Episode 102: Difficult Conversations With Employees
Business on Top with Kaeli Lindholm
Release Date: 04/04/2022
Episode 14: Part 2: The Six Stages of Entrepreneurial Business Growth
Business on Top with Kaeli Lindholm
In Part 2 of this series, I’m continuing the conversation around the six stages every business moves through and the leadership evolution required to successfully navigate each stage of growth. As your business grows, your role as a founder has to evolve. The strategies, habits, and decisions that helped you build your business are not always the same things that will help you scale it. In this episode, I’m breaking down the final four stages of business growth: Toddler, Teenager, Young Adult, and The Zone, and the mindset shifts required to move from being the person who does everything...
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Episode 13: Part 1: The Six Stages of Entrepreneurial Business Growth
Business on Top with Kaeli Lindholm
I’ve learned that every stage of business growth requires a different version of you as a leader. Just like parenting, your role evolves over time. The way you lead your business in the beginning is not the way you lead a million-dollar company, a growing team, or a business designed to give you your life back. In Part 1 of this two-part series, I’m sharing one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned from working alongside hundreds of founders: businesses don’t outgrow strategy first, they outgrow leadership. I’m breaking down the first two stages of business evolution, Birth and...
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Episode 12: Your Business Can Only Grow as Far as Your Operating System
Business on Top with Kaeli Lindholm
Last week, I released a 7-part series on operational excellence, and the response was incredible. So many founders reached out saying these conversations completely shifted the way they think about growth, leadership, and building a business that doesn’t rely on them for everything. So, I wanted to bring the entire series together in one place. In this episode, you’ll hear all seven parts back-to-back as we dive into the systems, leadership, and operational frameworks that I’ve seen transform businesses over the last decade of working alongside hundreds of founders as they’ve crossed...
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Episode 11: Growth Doesn’t Break Businesses. Weak Infrastructure Does.
Business on Top with Kaeli Lindholm
If you’ve ever felt like your business is growing, but you’re carrying more stress, more responsibility, and less freedom than ever before, this episode is for you. Today, I’m sharing Day 1 of our five-day SPARK Leadership Intensive, where I dive into one of the biggest shifts every growing practice owner has to make: realizing that sustainable growth isn’t about working harder, it’s about leading differently. In this session, I’ll walk you through why so many successful businesses hit a plateau, how leadership, not demand, becomes the biggest growth constraint, and what it really...
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Episode 10: If You Want to Be a Great Leader, Be a Great Follower
Business on Top with Kaeli Lindholm
Most leadership conversations focus on what founders need from their teams. But in this episode of Business on Top, I want to flip the script and talk directly to employees, emerging leaders, and team members who want to grow their careers, increase their impact, and become indispensable within their organizations. One of the most valuable lessons I learned climbing the corporate ladder was this: if you want to be a great leader someday, you first need to learn how to be a great follower. In this episode, I share what I’ve learned from both sides of the table, as an employee who worked her...
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Episode 9: You Are the Guarantee
Business on Top with Kaeli Lindholm
If there’s one thing entrepreneurship has taught me, it’s that there are no guarantees. Not in hiring. Not in growth. Not in leadership. Not in life. In this episode of Business on Top, I’m sharing one of the most important mindset shifts every founder must make if they want to reach their next level: stop searching for guarantees and start becoming one. Over the years, I’ve worked alongside hundreds of entrepreneurs navigating employee turnover, cash flow challenges, competitive threats, leadership loneliness, and unexpected setbacks. What I’ve learned is that the founders who...
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Episode 8: Your Addiction to Being Needed Is Slowing You Down
Business on Top with Kaeli Lindholm
One of the biggest leadership lessons I’ve learned is that business growth doesn’t require me to become more essential, it requires me to become less essential. For years, being the person everyone relied on felt like a badge of honor. I answered every question, solved every problem, and made sure nothing fell through the cracks. That mindset helped me build my business, but eventually it became the very thing slowing it down. In this episode of Business on Top, I’m sharing why I believe one of the most common blind spots for high-achieving founders is the addiction to being needed....
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Episode 7: Don't Just Learn, Activate
Business on Top with Kaeli Lindholm
Most founders are not lacking information. They’re lacking activation. In this episode, you’ll hear Part 1 of our Provider to CEO Panel from ALT, featuring POP Leadership Academy members Jill Canes, Shannon Morrow, and Dr. Jill Goodman. Despite leading different businesses in different markets and stages of growth, they share a common thread: a commitment to investing in their leadership development and becoming the CEOs their businesses required them to be. We explore one of the biggest growth barriers business owners face: confusing knowledge with transformation. From conferences...
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Episode 6: Bombing Season
Business on Top with Kaeli Lindholm
In this episode of Business on Top, I’m talking about something I believe every founder eventually encounters whether they realize it or not: bombing season. This conversation is all about the seasons of business growth and why some of the most powerful leadership decisions are not about adding more… but about refining, simplifying, eliminating, and protecting what actually creates momentum. I share a recent conversation with one of my longtime clients, a multi seven-figure founder, who found herself in a season of strategic subtraction. Closing locations, ending partnerships,...
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Episode 5: Never Outsource Your Financial Intelligence
Business on Top with Kaeli Lindholm
In this episode, I’m diving into a conversation that I believe more female founders need to be having: financial intelligence, financial leadership, and why you should never outsource your awareness around money. As more women become primary breadwinners, scale businesses, and generate significant wealth, I think it’s incredibly important that we learn not just how to make money, but how to understand it, steward it, protect it, grow it, and direct it intentionally. In this episode, I share some of my own financial mistakes as a founder, the mindset shifts that changed my relationship with...
info_outlineToday we are going to discuss the oh so dreaded reality of having difficult conversations with employees.
So often as leaders we question our ability to cultivate an environment where our employees respect our authority and let’s be real, actually like us and WANT to work for us. It’s sort of this tug and pull between needing to set boundaries, hold employees accountable, and yet also inspire them to take autonomous and passionate action to move the needle in our business without us telling them what to do.
Today’s topic is so important because performance management is like the speedometer for your business. It’s critical to develop a consistent practice for managing poor performance and dealing with scenarios that are below expectation in a timely, orderly, and unemotional manner.
My goal for this episode is to help you understand the following three parts:
- What needs to be in place to establish clear expectations with employees
- Where performance management goes wrong & mistakes you could be making
- How to have an un-emotional conversation with an employee about poor performance
Tune in to learn more and uncover my five checkpoints to designing a practice for consistent, relative feedback!
PS- If you’d like to learn more about accessing our performance management training and tools, you can head to the www.klcconsultants.com/join to get on our VIP list for access to our free resources, newsletter, tools, and more.
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