EOS Traction for Your Workplace Goals
Building a business shouldn’t mean carrying the whole load yourself. Join Certified EOS Implementer® Michele Mollard as she brings lovingly direct, practical coaching to the real challenges leaders face—clarity gaps, people issues, accountability breakdowns, and the tough calls that keep you up at night. Michele doesn’t do theory or hype. She brings the same grounded, in-person energy she uses in session rooms—reading the room, naming what others tiptoe around, and helping teams face the truth without losing their confidence. Through real stories, simple EOS tools, and honest conversations, she shows how clarity becomes your competitive advantage and how di...
A Great Business Needs One Dreamer And One Doer
If you’ve ever felt like your company is full of great ideas but short on follow through, the problem might not be effort, it might be roles.
This time on Traction, we dig into the EOS concept of visionary and integrator and why the right pairing creates traction, clarity, and calmer leadership.
Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard focuses on what visionaries naturally do best, what integrators naturally do best, and why those two leadership styles can feel like polar opposites while still being exactly what a growing business needs.
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(EOS Episode 42) Decision Guardrails That Actually Work
Shiny opportunities feel like momentum, until they quietly pull you off course.
Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard digs into a simple decision-making framework from EOS that turns your strategy into real guardrails your team can actually use, not a retreat document that disappears into a folder.
The heart of it is the Vision Traction Organizer (VTO), a two-page strategic plan designed for clarity, buy-in, and repeat review so you can make faster choices with fewer regrets.
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(EOS Episode 41) Signs You Need Help Running Your Business
Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard lays out the clearest warning signs that your business needs help, especially when work feels unclear, inconsistent, and impossible to unplug from even on vacation.
On this episode of Traction for Your Workplace Goals, we walk through a simple EOS-based way to diagnose the real bottleneck and explain how outside support can help you get traction without carrying everything yourself.
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(EOS Episode 40) How Leaders Create Freedom by Pausing for Clarity
Chaos has a sneaky way of convincing us that the answer is more effort, more hours, and more grit. We push harder, the work gets louder, and somehow we end up with less freedom than when we started. We sit down and challenge that reflex, because real traction often begins with the opposite move: a clarity break that forces us to slow down so we can finally see what’s true.
This time on EOS Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Certfied EOS Implementer Michele Mollard talks through how to recognize the signals that you need clarity right no...
(EOS Episode 39) What If Loyalty Is Costing You Leaders?
Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard uses the EOS People Analyzer to separate facts from feelings when a team member may not match our core values or deliver the job.
In this episode of Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Michele talks through the plus minus method, the real cost of waiting too long, and how training changes the decision when someone is a values fit.
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(EOS Episode 38) The 80% Core Values Test
This time on Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Certified EOS Implmenter Michele Mollard challenges business leaders to measure whether their core values show up in at least 80% of their team, then push toward the harder goal of real alignment.
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(EOS Episode 37) Leadership Plus Management Creates Real Accountability
Accountability gets thrown around like a character trait, but this time on Traction for Your Workplace Goals, you will hear how to treat it like an outcome you can design.
Certified EOS Implementer MIchele Mollard walks through L+M=A, a simple equation that changes how you lead: Leadership plus Management equals Accountability. When teams struggle, it’s rarely because people “don’t care.” It’s usually because they’re missing clear direction, clear expectations, or the trust that ties both together.
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(EOS Episode 36) You Can Spot GWC - Get It, Want It, Capacity
This time on Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard breaks down GWC - Get it, Want it, Capacity - a simple way to judge whether someone fits a role by looking at whether they get it, want it, and have the capacity to do it.
MIchele shares behavioral interview questions, real hiring stories, and how to avoid the “great interview, wrong person” trap.
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(EOS Episode 35) You Do Not Need a Title to Lead
If your leadership team feels like it’s rowing the boat while everyone else watches, the fix might not be more pressure or better perks. It might be process.
In this episode of Traction for Your Workplace Goals, certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard about how clear, simple processes create the kind of workplace clarity that drives employee engagement, accountability, and better results, even when people are busy and the business is moving fast.
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(EOS Episode 34) Why An EOS Accountability Chart Beats An Org Chart
Most businesses don’t struggle because people don’t care. They struggle because nobody can say, with confidence, who owns what.
This time on Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard is digging into a deceptively simple shift that changes everything: replacing a typical org chart with an EOS accountability chart.
When you stop guessing and start naming accountability, meetings get shorter, decisions speed up, and drama fades fast. Listen and hear how.
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(EOS Episode 33) Steel-Toed Boots and the Leadership Lesson
Certified EOS Implementer MIchele Mollard discusses why “trying to help” can backfire when leaders design policies without the people closest to the work.
MIchele shares a real-world story to unpack how EOS creates traction through listening, employee ownership, and clear processes that actually get followed.
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(EOS Episode 32) The Fundamentals of an EOS Rollout
Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard lays out what it really takes to roll out EOS across a whole organization, starting with the human side of change and ending with the discipline to keep it alive. Learn how honest communication, active listening, and visible leadership energy turn fear of the unknown into momentum and traction.
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(EOS Episode 31) Issues ARE The Work
This time on EOS Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard challenges the idea that issues are detours and argue that they are the real work of growth and success.
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(EOS Episode 30) Building A Workplace Culture with Respect, Clarity and Gratitude
Psychological safety gets confusing when it turns into a buzzword. In this episode of Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Certifed EOS Implementer Michele Mollard defines it in plain terms as a culture built on respect, clarity, gratitude, and accountability.
MIchele talks through how leadership behavior cascades, why employees crave clear expectations, and how to give hard feedback without draining trust.
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(EOS Episode 29) The EOS Ten Commandments For Clear Business Decisions
This time on Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard breaks down the EOS Ten Commandments of Decision Making and why leaders lose traction when they wait for perfect certainty.
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(EOS Episode 28) Why Your Team Stops Speaking Up And How To Fix It
Silence in meetings is not calm, it is data, especially when a normally vocal person shuts down overnight.
In this episode of Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard breaks down the most common reasons it happens and how we respond as leaders so people feel safe bringing issues, ideas, and hard truths.
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(EOS Episode 27) How A 'State Of The Company' Aligns Every Team
This time, Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard unpacks why a quarterly "State of the Company" meeting creates clarity, trust and energy, and how a simple agenda aligns every person with the vision and the work that moves it forward.
Michele share tactics to keep it fresh, involve more voices and stop rumors before they start. Thanks for listening - and please subscribe! - to EOS Traction for Your Workplace Goals.
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(EOS Episode 26) Vacation As A Management Strategy, Seriously
Welcome back to EOS Traction for Your Workplace Goals with Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard.
This time, Michele challenges leaders to let go, run safe experiments that reveal weak spots, and turn small breaks into stronger systems. With EOS tools, core values, and clear process ownership, delegation becomes a repeatable path to growth, time freedom, and a healthier culture.
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(EOS Episode 25) The Bottleneck is You
Back with more EOS-centered insights, Certified EOS Implementer MIchele Mollard tests a hard truth about growth: leaders often create the very bottlenecks that stall their teams.
A tense meeting turns into a breakthrough as a visionary names his own constraint, and we show how clarity breaks, EOS tools, and honest delegation unlock momentum.
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(EOS Episode 24) From Vision To Traction: Building Olympic-Level Execution In Your Company
This time on EOS Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard challenges the myth that great outcomes just happen and show how Olympic-style preparation, clear structure, and a healthy team create real traction.
We map vision to execution with EOS tools, accountability, and peer support so leaders can trade overwhelm for momentum.
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(EOS Episode 23) Map Your Year: From Vision To Milestones
Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard unpacks how reflection becomes traction when you stop waiting for a date and start mapping a route with clear checkpoints.
A road-trip metaphor brings EOS tools to life, turning big goals into weekly corrections you can actually make.
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(EOS Episode 22) They Faced Chaos, Chose EOS, And Built A Clear Path Forward
Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard is joined in this episode of EOS Traction for Your Workplace Goals by clients and father-daughter team Denny Stults and Ellen Kluck of Visiting Angels in southwest Michigan.
Denny and Ellen share how they used EOS to move from reactive chaos to focused growth, doubling weekly care hours while building a healthier culture.
The conversation is candid about pain points, tough choices, and the power of simple tools used with discipline.
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(EOS Episode 21) Handling Mid‑Quarter “Emergencies” Without Threatening Your Rocks
Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard digs into what happens when new priorities land mid‑quarter and how to protect your team from burnout and whiplash while still shipping what matters.
We share a simple litmus test, ways to renegotiate scope, and how to build safety so people can push back.
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(EOS Episode 20) Choosing Between an EOS Implementer and Self-Implementation
In this episode of EOS-Traction for Your Workplace Goals, EOS Certified Implementer Michele Mollard welcomes a brother-and-sister team Lindsay VanDyken and Mark Paulson from Budget Blinds in Holland, Michigan.
We explore how this sibling team moved from capacity crunch to clarity by adopting EOS - and their decision not to self-implement, but instead, chose the guidance of an EOS implementer. The story shows why clean tools, a steady cadence and outside facilitation turn good intentions into real traction.
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(EOS Episode 19) Clarity Over Busy
In this episode of EOS-Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Certified EOS Implementer Michele Mollard makes the case that clarity is a competitive advantage. Michele shows how simple, protected thinking time beats frantic busyness - and shares how to run clarity breaks, turn first answers into better ones, and bring the team into smarter decisions.
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(EOS Episode 18) More G-W-C: How To Know If Someone Truly Fits Their Role
In this episode of EOS-Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Implementer Michele Mollard unpacks G-W-C—get it, want it, capacity—as a practical lens to make better hiring, coaching, and seat-fit decisions.
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(EOS Episode 17) Have Time for Other Passions
In this episode of EOS-Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Implementer Michele Mollard digs into how to create real time for other passions by using intentional choices, disciplined scheduling, and the EOS tools that turn personal capacity into organizational capacity.
We challenge the “I’ll do it all” myth and show how delegating, trust, and structure unlock growth without sacrificing weekends.
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(EOS Episode 16) Difficult Conversations Can Break the Logjam to Productivity
Having conversations with employees or coworkers when goals are not being met is difficult. In fact, even the most dedicated managers and employees may avoid the conversations altogether.
In this episode of EOS-Traction for Your Workplace Goals, Implementer Michele Mollard discusses the critical nature of those conversations - as well as some of the best ways to approach them - in order to gain momentum toward your business goals.
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(EOS Episode 15) Accountability is Partnership
Traction for Your Workplace Goals continues in episode 15 with EOS implementer Michele Mollard discussing the benefits of accountability.
In fact, we learn that when there is accountability, there is partnership.
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(EOS Episode 14) Chaos is Expensive
EOS implementer Michele Mollard returns to her series EOS - Traction for Your Workplace Goals talking about something no business owner enjoys: Chaos.
Not to mention, chaos in your business is costing you.
In episode 14, Michele discusses what chaos looks like - and how EOS calms it.
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(EOS Episode 13) Evolution and Revolution: Breaking Through Traction Slowdowns
In EOS – Traction for Your Workplace Goals, we delve into these and other common business challenges in search of solutions. Michele Mollard, implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), discusses how EOS solves many common workplace challenges and help get what you have always wanted from your business.
In Episode 13, Michele talks about what to do when your workplace goals hit a ceiling. As she says, it simply means it's time for a revolution!
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(EOS Episode 12) Does Staff See Your Vision?
In EOS – Traction for Your Workplace Goals, we delve into these and other common business challenges in search of solutions. Michele Mollard, implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), discusses how EOS solves many common workplace challenges and help get what you have always wanted from your business.
Episode 12 targets a very important foundational consideration: Does your staff understand, adopt and get behind the vision you have for the organization? Do they understand how the vision will affect them and how they can achieve it? Michele Mollard discusses how getting vision buy-in is key to wo...
(EOS Episode 11) Clearly Stated Processes = Success
In EOS – Traction for Your Workplace Goals, we delve into these and other common business challenges in search of solutions. Michele Mollard, implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), discusses how EOS solves many common workplace challenges and help get what you have always wanted from your business.
In episode 11, Michele delves deeper into why some employees might not be following the processes required of them. It turns out, it might not be their fault. Click and hear why!
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(EOS Episode 10) Systemize and Simplify
In EOS – Traction for Your Workplace Goals, we delve into these and other common business challenges in search of solutions. Michele Mollard, implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), discusses how EOS solves many common workplace challenges and help get what you have always wanted from your business.
If your organization doubles in size, it stands to reason things grow in complexity, right? You might be surprised how much more complex things can get. In episode 10, Michele discusses how systemizing helps make things simpler.
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(EOS Episode 9) Get Your Goals Un-Stuck
In EOS – Traction for Your Workplace Goals, we delve into these and other common business challenges in search of solutions. Michele Mollard, implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), discusses how EOS solves many common workplace challenges and help get what you have always wanted from your business.
In Episode 9, business owners and managers will hear Michele discuss the I-D-S process to regain traction in cases where progress has been stalled.
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(EOS Episode 8) Solving The "I'm Too Busy" Problem
In EOS – Traction for Your Workplace Goals, we delve into these and other common business challenges in search of solutions. Michele Mollard, implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), discusses how EOS solves many common workplace challenges and help get what you have always wanted from your business.
Episode 8 targets something many business owners and managers have heard (or maybe even said!): I'm too busy to take on something else!
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(EOS Episode 7) Scorecard: Measurables and Accountability
In EOS – Traction for Your Workplace Goals, we delve into these and other common business challenges in search of solutions. Michele Mollard, implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), discusses how EOS solves many common workplace challenges and help get what you have always wanted from your business.
In Episode 7 the focus continues on reducing threats to profitability. This time, the conversation zooms in on keeping track of measurables and accountability so that the company can hit established targets.
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(EOS Episode 6) Deflect Threats to Your Profits
In EOS – Traction for Your Workplace Goals, we delve into these and other common business challenges in search of solutions. Michele Mollard, implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), discusses how EOS solves many common workplace challenges and help get what you have always wanted from your business.
Episode 6 continues with a focus on processes - or a lack of them. Not having processes in place can cause delays and affect productivity. That affects profits.
Michele discusses the importance of processes and how EOS helps develop them - keeping you on-track with your pr...
(EOS Episode 5) Put Your Goals 'On The Rocks'
In EOS – Traction for Your Workplace Goals, we delve into these and other common business challenges in search of solutions. Michele Mollard, implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), discusses how EOS solves many common workplace challenges and help get what you have always wanted from your business.
Episode 5 carries forward the focus and control discussion from the previous episode. This time, Michele the structure EOS provides (called "rocks") in order to get traction and attain your workplace goals. Click to listen to this informative episode, setting the scene for how EOS gives you control to...
(EOS Episode 4) Know Your Core Focus and Stay in Control
In EOS – Traction for Your Workplace Goals, we delve into these and other common business challenges in search of solutions. Michele Mollard, implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), discusses how EOS solves many common workplace challenges and help get what you have always wanted from your business.
Episode 4 discusses the challenge businesses have keeping control of resources, time and projects. When shiny objects come along (squirrel!), how can a business keep on-track with its core focus?
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