In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO shares a bit of behind the scenes of a day in the life of TEAMES & CO. Today we are sharing a behind the scenes look at  a trip we took last week with the Asheville Chamber of Commerce. Each year our Chamber hosts a trip to a host city to support learning, exchange of ideas, and best practice sharing. This year I enjoyed a wonderful two days in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, where I was able to sit in on various panel discussions, learn about the King Street Business Improvement District (BID), and explore the city o ..read more

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO covers a topic that everybody is asking about: Should my team be virtual or in-person? We walk through key questions leaders should be asking themselves, and how great leaders should be able to transcend location. The answer has shades of gray, but our goal is to share a framework with you that can help you and your team choose the best model for you.  Show Highlights: Highlight (01:01) -Tracy kicks off with the 3 criteria that we find helpful when you are making a decision about work location.   Highlight (02:11) - Tr ..read more

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is talking about how to help your teams achieve wins. All too often in our companies we operate in silos. These silos create friction between our teams and decrease our ability to reach strategic objectives. Today we are sharing a few tips and best practices about how to achieve strategic wins with your cross-functional teams.  Show Highlights: Highlight (01:40) - Tracy introduces why we are talking about cross functional team success. At TEAMES & CO we work on a lot of projects, but specifically, often a CTO or CIO is hirin ..read more

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is talking about optimizing your strategic planning process. Do you ever feel like you are always strategic planning? You start in August, and you have customer discovery, stakeholder surveys, data reporting, program/product assessments as you start creating forecasts for what next year could look like. And that usually ends up being a 200 tab Excel file, right. There is the forecast and the reforecast and the re-reforecast and so on down the line. And this takes a lot of time, right? It usually takes most of our Q3 and a lot of our Q ..read more

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is talking about how cross-functional alignment can help you achieve more impactful strategic results. This is part of our series on how to help leaders accelerate their growth and build empowered teams.  Our goal is to share a few of our best practices and how we think about it, in an effort to help you grow your business.  In this episode we will talk about prioritization and how doing less can help you achieve more, the “Come Back meeting “ and want it is, and how simple processes can help you accelerate your speed to mar ..read more

In this week’s episode, we welcome the Million Dollar Connectors to the show. That is right, four coaches all in one show. We have:  Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO Courtney Teasley, CEO of emeffen Melissa Well, CEO of Got AGency Ceria Woodrit, CEO of Soul Liberation Today we are talking about Frameworks and Strategy. Melissa and Ceria are our resident experts on setting up your business framework, and your strategy for success. Courtney and Tracy are asking them questions, and helping pull out all of their great insights for our listeners.  Are you starting a business? Maybe ..read more

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is talking about Customer Discovery.. We have received lots of questions about how we think about customer discovery, and thought we would share a bit more about our approach, along with some tips and tricks to get you started! Show Highlights: Highlight (01:36) -Tracy does a quick refresher on what is a Net Promoter Score and why you should have one  Highlight (03:00) - Tracy shares how we kick off customer discovery with a few tips and tricks to get you started.  Highlight (06:22) - Why you should not only interview your ..read more

In this week’s episode, Tracy interviews Courtney Teasley, CEO & Founder of emeffen. Courtney is a business coach for the overqualified woman, an attorney, and author of the “The Easy Way to Learn your Rights” book series.  Show Highlights: Highlight (03:17) - Courtney shares her incredible journey from attorney to professor to author to business coach. She touches on how she helped get a judge elected, and her incredible work to support the D.A.M.M community and help end mass incarceration.  Highlight (17:29)) - We chat about the importance of creating a level playing field. In ..read more

In this week’s episode, Tracy Eames, CEO of TEAMES & CO is celebrating the 5th anniversary of TEAMES & CO. She takes a bit of a walk down memory lane and shares a few exciting thank you offers for the audience. Today is a bit of a celebration for us at TEAMES & CO, so we are refreshing everybody on how it all got started and how we help clients grow. Show Highlights: Highlight (02:12) - Tracy thanks the TEAMES & CO audience and announces some special surprises coming your way! Follow us on  Facebook and  LinkedIn for updates throughout the week.  Highlight (03:0 ..read more

In this week’s episode, Tracy interviews Athena Cauley-Yu, Founder and aka the big boss lady of Meticulous Ink.  Athena shares her journey of entrepreneurship and the opening of Meticulous Ink, luxury letterpress print company in Bath, UK. While bespoke printing keeps her and her team busy, Athena is on a mission to help other creatives found and scale their businesses.  Show Highlights: Highlight (02:02) - Athena shares why she became an entrepreneur,  her founding of Meticulous Ink and Tracy talks about why she does not dare visit the shop (i.e. fear of buying too many things ..read more