Episode 25 - Sophie Thorne: Scaling Your Business, Task Delegation, and Mindset Shifts

In this episode, we have invited Sophie Thorne, a business coach. She helps solopreneurs transform to capable CEOs and help them streamline their business. She worked with multiple companies and scaled multiple six figures. Sophie loves mono-tasking instead of multi-tasking and believes focusing and perfecting one thing helped fulfil her goals.

[02:23] Tips to Scale your Business

Have a true growth strategy in place. It does not have to be complicated. You need to have a structure in place to understand where you are now and where you want to go. See what works and what does not. From it, create a monthly, quarterly, or even yearly plan to visualize what you need to do.

[03:25] What companies lacked?

There is a massive difference between goal setting and a plan. Most companies she worked with have the goals like achieving X number of sales, or X amount of revenue, but have no plan on how to achieve that goal. They have an idea “where they want to go” but clueless on “how to go there.” What are the initiatives you need to implement in your business to hit your goals? It is through a detailed plan.

[05:19] What entrepreneurs lacked to hit the first six figures?

Entrepreneurs lacked the mindset piece on how to hit that goal. You need to understand what is right or wrong, and get your mind to a place of understanding your goal. The other thing is to not try to do all things at once. Less is more. Figure out what works and double down on it. Only then when you hit the mark you start thinking on expanding to other things.

[09:30] When do you start to scale?

Scale as soon as possible. Smaller businesses tend to hold back when hiring thinking they can do it all themselves. Hiring is not one plus one equals two. If you hire the right person, it’s one plus one equals three. Having that “right” person brings exponential returns. Delegate the things you are not good at and start focusing on the things you are good at.

[13:24] Organizational Management

Hiring someone better that you is the key. Doing all things at once as an entrepreneur might be tempting for you but this will result to a fear of hiring thinking they are better than you. These “better” people are exactly the people you need—someone who can do what you can’t to make your business well-rounded.

[15:50] Sophie’s “Playbook”

Most people would think that having a system means some “IT systems” but Sophie only has “The Playbook” that her clients and her businesses employ. It is the bible for her business containing the all the templates, standard operating procedures, and systems ready to be used and accessed.

Resource mentioned in the episode:

Free LinkedIn Mini-Course Training: www.impactforleads.com

Find out more:

- Jason’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonaosborn/

- Sophie’s Website: https://www.sophiethorne.co.uk/about

- Sophie’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mrssophiethorne/

- Sophie’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MrsSophieThorne

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Jason