Growing a business changes more than the business. At some point, it also has to change the role of the person who built it.

In the early stages, business owners do whatever needs to be done. You sell the work, deliver it, handle the administration, solve problems and make most of the decisions. Some of that is simply part of starting a business.

The challenge comes when the business grows but the owner's role does not change with it.

In this episode of The Entrepreneur's Roadmap, I'm joined by Liz Taylor of Legacy Coaching Group for a conversation about entrepreneurship, leadership, delegation and what it takes to grow alongside the business you're building.

We talk about the transition from doing everything yourself to deciding where your time is best spent, why delegation becomes increasingly important as the business grows, and how leadership changes when your job is no longer to have every answer yourself.

We also get into a bigger question that came up during our conversation: Who do you need to become to get where you want to go?

Before you can answer that, I believe there is another question you need to answer first: What are you actually trying to build?

Because the role you need to play, the responsibilities you need to delegate and the growth worth pursuing all depend on the business you're intentionally trying to create.

In this episode:

• Why the owner's role needs to change as the business grows
• The transition from doing everything yourself to delegating effectively
• How leadership changes when you stop believing you need to have every answer
• Why developing your team matters as much as transferring tasks
• The difference between a temporary season of hard work and an unsustainable way of running business
• Why growth requires action, not simply goals and intentions
• How knowing what you're trying to build changes what you should continue owning
• Why the business owner has to grow alongside the business

Connect with Liz Taylor

Website: www.legacycoachinggroup.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethbtaylor

Instagram: @coachliztaylor

Resources

Five Key Strategies to Scale Your Service-Based Business: https://www.cleardirectionadvisors.com/5keystrategiestoscale

Book a Discovery Call: https://tidycal.com/cleardirections/discovery-session

Clear Direction Advisors: https://www.cleardirectionadvisors.com

Connect With Kendra Vyse

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendravyse/

Substack: https://substack.com/@cleardirectionadvisors

You can know that several things in your business need to change and still struggle to decide what to do first.

Maybe your pricing needs work. You know your marketing needs attention. You're considering hiring. You want to look at your systems and processes to make sure they are working right. Each of those could be the right decision.

But a good business decision made at the wrong time can create another problem.

In this episode of The Entrepreneur's Roadmap, I look at why the order of your business decisions matters and how to determine what needs to happen first. Because the question isn't only whether a decision makes sense. It's whether the business is ready for what happens next.

If you increase marketing and it works, can your current team handle the additional clients? If you hire to increase capacity, do your pricing and margins support the added cost? If you solve one constraint, what is likely to become the next one?

The same business decisions can produce very different results depending on their sequence.

In this episode, I explore:

• How to decide what to fix first in your business

• Why a good decision can still happen at the wrong time

• How pricing, profitability, capacity, hiring and marketing affect the decisions that follow

• Why business priorities need to account for dependencies, not just urgency

• How to identify what needs to be true before you make the next move

• What to consider if your decision works and creates the result you wanted

• Seven questions to help you evaluate your next business priority

You don't need to solve everything in your business at once. You need to understand what you're trying to change, what the evidence is telling you and what needs to happen first so the decisions that follow have the right foundation.

Resources

Five Key Strategies to Scale Your Service-Based Business: https://www.cleardirectionadvisors.com/5keystrategiestoscale

Book a Discovery Call: https://tidycal.com/cleardirections/discovery-session

Clear Direction Advisors: https://www.cleardirectionadvisors.com

Connect With Kendra Vyse

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendravyse/

Substack: https://substack.com/@cleardirectionadvisors

A successful business can have clients, revenue, demand and a growing team and still leave you wondering, why doesn't this feel better than I expected it to?

As your service-based business grows, it's easy to keep pursuing the next milestone: more clients, more revenue, more capacity, a larger team. But at some point, it's worth stepping back and asking whether those are still the things that will create the business you actually want.

The definition of success that made sense when you started your business may not be the definition that fits the business or life you're building now.

In this episode, I explore:

· Why your definition of business success needs to evolve as your business does

· The trade-offs that come with business growth, including greater complexity, responsibility and management

· Why stronger profitability, better-fit clients or more flexibility may matter more than simply increasing revenue

· Why “more” isn't automatically the answer

· The question to ask instead of simply, “How do I grow my business?”

· How your current reality and the direction you want to go should guide what you do next

Before you decide you need more marketing, another hire, different systems, new pricing or more capacity, take a step back.

What do you actually want that growth to create?

If your business looks successful from the outside but isn't supporting what you're trying to build anymore, this episode will help you look at success, growth and your next strategic decision differently.

Resources & Links

Download the Five Key Strategies to Scale Guide: https://www.cleardirectionadvisors.com/5keystrategiestoscale

Book a Discovery Call: https://tidycal.com/cleardirections/discovery-session

Learn more about Clear Direction Advisors: https://www.cleardirectionadvisors.com

Connect With Kendra Vyse:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kendravyse/

Substack: https://substack.com/@cleardirectionadvisors