Coaching with Arvin
From Our Call
Haley Evans · March 28, 2025
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What We Decided

Three-question framework for team calls going forward. Instead of winging it, the structure is: (1) drop in the chat what you want to walk away from this call with, (2) drop your biggest challenge or the step you know you should be taking but haven't, (3) drop the one action you're committed to completing before next week's call. You can work breakout rooms into it if your energy is low or the group is big enough to warrant smaller conversations.

Commitments get posted in the community chat in real time. At the end of the call, have everyone pick up their phone and type their one committed action into the group chat so there's a visible reference point. They post again when it's done.

Cycle phases mapped on the calendar as a scheduling tool. Each phase of your cycle gets mapped across your calendar week by week so you can see what energy you're likely to be in before you load up a week with calls and obligations. This also helps Chance know which weeks to carry more of the team-facing workload.

Video shoot day confirmed for next Thursday, 9 to 3. That block is already on the calendar. The goal is at least one video shoot day per week going forward. If you get into flow on a shoot day, keep going. If you only get a few done, that's still progress. About 14 videos are needed for the 14-day module.

Simplify the next step for team members on calls. When someone says their action for the week is something big like "shoot all my onboarding videos," your job is to break that down to the actual next step they can complete. Write the outline. Shoot one video. Create the hook for the first post. That kind of filtering is what keeps people moving instead of stalling because the task feels too large.

Still Working Through

Whether to move compensation and pay structure content out of the 72-hour training. Chance flagged that the "how you get paid" material might belong in the 14-day module instead of the first 72 hours. The 72-hour training feels dense, and new people are dealing with a lot of setup already. No decision was made, but there's a real case for trimming the 72 hours down to what they actually need in their first three days and pushing the rest into the next phase.

Rank advancement expectations and timeline. SCD by August is still the reach goal, but you both acknowledged that the team's leadership development pace makes it a stretch. The bottleneck is not your activity. It's getting your leaders' leaders to hit specific ranks, which depends on skill development that takes time. Chance framed it as either adjusting expectations or adjusting the pressure you deliver to the team. No decision was made, and you're both sitting with it.

Downline dependency pattern with top leaders. Sonya and Shauna have been doing a lot of the building for their downlines, including creating content and strategically placing people. That has created a dynamic where the next layer of leaders hasn't developed the skill or ownership to lead independently. Some of those downline members have pushed back, saying it feels like their uplines only care about rank advancement. This is a real tension that affects the path to SCD and it connects directly to the leadership development work.

Leaders not replicating the onboarding process for their own teams. Your direct team goes through the onboarding in School, but when your leaders bring on their own people, some of them are skipping it or doing their own thing. That's where a lot of the problems are showing up. Some leaders think the process is too much, or that copy and paste messages feel impersonal. The recommendation is to hold a firmer line here. You have a proven system, and the expectation should be that leaders either follow it or build their own version of it in their own voice.

Whether to set defined coaching call days instead of accommodating client schedules. You already have this boundary in the salon but not with your coaching clients. The fear is around losing paying clients if the available time slots don't work for them. The reframe is that every other service provider you hire gives you their available times and you make it work, so the same applies here. No decision yet, but you have permission to start identifying which days you don't want calls on and to set a future date like June 1 or October 1 to make the shift.

Virtual dashboard concept for tracking team progress. The idea is to build a dashboard tied to the training modules so you can see exactly where each person is in their onboarding, which videos they've watched, and where they're stalled. Claude could build this from the existing module outlines. It's a future-phase project that would reduce the amount of manual check-in work you're doing.

This Week
1
Map your cycle phases on your calendar. Go at least through April and start May. Each week should have a note or banner that tells you what phase you'll be in so you don't accidentally stack a heavy week during a low-energy window.
2
Run today's team call using the three-question framework. Open with "drop in the chat what you want to walk away from this call with today." Read responses, find patterns, use those as talking points. Before you close, have everyone type their one committed action into the group chat so it's visible.
3
When someone names a big task as their commitment, help them filter it down to the actual next step. If someone says "I need to build my onboarding," the commitment for this week is just "write the outline" or "shoot the first video." Make it small enough that there's no reason it doesn't get done.
4
Next Thursday, 9 to 3, shoot videos for the 14-day module. Minimize interruptions. If something comes up that isn't urgent, it waits until after 3.
5
Start thinking about which days of the week you do not want to take calls. You don't need to make any changes yet. Just start identifying the days that are off limits so that when you're ready to make the shift, you know what the structure looks like.
All done this week. Nice work.
What I'll Send You

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Previous Weeks
March 21, 2025
What We Decided

Leadership training video shoots starting in two to three weeks. Those get scheduled as full days with no calls. Everything else on your calendar works around your shooting days, not the other way around. Start with the lowest cadence you can commit to and only increase it when it feels easy.

Wheel reading check-in system stays in place. You're sending the screenshot and message on the 10th, around the 18th, and the 27th of each month. The team responded well, so keep running it.

Next call is next week at 12:30.

Still Working Through

Leadership development piece still needs definition before shooting. You know you want an operations manual that a market partner could follow step by step, almost like a franchise model. But you're still figuring out what all the components are and what order they go in. Right now the School platform has the first 72 hours, nine sales videos, and one or two social media videos. The leadership layer that teaches someone how to actually run a team and develop their own people doesn't exist yet. Before you shoot anything, we need to land on the outline so you're not reshooting two months from now.

Pulling in people earlier for leadership development. Chance brought up the idea of getting people on Zoom calls once they have at least four market partners, to start implementing weekly calls and wheel readings before they hit MMB. That way they're already functioning as a leader by the time the rank catches up. We didn't make a final call on that, but it's worth building into the curriculum plan.

Duplication is the bigger strategic question. How do your MNBs help their people get to MNP, and how do those people help their teams become active? Right now a lot of your leaders got to where they are through heavy hands-on support from you and Chance, and repeating that at every level doesn't scale. Defining what's teachable and building training around those specific skills is part of what the operations manual needs to solve.

Meta Shop rollout coming April 1st. You'll be able to link products directly through Instagram with a one or two click shopping experience, and you get the customer's information, which TikTok doesn't give you. That's a big deal for converting purchasers into VIPs. No action on this yet, just something to watch and plan around.

The $10 one-time joining fee is live. Your team hasn't had much pushback so far. Your approach is to not make a big deal of it unless someone brings it up, and then frame it as a one-time fee where they get $20 back the following month.

This Week

1. Open your calendar and block off your first video shooting day. Pick a day in that open week you mentioned, roughly two to three weeks out. Make it a full day with nothing else on it.

2. Look at the weeks between now and that shooting day. Move any calls or commitments that are sitting on potential future shooting days. Get into the habit of scheduling your production time first and fitting calls around it.

3. Keep running the wheel reading check-in. Your next send date is coming up, so make sure your leaders have the message template and know what day they're sending.

What I'll Send You

A voice memo with a few questions to help us get clarity on exactly what we're building for the leadership training content. I want to make sure we know the full outline before you sit down to shoot.