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Interviews, Articles & Presentations
Better Business Bureau: Torch Award Recipients Set the Example for Employee Buy-In
The culture of the company empowers employees to show up as their honest selves, because when people show up authentically, clients notice and feel more supported.
What She Saw and Lessons to Tell - A Look Back at 2020 with Megan Sawtelle
The greatest challenge that I faced was the stigma around being a business owner and a mother. A lot of moms were pushed out of the workforce because they had to stay with kids. At one point, I almost had to shut down AK Lean because I was having a hard time homeschooling two kids and running a business. My biggest hurdle was recognizing that I needed to hire someone to help with the schooling and watch the kids.”
The Butterfly Effect: How Visualizing Workflows Helps Prevent Breaks in Design
When building Gavel workflows, the actual construction of the workflow is often mistaken for the most important part. However, understanding how the automation works, how information flows, and how variables relate to one another are critical to ensuring the ongoing success of your workflow.
Disaster-Proof Your Operations
Do you have trouble finding important documents? Are you struggling to explain yourself to your employees? Are you re-inventing the wheel each time you do something? If so, your operations are probably being exposed to immediate and future vulnerabilities! Join me as I interview CEO and founder of AK Lean VA, @Megan Sawtelle, to find out ways to strengthen your operations and disaster-proof your business! Don't wait until something happens, find out how to be prepared today.
How People Who Don’t “Fit In” Become the Best Business Owners: Megan Sawtelle & Aleasha Barr
Introverted Entrepreneur Success Stories Host Aleasha Bahr interviews the brilliant Megan Sawtelle and they discuss how folks who don’t fit in are often the best business owners. There’s a ton to learn and unpack, we hope you enjoy today’s episode!
Megan Sawtelle
Megan Sawtelle joins us to discuss the application of Lean Six Sigma to the administrative professional’s role. This eye-opening conversation dives into the exclusion often faced by administrative professionals, and how you can rectify that.
Running, Running, Running w/ Megan Sawtelle of AK Lean Virtual Assistance, LLC
Working with a virtual assistant can be a daunting task, especially when you don’t know who they are and feel that you can’t hold them accountable for their work! It takes a bit of trust on both parts to have a successful partnership! You are trying to create more efficient processes and have someone help you out with some tasks! The funning thing is even if you are spending all your time helping improve and add value to others sometimes it is really hard to turn those tools inwards to help yourself.