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In this episode, we're rewinding to November 2022 for an inspiring chat with Alexis Kingsbury. Imagine being terrified on your first day at a new job, only to save the company thousands within 10 minutes. That's the magic of Alexis's journey. He's a master at developing systems for success and has helped hundreds of businesses save thousands of hours. Intrigued? You should be! But before we dive into Alexis's story, I want to share a quick reminder. Moving forward sometimes means asking for help. Check out lifepassionandbusiness.com for resources, especially our focused coaching. It's designed to help you map out where you want to be and how to get there. More details at the end of the show, but trust me, it can change your life. Back to Alexis—born in Nottingham, UK, he was the geeky kid with a passion for business. After studying management science at Loughborough University, he found his true calling in management consultancy. His ability to break down processes and create systems led him to co-found AirManual and SpiderGap, software services that support business growth and efficiency. Over the last 15 years, Alexis has made a huge impact on many businesses, sharing his findings as a speaker and podcast guest. Join us as we explore what it means to live a good life, make experiences better, and lead the world to a better place. Don't miss this conversation with Alexis Kingsbury—it's packed with insights and inspiration. And remember, you can find more details and links at lifepassionandbusiness.com. Systems For Success Our conversation is about his ability to break down a process and create systems. He discovered what came to him with ease was difficult for others. Ultimately he left the consultancy to start up a business with a partner. They created  Airmanual and Spider gap both software services that support businesses to grow and scale. Over the last 15 years, Alexis has worked with hundreds of business leaders to save them 1,000s of hours of their time each year, help them work more effectively, and unlock their business growth. As a speaker and guest, he has been sharing his findings, and it's had a huge impact on many businesses Links to Focus Coaching      Further details about this podcast along with my Guest's website and social links are all available at: https://www.lifepassionandbusiness.com/alexis-kingsbury-systems-for-success     Life Passion & Business is dedicated to exploring what it takes to be Extraordinary, to face challenges and rejoice in the opportunities they bring, and expand our vision into new ways of thinking and living. There is a lot to gain from listening to other people's stories, however the real work begins by taking action in your own life. For full details of Events, Resources and Services visit: www.lifepassionandbusiness.com     Support For Podcasters: Running a podcast is fun, but it takes time and dedication. Whenever you enjoy a podcast please share your appreciation with comments, likes, shares and reviews. It helps other listeners find good content and supports the content creators and their guests. Another way you can support the Life Passion & Business podcast is with small donations: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lifeandpassion

In this special episode of 'Destress Your Business,' Alexis Kingsbury, founder of AirManual, announces a hiatus of the podcast and shares insights on whether to use video or text for documenting business processes.  He reflects on previous episodes with Marianne Page, Adi Clevitt, Adrienne Dorison, Mike Michalowicz, and Erin Mathie, and discusses the pros and cons of video versus text documentation.  Alexis emphasizes the importance of, if starting with video, transitioning to detailed text for accuracy and continuous improvement. Using his extensive experience, he guides listeners on the best practices for efficient process documentation. --- - Want to see how we use AI to quickly document processes (instead of using video then turning this into a checklist)?  Check out this video: https://youtu.be/nmH9tixe_PU

Are you struggling to align your team with your business values and brand?   Hanging a poster of your values on the wall isn't enough to transform your business culture.   Leaders often recognize the need to define core values and establish a strong brand identity. Yet, as teams grow, maintaining these standards can become a significant challenge. Without consistent reinforcement, your business may lose its unique edge, becoming less special, less profitable, and less appealing to both employees and customers.   So, what's the solution?   In this episode, I'll guide you through the essential steps to embed your values and brand into every part of your business. We'll explore what this looks like in practice and highlight common mistakes to avoid.   Learn what values and brand really mean for your business Hear inspiring success stories of businesses that effectively integrated their values Get actionable tips to ensure your values and brand are reflected in all aspects of your operations   Let's transform your business into something truly special!   Listen now to episode 117 of the De-Stress Your Business podcast and start making a lasting impact!   ---   Learn more about AirManual: www.airmanual.co

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In this episode of The Bookkeepers' Podcast, we speak to Alexis Kingsbury of AirManual about how to simplify your bookkeeping processes and systems. We discussed how bookkeepers can build great systems and processes more simply, we discussed how documentation isnn't a task to be done as "homework" once the process is embedded and how documenting business processes saves time and money in business. ----------------------------------------------- About us We help bookkeepers find clients, make more money and build businesses they love that work for them. We're raising the profile of the bookkeeping profession and bookkeepers worldwide. Whether you're a bookkeeper or accountant wanting to grow your own business to have the flexibility for your life, and your family, come and join us. ----------------------------------------------- Support Find out what the right next step in bookkeeping is for you. Free calls and books. bookkeeperssupport.com ----------------------------------------------- About our Sponsor This episode of The Bookkeepers' Podcast is sponsored by Xero. Find out more at: https://www.xero.com/uk/campaign/new-partner-programme/?utm_source=6FB&utm_medium=podcastnotes&utm_campaign=Q2 ----------------------------------------------- Disclaimer The information contained in The Bookkeepers' Podcast is provided for information purposes only. The contents of The Bookkeepers' Podcast is not intended to amount to advice and you should not rely on any of the contents of the Bookkeepers' Podcast. Professional advice should be obtained before taking or refraining from taking any action as a result of the contents of the Bookkeepers' Podcast. The 6 Figure Bookkeeper Ltd disclaims all liability and responsibility arising from any reliance placed on any of the contents of the Bookkeepers' Podcast.

Are you struggling to free up time, increase efficiency, and reduce key person dependency in your business? In this episode, Adrienne Dorison interviews Alexis Kingsbury, the founder of AirManual, about his journey to creating his solution to those issues.  Alexis discusses the challenges he faced with traditional process documentation methods and how Air Manual was born out of the need for a tool that makes it easy for teams to create and follow processes.  This conversation explores: The challenges of organizing digital workspaces and the benefits of using AirManual. Setting realistic expectations for finding information and improving client onboarding. Delegating hard tasks and making better decisions. How to support team members and create an incredible workplace. Clockwork and AirManual are partnering to provide a one-of-a-kind online masterclass that will guide you from feeling stuck in your operations to achieving life-changing freedom.  So… join us Wednesday, May 8th @ 10 am Eastern for our free webinar "Clunky to Clockwork: How to Make it Easy For Your Team To Do Things The Way You Want Them Done", and get our blueprint for scalable success. In this training you'll learn how to: Unlock Efficiency: Discover how the "weakest link in the chain" method can resolve your most pressing inefficiencies. Empower Your Team: Learn empowering techniques and tools that foster autonomy and reduce micromanagement. Blueprint to Freedom: Step-by-step guidance on making your business self-sustaining for growth without constant oversight. Achieve Life-Changing Results: Hear real success stories from businesses that have been transformation. Get Immediate Impact: Leave with actionable knowledge and resources for quick, valuable changes. To find out more and secure your space, head to airmanual.link/clockwork

Struggling to stand out in the crowded market?   Dive into the power of niching down with our latest episode!    Alexis shares his own twists and turns, moving from a broad approach to striking gold by focusing laser-sharp on accounting businesses with AirManual.    Learn how zooming in on the perfect customer not only doubled conversions but also made the entire business smoother and more efficient.    From deep dives into industry insights to crafting 'Hunting Unicorns', this episode is packed with real-world lessons and actionable tips.   Tune in to hear about:   Real-life challenges and successes in implementing a niche-focused strategy The creation of 'Hunting Unicorns', a fresh approach to finding top talent affordably The steps that led to a breakthrough in customer focus    Get ready to find your niche and watch your business soar!   ---   Helpful resources:   - Sign up for our free webinar here https://airmanual.link/huntingunicorns - Contact Alexis at alexis.kingsbury@airmanual.co   Want to learn more? Watch Alexis's Masterclass to learn how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!

How do you scale business operations while maintaining a healthy work-life balance?   Delegation.    But… it's often hard to do. Even harder to make yourself completely redundant from the day-to-day tasks in your business.   That's why we're thrilled to have interviewed Kirsty Darkins, a Chartered Surveyor turned super successful property investment entrepreneur, who has mastered the art of delegation to an extraordinary degree.   Kirsty's journey is not just about building a successful property portfolio but also about achieving a remarkable level of freedom by letting go of every business and personal task imaginable. Her experience is a testament to how effective delegation can transform the way we work and live.   So, if you've ever felt overwhelmed by your to-do list or struggled with the idea of handing over control, this episode is for you.   Learn from Kirsty's insights and discover how to delegate effectively, reduce stress, and create more space for what truly matters in life and business!   #BusinessScaling #TimeManagement #EntrepreneurialInsights #Podcast #BusinessGrowth #KirstyDarkins #TimeLeverageMaster   ---   Helpful resources:   LinkedIn- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsty-darkins-commercial/ Website- https://kdcommercial.co.uk/ Personal website- https://www.kirstydarkins.co.uk/ Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/kirstydarkinscommercial/ Discover how AirManual can help you delegate and systemize https://airmanual.link/discover 

How can you as business owner really find time for what matters?  How can you truly create the life you want?  Join Em as she chats this and so much more with the fab Alexis!   Follow Alexis: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexis.kingsbury   Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexis.kingsbury/   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsbury/   Twitter: https://twitter.com/@alexiskingsbury About Alexis Kingsbury: Alexis always wanted to be either a comedian, or a business owner like his childhood hero, Richard Branson.   After being booed off stage when telling jokes at a school talent show, Alexis started his first business aged 12 — four years earlier than Branson!   However, Alexis then failed to grow any of his six(!) businesses all the way through school and University. His most successful business closed after a visit from the police.    His early failures lead to him fear hiring people and so he nearly gave up completely. Even his wife and mother were telling him to wake up and let go of the dream.   Fast forward 10 years, Alexis is now an award-winning entrepreneur, with two software businesses and a consulting practice, serving over 600 organizations around the world, including well known brands such as Sony, 3M, Swarovski, Fitness First, and Pepsi.   Alexis is passionate about freeing up time for business leaders so they can spend it on what matters most.   Through his work as Founder of AirManual, Alexis has saved 1,000s of hours of time for business owners and their leaders each year, enabling them to unlock business' growth, and scale with less stress.   In his own businesses, he has removed himself from day-to-day operations, allowing him to go on a 6-week road trip across Europe whilst his businesses continued to operate and grow.  

After our third set of six great guests, it's a wrap for Season Three of Data Malarkey – the podcast about using data smarter. Your host, master data storyteller Sam Knowles, picks out common themes and chooses his highlights from a lively series of conversations – recorded remotely, via the medium of Riverside.fm, between April and September 2023.   Thanks as ever to Joe Hickey for production support.   Podcast artwork by Shatter Media.   Voice over by Samantha Boffin.   Les Guessing, Emmy Award-winning copywriter and Zombie Data Hunter.   Sabrina Shadie, diversity and inclusion expert, founder of the D'Rose Development Consultancy.   Professor Angela Gallop, the forensic scientist's forensic scientist.   Andrew Cooper, political pollster, and President of Yonder Consulting.   Digital marketing maven, Shai Reichert, the co-founder of XDS – The Experience Design Studio.   Alexis Kingsbury, serial entrepreneur and co-founder of AirManual. Data Malarkey is back with Season Four from 17 January 2024, and there's another glittering array of guests from an increasingly diverse set of professions. We'll be hearing from women and men at the top of their game from the worlds of scientific research, pharma, supply chain logistics in both the military and on civvy street, football finance, public sector procurement, and our first data visualiser. Their common approaches to using data smarter have lessons for us all.   To find out how you rank as a data storyteller, complete our data storytelling scorecard at https://data-storytelling.scoreapp.com. It takes just two minutes to answer 12 questions, and we'll send you your own personalised scorecard which tells you what kind of data storyteller you are.  

Ever catch yourself thinking, "I don't have time for this" or "It's quicker if I do it myself"?     What if we told you there's a way to free up your time without compromising quality?   In this latest episode of De-stress Your Business, join Alexis Kingsbury and Jessica Abreu for a conversation on the art of delegating and documenting tasks.    Tune in as they discuss:   The secrets of efficient task delegation  How you can turn brain-draining tasks into simple, effective checklists Why documenting is the key to stress-free business management   You'll also get a sneak peak into AirManual's new incredible AI-powered feature!     Don't miss out and discover how we're simplifying the complex and making business management a breeze.    ---   Helpful resources:   - Our AI-generated checklist “update 13 week cash flow forecast”: https://airmanual.link/update-13-week-cash-flow-forecast - A short video that showcases our new AI feature: https://youtu.be/nmH9tixe_PU   Alexis's Masterclass on How to Free Up 15+ Hours Per Week and Unlock Growth: https://www.airmanual.co/webinar   #DestressYourBusiness #BusinessTransformation #ProductivityHacks #DelegatingLikeAPro #AirManualMagic

In this episode of the Data Malarkey podcast, data storyteller Sam Knowles is joined by serial entrepreneur, business simplifier, and podcaster, Alexis Kingsbury. Alexis is the co-founder of AirManual, a company that helps businesses document their processes, onboarding, and training so that employees can take on new responsibilities and deliver high quality work more quickly and efficiently.   Indeed, on Alexis' LinkedIn profile, he says that he saves “thousands of hours of time for business leaders each year, reducing stress, and unlocking business growth”. He's been business savvy since before he became a teenager, and founded his first business while studying Management Science at university. From the ‘using data smarter' mindset, making better – business-focused – use of data is precisely what Alexis does to empower all sorts of organisations to grow faster, with less pain, while at the same time avoiding the common mistakes everyone seems to make.   Our conversation was recorded remotely, via the medium of Riverside.fm, on 9 August 2023.   Thanks to Joe Hickey for production support.   Podcast artwork by Shatter Media.   Voice over by Samantha Boffin.   As a pioneer of working out what works in business processes – and then using validated, road-tested checklists to accelerate, simplify, and automate them – Alexis tells us that he is now able to spend most of his time working on the business and less and less actually in the business. And, in a classic case of no “cobblers' children's shoes”, he's applied this approach to his own companies.   Business leaders – particularly founder-entrepreneurs – who he works with often find themselves stuck working in rather than on the business, over-relied-upon, and stressed out. But even a simple intervention with AirManual can save a leader 15 hours a week. This removes bottlenecks to growth and at the same time drives down stress, in this way enabling leaders to lead – AND secure – a more meaningful life/work balance.   Alexis is a big champion of taking time out – real time out, not just working next to a pool for two weeks – and offers all his globally-distributed team 40 (yes, forty) days holiday per year. He also puts measures in place to ensure that his team don't under-take their holiday allocation – and fortunately means not nearly as draconian as Sam suggests (fining them a day's pay for every day's holiday not taken!).   To make a business run more efficiently, Alexis advises identifying the data that matter, summarising these in a regularly-updated dashboard, and the whole team discussing them at regular, at-least weekly meetings. This includes taking a weekly pulse of employee happiness. He also has a daily, ten-minute huddle for his global team. “Just because we are remote, it doesn't have to feel like that,” he observes.   Alexis is excited and terrified by AI in equal measure, but more importantly his businesses have started to use it – for instance ChatGPT – and his team is guiding clients through smart use of AI to accelerate laborious, repetitive processes.   EXTERNAL LINKS The AirManual homepage – https://www.airmanual.co Alexis' LinkedIn profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsbury/ The Business Leader's Guide to Using AI and ChatGPT – https://discover.airmanual.co/resources/ai-and-chatgpt The De-Stress Your Business podcast, hosted by Alexis and his business partner, Paddy Mann – https://www.airmanual.co/podcasts/de-stress-your-business     To find out what kind of data storyteller you are, complete our data storytelling scorecard at https://data-storytelling.scoreapp.com. It takes just two minutes, and we'll send you your own personalised scorecard which tells you what kind of data storyteller you are.  

Alexis Kingsbury is the Founder of AirManual, where he has saved 1,000s of hours of time for business owners and their leaders, enabling them to unlock business growth and scale with less stress. As an award-winning speaker and serial entrepreneur, he has two software businesses and a consulting practice, where he serves over 600 organizations around the world, including well-known brands such as Sony, 3M, Swarovski, Fitness First, and Pepsi. In this episode: When delegating tasks, many business owners notice their team is not following established processes and making costly mistakes. This often occurs when entrepreneurs document processes in a confusing manner. Find out how you can escape from the day-to-day and build your ideal business. Systems maven Alexis Kingsbury has observed that when removing themselves from their businesses, most entrepreneurs aren't sure where to start and document every minute process. Instead, he recommends documenting operations that align with your goals yet consume most of your time. After identifying these key tasks, prioritize, document, and test the most prevalent ones. These should be documented using comprehensive checklists and include video instructions for additional clarification. In today's Systems Simplified episode, join Adi Klevit as she hosts Alexis Kingsbury, the Founder of AirManual, to discuss documenting and scaling processes to gain freedom. Alexis explains the benefits and barriers of task delegation, how to clarify your processes and procedures, and his entrepreneurial endeavors at a young age.

You've got to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.   That was a top tip and a bit of a theme in my podcast interview with M.C. Laubscher...   As an investor, business owner, and host of the Cashflow Ninja podcast, M.C. shared so many stories of businesses who had thrived using ideas and approaches that they put in place when they were hit by a crisis.   And for many businesses right now, the current climate is such that crisis after crisis may be the norm. And you have no idea how to dig yourself up from under it all.   And so in this episode of De-stress Your Business, we go deep into what you should be doing in the current economy. If you need practical insights or you're looking for simple changes you can make in your business to improve cashflow and help you scale, this episode is for you.   --- Helpful resources:   - Free Guide: How to give your team the clear guidance, processes and onboarding to remove stress and unlock growth: https://airmanual.link/discover - Arrange a Discovery call with an AirManual consultant: https://airmanual.link/discovery   Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!

Most business owners struggle with one thing that seems easy on the surface…   How do you get your team to FOLLOW THE PROCESS?   For example, Darren is the owner of multiple dog hotels.   One day, he told me he was frustrated that his team would not consistently follow the processes in his business.   As a result, mistakes were frequent (risking the health of the dogs), team members were inefficient (increasing costs) and he was required to be on hand EVERY DAY to deal with issues.    He wanted to know… What should he do? Should he give up trying to get people to follow the process? Are the people the problem? Does he need to fire people? Is his business unusual? Why won't people just do things right?   In this episode of De-stress Your Business, I'm going deep into the advice I gave him, the changes Darren made, and what happened as a result.   ---   Helpful resources: Free Guide: How to give your team the clear guidance, processes and onboarding to remove stress and unlock growth: https://airmanual.link/discover Arrange a Discovery call with an AirManual consultant: https://airmanual.link/discovery ---   Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!

Alexis Kingsbury is co-founder at AirManual and SpiderGap. He is also a speaker on topics such as freeing up time and the business applications and limitations of AI. Alexis's entrepreneurial journey started before he was even a teenager, and in later years it was the honest if brutal advice from a manager that inspired his path to understanding how businesses need to be run, and how best to use processes to solve people challenges and save time.

Many business leaders are currently wondering whether artificial intelligence has got real business applications and many others have tried some AI, but not really seeing their teams start using it day to day.   This may lead us to question:   Is this just a fad?  Is AI going to really add value?  Are we missing the big opportunities? How are experts using AI in their businesses?   So I wanted to share some of the practical ways in which AI is already being used by businesses to solve real business problems.    In this episode of De-stress Your Business, I'm absolutely thrilled to be having a chat with Alfred Goldberg, the founder and president of Absolute Marketing Solutions.   Alfred and his team have been at the forefront of digital marketing and technology for about two decades, implementing variety of tools and more recently AI solutions in creative and innovative ways to drive business growth, both for Him and his clients.   He is personally using AI tools daily in his business in loads of different ways. So I reached out to explore some of the practical benefits that he's getting, what the experience has been with his team, and what advice he has for other business leaders.    Helpful resources for today's episode: https://absolutemarketingsolutions.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alfredgoldberg/ AirManual's Guide for Business Leaders on How to Use AI and ChatGPT (including a training checklist for your teams): https://airmanual.link/ai/ebook

In this episode, Nick talks with founder of AirManual, Alexis Kingsbury, about how AI will effect your business, job security and develop across the next 10 years! Alexis' instagram - https://www.instagram.com/alexis.kingsbury/  AirManual Website - https://www.airmanual.co/vision  VALUABLE RESOURCES Click the link to find out about Underground Empire Builders: https://www.expertempires.com/underground-pl  https://www.expertempires.com/ https://www.instagram.com/nickjamesevents/?hl=en Empire Builders Podcast https://keapnow.com/empirebuildersThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

This week I have part two of my conversation with Alexis Kingsbury, The Business Process Guy. Alexis is an award-winning entrepreneur, with over 10 years of experience, currently running two SaaS businesses (AirManual and Spidergap) with a remote & global team, and supports others as a board member or consultant including well known companies like Sony PlayStation. In the last few years, Alexis has worked with 100s of business leaders to help save them 1,000s of hours of their time each year and unlock their business' growth. He's been sharing his findings, and it's had a huge impact on many businesses. For example, Alexis won the ‘Most valued content' award in 2021 for his workshop at Dan Bradbury's Success Mastermind (a community of 60+ small business owners), which led to over 30 business owners adopting the tools and processes recommended. Alexis is a husband, and dad of two, and is passionate about balancing work alongside family life (and makes sure his team does too!) He also enjoys craft beer, whisky, skiing, skateboarding, dancing, gaming, golf, touch rugby and squash. Website airmanual.link/SLP23A (my affiliate link) Social Media Links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsbury Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexiskingsbury Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexis.kingsbury Instagram: http://instagram.com/alexis.kingsbury --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sundaylunchpm/message

This week I have part one of my conversation with Alexis Kingsbury, The Business Process Guy. Alexis is an award-winning entrepreneur, with over 10 years of experience, currently running two SaaS businesses (AirManual and Spidergap) with a remote & global team, and supports others as a board member or consultant including well known companies like Sony PlayStation. In the last few years, Alexis has worked with 100s of business leaders to help save them 1,000s of hours of their time each year and unlock their business' growth. He's been sharing his findings, and it's had a huge impact on many businesses. For example, Alexis won the ‘Most valued content' award in 2021 for his workshop at Dan Bradbury's Success Mastermind (a community of 60+ small business owners), which led to over 30 business owners adopting the tools and processes recommended. Alexis is a husband, and dad of two, and is passionate about balancing work alongside family life (and makes sure his team does too!) He also enjoys craft beer, whisky, skiing, skateboarding, dancing, gaming, golf, touch rugby and squash. Website ⁠airmanual.link/SLP23A⁠ (my affiliate link) Social Media Links LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsbury Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexiskingsbury Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexis.kingsbury Instagram: http://instagram.com/alexis.kingsbury --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sundaylunchpm/message

How well documented are your finance processes? In many companies, the answer is not particularly well and there is far too much reliance on knowledge in the heads of key members of the team. This leads to all sorts of problems when it comes to improving the process or bringing in new team members. Kevin Appleby chats to Alexis Kingsbury, co-founder of AirManual. Alexis founded AirManual to solve exactly this sort of problem and it forms a simple cloud-based solution that can be implemented quickly and simply. Documenting your finance processes is important for several reasons: Streamlining Operations: By documenting your finance processes, you can identify inefficiencies and areas for improvement. This allows you to streamline your operations, improve productivity, and reduce the amount of time and resources spent on finance-related tasks. Compliance: Well-documented financial processes can help you stay compliant with applicable laws, regulations, and financial reporting requirements. This can help you avoid penalties, fines, and legal issues down the line. Better Decision Making: With clear documentation of your finance processes, you can make informed decisions based on accurate and up-to-date financial information. This improves your ability to forecast future revenue, manage expenses, and make strategic business decisions. Training and Knowledge Transfer: Documenting your finance processes ensures that your team members are appropriately trained and knowledgeable about how your financial system operates. This reduces the risk of errors, omissions, and misunderstandings, and helps ensure consistency and accuracy in financial reporting. Overall, documenting your finance processes is essential for ensuring the financial health and long-term success of your business. https://youtu.be/G72x8AAQ2YY Links Alexis Kingsbury on LinkedIn Kevin Appleby on LinkedIn GrowCFO 2023 Predictions Find out more about Airmanual Timestamps 00:11 Introducing Alexis Kingsbury. 02:35 The importance of learning from your mistakes. 08:24 Firing yourself from tasks is a healthy attitude. 14:08 What would you do if you were working with a client to improve a process? 18:21 How do you make it possible to zoom out and see at a high level? 23:18 How to use checklists in your business to automate your processes. 28:58 The three big process systems issues in finance right now. 34:20 The cost of errors and how it affects cash flow. 38:29 What are the rules around creating realistic expectations? 42:48 The power of a well-documented process. 47:42 Why you need a purpose-built system.

Onboarding Effective onboarding can save business owners huge amounts of time and stress. Alexis Kingsbury has answers and is this week's guest on The Next 100 Days Podcast. Onboarding - It Was There All Along http://thenext100days.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Alexis-Kingsbury-Early-Stage.mp4 He now has multiple businesses, serving 500 clients around the world including 3M, PwC, Swarovski and Pepsi. You Are No Good With People! Don't accept limiting beliefs from others. http://thenext100days.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Alexis-Kingsbury-His-Managers-Limiting-Belief.mp4 He also learnt that a sales hire was not performing, because he just dod not have: no processes collateral guidance in place. Another problem he faced was keeping staff. Every misstep costs him multiple £10,000 +, lost goals, lost sleep, and strained relationships. This is something Alexis learnt by putting the right processes in place. What Steps Did He Take? http://thenext100days.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Alexis-Kingsbury-Onboarding-Steps.mp4   START HERE:   Where are you Spending your time currently? How many hours per task? What are the high-level steps? Add the detail for where it is complex. Then, add warnings for high-impact or common mistakes. AirManual http://thenext100days.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Alexis-Kingsbury-AirManual.mp4 How can you get in touch with AirManual? just click the image... Alexis Kingsbury Testimonial http://thenext100days.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Alexis-Kingsbury-Testimonial.mp4   The Next 100 Days co-hosts… Graham Arrowsmith Graham runs Finely Fettled to help organisations that want to market to affluent and high-net-worth customers.  He also runs Meet Professionals, which is offered to financial advice groups as a white-labelled lead generation and conversion system. Contact Graham on LinkedIn: Visit Graham's LinkedIn Profile and by email. Kevin Appleby Kevin specialises in finance transformation and implementing business change. He's the COO of GrowCFO which provide both community and CPD-accredited training designed to grow the next generation of finance leaders. You can find Kevin on LinkedIn and at kevinappleby.com

How do you prepare for your first big conference?   We're live at Expert Empires today with over 500 business owners.   It's definitely not our first event, but it's the first we've bought the team to promote AirManual. And the first time I'll be speaking  to over 500 people (tomorrow!)     Which is super exciting…   But a little stressful??   So, on today's episode, we're going to share a little about how we've prepared, and the steps we've taken to de-stress the whole experience.    Both for this event, and for future.   ---   Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!

In this podcast episode, Alexis Kingsbury, an experienced management consultant, shares his passionate journey to empower business owners with his unique process to help them break free from an overwhelming workload, reclaim their time, and achieve success without sacrificing their work-life balance. You will learn the essential steps to quickly document business processes for maximum growth and scale. "Scaling beyond those 42 hours becomes nearly impossible because you're already at full capacity. I imagine that there was a point at which he was working five days a week and as he added more team members, he gets to the point where he's working 60 hours. There is no more juice to squeeze out of him. He's already giving his all and the risk... and I know this from other business owners. Where they went down that route and didn't solve it and as a result, closed the business or significantly cut it back. Not because it's the right thing for the business, not because they need to cut their costs or anything like that, but because it's stressing them out, so they'd rather it be dead than killing them.." Alexis Kingsbury is an award-winning entrepreneur who runs two software businesses with remote global teams, serving over 500 organizations around the world. He has helped business leaders save thousands of hours of their time each year, enabling them to focus on business growth. Alexis Kingsbury was frustrated by his inability to scale his business and let go of certain tasks. He decided to create a software business, Airmanual, to document business processes so that he and other business owners could quickly drive growth and scale. Through his experience, he learned that investing 3 hours into documenting processes could save around 15 hours per week of a business owner's time. He is passionate about helping other business owners to understand this cycle and free up their time to create a greater impact. By documenting processes, he was able to increase the value of his own business and reduce the risk of it failing due to a lack of knowledge and certainty. In this episode, you will learn the following: Why process documentation is critical to scalingHow to increase the value of a business when selling or buying it.How to achieve work-life balance while running a successful business.How to create space in one's calendar and mental space to achieve greater impact.How documenting business processes reduces organizational process uncertainty and mitigates riskHow to effectively and simply document business processesGood practices for creating process documentationHow to create a culture around documenting business processes to scale predictablyand much much more ...

Are you conscious of being able to free up your time, reduce your stress and create greater impact in the world? This is the focus for award-winning entrepreneur and multiple business owner Alexis Kingsbury and for his clients. Through his work, Alexis has helped hundreds of business leaders save thousands of hours of their time each year enabling them to work more effectively and unlock their business's growth. Creating a better balance, picking your purpose and knowing how to intentionally spend the time you free up is how you are consciously building the present.   KEY TAKEAWAY “What am I building is actually in real time building the present. What is our day to day experience together? For me, some of my most important moments in my day are running with the children into school in the morning and having breakfast with them.” BOOK RECOMMENDATION* Start with Why by Simon Sinek - https://amzn.to/3vOTG3D   ABOUT ALEXIS KINGSBURY Alexis is an award-winning entrepreneur, currently running two software businesses with remote and global teams, serving over 500 organizations around the world, including well-known brands such as Sony, 3M, Swarovski, Fitness First, and Pepsi. In his own businesses, he has removed himself from day-to-day operations, allowing him to recently go on a 6-week road trip across Europe whilst his businesses continued to operate and grow.   CONNECT WITH ALEXIS Email- alexis.kingsbury@airmanual.co LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsbury Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexiskingsbury Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexis.kingsbury Instagram: http://instagram.com/alexis.kingsbury AirManual — process and onboarding documentation software: https://www.airmanual.co/ Spidergap — employee-friendly 360° Feedback software: https://www.spidergap.com/   ABOUT THE HOST - AMY ROWLINSON Amy is a Life Purpose Coach, Podcast Strategist, Top 1% Global Podcaster, Speaker and Mastermind Host. Amy works with individuals to improve productivity, engagement and fulfilment, to banish overwhelm, underwhelm and frustration and to welcome clarity, achievement and purpose.   WORK WITH AMY Amy inspires and empowers entrepreneurial clients to discover the life they dream of by assisting them to focus on their WHY with clarity uniting their passion and purpose with a plan to create the life they truly desire. If you would to focus on your WHY or launch a purposeful podcast, then please book a free 20 min call via www.calendly.com/amyrowlinson/enquirycall     KEEP IN TOUCH WITH AMY Sign up for the weekly Friday Focus - https://www.amyrowlinson.com/subscribe-to-weekly-newsletter   CONNECT WITH AMY https://linktr.ee/AmyRowlinson   HOSTED BY: Amy Rowlinson   DISCLAIMER The views, thoughts and opinions expressed in this podcast belong solely to the host and guest speakers. Please conduct your own due diligence.  *As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

In this episode of The Thoughtful Entrepreneur, your host Josh Elledge speaks with Alexis Kingsbury, Co-Founder of Spider Gap.Alexis shares his passion for helping organizations and employees discover personal and professional areas to work on to achieve better performance through their 360 degree feedback tool. He believes that there are many opportunities for growth, and that with self-awareness, feedback and support, they can be fully realized. He says the lack of feedback could potentially cause a lot of stress in an organization, negatively impacting A-players who constantly want to grow and improve. Alexis explains how the power of their service allows organizations to identify the strengths and areas for improvement of their employees. He says their 360-degree feedback tool is a game changer – now the highest rated 360-degree feedback tool in the world. He says they designed it to be intuitive and user-friendly so anyone can easily run it and create projects and reports through it.Key Points from the Episode:What is Spider Gap?How Does Lack of Company Feedback Cause A Lot of Stress?Practical Tips for Business Owners to SucceedAbout Alexis KingsburyAlexis has two software companies with a combined team of 16 super happy people, who don't require him on a daily basis in the business - so he can focus his time on growth or take a lot of time to be with his family. His mission is to help business leaders create and use amazing processes and integration so they can delegate effectively, support their team's development, and get more done with less stress.Alexis is currently active in three businesses / roles:1. He is the co-founder of AirManual, where they make it easy to create simple processes and onboarding that others can use, edit and provide feedback on.2. He is the co-founder at Spidergap; the employee-friendly 360 degree feedback tool. They work with over 500 organizations (ncluding, 3M, PwC, Pepsi) around the world to help their employees to prioritize and take action on their personal development.3. He is a partner in the management consultancy Bridging Insight Ltd, focusing on improving the ways in which teams across organizations work together. They have worked with global FTSE 100 organizations (including Sony, AstraZeneca, IMI, ABF) to help them improve working relationships between teams and individuals, and to design and implement the roles, processes and technology to support effective working.In his spare time, Alexis also hosts the Parentpreneur Accelerator podcast; helping parents who are entrepreneurs to build successful start-ups whilst having quality time with their families. His specialty areas are the following: Employee onboarding, Process documentation, Process Design, Employee development, Entrepreneurship, Parentpreneur, Start-up, SaaS, L&D, 360 feedback, Collaboration, Consultancy, HR, Finance, coaching, change management, online tools, business transformation, facilitation, performance management.About Spider GapSpidergap is the employee-friendly 360 degree feedback tool. Customers, such as Fitness First, Sony and Autodesk chose Spidergap because:They can create and manage their own assessmentsThe feedback reports are incredibly easy to understandIt's easy to self-manage and scale up without expensive consultants as the customer support...

One of the biggest challenges that I've seen in businesses is that no matter how small or how large they are, they don't have enough time to finish all of their daily processes. These businesses feel overwhelmed and can't even imagine what the next step would be to resolve all of their organisational issues. One of the reasons for this overwhelm is that they add poor processes to their systems. However, the main reason is that most business owners consider implementing processes as a time stealer and as a means to drain a lot of money due to inefficiencies. Our guest today is Alexis Kingsbury, the co-founder of AirManual, a startup that helps businesses document their processes as well as onboard and train employees. With over 10 years of experience and with a remote and global team, Alexis will explain the power of systemising business procedures and processes for both your time and bottom line.

Alexis is an award-winning entrepreneur, with over 10 years of experience, currently running two SaaS businesses (AirManual and Spidergap) with a remote & global team, and supports others as a board member or consultant including well known companies like Sony PlayStation.In the last few years, Alexis has worked with 100s of business leaders to help save them 1,000s of hours of their time each year and unlock their business' growth. He's been sharing his findings, and it's had a huge impact on many businesses. For example, Alexis won the ‘Most valued content' award in 2021 for his workshop at Dan Bradbury's Success Mastermind (a community of 60+ small business owners), which led to over 30 business owners adopting the tools and processes recommended.Alexis is a husband, and dad of two, and is passionate about balancing work alongside family life (and makes sure his team does too!) He also enjoys craft beer, whisky, skiing, skateboarding, dancing, gaming, golf, touch rugby and squash.Airmanual: https://www.airmanual.coSpidergap: https://www.spidergap.comPodcast: https://www.airmanual.co/podcasts/de-stress-your-businessLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsburyInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexis.kingsburyTwitter: https://twitter.com/Alexiskingsbury

Could you remove yourself from your business or life for 6 weeks while you take a road trip with the family? It is about creating s systems for success, it is about being organised and with processes and procedures for what you do so that others could do it for you. My guest on the programme is a systems man, as a child, he was a natural entrepreneur,  at 10 he was always making stuff and selling it. But then he came from a family where business and selling were just normal.  Alexis Kingsbury was born in Nottinghamshire in the UK. As the clever child, he was seen as the geek, the one with his hand up in class. The point is he was driven to learn and business was his primary interest. The question was how do you make them grow After taking business studies at advanced level and went on to Loughborough University to study management science. He was still looking for the answer to that question, how do you grow a business past yourself It was only after leaving university that he found the answer. He went into management consultancy and got to experience first-hand what the inside of a scaled business looks like. He was terrified on his first day on the job with a new client and he was able to save them 1000s within 10 minutes. What he discovered is that scaling a business is about people and systems. Systems For Success Our conversation is about his ability to break down a process and create systems. He discovered what came to him with ease was difficult for others. Ultimately he left the consultancy to start up a business with a partner. They created  Airmanual and Spider gap both software services that support businesses to grow and scale. Over the last 15 years, Alexis has worked with hundreds of business leaders to save them 1,000s of hours of their time each year, help them work more effectively, and unlock their business growth. As a speaker and guest, he has been sharing his findings, and it's had a huge impact on many businesses     Further details about this podcast along with my Guest's website and social links are all available at: https://www.lifepassionandbusiness.com/alexis-kingsbury-systems-for-success     Life Passion & Business is dedicated to exploring what it takes to be Extraordinary, to face challenges and rejoice in the opportunities they bring, and expand our vision into new ways of thinking and living. There is a lot to gain from listening to other people's stories, however the real work begins by taking action in your own life. For full details of Events, Resources and Services visit: www.lifepassionandbusiness.com     Support For Podcasters: Running a podcast is fun, but it takes time and dedication. Whenever you enjoy a podcast please share your appreciation with comments, likes, shares and reviews. It helps other listeners find good content and supports the content creators and their guests. Another way you can support the Life Passion & Business podcast is with small donations: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/lifeandpassion

At AirManual, we get over 1000 applicants for some job roles, which is awesome!   But how do we manage the process?   Here are 3 things we don't do:   Spend a fortune on an Application Tracking System (ATS) Spend a fortune on recruitment consultants Completely derail our own team   Instead, we:   Use our favorite tool for documenting any type of process (AirManual!) Break the process down into stages that can be delegated to the best people in our team Clearly define the questions to ask, and the scoring to use to compare candidates   It works brilliantly.    On today's episode of De-Stress Your Business, we'll explain exactly how you can you do this for your own recruitment process.   The end result will be a process that helps you to efficiently hire the best candidates.   ---   Helpful resources for today's episode:   Recruitment process: https://airmanual.link/templates/recruitment-process Checklist for reviewing a job candidate: https://airmanual.link/templates/review-a-job-candidate   ---   Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!

Don't miss this episode with serial entrepreneur and business consultant Alexis Kingsbury, who has over 24 years of experience setting up, building, and exiting businesses. While he is currently the owner of two software businesses and is responsible for a remote -of employees spanning nine countries across five continents, his business journey was akin to most entrepreneurial endeavors: riddled with its fair share of roadblocks. He shares with host Liam Leonard and listeners alike today how he created businesses that help organizations around the world to grow and scale with less stress and free up time for their employees.Listen in to this episode of The Prosperity Perspective as Alexis expounds on the mistakes he and his partner made while trying to grow their company and how they eventually found success by focusing on process and hiring the right people. Hear his top advice for managing entrepreneurs, including the importance of having a clear vision and strong values for any organization and regular meetings with a standard agenda to ensure messages are communicated effectively.3 Key TakeawaysYou MUST have a clear vision and purpose for your business and share that regularly with your team in order to ensure alignment and buy-in.Put structures and processes in place in order to support and scale your business effectively, including performance management and recognition.Have a clear understanding of your core values and use those values to guide day-to-day decision-making in your business.ResourcesScaling Up by Verne HarnishProfit First by Mike MichalowiczLinkedInTwitterFacebookDestress Your Business PodcastAirManual, the process and onboarding documentation softwareSpidergap, the employee-friendly 360° feedback softwareAbout Alexis KingsburyAlexis is an award-winning entrepreneur, with over 10 years of experience, currently running two SaaS businesses (AirManual and Spidergap) with a remote & global team, and supports others as a board member or consultant including well known companies like Sony PlayStation.In the last few years, Alexis has worked with hundreds of business leaders to help save them thousands of hours of their time each year and unlock their business' growth. He's been sharing his findings, and it has had a huge impact on many businesses. For example, Alexis won the ‘Most valued content' award in 2021 for his workshop at Dan Bradbury's Success Mastermind (a community of 60+ small business owners), which led to over 30 business owners adopting the tools and processes recommended.Alexis is a husband and dad of two and is passionate about balancing work alongside family life (and making sure his team does, too!) He also enjoys craft beer, whisky, skiing, skateboarding, dancing, gaming, golf, touch rugby, and squash.

Tune in to this week's SOL Podcast for our incredibly insightful chat with Alexis Kingsbury, Co-Founder of AirManual.Founded in 2021, AirManual's aim is to streamline the routine and time-consuming processes businesses have by clearing them. With their guided checklists AirManual provides a practical and scalable way to create and upkeep documentation as well as accelerate onboarding and other processes.We asked, and he answered: the thinking process of an entrepreneur, how to say no or pivot, creating/adjusting the tools and technology for gaps in the market, startups' impact on society and the importance of having a greater purpose, hardships whilst hiring, when to do or when to delegate as a founder, skillsets to acquire to reduce dependence and overall, how Alexis and his co-founder Paddy founded AirManual to help businesses de-stress through clear processes. Listen to our podcast if you want to learn more about and get inspired by another London startup's journey.

AirManual, we get over 1000 applicants for each job.   It's not because we're a household name (we're not — yet!)   And it's not because we pay twice the going rate (we don't!)   It is because:   We get clear on one specific role we're hiring for We hire remotely (and avoid any location constraints) We identify the things that make us special We provide a compensation package that's generous for people who prioritize work/life balance over money We create an ad which _really_ sells this message   Even if you're not hiring remotely, you can greatly increase the number of applicants for your job openings.   In this episode, we dig into how, and why.   ---   Want to learn more? Join our weekly webinar and we'll show you how to free up 15 hours per week and remove the constant stress of running a business, without slowing down growth. Visit www.airmanual.co/webinar for all the details!

Alexis is an award-winning entrepreneur, with over 10 years of experience, currently running two SaaS businesses (AirManual and Spidergap) with remote & global teams, and supports others as a board member or consultant including well known companies like Sony PlayStation. Through his work with many businesses from start-ups to PLCs, Alexis has seen that it often takes a huge amount of time for leaders to get employees up to full speed. So, at AirManual, they give teams a faster and more effective way of sharing their processes and onboarding. Employees are onboarded quicker, make fewer mistakes, and free up hundreds of hours of leadership time. Over the last 15 years, Alexis has worked with hundreds of business leaders to save them 1,000s of hours of their time each year, help them work more effectively, and unlock their business' growth. As a speaker and guest, he has been sharing his findings, and it's had a huge impact on many businesses.  For example, Alexis won the ‘Most valued content' award in 2021 for his workshop at Dan Bradbury's Success Mastermind (a community of 60+ small business owners), which led to over 30 business owners adopting the tools and processes recommended. Alexis is a husband, and dad of two, and is passionate about balancing work alongside family life (and makes sure his team does too!) He also enjoys craft beer, whisky, skiing, skateboarding, dancing, gaming, golf, touch rugby and squash. Website and Social LinksAirManual — process and onboarding documentation software: https://www.airmanual.co/ (https://www.airmanual.co/) Spidergap — employee-friendly 360° Feedback software: https://www.spidergap.com/ (https://www.spidergap.com/) Alexis on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsbury (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsbury) Alexis on Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexiskingsbury (https://twitter.com/alexiskingsbury) Alexis on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexis.kingsbury (https://www.facebook.com/alexis.kingsbury)

In this week's episode, I'm joined by Alexis Kingsbury.Alexis is the Co-Founder of AirManual.In this episode, he talks about the importance of breaking down goals into a step by step process in order to reveal the bottlenecks; why it took him many years to identify his own strengths and weaknesses; and how freeing up time to travel is imperative for any business owner or entrepreneur.________________________________________________________________________Alexis Kingsbury can be found here:LinkedInFree AirManual eBook________________________________________________________________________Doug Bennett can be found here:Website: http://dougbennett.co.uk/Email: doug@dougbennett.co.ukLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/financialdoug/Twitter: https://twitter.com/FinancialDougDownload Your "Ten-Step Guide To Financial Freedom" Here:https://bit.ly/Struggle-SuccessBOOKS:Goals Do Come True is now live and available to buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3phcy6ZThink Simple, Win Big is now live and available to buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Think-Simple-Win-Big-Business/Enjoy, and come back for the latest podcast each Wednesday. Thank you for listening.

Alexis Kingsbury Co-Founder at AirManual & Spidergap joins Simon to discuss how they are helping organisations simplify the onboarding process and helping to drive colleague retention and engagement. They also cover:The great resignationRecruitment over the next 2 years

What are the challenges your business is facing today? You have to be willing to identify where you're lacking and strive for continuous improvement.  Tune in as our guest https://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=Awr9Imj6CsFi3sQA1EFXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMyNDI4MlVTLVRfMQRzZWMDc3I-/RV=2/RE=1656847226/RO=10/RU=https%3a%2f%2fuk.linkedin.com%2fin%2falexkingsbury/RK=2/RS=1GusGQbQOe.A9FmQk171Aot4tQU- (Alexis Kingsbury) discusses how you can systematize your business to achieve effective and efficient growth. Recently, Alexis has been talking to a lot of other business owners to understand what holds them back from systemizing their businesses to save them time and allow them to grow. He dives deep into attracting potential clients and converting those to sales. In this episode, he also explains the struggles and challenges your organization experiences that you could help address.   What You'll Discover About The Ways To Systematize Your Business What systematizing means and why it's a smart thing to do How to know when you're ready to systematize Why systematization doesn't mean taking away the creativity and flexibility in your business How to scale your business without it being dependent on you as the leader Where to start when systematizing your business What's holding many business owners back from systematizing   Guest Bio: Alexis Kingsbury is an award-winning entrepreneur, with over 10 years of experience, currently running two SaaS businesses (AirManual and Spidergap) with a growing team of 16+ people, and supports others as a board member and consultant/coach (e.g. Sony Interactive Entertainment). Recently, Alexis has been talking to a lot of other business owners to understand what holds them back from systemizing their businesses to save them time and allow them to grow (and what has worked for others!). He's been sharing his findings, and it's had a huge impact on many businesses. For example, Alexis won the ‘Most valued content' award in 2021 for his workshop at Dan Bradbury's Success Mastermind (a community of 60+ small business owners), which led to over 30 business owners adopting the tools and processes recommended.   Related Resources: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsbury (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsbury)  https://twitter.com/alexiskingsbury (https://twitter.com/alexiskingsbury)  https://www.facebook.com/alexis.kingsbury (https://www.facebook.com/alexis.kingsbury)   SUBSCRIBE, RATE AND REVIEW: Subscribing is easy and lets you have instant access to the latest tactics, strategies and tips. Become a https://businessconfidentialradio.com/preferred-listener-signup (Preferred Listener) or https://businessconfidentialradio.com/subscribe-to-podcast/ (subscribe) to the show through your favorite podcast feed.   Rating and reviewing the show helps us grow our audience and allows us to bring you more of the information you need to succeed from our high-powered guests.   Download ♥ Subscribe ♥ Listen ♥ Learn ♥ Share ♥ Review ♥ Enjoy

It's no secret... That a scalable business ( the kind of business that can grow and grow ) is an organised business. So why do many leaders struggle with getting their business truly organised? Is it because? — They don't know any better? —They prefer to wing it? Or more likely… It's because they've tried and failed to get organised in the past? Well, here's the good news… Today, I'm joined by an expert who's going to help you  …. Document and streamline your business processes the smart waySave tonnes of money and time in your businessLighten your load…. By helping you delegate more to your teamGive you actionable steps for getting started with what you learn today Please make sure you subscribe and follow us wherever you're listening today, so you never miss an episode again. Today's Guest... Alexis Kingsbury is the Co-Founder of AirManual and Spidergap.

Alexis Kingsbury is the co-founder of AirManual, a start-up that helps businesses document their processes, onboard, and train employees. In this episode, we focus on employee development.  More specifically, we look into:  - How to create a team that enjoys work - How to create continuous improvement - How entrepreneurs can free up their time - The power of systemizing business with procedures and processes —----- Get my FREE ebook > https://www.laurentnotin.com/get-my-ebook  #entrepreneurmindset #entrepreneurship #podcast #startupfounders #smallbusinessgrowth

About He was once told by a manager that he'd never be able to build a team because he'd be a horrible manager. He didn't have the people skills. He believed him, so tried to set up businesses that didn't need people. But it didn't work — they couldn't grow or operate without him. His family and friends encouraged him to give up building businesses and stick with what he was good at — business process consulting. When his first employee quit, he learned during her exit interview that she felt they didn't have a good culture, processes or ways of working. He decided there and then not to let this happen again. Over the course of the next few years, he got smart about how businesses need to be run... The impact? He now has two software businesses with a combined team of 16 super happy people, that do not require him day-to-day in the business — he can focus his time on growth, or take significant time off to be with family. Sadly he knew so many business leaders stuck where he was... It's now his mission to help business leaders to build and use amazing processes and onboarding so that they can delegate effectively, support their team's development, and achieve more with less stress. --- Alexis is currently active in three businesses / roles: 1. Co-founder of AirManual, making it easy to create simple processes and onboarding that others can use, edit and provide feedback on. 2. Co-founder at Spidergap; the employee-friendly 360 degree feedback tool. We work with over 500 organizations (inc 3M, PwC, Pepsi) around the world to help their employees to prioritize and take action on their personal development. 3. Partner in the management consultancy Bridging Insight Ltd, focusing on improving the ways in which teams across organisations work together. Have worked with global FTSE 100 organisations (inc. Sony, AstraZeneca, IMI, ABF) to help them improve working relationships between teams and individuals, and to design and implement the roles, processes and technology to support effective working. In his spare time (when it exists!) he is also host of the Parentpreneur Accelerator podcast and founder of Parentpreneur Ltd; helping parentpreneurs to build successful start-ups whilst having quality time with their families.

On this episode, we are pleased to introduce Alexis Kingsbury who started his entrepreneurial journey at a very young age. However, he has worked with large businesses to help them improve their processes and strategies as a consultant. Furthermore, as the Co-founder of Airmanual and Spidergap, he took his entrepreneurial experience to another level by working and integrating with different teams to build solid business structures. Alexis came on the show and shared valuable lessons learned that can help entrepreneurs and business owners. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/askdpros-business-podcast/message

On this episode of Build Better Brands, Danielle Clarke is joined by Alexis Kingsbury who runs software and consulting businesses that help leaders grow their business and their teams with less stress. He is a long-term entrepreneur and has scaled several businesses and helped them to systemise and grow. KEY TAKEAWAYSMy background was as a management consultant with some medium sized businesses  and then I worked with some very large businesses like AstraZeneca, Honda and parts of the UK Government helping them to optimise their processes to achieve more with either the same or less resource, sadly in some cases. When I left the consulting world to set up my own businesses I had to take everything that I learned and completely unlearn it! Because a lot of what you do for large companies doesn't immediately apply to small companies.There's a temptation as an early-stage entrepreneur, to hold onto the concept or the idea that you have too tightly. Entrepreneurship is a really weird balance, you need perseverance and a thick skin when you're getting rejections and friends and family are questioning your crazy idea, but on the flip side you need to be able to listen and change and pivot and iterate. The trick, or the solution, is to get passionate and focus on the pain and the customer. If you're really clear on the people you want to work with and the problems you want to solve for them based on real problems they have, not ones you assume they have, then the solution itself matters a bit less and you can pivot and change that to find what fits and helps them. When you've got that you've got something magical that can then grow and turn into a successful business.We've had to rebrand a few times and it's always incredibly painful to do. SpiderGap is an example of where the product and customer changed significantly and yet, when we reviewed it and spoke to customers, they liked the name and said it did stand out from the usual suspects of HR Solutions and so on. So, we concluded it was fine. You can spend so much time on renaming the business – and there are other businesses where we have changed the name and the branding.Often one of the most common areas for business owners and early stage entrepreneurs to let go of next is around sales. Perhaps they are the only sales person in the business, so when they get busy the sales pipeline slows up, which holds them back. Then they start to think about hiring, but that could hold them back from making sales and both things will impact money coming in. It's a barrier for people to make that first leap. The mistake I and other entrepreneurs make when hiring a sales person is they assume the answer is to bring in a really experienced sales person to come in and solve all their problems. We did that, and that didn't happen. We realised that at their old job they had a sales process, pipeline management, sales collateral and really clear sets of questions and things to cover. Making a mistake like that can cost you a year, but next time round you must implement a sales process. BEST MOMENTS‘At various points in my life I've started up 9 businesses, but it's probably telling that, of those 9, I essentially have 3 still active and one where I've paused. The process of building a business is an iterative one, or at least it should be.'‘As an entrepreneur, you do need to listen and have lots of conversations and that's often one of the hardest things to do is go out there and have those conversations, but it's only through that that you can truly pivot and innovate.'‘One of the most important things when you're looking at branding is messaging: What's your description of the customer, what's your description of the pains and frustrations that your customer has that you're solving for them, and how do you succinctly describe what you do and demonstrate that?'Continuous improvement is so valuable, like tweaks and changes over time add up to huge shifts I the results that you get over years. If you don't document things and continuously improve them, you'll get the same results and never grow.' ABOUT THE GUESTAlexis Kingsbury is the Director of Bridging Insight and co-founder of Spidergap, AirManual & Parentpreneur.Websites: https://www.spidergap.com/ and https://www.airmanual.co/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsbury/?originalSubdomain=ukFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/alexis.kingsbury Twitter: @AlexiskingsburyInstagram: @alexis.kingsbury ABOUT THE HOSTDanielle Clarke is a Brand and Marketing Consultant, University Lecturer and Business Owner.Since 2006 Danielle has provided brand design and marketing support for clients including Škoda, Gtech, UK Biocentre, UK Mail and GIRLvsCANCER Danielle is committed to helping brands that want to have a positive impact on people's lives. She spends her time consulting and working with business owners to help them attract and retain their best customers.Insta - @danielleclarkecreative | [https://www.instagram.com/danielleclarkecreative/]LinkedIn - [https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-clarke-creative/]Twitter - @D4nielleCl4rke |  [https://twitter.com/D4nielleCl4rke]Email - hello@danielleclarkecreative.comWebsite: www.danielleclarkecreative.com This show was brought to you by Progressive Media Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, a finalist in the 2022 Ultimate Entrepreneur Competition, Alexis Kingsbury, discusses how to create structure and culture within your business that makes people want to stick around.Alexis helps businesses grow (with less stress) by systemizing processes, onboarding, and developing their teams. He's the Co-Founder of AirManual, Spidergap, and Bridging Insight.IN JUNE 2022, THE TITLE OF ULTIMATE ENTREPRENEUR WILL BE AWARDEDWhy Should You Care?Because in order to win the prize and the title they will have to share their ideas, their strategies, their results, essentially their secret sauce that made them eligible for this contest.What does this mean for you?It means you have the opportunity to learn from the owners of the fastest growing businesses in the UK.You have the chance to apply these same strategies to your business and see similar results.These finalists are the cream of the crop and were chosen out of dozens of applicants because of their amazing stories.Go here to learn more:https://danbradbury.com/ultimate/

In this episode we hear about how Alexis started his entrepreneurial journey and how he initially started as a consultant in a large firm, but becoming more aware of the needs of both big and small businesses.He saw others around him that were considered successful, but weren't able to spend time with their family and friends.He created his first company called Spidergap, which creates and runs 360° Feedback assessments that help your employees to take action on personal development. But he found that the products and services weren't meeting the needs of the market as much as he expected and the company was not able to scale up and grow.Taking what he learned thus far, he created another company called AirManual which helps companies to document processes and procedures to make management more effective and easier.He was determined to figure out a way to have more personal time for his family by having a business that runs more effectively.Alexis then explains how he built a team and the problems he had initially because he didn't have the onboarding processes and procedures in place to help train new employees and make them feel supported.After the onboading process was created, he was able to have great retention for the new hires. Next, we learn about how he was told that he would never be a good manager by someone before he became an entrepreneur, and how he proved them wrong by developing his staff to become great managers themselves.We end the conversation hearing about how the startup business changed since he launched his first company.Do you want to start your own Podcast? Download the FREE E-book I have for you 'Starting a Podcast Mini-Course'.FREE Podcast Launch Webinar https://www.tomclairmont.com/podcast-launch-webinar/Need help getting your online business or Podcast started? Book a call with Tom's Online CalendarCheck out my FREE, E-book of the Month Club that deals with a lot of the core issues that small business startups can have.Website: www.tomclairmont.comFree Resources: www.tomclairmont.com/resourcesLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasclairmont/We'd love to hear from you about this episode! Click on this link to rate the episode or leave a comment and get a free gift: Episode RatingSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/small-biz-essentials/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

For this week's episode, I'm delighted to share a wonderful discussion with Alexis Kingsbury. Alexis is the Co-Founder of SpiderGap, a company specialising in providing an employee-friendly tool for 360-degree feedback.We discuss topics including the importance of delegation; having systems in place to help new joiners; discovering the correct frameworks to enable scalability; and how the absence of a certain process ended up leading to the creation of AirManual.________________________________________________________________________Alexis Kingsbury can be found here:Websites: https://www.spidergap.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexkingsbury/Twitter: https://twitter.com/alexiskingsburyDan Bradbury can be found here:Get your FREE 8 Module Finance Masterclasshttps://danbradbury.com/finance/WEBSITE: http://danbradbury.com/QUIZ: What's your BPM Business Score?Thisquiz is going to reveal the strengths and weaknesses of your business.All you have to do is take 5-10 minutes to answer simple "yes or no"questions and you will be scored in 10 different areas of your business.Once you have your score, you will be sent a 24-page report that iscustomised specifically for you.LATEST BOOKS:Turnover is Vanity, Profit is Sanity: 9/12 Steps to Improving Your Profits & CashflowBreeding Gazelles: Fast Growth Strategies For Your Business