What Inspires Your Employees? Your Business Needs to Know! with Kira La Forgia

In episode 110 of Outside The Studio with Tessa:

When is it time to hire someone new? How do we give the best work environment for our employees? These are questions Kira La Forgia and Tessa Tovar hash out in the episode by chatting on what leading with authenticity looks like and how to foster innovation.

Kira La Forgia is a small business consultant and founder of Paradigm Consulting. Her mission in life is to empower women to identify their unique skills and passions and turn them into profitable businesses so they can have the freedom to live their life on their own terms.

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(01:50) What builds a successful business?

(06:10) Seeing individuality of employees

(09:55) When is it time to hire an employee?

(15:50) How do we hire?

(21:50) Multi-hyphenates

(26:55) Fostering Innovation

(30:05) Kira's Story

(36:00) Daily Rituals

(42:35) Advice to Your Younger Self

(46:10) Connecting

Key Takeaways

1. A successful business is built upon embracing the individuality and authenticity of the employees. When the authenticity of the team is acknowledged, then the business can adapt to the people's needs. Employees have passions and goals and those need to be met if they are going to be happy and driven in the workplace which is imperative to the function and productivity of the company.

2. Small businesses can find it difficult to determine when to hire a new team member, but the first question to ask is, "What do I want to offload to someone else?" Start delegating recurring tasks such as a weekly newsletter or smaller projects. Hiring an employee enables the owner to expand the company and work on new, innovative projects. Don't wait until you're maxing your own work capacity limits to get help.

3. Kira's advice to her younger self is that you can change your mind, including your job career. Even if you've been in the same work field for a decade or two, life isn't a straight path, nor are you the same person when you started. Leaving or changing doesn't require a "good" reason, you can do whatever you'd like simply because you want to.

Connect with Kira La Forgia

Website: https://the-paradigm.com/

Kira's New Podcast On The Up and Up: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-up-and-up/id1661939979

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theparadigmm

People Leader Archetype Quiz: https://the-paradigm.com/quiz

Connect with Tessa Tovar

Website: https://tessatovar.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamarietovar/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessa-tovar-baa27613

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBenedicktus

The Dark Moon: A Book of Poetry for Savasana: https://a.co/d/e8LgG1T

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHMYm-7kNZfulgaiCi2w8Cw

In Episode 110 of Outside The Studio:

When is it time to hire someone new? How do we give the best work environment for our employees? These are questions Kira La Forgia and Tessa Tovar hash out in the episode by chatting on what leading with authenticity looks like and how to foster innovation.

Kira La Forgia is a small business consultant and founder of Paradigm Consulting. Her mission in life is to empower women to identify their unique skills and passions and turn them into profitable businesses so they can have the freedom to live their life on their own terms.

Timestamps

(00:00) Intro

(01:50) What builds a successful business?

(06:10) Seeing individuality of employees

(09:55) When is it time to hire an employee?

(15:50) How do we hire?

(21:50) Multi-hyphenates

(26:55) Fostering Innovation

(30:05) Kira's Story

(36:00) Daily Rituals

(42:35) Advice to Your Younger Self

(46:10) Connecting

Key Takeaways

1. A successful business is built upon embracing the individuality and authenticity of the employees. When the authenticity of the team is acknowledged, then the business can adapt to the people's needs. Employees have passions and goals and those need to be met if they are going to be happy and driven in the workplace which is imperative to the function and productivity of the company.

2. Small businesses can find it difficult to determine when to hire a new team member, but the first question to ask is, "What do I want to offload to someone else?" Start delegating recurring tasks such as a weekly newsletter or smaller projects. Hiring an employee enables the owner to expand the company and work on new, innovative projects. Don't wait until you're maxing your own work capacity limits to get help.

3. Kira's advice to her younger self is that you can change your mind, including your job career. Even if you've been in the same work field for a decade or two, life isn't a straight path, nor are you the same person when you started. Leaving or changing doesn't require a "good" reason, you can do whatever you'd like simply because you want to.

Connect with Kira La Forgia

Website: https://the-paradigm.com/

Kira's New Podcast On The Up and Up: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/on-the-up-and-up/id1661939979

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theparadigmm

People Leader Archetype Quiz: https://the-paradigm.com/quiz

Connect with Tessa Tovar

Website: https://tessatovar.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tessamarietovar/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tessa-tovar-baa27613

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TBenedicktus

The Dark Moon: A Book of Poetry for Savasana: https://a.co/d/e8LgG1T

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHMYm-7kNZfulgaiCi2w8Cw