From Solo to Building a Leadership Team

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November 24, 2024

It's not all on you!

In this week's edition of the UNCAGED CLINICIAN Blog, we continue with decision making in a cash-based practice and remaining authentic to what is being built.

Today's subject revolves around Building a Leadership Team.

It is possible that you may be thinking that this has no relevance to you if you happen to be a solopreneur.

If that is you, we encourage you to think for a moment about the other people who have a voice in your business.

Making decisions from the vantage point of all things running through (me) can be, and eventually become, an unhealthy way of growing a practice.

The reason being that if the illusion is created that all work and all decisions have been made on our own, then there will be traps ahead.

By not getting or asking for feedback or guidance from others, allowing them to speak into both our businesses and our lives, it can become difficult for ourselves to allow this to happen later.

As business grows and expands, having what amounts to as a board of directors around you is imperative for the practice's success.

Getting use to, and allowing others to speak into your business helps you to understand that building success can not be done alone if the goal is to build a business rather than a self-employed job.

In other words, from the beginning of building a practice, get into the habit and mindset of building a practice. Otherwise, the result may be a very busy self-employed therapist.

What are the essentials to a leadership team:

1) There needs to be vulnerability based trust.

These are people with when you can have complete honesty about the difficulties you are facing:

These are not friends who you share only about 25-50% of the story. They must be people who can hear it all in order to give you solid feedback.

These people must have the ability to speak truth into the full story, not just part of the story.

2) Be able to have healthy conflict.

Having only "yes (men)" around you is not a leadership team. It's an echo chamber.

Have a team around you who can call out blind spots. Doing so will help you to make the best decisions for your business.

Healthy conflict creates true unity and bolsters success.

3) There needs to be commitment.

When a decision is made, everyone must lay aside their own personal thoughts and go with the agreed upon decision; one made as a whole.

Back to point #2: There can be healthy conflict during the meeting, but there should be none after the meeting.

4) Accountability

Each member must hold the others accountable to the values of the company. This includes the owner/CEO being called out also.

Things can move forward with unity only when the set standards are maintained.

5) Collective Results Over Individual Results

All ships rise with the tide. Having one person excel while others maybe under performing does no good.

Think of a basketball team. If one player is more concerned with scoring a lot of points rather than the team winning, more often than not, the team is probably not going to win.

As a solopreneur, who might be the people on your leadership team?

A friend, a coach, a family member, a mentor, possibly even one of your clients.

First, recognize that there are those who you may allow to speak into your personal life, but not your business life; and vice versa.

It's healthy to have people who aren't privy to the personal life because input may be more objective and not first to emotions.

A solid leadership team may be people who have knowledge of both sides - personal and business.

If building a business based on your values and that has an impact in your community is what you are striving to do, then we at UNCAGED CLINICIAN are here to help.

That is exactly what we do.

Ready to learn more about how we can help you to build your dream? Take the first step here.

Your success is our success!

The UNCAGED team