Today’s episode of the podcast is an interview with Sonaya Williams who is the founder of The CEO Partner®, a systems-driven, profits-obsessed, Digital Implementation agency that helps smart CEOs grow their business and meet their goals. Sonaya lives to help CEOs create an operational master plan for themselves and their teams, teaching efficient and effective systems and tools during the process. We talk all about how you can get your own business processes and systems organised to set yourself up for growth and success. KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST If something doesn’t excite you and give you joy – it is not sustainable and you just won’t do it!When something is your zone of genius, you are really good at doing it. When something isn’t your zone of genius, there will be someone else who can do it!There is always someone who will want to do the bits that you don’t want to do.It is never too early to start documenting your systems – even if it is just you.By documenting systems, you can free up your brain so you can think about growing your business!To start documenting your processes - Write out everything you do every day/week/month.Record yourself on Loom doing tasks you do again and again.Every process should be documented in a separate document to make it easy to search.Keep your processes updated and review them regularly.Team members have to take ownership of processes so they are not reliant on you and you are able to step out of the business.Think about the triggers for each process – are there any you can pass on to your team so you can step away?You have to have processes when you have a team, otherwise everything will still be reliant on you.When you are looking at hiring your first team member – think of it as an investment as you are gaining that time back.EVERYTHING in your business is a system.When something is a process, it becomes so much easier. It also means you can keep making it better and review.It will take time to get all your systems and processes in place but it will be SO worth it! THE ONE THING YOU NEED TO REMEMBER ABOVE ALL ELSE… Start creating a list of things you do every day, then record yourself doing them! HIGHLIGHTS YOU SIMPLY CAN’T MISS An introduction to Sonaya 05:16Zone of genius 10:55Why do I need to think about my systems if it’s just me? 12:32How to start your processes 16:12Being able to step away from your business processes 24:40Bringing on a team and what to give them 28:08 CHECK SONAYA OUT: WebsiteFacebookInstagram RESOURCES MENTIONED LoomTrello Transcript Teresa: Welcome to this week's episode of the podcast. How are you doing? So I have had a very, very busy few weeks. And as you can probably hear from my voice, I am worn out and I'm really glad that I'm recording this episode now almost as if to say to remind you that we're human and there's only so much we can do with our time.Teresa: So the week, last week as I'm recording this, we did two online events and one in-person VIP retreat over the weekend, which was three days in total for me, because obviously I got there the day before. We

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