Make More Work Less podcast: Recent Episodes
Jackie Zach
MAKE MORE WORK LESS is a podcast for business owners to get answers to the most important questions about owning and running a successful business. Hosted by Jackie Zach Certified Business Coach for ActionCOACH Wisconsin and Mike McKay Partner and Certified Business and Executive Coach for ActionCOACH Wisconsin. We have almost 70 years of combined business experience. Wowza that seems like a ton!!
The Entrepreneur Ladder are the 8 rungs you go through on the journey to becoming a true entrepreneur. Most business owners have not completed all rungs on the ladder. Listen as we introduce the Entrepreneur Ladder
Where are you on the Entrepreneur Ladder? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
What happens to your business when your personal life is not going the way you want? It is our job as coaches to make sure that when your personal life is going awry, your business stays healthy. Listen as we discuss what choices you have in your business when your personal life gets in the way.
Are your personal issues affecting your business? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
A fixed mindset says this is all there is or otherwise known as scarcity mindset. A growth mindset says this is just the beginning. It is the next stage in my growth journey or an abundance mindset. Listen how a fixed or growth mindset can affect your company.
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Why do you want a leadership bench? As you grow your people grow and your building leaders as you go. They replace your lowest value tasks so that you can work on your highest value tasks. If you want A players, you’ll need to develop your bench.
Do you need help building a leadership bench? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
If you have an employee that challenges you is a person who will push and listen. An employee that is challenging is a person who will push but not listen. Do you have employees like this? Listen as we discuss how to deal with both.
Do you have a challenging employee or one that challenges you and want some help? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
As always life is a mirror. How do you create great leadership? What results does your organization get with great leaders? Does everyone need to be a great leader? Listen as we discuss these questions and many more.
Want to be a better leader but don’t know where to start? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
As you consider your business, where do you want to be in 5 years, 3 years, next year? Starting with the end in mind helps you look out into the future so that you can figure out what you need to do this quarter to get one quarter closer. Listen as we discuss how to take the vision of the future and take action on getting there
Do you know where you want your business to be in 5 years? If not, take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Have you thought about planning but really haven’t created a great plan? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the process required in planning and who can help check you on your plan? Learn what it means to separate the task from the goal
Need to really create a great plan but don’t know how? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Freedom from and because of your business. Freedom can mean the business runs without you. Or you can invest in other things. Freedom can also mean having choices with how you spend your time.
Want freedom through an excellent business? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
As a business owner, are you working on the things that are going to make you the most money or are you trying to save a wage? Or feel that no one can do it better than you? Listen as we discuss the business owner’s time and how much it is costing your business.
Want to see how much money you are leaving on the table by the way you use your time? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
The formula for life success is Be x Do = Have. If we want things, we have to do things and we have to change who we are. One of the best way to stay inspired is to seek goals all the time.
Do you and your business have goals to stay inspired? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
If you want to earn more money you need better skills. We’re exactly where we’re at for what we know. We’re worth what our skills say we’re worth.
Need better skills as a business owner? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Our anxiety is real to each of us. Is it real or a choice you make to interpret the world around us.
Are you anxious about your business? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Hiring is easy unless you suck. Where to start? Start with your culture.
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No one hires C players. If you have a C player you have created them. It all starts with onboarding and goes from there.
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Law of Connection says there is an internal and external worlds in our mind. The Law of Attraction says what you think about you’re going to get more of consistently. Your thoughts are causing your life.
Do you want to change what you are attracting ? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
How do you have fun in your business? Business is a game to win. We start with deciding to have fun. Listen as we talk about fun.
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You’re mean. Sometimes when holding people accountable they think we’re mean. Is it mean or is it exactly what they need to hear to get them out of their comfort zone. o break through self-imposed barriers we need pressure.
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Listen as we discuss how to overcome the “I need to think about it” objections
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We sell how we buy. Listen as we discuss bringing up price objections up front in your purpose statement.
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What is professional level networking? Listen as we discuss taking your networking to the next level.
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As a business owner or executive your competitive edge is your skill set, grit, decision and commitment. Listen as we discuss how to have a competitive edge.
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What does it mean to be a professional business owner vs just a business owner. What does it take to go pro? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss being a professional business owner.
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Who I become is already in me which allows me to have what I want my future state to be. Listen as we discuss how our child mind tells us we don’t have what it takes. We are perfect because the universe does not make a mistake.
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Your business is a vehicle for getting what you want in life. Most people don’t take the time to really think about the kind of life they want. Listen as we explore getting the life you want.
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When something isn’t the result we wanted, in what way are we not ready? How can I change my readiness level to get the result I wanted. Listen as we explore this idea?
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Today’s episode discusses the formula for success and the ripple effect of Be x Do = Have. We explore the idea of “Who do we have to be in order to get what we want to have?”
Want to learn more about how to apply the formula for success? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Is your mindset allowing bigger things? You have to expand your mindset to get where you want to go. Listen as we learn how to expand our mindset to get to our goals.
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When we’re bored as business owners we make bad decisions. The truth is that business can be boring because we do the same things day in and day out. What if that is a good thing? Listen as we explore boredom as business owners.
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For lots of people busyness is like a comfortable blanket. We feel productive and useful. As a business owner if you are busy it is a choice. How do you evaluate if you are busy doing the most effective things or just things.
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Entropy is the natural law that everything is moving toward disorder all the time. Any business process you have there is always the temptation to take short cuts. Once that starts entropy kicks in quickly. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss how entropy creeps into business.
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In order to get referrals you must have a consistent customer experience. When people refer they expect that the person they refer has the same wonderful experience they had. Listen as Jackie and Mike discuss referrals and the customer experience.
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You may think you and your sales team are asking for the sale but are you really? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss how to ask for the sale.
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Why is scripting in the sales process so important. If the Shakespeare scripts still work after 500 years, then scripting in your sales process can work for you.
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Learn about what a purpose statement is, what does it sound like and why it is important.
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Selling skills are easily perishable. If you don’t do it everyday you’re going to suck at it if you don’t practice.
Are the selling skills in your business keeping pace with your sales goals ? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Entropy is all systems and processes moving toward disorder. If you find yourself saying to your team “We need to get back to basics”, entropy is creeping in.
Want to know more about navigating entropy in your business? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Mindset is important whether you are running a business or an executive. How your mindset goes your team goes and your results go.
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Perturbation is what happens to people as they reach the edge of their comfort zone.
Are you or your organization experiencing perturbation and want help navigating? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Change has happened. Listen as we discuss how to navigate change with your employees.
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Experience is the best teacher and it is no exception for us. We, as a business, are experiencing changes and we thought it would be a great idea to share how we have navigated those changes.
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The first step in the buying journey is the customer identifies a problem and what do they want. Listen as we discuss the customer buying journey and how you can help to influence it.
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The way to have your business treat you better is to be a better business owner. There is no way to outwork a problem. Working harder is not the answer. Listen as we discuss how to outsmart your work with better, smarter, easier shortcuts.
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What are the steps to getting and retaining a championship team? Step one is to stop making excuses (topic from Episode 240). Step two is to start setting clear expectations (Episode 242). Listen as we discuss what other things go into creating a championship team!
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Listen as we discuss how setting clear expectations will give you a better chance at getting the result you want. As soon as you allow excuses, you take away your ability to set expectations. Your employees want to be successful and want to know what success looks like at your company. So, it’s your job to set those clear expectations.
Are you getting the results you’re expecting? If not, take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Listen as we interview Erin Ogden the managing partner at Ogden, Glazer + Shaefer. a powerhouse team, specializing in representing businesses with a sharp focus on startups, intellectual property, and food and beverage regulation
Learn how Erin got started, challenges she faced and how coaching has helped her take her business to the next level.
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Are you noticing your team and your customers making a lot of excuses or giving you reasons why something can’t be done? As we know, life is a mirror. The real question is, “Where are you using excuses in your business?"
On today’s episode we discuss excuses and how they limit growth in your business.
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Peak End Effect is all about the end of a transaction, meeting or phone call. How are you leaving them feeling when they leave your orbit? The period you’re interacting with them are the peaks and valleys. The most important parts of a transaction are the peaks and the ending. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss more in depth about the Peak End Effect and how to use it to your advantage.
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Coaching is a competitive advantage to the growth of you as a leader, owner and having a better business. About 15% of your competitors are coming for YOU! Are you being lazy and going with the flow? Are you intentionally growing your business and looking for a competitive edge?
Want a competitive advantage and want a coach? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Stupid things in business are things like, keeping someone in a role too long, “I know what to do but I didn’t do it”, bright shiny pennies, not spending enough time testing and measuring and giving up too soon. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss how to navigate through these decisions.
Do you want to stop doing stupid stuff and want help? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
We expect our team to think like we do, but the reality is that they don’t. How do you get your team to do the things you want them to do? First step, is to understand how people want to be led by asking things like “How can I help you be successful at xxx?” Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss how to lead people the way they want to be led.
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When we are leading through crisis, the first step is to check yourself. Are you panicking? Are you looking at a solution? If you take your blinders off and focus on truly what is in front of you, you will find opportunity.
How prepared are you to take advantage of opportunities? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Do you say “I don't want to pay taxes” to yourself? Did you know that this philosophy also stunts your business’s growth? Listen as we discuss business taxes and the things to think about when you have those thoughts.
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Bad debt is meant for short term use such as operating expenses, etc. If you’re going to use bad debt, the first objective is to have a plan to get out of it. Good debt is based on growth, like investing in a new marketing program or hiring a new marketing person or real estate. Listen as Mike and Jackie talk about how to navigate these different kinds of debt.
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Tons of business owners have this abject fear of owing money to others. If you want your business to be able to grow, you need access to money. There’s a saying...”money attracts money.” Are you willing to borrow money, take investors, etc. if that money is meant to grow your business? The ActionCOACH 5-Ways tools help lay out what must happen to pay the money back.
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Our definition of a business is “A Commercial Profitable Enterprise that Works Without You.” The point of being out of the business is to make it as valuable as you can make it. Turning it into an asset maximizes the work you put into your business. The steps that allow you to own a business versus having a job that benefits your personal life. Design your life and build your business to get you there.
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The brain is the big meatball in your skull, mostly on a subconscious level, whereas our mind is a set of beliefs. It has control over what you will or won’t do, in essence, your mind determines your success.
Your brain is the car, your mind is the driver.
Would you like to change your beliefs about you and your business so you can unleash the growth that’s possible? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
FAIL in the ActionCOACH world stands for “First Attempt In Learning”. The reason to fail fast is to learn fast. If something goes exactly as you expected, you have learned nothing.
The more cycles of learning, the more distinctions you get. This also requires getting out of your comfort zone. Speed is life!
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Lots of things happen that are interesting, surprising or unexpected. Sometimes there are good surprises and sometimes there are bad surprises. You have a choice in how you respond. Learn how to take control over your thoughts and create a response that will help move yourself forward.
Do you have lots of surprises in your business and struggle to respond productively? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
What are the gaps? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss The Gaps Worksheet and how it helps map out your goals.
Ask yourself “where do I want to be in the next 5 years? What do I want revenue and profit to be? What kind of a leader do I want to be? What kind of team do I want?” These are essential to understanding where you want to be and how to get there.
To get a copy of the Gaps Worksheet email Jackie Zach at jackiezach@actioncoach.com
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The 5 Deadly Words are “I’m happy where we’re at”. If you find yourself just getting through the day or growing is too much work, this is the podcast for you. Grow or die, it is a natural law; if you’re not growing, you’re dying. If you decide everything is ok, you cannot have more than you have today. Mike and Jackie explore the differences and show you how to grow from a mindset change!
Do you find yourself saying “I’m happy where I’m at”? Would you like more than you have today? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
People are your biggest asset, so what do you have in place to help them grow or become leaders? Do you have a system for your managers to follow that allows you to train your upcoming managers? It is all about managing consistently. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the management system they use and teach.
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When you’re playing a bigger game, you’re also moving out of the day to day. You’re growing managers and leaders instead of doing all the work yourself. Are you evolving the size of your customer base or keeping everything as it is? How do you and your business need to change as you play a bigger game?
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In the case of your business, what do you want the asset to do for you? Have you ever given it some thought? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss, taking some time to consider why you’re building your business and what you want it to do for you.
Know what you want your business to do for you but need some help getting there? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities for you and your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
There is no literature in the world that says that you should run your business or your life without a plan. The majority of businesses and lives, for that matter, don’t have a plan. The biggest reason is that people don’t really know how to create a plan or how to set goals. However, it’s easy if you have an expert show you how to do it.
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The long arc of time is the concept that it feels like time goes slowly even though time is happening at the same pace it always has been. The arc of time can be bent in your favor by doing things consistently and looking at the data. Data has no emotion or feeling, which can make things seem very slow even if there is constant improvement.
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Would you allow an employee to choose not to get better? If you have one person who doesn’t want to grow through training/learning/coaching and you let them stay, there is a clear message to your team that you don’t believe in growth.
Do you have people on your team who are choosing to resist where the company is going? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Do your employees feel like you care about them as people? What difference would it make to your company if your company really felt like you cared about your individual employees? Listen as Mike and Jackie explore this very important aspect of your business.
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Something comes up that you weren’t expecting, which comes as a total surprise. Surprise... there’s a pandemic. Surprise... interest rates are up to 8%. Surprise... your employees are all quitting. When you experience something that you weren’t expecting, you have choices about how to react and how it affects you. The idea is not to allow but to move forward as quickly as possible.
Surprised recently and it has been a challenge? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities for you and your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Do you want your business to do more for you but find yourself saying “I’m so busy and don’t want to be,” yet struggle to change? Listen as Mike and Jackie dispense a little tough love so that you hear how it is.
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Resilience: it is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties. For your business, it is a critical survival factor. Your business wants to grow because it is a thing. Resilience gives your business the ability to do its work. We are just caretakers.
Are you getting in the way of your business growth and wanting help? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Marketing takes relentless execution, tweaking, the right niche and consistency. What is the strongest marketing program in your business that worked? Why did you stop using it? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss getting back to the basics!
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Based on a Daily Dose written by Mike in 2015, why is it important to choose to be happy? Taking the high road vs. the low road. The low road is easier in the short term, but there is no upside. How would you feel if you approached each task, each relationship, each action, happily? How much less stressful would it be? What if the things that make you unhappy were lessons for you to learn? Listen as we discuss choosing happiness.
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As you reflect on yourself and your company, are you better today than you were yesterday, a week ago, a year ago or 5 years ago? If you are, take some time to reflect on those changes and how they have helped your business grow and change. What are you going to work on next year? If you aren’t growing as a leader, how is that hurting your business?
If this is an “aha” moment for you and you realize you need to grow as a leader, take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
What are we doing and where do we expect to end up? Goals are something you have to grow into. To create an executable plan, you have to take it one step at a time. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss pointing your compass in the right direction and how to create a plan.
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Do you feel like everyone in the US hates each other? Do you feel, based on what the media is projecting, that there are gunfights in all the streets? The media needs eyeballs to thrive and the chaos keeps people tuned in. It’s really about what you, your employees and your customers are experiencing. Does your reality match what the media says is happening? Listen as we explore how to filter out the chaos around you.
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It is now nearing the end of the year and 2024 is around the corner. What would make you say, “I had a great year personally and in my business?” One of the small challenges is to think back on what was your plan in 2023 and where did you end up? At the beginning of 2023, you had a plan for your business, so are you happy with where you are now? What do you want the next year to look like?
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Budgeting is important. Lots of people use their checkbook as a budgeting tool but they don’t actually have a cash flow forecasting tool. Budgets are designed to be a spending plan. It allows you to understand what you are spending your money on and the ability to choose investments in that will help you accomplish your goals.
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Hiring people is a form of marketing. Marketing to hire employees is the same concept as targeting and marketing for clients. Why would someone want to work for your company? Why are you a great company? As an excellent candidate, why would they want to come to work for you?
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The four-hour hiring process is a system where you can get to the right candidate more quickly. It is a series of steps that the candidate goes through to help you decide if they are a right fit or not for your organization. We use it and it is genius. Listen to Mike and Jackie discuss how this process works!
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Email and texting are very safe places to hide. Whereas the benefits of picking up the phone will make you stand out in the crowd and quickly build a relationship with the person you're calling. You don’t know what will happen until you actually speak to someone. So, pick up the phone and connect with them, human to human.
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Some beliefs around networking for money that hold people back are “if I network for money, people won’t like me” or beliefs around “money is bad”. How are your beliefs about money or beliefs about networking for money holding you back?
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Lots of people think that being busy is better. In fact, thinking, strategizing, and contemplating feels like no action is being taken. The challenge is the pace of the improvement. Being busy shows lots of action, thinking is an exercise of patience and letting things play out. Listen as we discuss why thinking is an important part of your leadership toolbox.
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We don’t usually just network for the sake of it. We usually want to something out of it, new clients, additional sales, referrals. Networking for money means that your networking script ends in something around, “How do we do business together?" Listen as Mike and Jackie explore how to network for business.
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The number one leverage for a business is people. In addition, growing a business successfully includes, systems like sales, daily opening, etc. scale and people.
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Most of the time when business partners split it is usually not pretty. Partners wait too long to have the critical conversations around what each person wants causing hurt feelings and resentment. Our discussion is around how to have an amicable split of a partnership and still remain friends.
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There is an abundance of wealth, enough to go around for everyone. The first step is to choose to do what it takes and commit to getting it. Choosing to do the things that are necessary with the exclusion of everything else. You too can have what you want, so what are you going to choose?
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If you want to breakthrough to the next level of you, it will require a break-UP, break WITH, break DOWN or break APART from people, ideas, systems, or any area of your business. The pace of personal development is also partly the pace of your comfort zone and what the new you feels like.
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Do you want to grow your business 20% or even 30X? Do you want to work differently? Do you want a shortcut?
We want to hear your story to date! Get LIVE insight from top coaches and business owners, Mike and Jackie, on an episode of the podcast.
Do you have revenues above $1Million? Been in business more than 5 years? Have you been coached or would like to explore coaching? We want to share how the coaching world can help you on your journey.
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Leadership is about results, but how do you lead your team to get them? Delegation is “I want you to do it my way.” Growth is asking for the results you want and allowing others to do it their way as long as it is legal, ethical and moral. The point of delegation is to allow you and your business to grow 20%, 30%, 50% or 10 times.
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The point of power is now. Everything that happens to you is your responsibility. The first step to getting where you want to go can have challenges that causes you to be emotionally uncomfortable. It has to be done to get to the next version of you. You can’t think your way through, you must feel it, do it, learn from it and adapt to it.
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Perturbation is anxiety and mental uneasiness caused by getting out of the comfort zone of our current beliefs and values. Growth isn't easy. Getting out of your comfort zone and past perturbation creates the opportunity to change the phases we are in, which creates growth.
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If you have trouble setting goals, you are not alone. The secret sauce is about really creating goals that excite us and make us passionate to go for it. Listen as we discuss our own shift in goal setting and how that has changed how we view our purpose and our goals.
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Ever wonder what business and executive coaching are all about? Listen as we discuss how business coaching is not about “need,” it is truly about wanting to be better and have a better business. It is all about getting out of our comfort zone to reach the goals we set for ourselves and our business.
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Gap and the Gain by Dan Sullivan is the topic for this episode of the podcast. Most people spend most of their time in the gap. The gap sounds like, “I should have”, “It didn’t pay off”, etc. Beating ourselves up for the past and comparing ourselves to the goal we didn’t completely reach.
The gain is “look at how far we’ve come” and “let’s push ourselves forward and see what else there is.”
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Results or time are the two things you can buy from your employees. Paying for time is like an admin assistant or receptionist job, paying for them to be there. It is subject to piling on tasks to make that time productive. Paying for results looks like setting an objective to hit. It doesn’t matter how long it takes to hit that result. There is no path to results with working harder; it’s about working smarter to get the outcome, no matter the time it takes. Are you clear about the result you're buying from your employees? If not, it’s time to take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://actioncoachwi.com/podcast-ask-a-question-complimentary-session/
Use daily lists to prioritize tasks to get to weekly, monthly, quarterly goals. We start with this to see what our direct reports see as priorities. Mike and Jackie discuss daily lists and LION meetings (Last week, Issue, Opportunity, Next week) to manage company objectives and become a better manager.
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Most of the time no one teaches us how to manage and hold people accountable. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss managing people with the knowledge they’ve learned over the years. Clarity and communication are key.
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Family dynamics and interpersonal relationships that have gone on for generations can complicate those communication channels. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss how to improve communication in your business, whether it’s family-owned or not.
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Pay in a family business is based on the roles each person plays, not based on equal ownership. An owner's pay is based on distributed profits of the business. The president and other company roles are based on market rate and commission. The employee roles that each member plays are based on merit and results. Listen as we discuss this fascinating and volatile topic.
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Join Jackie Zach, the Family Business Navigator and Mike McKay as we discuss family conflict resolution. It is a unique balance between being family and running a business. It impacts decision making, morale, and the growth of the business.
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Professional business owners are concerned only with choosing to own the asset we call a business or not and deciding what they want the return of that asset to be. The Board of Directors oversees determining which strategies to use and the President or CEO is in charge of making sure those strategies get executed. In many businesses these roles are the same person or people. Listen as we discuss how to professionally manage your family business.
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Business succession planning is a 3–7-year process if you want it to go smoothly. In a family business, it may take even longer. Many family businesses only have one opinion and one set of experiences, namely their own. It can be wonderful or traumatic. Listen as we explore the ins and outs of family business succession planning.
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Is there ‘role confusion’ in your family-owned business? Are the roles clearly defined? Role confusion causes misunderstandings and miscommunication among family members and employees. Listen as we discuss how defining roles will help your family business grow.
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Is there a lack of formalized processes in your family-owned business? How things are done in a family business may be handed down from generation to generation. Is your business running on hope or running on systems, processes and decision-making processes?
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In family businesses there is always the family dynamics along with business dynamics. How are the dynamics helping or hindering your family business? It is hard to navigate the emotions of the family members and may require the help of a family business navigator. Listen as we begin to discuss how to make the family dynamics in business better.
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Succession planning takes a lot of thought and planning before executing. Having a formal succession plan will give you the opportunity to be proactive about transitioning to the next generation. If the generations work together to transition, it is likely that the next generations can grow the business even more.
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Facts don’t care about your feelings. If you aren’t measuring results, then you are using feelings to run your business. Changing your performance level is a matter of “I don’t like this” vs “What can we do about this?” Are you using your feelings to make decisions or are you using data to remove the emotions?
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Are you a leader who gives accurate and comprehensive messages to our team? People need to hear or learn things 17 times to make it stick. If you are saying “my team should use common sense” to accomplish what you want them to, then you are the one that needs to help them understand. Connect the dots for your team at a very detailed level to get the result you’re expecting.
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“I Know” are two small words that have a huge effect in your business. “I Know” shuts down learning and is a willful choice. There are so many opportunities that are missed when we say, “I Know”. What opportunities are you missing because you have chosen to stop learning because you “know” it?
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The Hockey Stick Effect, also known as the cumulative performance, is when all the skills and effort you have put into place results in exponential growth. It is the little incremental things that cause you to get better. Although it may be slow, tedious, and you can’t tell what the end will be like, the results are amazing!
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Mike and Jackie discuss how the words “Need” vs “Want” affect our businesses. “Need” is all about running away from something. “Want” is going towards something. How can you use “want” language to work toward your goals? Listen for more examples and details between these two words that make a big difference in your business!
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Are you spending a lot of your time with “D” level customers? A “D” level customer is someone who is dead to me. What do we mean by this? The amount of time you spend with your “D” level customers is that much less time and energy on your “A” level customers. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss why you need to get rid of your “D” level customers, how to focus on "A" level customers, and how to tell the difference between them.
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6-cylinders of business are mind and body only. The other 10 cylinders are around heart and spirit. Listen as Jackie and Mike discuss what the 16 cylinders are and why all of them are needed to have high performance.
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Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss growing into your role as owner or top executive. Your role only grows as much as your weakest skill, invoking the Law of the Lid. The first step is to take a look at your MINDSET. Where is your identity today, as well as where do you need it to be? Your identity can be switched any time you decide to do it.
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What are the things you’re doing and which of those things can be delegated to someone else? What are the things you’re doing that are visible and that you enjoy doing? Looking at the things you’re doing and not doing will set you up to be able to run several companies and create wealth in less time. Listen to get started!
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Listen as Mike and Jackie continue the discussion of owners' work vs doers’ work. An owners’ work is invisible, and a doers’ work is visible. Owners doing owners work make owners money. Doers make employee money. Which would you like to do?
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Are you a business owner whose identity is wrapped up in doing the doing vs doing owners work? Do you want to spend more time doing owners' work instead of being the lid to growth for your business? Listen as we discuss what being an owner is all about and how you can start thinking like owners do.
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Intentional collaboration and mindful execution are the powers of referrals. We are committed to openly referring others in our community to people we know. However, we are also focused on being open to referrals. Is it a focus for you and your company to give and receive referrals? Do you ask even for them? Listen as we discuss the importance of focusing on referrals.
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Abundance is allowing the good things to come to you, such as money. How often are you and your team focused on scarcity? How often are you and your team focused on abundance? How can you use the idea of abundance in your business? Is it important enough to use it as a culture point in your own business? Listen as we discuss why abundance is important as a culture point.
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How do you use gratitude in your business? Is it important to practice gratitude as a company, so much so that you make it a culture point? Listen as we discuss how important gratitude is in your business.
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Consistency can be boring, but it takes the guesswork out of what to do. If you want to grow, consistency and systems are highly valuable to your customer. Consistency helps your customers refer you to others as well. Relentless consistency is something your customers will come to rely on. Listen as we discuss other benefits of being consistent and how that affects your customers.
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The culture point about systems will be continued in this episode. Listen as we discuss systems for scalability. How can systems and scaling them affect the growth of your business?
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Strong, repetitive, consistent systems that are trained when needed are the basis of a growing company. Looking at the system first before blaming people when there are challenges is also part of a great culture. Listen as we discuss having systems as a culture point.
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Creating an atmosphere of joy and happiness is creating fun in your business. Are you focused on the destination or the journey? What if you could find joy and happiness in everyday?
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People usually talk about a work/life balance these days... but there really isn’t work/life balance, there is just life balance. What if you could do one or two things with great focus and intention? Do the right thing at the right time to get results and then rejuvenate. Now, that is the type of balance that Mike and Jackie will elaborate on.
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Culture is the basis of everything, a set of observable behaviors. It is the behaviors and actions that are most valuable in your company. Culture is the only competitive advantage that you have left. Your company culture either creates itself and is out of your control OR you can create it yourself with values you want to have.
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If everyone is doing their own thing and fighting with teammates for resources or roles, it sucks. The dysfunctional aspect of the team will not create significant growth in your business like you want. Listen as we discuss teamwork and the importance of it with the newest generation of employees.
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Lots of businesses don’t continue to educate their employees. If your employees aren’t getting better, why should your customers stay with you. If your employees want to expand their capabilities and thrive while they can’t do it with you, they’ll go somewhere else. Listen as we discuss our cultural value of Education and how that can affect your business.
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Culture point number 5 focuses on communication. As anyone who deals with people knows, communication is one of the most important culture points in an organization. What does good communication in a business look like? Listen as we discuss our culture point of communication.
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We’re taking a quick detour from formally discussing our culture points. As owners we get bored in our businesses, which leads us to wanting to make changes. Those changes can lead to inconsistency and problems with customer expectations. Listen as we discuss what happens to consistency and expectations when we get bored in our businesses.
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In this episode we discuss the fourth culture point of excellence. Since culture is a set of observable behaviors, listen as we discuss the observable behaviors that go along with excellence in an organization.
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Culture Point #3 is all about integrity. Speaking the truth and what I promise I deliver. Want to know more about how this culture point may be one to consider for your business? Take a listen.
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The second culture point that is important in our business is the culture point of ownership. Taking ownership of our actions and outcomes. How will ownership affect your business?
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What is culture? Culture is a set of observable behaviors in your business. During the next several episodes we will discuss various culture points we use in our business. In today’s episode we discuss Commitment.
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Intentionally choosing the values you want to live by is another way to design your own life. Sometimes we are living the values of others and don’t even know it. Listen as we introduce you to how to intentionally choose what matters to you the most.
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What are your thoughts about wealth? Do you think that getting wealth is too hard, so you don’t go for it? What if you changed your thoughts and took action towards the value of wealth? What would happen? Listen and find out how to take the first steps.
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Are you choosing to define reaching your goals as hard? Has your past affected how you view your future? If you could let that go and move forward, what would happen? What if you could write new rules as to your definition of ‘easy’? Mike and Jackie will elaborate on the mindset shifting from ‘everything’s hard’ to ‘everything’s easy’.
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Picture this: you have lots of momentum and things are going great, but then vacation happens and it takes several weeks to get that momentum back. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss how to keep momentum going and when are good times to take breaks to recharge.
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“Speed is life.” It is the concept that success and accomplishment happen when you’re moving, not just when you're sitting on the couch. You can’t think your way through problems; you have to take action.
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We start to design our life based on the values we want to intentionally live by. We make decisions based on our values more than logic. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the first steps to intentionally designing the life we want to live.
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How much has worrying helped you develop people and to create a business you can be proud of? Why would you talk yourself into feeling terrified when you could be spending that time making more money in your business?
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Dream x Goal x Learn x Plan x Action is the formula to get your bucket list travel destinations from dreaming, to actually happening. Listen as we talk about bucket list travel and how to make that dream turn into your reality.
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Coping mechanisms help you get by and thriving allows you to take advantage of all the possibilities in the world. How can you tell the difference when it’s happening to you and how can you change it?
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What is a listening trap? Listen as Mike and Jackie explore why we cause ourselves to ignore the person who is speaking. Learn how to listen to learn, instead of listening to get your point across.
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Language is 7% words, 38% Tone of Voice and 55% Body Language. As humans we have our personal point of view and what it means to us and the emotions we are having at the moment. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss how to see things from another’s point of view.
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Planning in your business is one of the best practices to help you organize your next quarter/year. Learn how to seek perfection vs avoiding boredom. Plans make you money and make it a game. What would happen if you chose to look at your business as a game? Mike and Jackie go in depth on where boredom in your business can come from and how to overcome it.
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Did you know that you can design the life you want? Knowing where to begin can be difficult and uncertain. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the process to begin designing the life that YOU want, not what others want.
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For some people having fun in business is an oxymoron. We discuss how to have more fun while owning a business. As Mike and Jackie have said before, business is a game, and you can learn how to have fun and win it.
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Jackie and Mike talk about leaving a strong group of leaders to carry on without you. Learn about having bench strength, so that you can get promoted from within. More and more people are looking at the legacy they are leaving behind.
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95% of problems are due to miscommunication. It is unlikely that two partners progress at the same speed. Learn how to tune in to learn how to find the happy medium.
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Perturbation is the uncomfortableness that we must to go through to get to the next level. We can dread it or we can embrace it and reap the rewards at the other end. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the definition of perturbation and the reward it brings you when you get to the other side.
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What is the experience you want your customers to have at your business? Listen as we rant about our customer experience and ideas on how you can make the customer experience better. Would you want to be a customer or employee at your business?
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Question #10 from an article “10 Crucial Business Questions for a business owner,” written for American Express by Barry Moltz from the Shafran Moltz Group. “Is your social media strategy effective?” You spend a lot of time on social media, but do you have a strategy? How do you know it is effective? Are you just doing it without a plan? Listen as we answer these questions and more.
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Question #9 from an article written for American Express by Barry Moltz from the Shafran Moltz Group “10 Crucial Business Questions for a business owner”. Who are your most valuable and most costly customers? Mike and Jackie will discuss if those customers who buy from you but take up all your resources are worth the investment and more.
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Question #8 from an article written for American Express by Barry Moltz from the Shafran Moltz Group “10 Crucial Business Questions for a business owner.” Will your customers make referrals? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss why it is important to get referrals from your existing customers. Getting a new customer is expensive and referrals are a way to get new customers and not have to make a large financial investment. It also tells you something about how well you’re building relationships with your customers.
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There was an article from American Express written by Barry Moltz from the Shafran Moltz Group “10 Crucial Business Questions for a business owner. Question #7 is ‘What is your customer retention rate?’ Listen as we discuss why it is important for long term success. Did you know that losing customers can be a sign that something is wrong with your product or service?
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Question #6 from an article written for American Express by Barry Moltz from the Shafran Moltz Group “10 Crucial Business Questions for a Business Owner”. How effectively do employees generate revenue? Mike and Jackie explore the labor efficiency ratio and how to use it to measure revenue generated per employee.
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Question #5 from an article written for American Express by Barry Moltz from the Shafran Moltz Group “10 Crucial Business Questions for a Business Owner”. What is your pricing strategy and why? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the importance of properly pricing your product or service to maximize profits.
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Question #4 from an article written for American Express by Barry Moltz from the Shafran Moltz Group “10 Crucial Business Questions for a Business Owner”. Is your cash flow positive each month? Mike and Jackie will discuss cash flow and the importance in the overall financial performance of your company.
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Question #3 from an article written for American Express by Barry Moltz from the Shafran Moltz Group “10 Crucial Business Questions for a Business Owner”. Which parts of your business are not profitable? Listen as we discuss how to look at your product or service line and determine which items are worth the resources and which are not.
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Question #2 from an article written for American Express by Barry Moltz from the Shafran Moltz Group “10 Crucial Business Questions for a Business Owner.” How does your business generate net income? Listen as we discuss where to focus your resources and where to potentially cut back in order to remain profitable.
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There was an article from American Express written by Barry Moltz form the Shafran Moltz Group “10 Crucial Business Questions for a business owner. Over the next several episodes we will be elaborating on these questions. If you’re a business owner you’ll want to listen closely.
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Efficient is the shortest route to a result. Efficiency doesn’t necessarily mean effectiveness. What is the difference? Listen as we discuss the difference and how it affects your business.
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If you say you want your team to take ownership, are you going to let them? Or are you going to add too much value by taking their responsibility and accountability but continue to tell them how you used to do it?
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Accountability is to take account. Do you, your team and your business have the ability to take account in your business? Can you count it and does your team have the ability to do it? Learn how to lead your team and help them to be accountable to the result you both want.
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Responsibility is really divided into two pieces, ‘response’ and ‘able’. Do you want your team to take responsibility but put things in their way to do it? Listen as we discuss how to help you and your team take responsibility in your business.
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Changing beliefs and personal development is hard, but it can be done. The higher up you rise, the more results and potential you can see. The more impact you want in an area of your life or in the world will require more time to be spent on personal development.
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We discuss how our beliefs are either the encourager or limiter in our business. As a leader in business, what are the beliefs you hold that either encourage you or limit you?
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The “identity iceberg” is a concept that helps you think about who you are, what you want to do, learn and become. How is your current identity helping you get to where you want to go? When you’re ready to change, that change is instant. Listen and learn how.
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Your subconscious mind does not care what you feed it; it'll give you what you are looking for. Using affirmations can help you strive to become the person you want to be. They will also help your subconscious believe it is happening right here, right now.
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We often hear “I can’t afford to invest in myself and my business”, while everyone can afford the things you want. Are the things you want going to help you double your business? Grow your team? What money is hiding that will allow you to invest in yourself? Today’s episode touches the surface of those questions with Mike and Jackie's insights.
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As an emotion, blame is disempowering. Blame is all about people, whereas excuses are about a thing or situation. As you grow as the leader, your team grows. A culture that allows blame is not a championship culture. If this sounds like you, listen as we discuss how to fix it.
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How did you get to where you are right now? What were some things you got away from doing that helped you be successful? What head trash do you, as the leader, need to let go of so it doesn’t transfer to your employees? These questions and more will be answered in today’s podcast with Mike and Jackie.
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Excuses such as the economy or inability to hire are holding you back. If you are saying “I can’t do that because….” then you may be making an excuse. When you give up excuses and take responsibility it is amazing how you start the forward momentum.
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We are in denial all the time. Denial takes the form of “we don’t have a problem”. If you believe it will fix itself, then you may be in denial. Mike and Jackie answer the question, “How does being in denial affect the growth and sustainability of your business?”
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Mike and Jackie discuss faster feedback/faster results. Key performance indicators (KPI’s) are the way to quickly measure feedback and can continue on to the correct path/course almost immediately. How do you use KPI’s to help your employees self-correct to get faster results?
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Intentional hiring is all about clarity and asking for exactly what you want. What are you hiring for and what are the tasks they need to complete? We also talk about how hiring and retention is directly related to how good of a leader you are and the culture of the business.
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We’ve been talking a lot about culture in a company. What is a good culture? What is a bad culture? Today, we’ll give you the first steps to creating the culture you want for your business.
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In our first podcast interview, Mike and Jackie interview Tom Gabert, owner of Pour Inc and one of Jackie’s clients. Tom shares his secrets to hiring and retaining employees, especially in the hospitality industry. Great insights and ideas for your business!
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Mike and Jackie discuss how the nature of work and employees have changed over the years. The best way to lead the new generation of workers is not the same as when we were just starting out. The new generation of employees are reshaping the way we work. As leaders, what can we learn from them and about them to lead them better?
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Today we discuss the last key to a winning team. Everyone has a role to play, they want to be involved and included in the growth of the business. How can you involve and include them as the company grows? How might their involvement grow the company?
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Mike and Jackie’s big question is how good are you at letting your employees try something new? Do your employees feel comfortable trying new things, also called innovating, without ramifications? It’s all about testing, measuring and seeing what happens while following processes. You can be pleasantly surprised at the creativity and perspectives curated from your employees.
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Why are action plans a key to a winning team? Does your team have action plans that match up to your company goals? Does the company have a strategic plan that is the north star for your business or are you running with no objective? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss what action plans are and why strategic plans are important for your business.
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Mike and Jackie talk about how culture is one of the things that keep and retain employees. Your business will have a culture one way or another, either you create it or it is created for you.
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As you grow, having a common goal causes the business to become something different. What do you need to be better at, grow into, to become something slightly different and bigger than you are now? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss how common goals and how they make a winning team.
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In part 2 of our series “Cocktail napkin wisdom” with focus on keys to a winning team, Mike and Jackie discuss the first key to a winning team: Strong Leadership. What might strong leadership look like? What is the focus of a strong leader? Listen to find out!
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Join us for “Cocktail napkin wisdom part 1”. Learn about the 6 keys to a winning team to be a better boss and have a championship team. In today’s episode we share some wisdom surrounding getting and retaining employees. Where do you find them? How do you attract potential employees?
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To a lot of business owners and leaders, becoming better leaders sounds like a lot of work. And most don’t know where to start to become a better leader. Mike and Jackie have been leaders in their communities for many years and want to share their experiences and learnings.
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Scott McCain, in his book “Iconic”, was a speaker at our global conference. He discussed the 4 factors beyond branding and how people make decisions. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the 4 factors of decision making when it comes to deciding on a product or service.
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From the last episode, a listener asked “what do you mean by managing your data, pay attention to your email list and get off social media?” If you’re only using social media, at any time any of the owners of Facebook, TicTok, etc. can decide to shut down the platform. This means shutting down your business pages, etc. and thus perhaps shut down your business. What should you do? Listen to find out what you should do.
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Mike and Jackie discuss the 6 C’s of Leading as presented to ActionCOACH by ActionCOACH Linda Krei from Iowa. The 6 C’s of leading starts with better leadership. Your leadership should help your team reach higher and do better things.
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Want to know how to persuade or influence customers and sell more? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the 6 principles of influence based on the book “Influence” by Robert Cialdini as it relates to selling and marketing.
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Memberships and subscriptions are the wave of the future. Millennials love subscriptions. Is your business poised for the wave of the future?
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What if you could connect with your audience a lot better? How people see the world differently is really important to connect with the broadest group in your target market. Listen as we talk about how NLP can help.
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Do you feel like the world controls you? Do you believe it can’t happen now because a recession is coming? That is just an excuse. Instead of “I can’t”, how do you focus on “how can I”?
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We’ve been talking about goal setting during the last few episodes. There are lots of business owners out there who have no desire to learn goal setting. On today’s episode Jackie and Mike discuss the Ladder of Adult Learning. The ladder of learning is all about the steps we go through, as adults, to learn new things. Understanding this will help you as you navigate the learning necessary to have a great business.
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Have you ever felt like time has gone by and you’ve accomplished nothing? But is that really true? Are you sure you haven’t accomplished anything? Another aspect of great goal setting is understanding where you’ve come from and where you are right now. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss knowing what you’ve already accomplished is highly important to accomplishing your current goals.
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Are you saying to yourself, “I’m terrible at goal setting”? Goal setting is fairly easy once you know the right way to do it. Learn how to set goals and stay committed to accomplishing them and get the life you want.
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If you want to reach your goal, clarity of the future goal is extremely important. Listen as we discuss how clear details, combined with the right actions for the results you want, are the best way to reach your goals a.k.a. the life you want to live.
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Have you hit a perceived ceiling? Maybe the identity of your business needs to grow its identity to the next level. If you’ve been thinking of yourself as a business owner of a specific size business or that your business can only be a specific size, it’s time to break through! Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the idea of breaking through the ceiling and how to do it.
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Mike and Jackie discuss how to systematize the routine and humanize the exception. What is it and why is it so great? Systematizing the routine creates better efficiency and customer experience. Humanizing the exception allows employees to treat people as human beings.
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The Infinite Game is a book written by Simon Sinek. Business is an infinite game because it continues past the players. If your business is infinite, it will go on well after you’re either gone or out of the business. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss business as an infinite game.
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When you hire someone, do they know the results that you are expecting them to achieve? Are you hiring for skills or results? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss why it is better to hire for results so you know what you are getting from your employees.
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Which mistakes are minor and which ones are fatal mistakes? How do you decide which ones get your full attention and time first? Mike and Jackie elaborate on how to decipher the importance of mistakes and how to delegate your time.
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Is it better to focus, as a team, on competing with the outside world? Sometimes competition might feel like it’s coming from within the company... How does internal competition help or hinder your company? Mike and Jackie explain who, what and when to focus on competitors.
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Mike and Jackie discuss Mike’s lessons learned from being a business owner for the last 10 years. You may be going through some of these yourself. Whether it’s learnings you know or hearing for the first time, listen to learn how to navigate these situations.
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Are you an A-Level business? Not yet, but want to know the requirements to be an A-level business? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss elements of an A-Level business.
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Mike and Jackie talk about the characteristics of companies who have no problem hiring and retaining employees. Listen as they discuss those characteristics that you might want to implement for your own business as well.
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Listen as Mike and Jackie elaborate on creating friction outside of the company and inter-company friction. Focusing friction and competition outwardly vs within the company can cause different results.
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Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the time you, as a business owner, would spend in the distraction zone. Learn the best place to spend your time if you want to grow your business and have a better life.
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Mike and Jackie discuss target, offer, copy and marketing for employees. This will attract employees that want and would fit in with the company culture.
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Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the third step of the 3-step process to get the results you want by following through with this process implementation.
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Mike and Jackie pass along some more wisdom that they learned at the conference. This episode is all about what was learned from Kurek Ashley regarding a 3-step process for getting the results you want.
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Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss why it’s great to own a business. It is the greatest game on the planet. If you don’t feel that way about your business, take a listen as we discuss how business can be a blast!
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What is your purpose? Are you using it in your business? Are your beliefs around money getting in the way of fulfilling your purpose and making a great impact?
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Be aware that something is going to happen, that you are going to have to adapt as a business owner and as a business. How do you handle any fear or worry that comes up in your business? Remember, it is a choice... your choice.
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Are you willing to adapt to economic changes that are coming? Is this the biggest opportunity or hurdle that you’re going to face? Listen as we discuss the upcoming economic changes and how to continue to grow and thrive.
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“I am” statements are the verbalize part of IVVM (Idealize, Visualize, Verbalize, Materialize). Learn more with Mike and Jackie about how “I am” statements can change your identity to fit your values and beliefs as a business. Changing mindset and how that can manifest the results you want. Think you need to work on your mindset so you can set yourself and your team up to create amazing results? Learn more about it from a coach here: http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
Mike and Jackie talk about manifesting. You will get more of what you focus on. If you focus on how life isn’t fair, you’ll get more of that. If you focus on there is an abundance of business out there, then you will get more of that. Need a mindset check to help you get the results you want? Click here to take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business today! http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
Thinking that planning is a waste of your time or haven’t even thought about creating one? Jackie & Mike tackle the topic of planning & how it can keep you from chasing bright shiny pennies all day and get you real results in your business. Which will equate to a better overall life for you and your family. Learn more and take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business today! http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
Your business is either growing or it’s dying, it’s not staying the same. Just like athletes need coaches to improve their performance, business owners need a coach to help make sure that the things you’re doing and thinking about are going to get you the result you want to get from your business. Think you may need someone to take a look at the results you’re currently getting and help you to focus on the right things? Click to learn more: http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
The concept of businesses follows the laws of nature where everything either continues to grow or starts to die. They don’t stay the same and neither does your business. Growing your business doesn’t need to be hard or require more hours. Mike and Jackie talk about how you can fix that. Hint: It starts with you, growing as a leader! Want to find out how you can grow your business without working tons more hours? Click here to learn more! http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
Getting your business ready for the new normal after the pandemic. If you’ve done really well during the pandemic, are you ready for the changes that are coming to the marketplace? Mike and Jackie discuss the innovation and preparation that needs to be made in this constant time of change. Want to learn more about how you can prepare your business for the post-pandemic market? Click here to have a conversation with a coach: http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
Hiring is easier if you are the kind of business and kind of leader that attracts winning players or employees. Does your culture reflect the attributes that will attract the talent that you’ve always wanted? Mike & Jackie dive into marketing for employees, beliefs and actions, and how to lead a championship team.
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Unsure about what the future of your business might be like & it’s making you nervous about what’s to come? Listen as Jackie & Mike discuss how to walk through that fear and focus on the things that will make you and your business successful and grow. Think you may need some help focusing on the things that will make your business successful this year? Get a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
Jackie and Mike discuss the Owner’s 9 Block. It is a tool that will help you decide the most important tasks that only you, the leader, should and can do which will reap the most rewards. We also answer the question, how much is it costing you to do other tasks in your business that are not owner tasks? You’ll be surprised! Need a second pair of eyes to take a closer look at how you spend your time? Have a Question to ask? Click the link: http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
It’s good to go back and reflect on how far you’ve come. Mike & Jackie’s Greatest Hits are previous podcast episodes that should be shared again to refresh your mindset. The first episode of our throw-backs is about learning how to get started working on the right things, so that you can take advantage of all the opportunities that you may be missing.
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Mike and Jackie discuss their biggest learnings from Donald Miller, author of The Story Brand. How does the shift in thinking and mindset put people in their stories and thus feel understood?
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Change is all around us. Mike McKay and Jackie Zach discuss their learnings from the BizX speaker, Dr Michelle Rozen, the Change Doctor.
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Listen and Mike and Jackie talk about one of our speakers at BizX, Molly Bloom of Molly’s Game. Learn about her riches to rags to riches story and what can we gain from her story to take into our businesses.
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Ken Schmidt led the recovery of the Harley Davidson company and brand. Listen as Mike and Jackie talk about the learnings centered around “What are people saying about our company?” “What do I want them to say about our company?” & “What are we doing to make that happen?”
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Going to conferences can be a way to rejuvenate & add helium to your balloon. Learning, sharing knowledge, fellowship can all be gained from getting together with people who can help fill your balloon. It may be an opportunity to hang out with important people in the room.
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One of Mike’s favorite books is “Leaders Eat Last” by Simon Sinek. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss the leadership lessons learned and applied based on this book. Are you a great leader? Do you want to be? Click here & take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business today! http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
In our last episode in the series Diary of a Fast-Growing Company, Mike and Jackie discuss how our hiring and our team has changed as we’ve grown. Lots of great lessons in this episode.
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Mike and Jackie discuss how his business had to change with regard to business processes and systemization.
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In episode 5 in our series, Diary of a Fast-Growing Company, Mike and Jackie discuss how our niche has changed as we’ve grown.
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In episode 4 in our series, Diary of a Fast-Growing Company, Mike and Jackie discuss how financial mastery changes as your business grows. Some great learnings if you’re an owner of a growing business.
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Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss how fast Mike’s business is growing and how the delivery side of the business must change as you grow. Are you a fast-growing company and experience growing pains? Click here & take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business today! http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
In our continuing series on a Diary of a Fast-Growing Company, Mike and Jackie discuss how he had to change how he spent his time, as the leader, as the business grows. Listen as Mike talks about how he spends his time now as the business grows. Are you a fast-growing company and experience growing pains? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to find out how your energy is affecting your team’s results today! http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
Listen as Mike shares his journey as a business owner using ActionCOACH’s 6 steps. We start with Destination Mastery, where the business started and the journey to where the business is now and where it’s going. Lots of great learning material for business owners!
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Today’s topic is all about our beliefs about money. Negative beliefs can create a wall between us and money. So, learn how to recognize those beliefs and how to turn negative beliefs into positive ones. Want to talk about how your choices (beliefs) are reflected in your business? You may be surprised at the hidden opportunities. http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
Are you pricing your product or service based on price or based on value? As you become an expert in what you do, it gets easier for you but more valuable to your customer. This is all about valuing your time and expertise. Listen to learn more! Want to learn how to take small actions in your business? Click here & take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business today! http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
In today’s episode we discuss staying on offense (proactive) vs always staying on defense (reactive). Mike and Jackie will go in depth about the differences and the pros and cons that come with them.
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Playing your game is all about playing the game of business you want to play, not someone else’s game. Focus on your own game while learning from others but don’t let others play your game of business.
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We have choices even when things aren’t going our way. We have a choice in how we think, act and react. Listen as we discuss how our choices (especially around our beliefs) affect our business.
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How do you take a small action and cause something big to happen? It’s all about the small details that will build the big picture. Listen as Mike and Jackie explore small ways to get big results over time.
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In today’s episode we discuss the Energetic Stack. What is it? How does your energy as the leader affect the people you are leading? Where the leader goes, everyone else goes. As they say, “life is a mirror”.
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Listen as we discuss 3 tips to help you, as a leader, bring out the best in your people! Interested in learning the recipe that can help you create greatness in others? Take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business! https://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
For most business owners, the business is the vehicle to get what you want out of your life. Is your business aligned to what you want to have, achieve or do in your personal life? Are your goals for your business aligned with that? If the answer is no, today’s episode is for you!
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The performance curve happens over time when you start to improve lots of little things. Over time the little things build on top of each other to create acceleration. Learn what happens when you stop putting momentum, energy and focus on something. Improvements slide backward
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Do you find yourself saying “I don’t have time to train, it is just easier to do it myself.” But it’s more work to think about the training than it is to do it. How can these skills help you create focused training? Are you overthinking it?
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Today’s episode is how to attract, retain and inspire people smarter than you. How to set your ego aside while surrounding yourself with people who are smarter and better than you in their chosen profession so that your business grows.
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Your business is running smoothly and there aren’t many opportunities, positive or negative, to get the adrenaline rush that comes with solving problems. Now what? Are you feeling stuck in limbo?
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The amount of power an engine creates is partly due to the number of cylinders working. Learn about the 16 cylinders of high-performance including body, mind, heart and soul. Why is this important for you AND your team? How can you use the 16 cylinders to create a championship team?
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Is it time to get back to basics? Want more money in fewer work hours? Learn about how the 6 steps to Massive Results can help you in having a business that works without you so you can spend more time focusing on other important parts of your life.
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What is the difference between a KPI and a personal best? Why is a personal best a better motivator than a KPI? Listen as Mike and Jackie talk about what the differences are & how it can help your business grow.
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Are you on top of your accounts receivable? Do you have a cash flow issue? If money is owed to you, the longer it goes, the less likely you’ll be able to collect. It is a free loan to your customers & it’s costing you money. What is holding you back from collecting?
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What happens when you say you’re too busy to sell? What tasks are taking up your time and are they really as important as you think they are? This episode will discuss business mentality, organization and management, so listen close!
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Have you made hiring mistakes in the past? Not sure if you are making mistakes or not? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss hiring mistakes and what are the steps to take to hire a better team. Hint: It starts with you…..again.
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Why should I work for you and no one else? It starts with Vision, Mission and Culture. Culture is an observable set of behaviors. Listen as we talk about the third leg of the stool, having a great culture, results in hiring great employees.
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The mission is HOW you execute your vision. Is it stated clearly? Is it something that compels great employees to come to work for you? Are you the leader that embodies the mission? Insight and answers to all these questions and more from today’s podcast episode.
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Why, as leaders and business owners, we are the source of all our hiring problems? If you are saying there are no good employees or mine are terrible, then this episode is for you. Learn why having a Vision is so important to hiring great employees.
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Are you looking for employees the same way you’ve always done it? There is no magic to it, but there is some work to it. Do you know who you’re competing with for employees? What is your unique hiring proposition? Find out the answers to these questions and more by listening to the podcast.
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Prune areas of your business so the energy can be used more efficiently to grow your business. Pruning owner responsibilities to give energy to others on the team. Moving from one marketing strategy to another without letting the strategy grow.
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If you don’t have goals for your business chances are your employees are not living up to your expectations because you don’t know where you are going and just flying by the seat of your pants. Here is why it’s important for a business to have goals when hiring.
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Do you have a business plan for 2022? Plans take time to gain momentum, so if you haven’t thought about what you’d like to accomplish this is a MUST LISTEN. Mike and Jackie will give you, the business owner, a stern talking to about having a plan.
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Frustrated by your employees not thinking like an owner? How would your organization benefit from allowing your employees to determine the “how” or the path to a goal while you concentrate on the goal & the results. How are you helping your employees to get what they want so you get what you want?
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Law of displacement says that no two things can occupy the same space at the same time. Positive and negative thoughts can’t occupy the same space at the same time. Still not sure what it is? Learn more about the Law of Displacement, how this idea works with your comfort zone and how it may affect the trajectory of your business.
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We have 100% control over our thoughts. What happens when we feel like we have no control? Our thoughts and mindset are what helps us make that change. Mike and Jackie discuss how mindset works and how to develop your new success mindset.
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“It’s too hard” is the phrase that comes up when we have to wrestle with situations. Listen as Mike and Jackie tackle the limiting beliefs that we set for ourselves and how to break them. It’s all in your mindset, so let’s figure out how to break out.
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Wondering how to hold someone accountable? Listen to Jackie and Mike as they discuss a framework for holding people accountable. It could be you, your team, your partners, etc.
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When you feel like you have to be the smartest and most skilled in your business, then your business can’t grow past your current level of skill. Join Mike & Jackie with their thoughts on why you might be feeling stuck in business growth & development.
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Do you know when your prospects are getting ready to buy? As there are many stages in the customer buying process, it can be confusing to know where they are at. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss how to recognize buying signals and how to utilize this to your advantage.
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Are your customers saying yes to your solution and you keep talking? You keep talking and eventually you talk them out of the sale. Find out what you are doing and what you can do to change that ‘unselling’ habit to develop better selling skills and knowing when to close the sale.
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Learn why the choice to be late is self-sabotage. This proves to yourself that you are not to be trusted with the most basic of tasks. Where else does this show up in your life, relationships & business? Mike & Jackie will discuss these self-sabotaging habits and how to overcome the obstacle.
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Lessons from the sports world directly translate to the business world. Listen as Mike & Jackie compare the Milwaukee Bucks season to the first game of the Green Bay Packers 2021 season. Building or developing a team? Pay particularly close attention to the teamwork, leadership & management aspects discussed!
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Communication is 7% words, 38% tone of voice and 55% body language. Listen as we discuss how to give visual cues while on the phone for better communication with your team and your customers. Think you and your team need more learning around communication? Click to take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business today! http://makemoreworkless.actioncoach.com/mmwl-diag-and-questions/
Most business owners think they can’t afford to pay another employee but don’t know for sure. On today’s episode we discuss how to use a cash flow forecast and other important tools to invest in hiring the right people at the right competitive wage. Realize you need a better handle on cash and your financials? Click here & take advantage of a complimentary business strategy session to discover the opportunities in your business today!
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We can learn a lot about business from having our windows cleaned periodically. When they are freshly washed, everything’s more vivid. Over time our windows get dirty again and we don’t even realize it. Same thing happens in business. We’ll discuss areas that should be checked & cleaned periodically.
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We’ll discuss the lessons learned from the Milwaukee Bucks 2021 championship journey & how to apply them to your business. Business owners can take lessons like leadership, working as a team, focus, discipline, learning, motivation and many more from this.
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Did you know that marketing to hire employees is just as important as getting new clients? It’s more important than ever to be able to tell prospective employees why they should come work in your business. How do I start the hiring process? We’ll discuss the first steps to a better unique hiring proposition.
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How can you tell if you’re leading your way to a championship team? Wondering why your team is not listening to you? Do you have team coordination? Are you getting in the way of your team doing their best work? “A” leader are what attracts “A” players to your team.
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In today’s episode Jackie & Mike discuss choosing wisely between two good options when neither one is perfect. Indecision when things aren’t perfect causes inactivity. Inactivity slows down momentum and does not solve any problems or grow any business. Learn about this decision making process.
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Busyness requires you to give control of your time to anyone who wants to take it. Busyness keeps you from the hard work of setting priorities, picking goals and managing your time. Learn how to choose to be less busy/lazy & more productive in your business.
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I am’s are the verbalize part of IVVM (Idealize, Visualize, Verbalize, Materialize). Learn more about how I am statements can change your identity to fit your values and beliefs as a business. How changing your mindset can help you get the results you want in your business.
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On today’s episode we tackle the subject of manifesting. You will get more of what you focus on, if you focus on how life isn’t fair, you’ll get more of that. If you focus on there is an abundance of business out there, then you will get more of that. Listen as we discuss what it is and how to get more of what you want.
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Are you thinking, “I don’t need a business plan” or “I spend all this time planning, what is the ROI on my time? Listen as we tackle the topic of planning and how it can keep you from chasing bright shiny pennies all day and get you real results in your business. Real results in your business will equate to a better overall life for you and your family.
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Your business is either growing or it’s dying, it’s not staying the same. Just like athletes need coaches to improve their performance, business owners need a coach to help make sure that the things you’re doing and thinking about are going to get you the result you want to get from your business.
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Business follows the laws of nature. Organisms, plants and animals either continue to grow or start to die they don’t stay the same and neither does your business. Growing your business doesn’t need to be hard or require more hours. Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss how you can have a business and a life too.. Hint: It starts with you, growing as a leader!
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The world is coming back to the next normal at some point. We’re getting closer with every month that passes. Are you ready? In this episode, Jackie and Mike discuss paying attention and getting your business ready for the new normal. If you’ve done really well during the pandemic are you ready for the changes that are coming to the marketplace? If you’ve been slow, how are you innovating so that you’re ready when the world starts up again?
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As coaches, we hear all the time that it is hard to hire. Actually, hiring is a lot easier if you are the kind of business and leader that attracts A players or championship employees. Does your business have the kind culture that will attract the talent that you have always wanted? Listen as Mike and Jackie discuss marketing for good employees, how our own beliefs and actions get in the way and a few tips on how to have a championship team. Hint: It starts with you!
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Do you feel anxious or afraid about what 2021 has in store for your business? Listen as Jackie and Mike discuss how to walk through that fear and focus on the things that will make you and your business successful in 2021.
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In this episode, Jackie and Mike discuss the Owner’s 9 Block. A tool that will help you decide the most important tasks that only you can do that will reap the most reward. We also answer the question, how much is it costing you to do other tasks in your business that are not owner tasks? You’ll be surprised!
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As a business owner, you may feel overwhelmed and busy. Does that sound like you? In our very first podcast, Mike and Jackie talk about time management vs self-management. Learn how to get started working on the right things so that you can take advantage of all the opportunities that you may be missing.
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Mike McKay and Jackie Zach are certified business coaches with ActionCOACH of Wisconsin. We’ll be sharing shortcuts, strategies, and tools that have worked through the pandemic, recession, and stock market bubbles, over the last 27 years that will make your life as an entrepreneur easier. We’re guides along the journey so you can take action in your own business. And have fun along the way!
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