The Back to Basics Business Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Discover tips, strategies and advice to help you grow your business and achieve more for less. Each episode of 'The Back to Basics Business Podcast' give you 3 top tips that you can immediately implement in YOUR own business. Each tip offers you a golden nugget in the form of a takeaway. Tony Lynch is a business growth consultant, speaker, coach and trainer. Ashley Burgess-Payne is a personal and business growth coach. Glen Thompsett is a broadcaster, journalist and voice-over artist.
Ash, Glen and Tony chat about how firms, large and small are looking at different ways to run their day-to-day business. The new ‘Hybrid’ of working from home and occasionally in the office is likely to become the new norm.
Is constant change here to stay?
How can business owners hang on to valuable staff and keep them engaged?
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In this episode, Glen, Ash and Tony discuss how workers are seriously considering their future employment. Throughout the pandemic, organisations have played a pivotal role in why so many workers are thinking of moving on. Economists have dubbed this move 'The Great Resignation' meaning many individuals are now seeking a dream job.
A survey by Microsoft has revealed 41% of workers were considering or changing profession.
What can leaders do to keep valuable staff and how can they change their mindset?
Glen, Tony and Ash discuss four questions that entrepreneurs must tackle in order to succeed.
- Why?
2 Why not?
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Why Not now?
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Why not Me?
Time is a precious commodity but usually in short supply for most business leaders and entrepreneurs. If you don’t know your ‘why’ – you could spend much of your time doing the wrong things.
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Ash, Tony and Glen discuss how our future is based on the choices we make today and the process we go through to make those choices. It’s said that choices define who we are as a person and it shows our character to the world. Choice is life and all about discipline.
A powerful process that equips a person to perform at a higher level of awareness and responsibility. In this episode Glen, Ash and Tony discuss how coaching unlocks what is already within us. A good coach has the eye to see the masterpiece within you.
In this episode Tony, Ash and Glen discuss how you need to be an on-going learner to lead. They also chat about involving your team in decisions, that way you achieve a better ‘buy-in’ and subsequently achieve greater results. A leader can lead, but also a leader can be a great follower.
In this episode – Glen, Ash and Tony discuss the importance of creating engaging content for your social media platforms. Not long ago, if you wanted to know about a company or individual, you would try and locate a website, now the first thing most of us do is search for an organisation or person on social media. Having a strict social media planning strategy is vital.
In this episode – Glen, Ash and Tony discuss reflective thinking and how it is so important in complex and unpredictable situations
Whether in business or as an individual – we can all grow. If you reflect well, it’s something that is active not passive because it takes concentration, it should always lead to greater effectiveness. It can also help you understand new perspectives and identify areas for change and improvement.
It's fair to say most of us know how to use social media, but if you are in business, are you using LinkedIn to its full potential?
Mark White is the 'LinkedIn Professional' and in this episode he chats about the importance of a good user profile, the correct way to 'like ' 'share' and 'comment' and how to build and maintain an effective following.
In this episode, Glen, Ash and Tony reflect on the news that more than half of employers in the UK intend to recruit new staff in the coming months. The human resources body the CIPD said it was the first positive sign in more than a year.
The boys also chat about the challenges facing employers as we enter a 'new' world after the Coronavirus pandemic.
In the opening episode of Season 2 Glen, Tony and Ash discuss the importance of communication, trust and clarity/prioritisation when leading your team remotely.
The team also share how to maintain a sense of team spirit and community whilst working from home and discuss why it is essential for personnel growth and profits that you maintain your business’ culture during these challenging times
In the final episode of this series, we examine ways of creating a better future for you and your business. Glen, Ash and Tony look at issue 9 of the Connectionsb2b magazine which asks the question 'what do you desire for your future?'
Ash and Tony talk about how successful leaders keep moving in order to gain new heights and how success is a journey and not a destination.
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Glen, Ash and Tony delve into issue 7 of the Connectionsb2b magazine and examine how to overcome the obstacle of inconsistency and how to stay on course to reach your goals.
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In a change to our regular format, Glen, Ash and Tony look into the pages of Issue 13 of the Connectionsb2b magazine, a totally FREE resource for businesses large and small with a special focus on Change. We discuss how to adapt to change, the necessity of doing so and how habits define a leader.
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In this episode:
1 - Cashflow
2 - Lack of, or no strategic planning
3 - Poor leadership
In this episode:
1 - Who is my customer?
2 - What is my product?
3 - Retaining and scaling
Special Guest - James Cook from Next Level Coaching and Performance Improvement
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In this episode:
1- The importance of self-image.
2 - The sub-conscious mind.
3 - Mistakes don’t make you; you make mistakes.
In this episode:
1 - Affording yourself the time to do the 25-year framework.
2 - It’s what you do with the information that matters the most.
3 - Where your focus and energy go, results will show.
1 - Growth is not an automatic process.
2 - Growth is the great separator between those that succeed and those who do not.
3 - The more you grow, the more you realise you need to continue to grow – the importance of always learning.
In this episode:
1 - To grow yourself you need to know yourself.
2 - To grow your team you need to know your team.
3 - Effective communication leads to greater connection.
In this episode:
1 - Leaders are learners
2 - Learning about your team
3 - Learning about your marketplace and customers
In this episode:
1 - You can’t manage time; you can only manage yourself.
2 - Have a plan.
3 - Your energy is finite, use your energy wisely.
In this episode:
1 - Have a plan, you need a blueprint
2 - Know your 'why' and value the process
3 - Is your environment conducive to growth?
In this episode:
1 - What is fear?
2 - The cause and effect.
3 - There can be no growth without tension.
In this episode:
1 - Know what business you are in.
2 - The AIDA principle and how it can work for your business.
3 - Measurability - test, measure and adjust
In this episode:
1 - Good leaders define reality.
2 - Innovate and seek wise external council.
3 - Train and invest in your team.
In this episode:
1 - Importance of goal setting
2 - The need for implementation
3 - What does good leadership look like?
In this episode:
1 - Pivoting and agility.
2 - Listen, don't just hear.
3 - Control the controllable.
In this episode:
1 - Customer Centric Experience is not an 'add-on'.
2 - Clear goals and objective – manage expectations.
3 - How to increase your customer base without spending money.
In this episode:
1 - How to achieve more with less.
2 - Effectiveness.
3 - Testimonials and feedback from your customers.