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INNOVATIVE LEADERSHIP Is innovative leadership merely about being in the right place at the right time or some flash of genius? Or is there a smart way to nurture creativity and build a pipeline of consistent innovation? You can probably guess my guest’s answer, but in a few minutes, Steve Wunker will actually explain you can be a more innovative leader. What You’ll Discover About Innovative Leade...

LEAD GENERATION Who wouldn’t benefit from expert lead generation tips, especially if they’re designed to help you maximize results and minimize costs, right? That’s why I’m so excited to welcome Josh Ramsey today. What You’ll Discover About Lead Generation:  * The number one lead generation trap people fall into * The most practical way to approach lead generation * How to prioritize different soc...

Ethical Leadership Ethical leadership is about much more than not breaking the law. What does it mean for your career in the future of your business? Why does it matter if you can still be law abiding? Those are a few of the things we’ll be exploring with Rick Swegan, coauthor of the new book,  The Practice of Ethical Leadership: Insights from Psychology and Business in Building an Ethical Bottom...

ENTREPRENEURIAL SUCCESS Entrepreneurial success, the process of scaling a business can feel overwhelming. There’s always at least one more thing to do, and the fear of a misstep that could be a setback can cause a lot of sleepless nights. But today’s guest, Jessica Yarborough can help reduce that fear and anxiety by sharing some often-overlooked factors of growing a successful business with her he...

Workplace Transformation A Navy SEAL needs to be nimble, conquer chaos, and successfully manage unexpected challenges. In many respects, business leaders do too because the ability to adapt and be resilient in the face of rapidly changing market conditions is what helps businesses stay competitive, grow, and succeed. How can we think more like a Navy SEAL to make workplace transformation stick? We...

Virtual Assistants Having virtual assistants sounds like a dream come true. But how easy is it to turn a chunk of your business over to a stranger? What should you be looking for and how do you make it work? How do you keep control? Those are some of the question today’s guest, Barbara Turley will be answering.  What You’ll Discover About Virtual Assistants: * How to determine the ideal tasks to d...

Positional Power Positional power is one of the most misunderstood and misused concepts in business. It’s also why positional power can be an organization’s Achille’s heel. Sounds like heresy? Let’s talk about that. What You’ll Discover About Positional Power: * How positional power can promote an us-vs-them mentality * How emotional intelligence supplements and strengthens positional power * The...

Toxic Leadership There are 5 toxic leadership behaviors that most managers don’t even realize have a negative impact on their employees. Imagine how much better and more productive the workplace would be if even one of those toxic leadership habits could be toned down.  What You’ll Discover About Toxic Leadership: * How the severity, frequency, and duration of toxic leadership behaviors impacts em...

SECURITY MEASURES What security measures do you have in place to protect your email messages? We assume our emails are secure. But what if they’re not? How do we make sure our messages stay confidential? Those are a few of the topics we’ll explore with our cybersecurity expert, Stephen Jordan, when we come back. What You’ll Discover About Security Measures: * Why the security measures of email add...

Low Employee Engagement Whose problem is “Low Employee Engagement ?" Managers tend to blame employees for being unmotivated making it the employees’ problem to fix. But perhaps manager should look in the mirror instead? Let’s talk about that. What You’ll Discover About Low Employee Engagement: * How the phrase low employee engagement respects the privilege of power * Three reasons supervisors are...

Meaningful Work Maintaining accountability in the workplace is a two edged leadership sword. On the one hand we want employees to do meaningful work, on the other hand, what’s meaningful to management may not necessarily be meaningful to them, BUT it still needs to get done and therein lies the dilemma for executives, managers, and entrepreneurs. What You’ll Discover About Meaningful Work: * How m...

Retaining Top Talent Retaining top talent has always been a management challenge. It’s become even more so in our post-covid world where many employees who enjoyed the autonomy of remote work arrangements are suddenly faced return to office mandates. For employees it feels unfair when the work is going fine. Yet those employee perceptions clashed directly with the management’s view of “Hey, we mak...

YouTube Video YouTube video can be very impactful because next to Google, YouTube is an incredibly powerful search engine in its own right. That means knowing how to harness that energy can accelerate the growth of your business, product, or service, but how can entrepreneurs tap into this phenomenon effectively and efficiently? That’s what I’ll be exploring with our next guest, YouTube expert, Ma...

Workplace Fairness Workplace fairness is something employees desperately want and executives, managers and business owners think they give. But when a Gartner HR research finds 82% of employees report their working environment lacks fairness and last year’s State of the Workplace Gallup polls finds 59% of workers being disengaged, or “quiet quitting” in Gallup’s 2023 parlance, and another 18% bein...

Buy a Profitable Business Knowing how to confidently buy a profitable business at a great price is an awesome way to expand an existing business or take the leap into entrepreneurship. But if it’s not something you do on a regular basis, your confidence may need some boosting with proven strategies and tips. That’s where today’s guest comes in.   What You’ll Discover About How to Buy a Profitable...

Winning Negotiation Tactics What are your winning negotiation tactics? Do they always work out the way you want them to? If you’d like to improve your success rate, You’re going to enjoy today’s guest. She’s Andrea Beach, a certified hypnotherapist who’s often featured as a change agent and a force of nature in the business world. What You’ll Discover About Winning Negotiation Tactics: * Why refra...

Modern Employee Expectations Modern employee expectations of work have lots of executives, managers and entrepreneurs scratching their heads and if you’re one of them you need to hear what today’s guest, Jim Bishop, has to say about it. What You’ll Discover About Modern Employee Expectations: * Why the old “normal” will never return * How the social isolation of the COVID pandemic changed modern e...

Personal Branding Personal branding, raising your profile in a crowded marketplace where the almighty referral isn’t as powerful as it used to be can feel disheartening. But today’s guest, Liz Harr, is the co-author of The Expert Revolution which has tips and strategies for how you can reach a wider audience than you ever imagined and position yourself as a buyer’s top-and sometimes only-choice. W...

Exceptional Customer Experience Delivering exceptional customer experience in an age of instant gratification, where every encounter can be recorded with a cell phone, and where it can be instantly posted to social media can feel daunting, despite your best intentions. What’s the best way to manage that process? Today’s guest, SCORE mentor extraordinaire, Mr. Carl Baumann has some strategies for y...

PROFIT LEVERS Do the profit levers in your business sometimes feel like moving targets in your business? If they do and you’d like more sustainable, predictable, and scalable profits stay tuned. Today’s guest Danielle Hendon will reveal the profit levers you need to focus on for a healthier bottom line and she even has a free action guide you can download called  Identify Your Most Profitable Reve...

Storytelling Tips for Entrepreneurs Storytelling tips for entrepreneurs. Sounds like one more thing to do on what is already a very long to-do list. But Donna Griffit guest says it can educate people about your business in ways that accelerate your success. And she’s got some practical tips on how to do that. What You’ll Discover About Storytelling Tips for Entrepreneurs: Why storytelling skills a...

BRAND PROTECTION STRATEGIES Brand protection strategies don’t need to be complicated, but they do need to be thought out. Attorney Steve Weigler has some great tips on what you need to focus on to help keep counterfeiters, pirates, and infringers from stealing your ideas. What You’ll Discover About Brand Protection Strategies: The four types of intellectual property available to entrepreneurs to p...

Mindfulness in Business Mindfulness in business can sound like some New Age, break out the crystals, incense, and candle thing. But today’s guest, Catherine Bell, says it’s actually one of the smartest ways to humanize the workplace, unlock high employee engagement and the full potential of your team. It’s something that everybody really wants.  What You’ll Discover About Mindfulness in Business:...

Every day managers make decisions that can affect employee morale. The more people they manage, the more employee issues they have and the more opportunity for missteps. What’s the best way to handle it? Today’s guest, Barbara Mitchell, co-author of  The Decisive Manager , has some answers for you. What You’ll Discover About Employee Morale: How to get employees excited about the work they’re doin...

The benefits of remote work for employers has been seen as a way to keep business afloat during Covid for many companies and in a post-pandemic world many are saying “the party’s over.” Time to get back to the office and they’ve gotten push-back from employees for it. But today’s guest, Barbie Brewer, says the rush to return to the office can be short-sighted. Forward-thinking companies are recogn...