Business Wingmen Podcast

In this episode, your business wingmen are going to draw distinctions between being responsible and being accountable in your business. Oftentimes overlooked, these two words carry huge implications for business performance and add significant weight to the baerers of each.

Training employees costs money! But there's hidden money in training and you can get your share from the state of CA once you understand how it works and who can help. Today's show introduces Barry Menzel of Training Funding Source. Barry finds hundred's of thousands of dollars for businesses who train their employees and he's going to tell you how!

This episode deals with the specific ingredients that governs whether your marketing is attracting the prospects you want and converting them to loyal paying clients.

Leading requires more than a title and corner office. It requires the ability to think it forward then share that vision with your team.

When momentum stalls within your team, your most important projects will come to a halt. What causes very important business initiatives to stall out and enventually die? What are the signs of fading momentum? In this episode, your Business Wingmen will share their tips for reigniting your momentum to get your most important goals accomplished.

Successful businesses are healthy businesses. They look and feel appealing to those who are connected to them like employees, clients, and vendors. There are specific things a business can do to promote and maintain a healthy business. This show goes into detail about each of them.

New year business planning has become so routine, it's value has greatly diminished. In some cases, the process is skipped entirely. This episode discusses ways to ignite the planning process and learn new things about your business.

What are you doing that you do not notice but everyone around you sees and is affected by? Most business owners have blindspots; some that are mininal others that hold the business back. Today's show will expose so of the major ones.

We all want to make an impact. To feel like our efforts have some positive effect on our surroundings. We want to feel purposeful in our pursues and we want to help others achieve success in theirs. But many times, our approach has he opposite effect. Instead of initiating change, we encourage resistance because we approach situations from our perspective instead of trying to understand the other...

This show doesn't discuss time management as it does priority setting so you can spend your time doing your highest priority activities. That's the way you get more done- more important things that is!

We are not born confident and no amount of money can buy it. So how do people do nearly impossible things and smile the whole time? Confidence is a result of self-belief coupled with repeated demonstrations of highly developed skills. This show talks about self-esteem, self-image and the confidence that comes from them both.

If you are in business, your LinkedIn profile will be seen more easily than your own website! Learn how to take your profile and your reputation from mediocre to outstanding in just a few easy steps. This week our guest, Anabella Bonfa- Trade Secrets Attorney, talks with your Business Wingmen about how to improve your LinkedIn profile.

Leslie Groene is one of the coaching superstars in the world of corporate sales as well as a business consultant, author and motivational speaker. Her sales seminars and webinars are widely attended and have produced impressive results in a variety of corporate settings. She helps her clients focus on revenue generation and profit growth.

The old fashioned TO DO List is TOO LONG for most of us. How do you fix this once and for all? In today's episode, your Business Wingmen- Steve Smith and Will Robertson take through a process for identifying where your tasks come from and how to effectively handle the ones that are your highest priority.

Many companies suffer from the effects of people feeling unappreciated and disconnected with their jobs. Part of the problem lies with not feeling their efforts are appreciated. Gratitude can turn this situation around. Today, we are flight right into the arms of gratitude! It's a state of mind supported by the most basic of human emotions, the feeling of being appreciated for who you are and the...

Are you aware of the messaging that comes out of your head? Your self-talk has a huge impact on how you view yourself and what you are willing to do to advance your success. In this episode, your wingmen discuss this phenomenon and give you tips for controlling negative self talk and improving positive self talk.

In this episode, we discuss the concepts behind the TV rescue shows that walk you through fixing your own business. Many owners fall prey to deteriorating business conditions without realizing the effects on operatons, people and bottom line results. You can get help from outside resources but you can also do a few things to improve your own situation.

This show talks about reversing a poor online reputation as well as building a great reputation where none currently exists.

WHAT DO YOU WANT? By this we mean what is it you want in the way of personal and professional accomplishments? This can include areas of your life in health, money, relationships, career or community. Just these five are about 90% of the average person’s life goals.

Several national polls suggest that the majority of business owners rely on word-of-mouth marketing and referrals but fewer than 40% actively network. Time and confidence are the leading challenges. If you own a business, run a business, sell for a business or need contacts to refer clients too, and your brand has a reputation to protect, you need to know how to network correctly. Lots of books ha...

Delegation is more than just assigning tasks within someone’s existing job responsibility. It’s giving responsibility to someone else to manage someone in your place. Learn what makes delegation successful and how to start delegating in your business.

Everyone lacks a way to safely grow their liquid reserves (a.k.a. their emergency fund or their opportunity fund). We’re going to mimic how banks themselves invest their cash as well as famous entrepreneurs like Walt Disney, Ray Kroc of McDonalds, and J.C. Penney. In this episode, our guest John 'Hutch' Hutchinson examines how banks invest their liquid reserves and applies that same institutional...

If you want to keep your team members working effectively, despite coming into conflict with one another, you need to stop this downward spiral as soon as you can. To do this, it helps to understand one of the key processes for effective conflict resolution: The Interest-Based Relational approach.

Marketing a professional services firm is challenging enough, let alone doing it online. In today's eposide, we chat with branding and marketing expert, Cindy Goss of propel Business Solutions to understand the does and don't of building a trustworthy brand on the internet.

The business environment has and will continue to change at a rapid pace causing workplace conflict, disloyalty and turnover. Much of this is rooted in a general lack of accountability.