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The Hiring Process Begins Before the Job Is Posted A growing company realizes it’s time to hire a leader. The conversation starts with excitement. Then someone opens an old job description. Another leader copies responsibilities from a similar role they...
Your Next Hire Should Support Your Next Stage Growth has a way of making every problem feel urgent. A department starts falling behind, so you begin searching for a manager. You’re buried in day-to-day operations, so everyone agrees it’s time...
Why the most expensive leadership role is often the one you haven’t created yet. Growing companies rarely decide overnight that they need another leader. More often, the work shows up long before the title does. Visionaries make decisions someone else...
Growth places more pressure on every part of a company. There are more people to lead, more decisions to make, more priorities to balance, and more opportunities competing for attention. As complexity increases, the strength of the leadership team becomes...
Most Integrators and COOs earn between $110,000 and $375,000+, depending on company size, location, and leadership scope. Quick Answer Integrator / COO salaries range from $110,000 at early-stage companies to $375,000+ at enterprise-level or exit-ready organizations. Pay is driven primarily...
Growth Reveals What the Business Has Outgrown Growth changes the questions a business must answer. Early on, success often comes from speed, close collaboration, and a visionary who can make decisions quickly. As the company expands, those same strengths can...
Most entrepreneurs start by doing everything themselves—sales, operations, hiring, and problem-solving. While that’s necessary in the beginning, the very skills that helped you build your company can eventually become the thing limiting your ability to scale. You didn’t start a...
Most growth-minded leaders don’t wake up thinking they have a team alignment problem. Instead, they notice chronic symptoms that slow down execution: Team communication feels harder than it should. Accountability keeps slipping through the cracks. Certain talented leaders consistently struggle...
The best way to fire your worst employee is to never hire them in the first place. Seems obvious, but companies get themselves into this unfortunate situation often. The stress and desperation of an open position makes a business owner...
The world is made up of all kinds of personalities. Some people are outgoing and loud, and others are quiet and shy. Some are a combination of both. You may have heard of these personalities classified as introverts or extroverts,...
Not too long ago, business owners were experiencing the impact of The Great Resignation, a time when employees were abandoning their jobs in droves in exchange for new opportunities they felt better suited their lives. For those still working in...
This is a guest post from Jill E. Young about how to cultivate a courage mindset. It is based on her book In Courage: How Entrepreneurs and Their Leadership Teams Can Experience Less Pain in Growth Mode. Here’s a little...
Create Great Culture & Hire for Best Fit Presenting: “Purpose” August 11, 2022, 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. ET on LexGo Join us for a workshop-style event that explores how to lay work-culture foundations and align your next hire to...
On June 1, Alec Broadfoot of VisionSpark and Jaime Taets and Chelsey Paulson of Keystone Group International came together to lead an interactive workshop around building a foundation of conscious leadership and trust. The workshop was delivered using the LexGo...
Transforming Culture Through Communication A healthy organizational culture is an outcome, not a starting point. To improve it, leaders must focus on the “inputs”—specifically internal communication. By shifting from unproductive meetings and avoided conflicts to clear, structured dialogue and “soft...
Alex Freytag Featuring Certified EOS Implementer™ Alex Freytag of ProfitWorks Have you put off acting on a “people issue”? If you’ve hesitated to take action with an employee who seems to be in the wrong seat, you’re in good company....