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One of the great indicators of a business' growth is its ability to function without the business owner. This entails a lot of task delegation, taking off some of the weight from the business owner's shoulders and passing it down to those who can do them better and more efficiently. If you feel you are at this stage in your business already, this episode will provide you with some great insights about that transition. Bob Roark interviews LifePoint Strategies (https://lifept.co/) , a company that works with business owners who want a business that can run without them. Either you want to prepare for an exit or focus on the things that really matter and would make good use of your focus, Terri shows you the steps and the strategies to make that move while maximizing your business' value without skipping a beat. Dive deep into this great conversation to know the amazing services they offer and more. --- Watch the episode here:[embed]https://youtu.be/vcCayoIi-Hs[/embed] Listen to the podcast here:[smart_track_player url="" title="A Business That Runs Without A Business Owner With Terri Starck" image="http://businessleaderspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/BLP-SquareLogo-WhiteBlueBG1400x1400.png" background="default"] A Business That Runs Without A Business Owner With Terri StarckWe're extremely fortunate because we have Terri Starck. She is the Founder and Business Strategist with (https://lifept.co/) . Terri, thanks for taking the time. Thank you for having me, Bob. Tell us a little bit about your business and who you serve. LifePoint Strategies works with business owners who want a business that can run without them. They either want that because they're almost ready to sell and they want to maximize the value of their business prior to selling. They want a business that runs without them so that they can focus on the things that matter to them. Maybe they like to do more strategic work for their business. Potentially, they want to get back in the field and do the things that they enjoy doing and the reason why they started the business in the first place. Some of them quite honestly just want to play more golf. The way I play golf, that wouldn't help much. I would spend all my time in the field not playing golf for sure. For the business owners, that sounds interesting. I'm going to try to play the role of the business owner and ask you some questions. That sounds intriguing. How do you work? When a business owner calls us, we start by going through what we call the discovery phase. It is where we come into the business and interview some of the key players, the owner, COO, CFO, management team players, and some of the key employees. Once we interview them, we'll have a good feel for the overall business because we take them through what we call the business assessment. We'll then take a look at their finances, P&Ls, and do a pretty good in-depth financial analysis. After that, we do a leadership assessment to identify any of the gaps that they have in their leaders, maybe communication or abilities to confront or resolve issues, those types of things. Finally, we go through what we call our walkabout. We walk around the business and get the feel of the company and the culture for how people interact with each other and how the businesses run overall. Once we do the discovery phase, then we move on and go through the strategy days. Those are two days that are packed with taking the information that we have gotten from the discovery phase. We will then prioritize what has to be done in order to achieve the financial goals of the owner as well as the leadership development goals. Anything else that needs to be done either to maximize the value of the business or get the business running on its own without the owner. Once we do the strategy days, then we're off to the implementation phase. In the implementation phase, we implement the findings that we have....