Vanquish Your Business Demons

Over the last couple of episodes Vicky and Julia have talked about how to create a successful recruitment process.  This week they are talking about what comes next - induction, and how to get the most out of this crucial stage in an employment relationship. Hope you enjoy it!

Welcome to the second in our mini series exploring how to create recruitment heaven, and this week Julia and Vicky are talking about recruitment interviews and how to get the most out of them.  

This week Julia and Vicky talk about one of the toughest leadership tasks out there - Recruitment. Lots of people claim to be amazing at this, and they might be.  But lots of others have lost their confidence and have decided to stop growing their business because of the struggle to find good people who will stay. So what can we do about it?  Listen to find out

As business owners we are expected to be keen and enthusiastic all the time.  But what to do when we just feel a bit meurgh?  This is what Vicky and Julia are talking about this week.  Exploring some of the underlying causes and giving solutions. We hope you find it useful!

Did you know that for a lot of businesses a significant chuck of their profits are being eaten away through a lack of quality assurance?  The costs of not doing things right first time can be the difference between profit and loss. so this week Vicky & Julia are talking about what this means and give tips for how to start turning the tide in your business

Culture - It is such a buzzword isn't it?  so much so, that everyone assumes that people know what we mean by the term.  But if we don't like the atmosphere inside our business then changing our culture become even tougher if we don't really know what it is we are talking about. Vicky & Julia found this weeks session really interesting as organisational culture means different things...

This week we were inspired by Vicky having Covid to explore how we can both prepare for the inevitable times when ill health puts a spanner in the works, and how we can cope better when we are ill.  Lots of our usual mixture of mindset and pragmatic business advice. Enjoy!

What causes a team to stop firing on all cylinders?  It is easy to spot from the outside - higher staff turnover, stressed managers, lower customer service, and just a feeling that things are not going well. This week Vicky & Julia discuss their own experiences of being a part of a mis-firing ream, and what business owners and managers can do or think about to turn things around. Enjoy!

One of the biggest business and most persistent business challenges is how to go about generating new business leads.  This afflicts organisations of all sizes - and the solutions are by and large the same. Is there a magic bullet?  No - but Julia and Vicky explore some of the key things you can do to have an immediate performance improvement. Enjoy!

Given we are in a post-pandemic, war just started in Europe world this week, Julia and Vicky are discussing the business and mindset benefits to contingency planning.  Not the sexiest topic to be sure, but one which has a big impact for business survivability, and mindset.  Honest - It is a much more interesting conversation than we are making it sound in writing.......  

This week Julia and Vicky respond to a question posted by someone wanting to know what they should do about their feelings of being out of control with their business - How can they get things back in order before these lose the plot?

Simple answer:  Yes you can. Is it easy?  No But in this weeks podcast Julia and Vicky talk through the issues from both the personal and professional perspective and dish out a load of tips to help.

We had a great question this week from a man who has financed a project a plane ride away that is not firing on all cylinders.  He asked us for our opinion about the best ways for him to get things back on track. So here it is......

We had a brilliant question this week from someone who is looking for a business partner.  Should she follow her gut which is giving our danger signals or be more analytical in her decision making? Julia & Vicky start with the flippant answers and then get down to some quality thinking about how to go about hooking up with someone in business.  And yes - there are a lot of dating par...

Julia & Vicky asked some networking contacts what questions they had which they would like answered.  And the first one was brilliant -"How can I stop people from dropping out when they find out about my prices?" So that is what we talked about!  This one is packed full of our thoughts and tips on how to make your sales process about so much more than the money. Enjoy! And is you wou...

Don't know about you, but over Christmas some feelings of anxiety crept in.  It seemed like a great subject for our first podcast of the year - working out what is real and what is imagined.  And more importantly, how to get rid of these really annoying emotions.

This week Vicky and Julia are chatting with outsourced Business Development Expert, Penny Cox about the joys of doing something crazy later in life, and why mindset is the key to making a success of your business. Penny has just sold her house and moved her business to Spain.  She is having a ball so it was great to catch up with her to find out why she decided this was something she had to d...

Disability Activist, Speaker, and Film Maker Dee Reilly is our guest this week - talking about the impact being written off at school has had, and the journey to overcoming that.  We found Dee's visit to be inspirational and educational - hope you do too.

Sues Duncan is our guest this week and she is a real powerhouse in the Apprenticeship world - and highly opinionated with it! We discuss Apprenticeships versus University as a choice for young people, innovation - or in many cases the lack of it in the sector, and why being able to describe what excellence looks like is so important for driving up standards. I had an enormous amount of fun, hope y...

Listen to Bill & Julia Stock discuss what is fabulous about working together - and what the challenges are in running a business with your partner.

Welcome to the Business Demons Podcast - Experts Julia and Vicky will be interviewing a different business owner in each episode - helping them to both identify the Demons that are holding back performance and giving some ideas about how they can be overcome. In this intro episode, they are discussing their different approaches and areas of expertise - plus how they combine together to make a kill...