The Double Win

We’re in an unusual time where hiring is really difficult. Recruitment is extremely competitive, and candidates have a lot of options. But once you find the right people, how do you make them want to stay? Hiring and retention are equally and critically important, and neither have ever been more challenging than in this current market. In this episode, Megan and Michael uncover the secrets of hiri...

As a business leader, you undoubtedly have ideas and beliefs that you put into practice every day as you seek to guide your organization into the future. No matter how certain you are of these guiding beliefs, it's important to question them: How accurate are they? If they're not accurate, then how might those beliefs be hurting your business? In today's episode, we explore limiting beliefs as the...

Take a moment to think about the following question: What does it take to grow my business? Truly stop and think about it. Get out a piece of paper and write down the steps that you, as a business leader, think are crucial to achieving the growth that you've only dreamed of? Did you do it? Well, there is a very good chance that you failed to write down the most important ingredient to your busines...

Here's the truth: It doesn't matter how passionate you are, how smart you are, or how tenacious you are - the cap on the growth of your business is you. You alone can only do so much. That's why at BusinessAccelerator we talk so much about scaling yourself and your business. But, what does that mean and how do you actually do it? In today's special episode, Michael and Megan bring the show back to...

As the end of the first quarter approaches, now is a good time to reflect on how your goals are going. Hopefully you're progressing on all of them and feeling great! However, there's a good chance that at least one of your goals is either dragging behind or stuck entirely. If that's the case for you, then there's no need to panic! This episode is going to help you get unstuck and get moving toward...

Entrepreneurs tend to be product people. They can find solutions to a problem and maybe even turn those solutions into a potentially profitable business. At this point, however, entrepreneurs often run into a problem: those skills that helped them develop a product are very different than the ones they need to market and publicize that solution to the public. What an entrepreneur needs are helpful...

Joel talks with Amy Porterfield talk about her new book, Two Weeks Notice: Find the Courage to Quit Your Job, Make More Money, Work Where You Want, and Change the World . The talk about creative customer avatars, creating consistent content, sharing your story, unbossing , and so much more. For more information on Amy's new book, visit www.twoweeksnoticebook.com . See Privacy Policy at https://art...

Chances are that you're delegating wrong. Our coaching programs has worked with thousands of business owners to help them achieve more while doing less. No matter the industry, there is one area that these leaders almost universally fail to recognize and leverage: delegation. Without proper delegation, your company can only grow to the size that you can personally handle. The best way to add capac...

The story we often tell ourselves about entrepreneurs often centers on their intelligence, bravery, and leadership. But the truth is that as a leader, you simply cannot reach your goals unless you are willing to trust in other to help you get there. This means peers, mentors, colleagues, employees, friends, and family - we all need a community in order to be successful. In this episode, Michael Hy...

If you want to accomplish those exciting goals that you've set for yourself, then your most important resource is time. The problem is that time is a finite resource and you already have so much to do! The only way that you can find the time you need to do big things is to get control of your calendar. Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller talk you through three ways that you're probably sabotaging...

Setting a goal is one thing. But, the trick is finding a way to push towards accomplishing your goals when life starts throwing obstacles in your way. In this episode, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller offer you four tactics that can help you achieve the goals you've set for yourself and get real results. After that, Joel Miller speaks with BusinessAccelerator™ Performance Coach, Dustin Guyton....

One of the most common limiting beliefs that business owners have is: "I'm simply not good with money." That's a story that even Michael Hyatt told himself for a long time. Since we've been talking about mindset for the last couple of weeks, we felt it would be nice to focus in on a specific mindset that we can all stand to reinterpret and explore what it means to change your mindset around money....

As the saying goes, "Knowledge is power". Continually learning and seeking to optimize your knowledge is one of the marks of an outstanding leader. With that in mind, it is time to explore not just what we think, but how we think and, even more crucially, how we can optimize our thinking. In this episode, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller talk with Joel Miller about five key insights to help op...

We all have a voice that lives inside of our head. It's called The Narrator. The Narrator tells the story of your life, as it happens, and then that story will point you into making certain decisions. Sometimes those decisions are good. Sometimes they're bad. Since the implications of what The Narrator tells you are so huge, then there's only one thing you can do: figure out if The Narrator is tel...

No matter how good you are at giving advice to others, it is always difficult to follow your own advice. Since you're able to provide solid advice to your friends and colleagues, it's clear that the advice you need for yourself is lurking somewhere inside of you. How do we access that information and then start to use it in our own professional and personal lives? In this episode, we tackle the ne...

Every day you are confronted thousands of decisions - often as many as 35,000. Everything that you do is a choice, but if you spent one second for every decision, then you'd spend almost 10 hours a day just making decisions. That doesn't even include the time it would take to actually accomplish the things you choose. Luckily, the human brain has the ability to eliminate thousands of those decisio...

Everybody likes to win. As a business leader, winning probably includes successfully guiding your team into a profitable quarter. Here at Full Focus, we believe in the Double Win where you win at work and succeed at life. But, it's important to know that one of the best ways for a business owner to win is for their employees to win. If all of your employees are winning in their jobs, then the comp...

While it might seem cliche, the new year is a perfect opportunity to set goals both personally and professionally. This is due to something called the "Fresh Start Effect". This idea might seem more intuitive than quantitative, but the reality is that there is a lot of data behind the effectiveness of the Fresh Start Effect. Understanding how to harness the new year could be the difference between...

Most people don't follow through on the goals that they set for themselves. This is common knowledge. But the more important question is: Why are people struggling to achieve their goals? It turns out that some of it has to do with how we structure our goals and some of it has to do with our motivation for choosing those goals in the first place. In this episode, Megan and Michael talk about five...

If there's one thing that a leader is good at, then it's probably making lists. More often than not, it's a to-do list of tasks that you'll probably never finish and make you feel like you'll never catch up (because you always add more than you can check off). But, what if there were lists that made you feel good? In this episode, we're branching out from the to-do list and providing leaders with...

As a business leader, you undoubtedly have ideas and beliefs that you put into practice every day as you seek to guide your organization into the future. No matter how certain you are of these guiding beliefs, it's important to question them: How accurate are they? If they're not accurate, then how might those beliefs be hurting your business? In today's episode, we explore limiting beliefs as the...

Michael Hyatt returns to the podcast after a quadruple bypass surgery. He shares the story about what led him to call for an ambulance, encourages others to listen to their bodies, and talks directly about what he's learned throughout his recovery. For more podcasts, visit  www.businessaccelerator.com/podcast . The Business Accelerator podcast is a reflection of the values and processes inside the...

There's one month left to close out the year. That's the good news. The bad news is that December is perhaps the most overwhelming month of the year. It is simply stuffed with commitments that need your attention. With all of the parties, holidays, and year-end festivities, how do you steer your organization towards its end of year goals while also maintaining sanity in your life? That's the quest...

Some people will look at the title of this episode and immediately think, "Gratitude is a 'soft skill' that has nothing to do with the productivity and profitability of my business." Those people are very, very wrong. Don't be like those people. The reality is that showing and modeling gratitude within your organization can have a tremendous impact: Employees feel valued, morale and retention are...

Providing effective feedback is one of the most important skills that a leader needs to possess. Throughout your day, whether you realize it or not, many of your interactions are going to be about providing the actionable feedback that others need to help grow the business. In this episode, Joel Miller walks through two different forms of communication: feedback that you give to others and feedbac...