Episodes
“Good innovation happens iteratively, not with a splash and bang.”Nick Jain Top Five Tips For Innovating In Large Organizations1. Focus on running small experiments and collecting data2. Ensure your innovation efforts align with your organization's objectives3. Create cross-functional teams4. Create a culture and incentive structure that encourages innovation5. Provide the right tools and techn...
Published 11/24/24
“To discipline yourself is to manage yourself, and you only manage that which you don't trust. If you've ever been managed in a workplace scenario, you've made a mistake in the past, oversight has come down hard on you and gone look, based on your past performance, we can't give you as much rope as we did before, so what we're going to do is restrict you, and we're going to get productivity out of you by managing you. And if you've ever had that happen, you kind of understand it, but it is al...
Published 11/17/24
“The key is finding ways that collaboration can benefit all parties and lead to greater sustainability impact than any one organization could achieve alone.“ The Top 5 Tips for Embedding Sustainability in Your Business Strategy1. Confidence 2. Commitment 3. Consistency 4. Courage5. Collaboration TIME STAMP SUMMARY01:07 Understanding the global issues that affect sustainability.06:39 Why maintaining frameworks is a major key.13:25 Taking account...
Published 11/10/24
“You can love somebody without having to live with them.” Evelyn Leite Top Five Tips For Strengthening Your Family Relationships 1. Recognizing the importance of respect and dignity. 2. Acknowledging issues, feelings and attitudes 3. Unconditional love and the perimeters around it. 4. Traditions and rituals 5. Frustration vs. Hostility and the way to empathize TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:02 The critical importance of preserving mutual respect and dignit...
Published 11/03/24
“Your life depends on your focus. If you can't really sit down and focus, you know your results will suffer.” Christo Hall Top Five Mindset Tips From Professional Surfing and How to Apply Them To Succeed in Business 1. Working with your inner critique. Your biggest competitor in business is usually yourself. 2. How to get a deeper level of focus and why it's so important. 3. Professional surfing routines to prepare for any business event, meeting or presentation. 4. F...
Published 10/27/24
“If you're solely dependent on Google organic search, then you're going to be missing out in the next couple of years.” Barb Davis Top Five Tips for SEO1. Refresh old blog content2. Optimize/use free Google Business Listing3. Expand your digital footprint4. Optimize page titles and descriptions5. Use Google Search Console to find opportunities TIME STAMP SUMARRY 01:05 Rearrange your website, but avoid changing the URL05:50 The perks of Google Business Listing 10:25&n...
Published 10/20/24
“We've got to set expectations with the employee. And when we say a word like expectations in that way, it feels like, Oh, we've got to be the school principal. We've got to tell you the rules, because if you don't follow the rules that I'm going to reprimand you. So, people don't really like when they say, Oh, you've got to set expectations. But really, all it is communicating how you want the person to operate. How do you want this deliverable? How do you want them to be?” ...
Published 10/13/24
"When it comes to securing public funds to elevate your business to the next level, a lot of people really don't understand what being strategic means at all. And so, one of the pitfalls we see with people who are unsuccessful with grants is that they were never really a good fit for that grant to start with, or they weren't ready. They didn't have their evidence in place. They started writing the grant a couple of days before it was due. So, we say you really want to be strategic.” &nbs...
Published 09/15/24
“You can put together the best spreadsheet that details the best financial projections, but if you don't have any idea how to get those numbers on that spreadsheet, then you're already behind.” The Top 5 Tips for Building a Sustainable Business1. Invest in Yourself2. Develop a Plan3. Execute the Plan4. Pay Attention to the Dollars and Cents5. Never Stop Learning. TIME STAMP SUMMARY01:44 The importance of investing in oneself to build a sustainable business.06:05 Be...
Published 09/08/24
"If you go to AI and ask AI to help you write a subject matter for PR, you're going to get the same 97% of releases that don't work because AI's been trained on the whole body of press releases out there.” Mickie Kennedy Top Five Tips For Press Release Success1. What is a press release and how do they work?2. What are tips for writing a winning press release3. Why do so many press releases fail?4. How do you measure press releases pe...
Published 09/01/24
“The best form of therapy is to create a life you love”Christopher Duncan Top Five Tips For Recoding Your Subconscious 1. The reason why personal development or therapy doesn't work for most (and what to do instead).2. The billionaire secret that helped me build 2 8figure businesses.3. The 5-step superconscious creator code.4. How to shift from employee to entrepreneur thinking.5. How to Harness Flywheel Loops and the Matthew Effect. TIME STAMP SUMMARY01:59 The potentia...
Published 07/21/24
“Augment human intelligence with artificial intelligence by using it to deal with your weaknesses rather than your strengths.”Ronsley Vaz Top Five Tips For Ethically Integrating AI To Grow Your Business1. Augment human intelligence with AI by using it to deal with your weaknesses rather than your strengths.2. Understand AI as a silicon-based intelligence that requires data and power and leverage it to augment your capabilities.3. Learn...
Published 07/14/24
“If you don't understand it, don't do it. Because there is no such thing as get rich quick. I've tried, been down all those roads... Just be wise, and know the area that you're stepping into before you start.” Zach Oehlman Top Five Tips For Mastering Finance and Building Wealth1. Understanding Financial Statements2. Effective Budgeting and Cash Flow Management 3. Strategic Tax Planning 4. Smart Debt Management 5. Building and Diversifying Investment Portfolios T...
Published 07/07/24
“The problem as you can probably see, though, what if you're practising fear? What if you're practising anxiety? You're then wiring that into your brain into your nervous system again, that's why tip number one, what is strongest within your mind is what you do over and over again, what you practice, you get better at.” Craig Meriwether Top Five Tips For Overcoming Fear and Anxiety 1. What is strongest in your mind is what you do over and over again. 2. It doesn't ...
Published 06/30/24
“We’re essentially just replacing the form of which they're getting a lift or a boost, and we're not allowing that lift or boost to be so high that then it crashes.”Anthony David Hartcher Top Five Tips For Breaking Addictions1. Live by your values 2. Seek to understand what is driving your addictive behaviour3. What are more resourceful ways you can achieve the desired outcome4. &n...
Published 06/16/24
“I want to create a business that people want to work at. That's my first way of getting around the people shortage.”Richard Walsh Top Five Tips For Escaping The Owner Prison 1. Understand what the owner prison is and how entrepreneurs get trapped in the repetitive 2-year cycle.2. Automate, delegate, and eliminate tasks to free up time and scale the business. 3. Overcome the need to do everything by quantifying time spent on tasks and showing others who can do them...
Published 06/09/24
“First, you decide that it has to be there somewhere. And then you keep looking for it until you find it. And when I started doing this, when most people start doing this, I tell them, when you get up in the morning, say you're going to find one thing, one person one event, one experience that you can say, hey, that was pretty good. And then build up to two and three and five. If you do it on a daily basis, or even on a semi regular basis, eventually, you're going to build up those resi...
Published 06/02/24
“ I think it's about getting clear on what your method of problem solving is. And if somebody doesn't have that, if they're not exactly sure why or how they did something, that's an easy no for you. And those people who understand from their mistakes, who can talk you through their logic, their thought process, what the algorithm they have programmed between their ears that lets people more self-aware enough and are able to get and give more feedback, we're open for more coaching and more sup...
Published 05/26/24
“ Focus on solving the big problems that difficult problems the easy ones will resolve themselves.” David Ednie Top Five Tips For Aligning Strategy and Execution 1. Raise your standards2. Align your people3. Sharpen your focus4. Pick up the pace5. Transform your strategy TIME STAMP SUMMARY01:34 What are you focusing on? 06:05 Raising the bar11:04 Sharpening your focus1...
Published 05/19/24
“I think we live in a world people are too, quick to throw stones throw sticks and point fingers. None of us are perfect. I certainly am not. I'm a very temperamental reactive sort of person. So, I have perfected the art of saying I'm sorry. So, I think it's really important that if you're doing something in the world, and you think, Oh, that wasn't very kind, or I could have spoken to that person in a better way, don't be afraid to go out and just say, Look, I'm really sorry, I didn't mean t...
Published 05/12/24
“There's much more to learn and a lot of research happening on what a healthy gut actually is. What it's starting to show us is that if your gut is healthy, then your overall well-being your overall health is pretty good.” Stephanie Polson Top Five Tips To Improve Your Gut Health 1. Increasing fibre consumption and how to do this in a way that makes you feel good2. Get your liquids right (stay hydrated and what about alcohol?)&nb...
Published 05/05/24
“We don't want to be learned know it all’s. Instead, we want to be learned balls.” Amber Perry Top Five Tips For Turning Small Steps Into Big Impact1. People remember how you leave more than what you did.2. Growth mindset. 3. Fail forward. 4. Daily discipline. 5. Leverage your gifts to serve. TIME STAMP SUMMARY 01:14 Exiting with excellence0...
Published 04/28/24
“...it can be done in inductions, but they're still moving to that portal because a lot of organisations are now either hybrid or remote. And so, it's not as easy as just kind of raising your hand or watching what you know Tom does and how he that he fills out a procedure or whatever it is. People need to be able to be empowered to work independently, as our businesses are evolving and still kind of adapting to what you know, the pandemic put us in. So, they need to have that independence, we...
Published 04/21/24
“Usually when the business stops growing, it's my fault. And sometimes it's not that comfortable to admit that. But the truth is, if you want to get great talent to follow you, you have to be a great leader.”    Kody Thompson Top Five Tips For Building Offshore Teams   1. Get your own mindset and leadership skills up to scratch, as the entrepreneur/leader is critical for building a successful team. 2. Hire staff in the same location to improve collaboration, productivity, and staff...
Published 04/14/24