I’m bringing in a special guest, Christine Lawson of Compass Consulting. Christine specializes in helping business owners make sense of what’s happening inside their business by connecting the dots between the owner, the office, the field team, the customer experience, and the numbers. Her expertise was forged while helping a rapidly growing HVAC, plumbing, and electrical company scale from a small operation into a multi-million-dollar business. What began as a part-time marketing role quickly evolved into building the infrastructure the company needed to support growth. Over the years, Christine created and implemented systems across nearly every administrative function of the business, including HR, recruiting, onboarding, training, accounting workflows, customer service, dispatching, meetings, materials tracking, maintenance agreements, marketing, reporting, and operational processes. More importantly, she learned firsthand how growing businesses become dependent on key people, where communication breaks down between owners and office teams, why tension develops between the office and the field, and what systems are required to scale without chaos. Today, she works with business owners across the country helping them build businesses that rely less on heroics and more on clarity, accountability, and systems. On tomorrow’s call, we’ll be discussing: • The office systems every growing business needs • Why many business owners struggle to manage administrative teams effectively • The two primary office admin archetypes and how to know which one you have • When an office manager is functioning as a temporary COO and how to recognize when it’s time to develop or hire true operational leadership • How business owners unintentionally burn out their best administrative people • How to reduce tension and improve communication between the office and the field • Building a systems-dependent business instead of a people-dependent business • The critical administrative systems that support growth, including: