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You Delegated the Task. You Kept the Decisions

You hired the attendant, you handed off the event, and you still spent the night answering texts from the venue. So did you actually delegate anything?

I recorded this one at Illuminate, right after Adrienne Dorison finished speaking to a room full of six and seven figure photo booth founders. Adrienne comes from the corporate world with a background in operational efficiency, and for the past 12 years she's built a business around helping small business owners remove themselves from the day-to-day so the business becomes more valuable, whether they want to scale it, sell it, or step back. She ran Run Like Clockwork (there was a book too, Clockwork, all about designing a business that runs itself), exited that company last year, and started Level 11 Leaders, where she helps founders remove owner dependency and build a business that gives them real options.

I've been through Adrienne's IPO process myself and I use it every single time I create a project for my team. My employees use it now too. So when I realized how many people in that room were still doing everything themselves, I wanted to get her on the mic and ask the questions I knew they were too scared to ask during the session.

This one is for you if you've hired help and somehow you're still the person everyone comes to. Adrienne walks through her framework, we talk about handing off events when you're the one bringing the energy, and we get into the hiring question so many seasonal booth businesses keep putting off. 

What You'll Learn:

  • The trap most founders fall into after they hire, and why it's so exhausting
  • The three reasons your team keeps coming to you with questions
  • Why Adrienne's answer to "they still keep asking" made me laugh, and why she's right
  • What a three-hour block of deep work has to do with your team figuring things out
  • The question to ask your team that gets them unstuck without you answering for them
  • Why your weekly team meeting might be a waste of an hour, and what to use it for instead
  • How to hand off working events when you're the one who brings the energy
  • What you can train into someone, and what you have to hire for
  • The Disney example that changes how you think about your front of house
  • How to figure out whether you can actually afford a full-time hire
  • The part-time move Adrienne has seen work over and over again 

Resources Mentioned: 

  • Level 11 Leaders: https://level11leaders.com
  • Owner Dependency Assessment (free): https://level11leaders.com/score 
  • Adrienne on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adriennedorison/?hl=en
  • Illuminate: https://illuminatecreative.live
  • Thrive: https://photoboothmastery.catalinabloch.com/Thrive

Know a booth owner who still works every event and answers every question? Send them this episode.

Your Next Steps: 

  • Work with Me: https://bit.ly/POD-Site2
  • Join Thrive: https://photoboothmastery.catalinabloch.com/Thrive
  • Connect on Social: https://www.instagram.com/photoboothmastery