Business Wingmen Podcast

Today, it's possible to have as many as 5 generations represented in your business! The dominant ones remain millennials, then boomers with gen zs gaining speed. How do you insure that working relationships don't become an issue? Join Business Wingmen Steve and Travis and learn about the differences and the solutions to this challenging but very real situation.

How influenced are you by books? have you read books that really changed your career, your business or your life? Today's episode focuses on books that shape thinking, attitudes and new approaches to reach professional goals. Join Steve and Travis and get their list of the books they were most influenced by.

Did you make a new years resolution this year? Are you concerned that you won’t follow through and achieve your goal? This is not unusual. New Years resolutions have less than a 10 percent chance of success unless you do a few things to insure your goals get done. On today’s Business Wingmen Show, Steve and Travis Smith debate the benefit and relevance of setting New Years resolutions and offer wa...

In this episode, your business wingmen toss around the debate surrounding the value of education and the question about whether or not more education or occupational certification worth the time and money. Why do professionals seek more education and what can they expect as a career benefit.

What should you be thinking about and doing once you become the boss of a new team? In today's episode, your business wingmen, Steve Smith and Travis Smith debate how to approach a new group of employees and earn credibility quickly.

When you are faced with challenges or big obstacles for the first time, how confident are you that you will be able to manage through them? In today's episode, Business Wingmen, Steve Smith and Travis Smith discuss the pitfalls and strategies for adopting a more courageous approach to managing through uncertainty.

Working at home has its benefits and its issues. Today's episode discusses how to make working from home a highly productive endeavor. Join Steve and Travis for their lively way of dissecting and recommending ways to excel.

As a start-up, you don't know what you don't know. In today's episode, your Business Wingmen, Steve and Travis Smith. talk about what they learned after their businesses were underway. They discuss the massive learning curve, the importance of taking initiative, the benefit of a mentor and things to avoid like Plan B.

If your interviewing practices are like your dating habits, you may be in trouble! Today's episode compares the two and discusses the common practices that can help or hurt your ability to reach agreement without regretting it later. Join Steve and Travis for 'The Parallels Between Dating and interviewing.

In this episode, Steve and Travis discuss the effects of workplace conflict and how to handle it. A big part of harnessing the positive aspects of conflict within a team are how it's viewed and what leaders must do to address it before it damages workplace relationships.

Your success as a manager or leader is dependent on how well you recognize behaviors and actions that affect your organization. Doing things that hinder performance without you recognizing it are called blind spots. Others see the damage but you don't. There's a host of things that leaders do to create blind spots and a few things you can do to correct them once you recognize the affects they have...

If you have never hired anyone or only interview when you have an opening, it's likely your candidates are much more prepared than you are. In today's episode on 'Hiring Tips for People Who Don't Hire Much', Steve and Travis Smith offer some great tips for being a much more effeective interviewer which leads to choosing better people for your business.

Is leadership authority granted with the title you hold or earned based on how you handle yourself and deal with the matters in front of you? Today's episode discusses the challenges and solutions to building the authority you need to be your best leader.

How you conduct yourself at work, around clients or in meetings says loads about your professionalism. Understanding business etiquette is critical to presenting yourself as a top flight professional that others want to work with and be around.

Soft skills are the professional characterisitics that take business people from good to great. If you aspire to move up in your organization but lack the soft skills to be affective at higher levels of responsibility and authority, you might not get there. Today's episode discusses the most critical soft skills to master.

Today, we will focus on tips for sales survival in today's totally disrupted business environment. Our guest, Brad Leggett is the CEO and founder of The Leggett Group. Brad and his group have built high performance sales teams for over 100 companies.

When employees feel torn between competing demands in the workplace, the company is losing energy and engagement. Too many organizations struggle with internal structures that are misalgined with each other or with business goals, leaving teams caught in the middle. As goals evolve, companies grow, and markets shift, the organizational structure, incentive plan, and other business systems must cha...

Our guest on today's episode is Mike Llyod from Mike Llyod Coaching. Mike is considered a 'changemaker' when it comes to helping companies improve their worplace cultures as a strategy for improving their bottom lines.

After a lengthy closure or disconnect with the market your business serves, how do you re-establish relationships with the customers you want to come back? In this episode, your Business Wingmen discuss ways to attack back the customers that use to do business with you and want to do business again.

When everything in your business or marketplace seems to be turned upside down, it's easy to lose your ability to think clearly about what to do. Join your business wingmen today and learn how to maintain clarity in the face of great uncertainty.

Communicating effectively with your team can take on a variety of methods. But what happens when everyone is working from remote locations? Do the same conventional methods still work or work as effectively? Today, your Business Wingmen- Steve Smith & Will Robertson tackle this topic and provide many insightful ways to select the best method for communicating effectively.

We're nearing the end of the COVID-19 shut down and it's time to start opening your business for full service operations. So how has this market crisis affected you, your customers and your employees? What did you learn about your business that will influence your decisions going forward? Join your Business Wingmen, Steve Smith and Will Robertson, for an energizing discussion about lessons learned...

Today’s show explores the area of human potential and how best to maximize it. Living your highest most satisfying life is about living at your full potential; that point where you feel you are performing at your highest, most satisfying level and fully capable of achieving your dreams.

During the pandemic, everyone's work environment has been disrupted. Most are working out of their homes with their spouses and children in the same room! Your Business Wingmen will walk you through the best ways to be productive and stree free while you have to work from home.

Cash is king” is an age-old saying often used to explain the failure of both businesses and consumer households. Without the proper amount of cash on hand, both of these entities can run into major trouble, and even be forced into bankruptcy. This episode shows you how to maximize your cash.