and reflective thinking time. You've never encou...
Nov 17, 2020•28 min•Season 2Ep. 66
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Outside of weekly meetings with your team, how do you stay on the same page with every employee AND stay on task? In this week's Tip, Chris and Benj share easy solutions for weekly project updates and culture-building interactions. Tractionville Tips is brought to you by Ninety. Ninety is a cloud-based col...
Nov 12, 2020•5 min•Season 2Ep. 18
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com In this episode, Chris and Benj sit down with Chris Green, Co-founder, and Partner of Arch and Tower. Green is an entrepreneur who is passionate about employee experience. He maps out how employees who feel valued are one of the healthiest factors of creating the business you want to become in both vision ...
Nov 10, 2020•36 min•Season 2Ep. 65
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Is it a best practice to include fractional and contract employees in weekly or monthly meetings? This week Chris and Benj answer this listener question and share some real examples of how this is done well. Share your questions with us at [email protected] or visit Tractionville.com Tractionvi...
Nov 05, 2020•5 min•Season 2Ep. 17
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com In this episode, Chris and Benj are joined by Alex Freytag and Tom Bouwer, two Certified EOS Implementers® and the authors of their new book Profit Works . In the book, they examine the importance of designing a simple incentive plan to influence employee engagement and create a culture where everyone is d...
Nov 03, 2020•29 min•Season 2Ep. 64
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Some days your meetings might be more fighting each other than fighting the issues on the table. What do you do when your team is stuck in a disagreement on a problem? This week Chris and Benj give us some systematic ways to hack this issue and garner trust in the process. Send us a Tip! Visit Tractionvill...
Oct 29, 2020•4 min•Season 2Ep. 16
Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Angela Pointon, President at 11outof11 and author of Stop Blending In . She discusses the strategies for establishing your organization as the authority in your industry through content marketing, what to look at to determine where your marketing strategy can improve, and the importance of asking, "What do...
Oct 27, 2020•21 min•Season 2Ep. 63