Business Accelerator

By Michael Hyatt & Megan Hyatt-Miller

Society & Culture Business

What's Business Accelerator about?

Short-term wins are easy. Sustained achievement is another story. On Business Accelerator, join New York Times bestselling author Michael Hyatt and CEO Megan Hyatt Miller as they discover how current research combines with timeless wisdom for lasting success. From personal productivity to personal development, self-leadership to team leadership, and intentionality to influence, get the insights and tools you need to win at work and succeed at life.

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09.26.2023 Building an AI Literate Team (from AI Knowhow) Are you ready to lead your company into the future with confidence and foresight? Today, we're bringing you an episode of Knownwell's new podcast, AI Knowhow, to help you unravel all of the potential mysteries of adapting to our new ...
09.19.2023 The Intentional Path to Work-Life Balance Gail and Michael Hyatt offer three truths about work-life balance that can provide you with the starting tools you need to get your personal life pointed in the right direction without sacrificing your professional goals.
08.15.2023 3 Essential Tasks an Executive Assistant Can Do for You Megan and Michael discuss three essential tasks that an Executive Assistant can do for you.
07.25.2023 Four Essentials to a Strategic Plan That Works Megan and Joel talk about the four essentials you need to create a strategic plan that works.
07.19.2023 How to Empower Your Employees to Win \| Helen Kupp Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller will share six ways to empower your employees to win. After that, Joel Miller speaks with Helen Kupp, co-founder of Future Forum about how to create more employee engagement through flexible work environments.
07.11.2023 How to Grow Your Business Strategically As a business owner, you likely want to grow your business. But where do you start?
06.27.2023 The Four Stages of Scaling Your Business While we can talk endlessly about some of the external features of a business that is scaling up, we believe that the best way to understand the size of a business is through the type of leadership that each stage ...
06.20.2023 How to Avoid the Negativity Trap Uncover how negativity isn't just impacting your relationships, but your bottom line as well.
06.13.2023 The Rules Don’t Apply to Me! (Or, How Not to Be an Entitled Leader) Entitlement is something that can exist in your organization, but the way to root it out is to address the entitlement in yourself.
06.06.2023 Grow Your Business Without Growing Your Team Michael and Megan discuss the value of having a smaller, more nimble team. They also shed light on a key secret that businesses, no matter how small, can leverage to save time, reduce trouble, and maintain alignment.
06.01.2023 Subtract for Success: The Art of Doing More with Less \| Leidy Klotz Discover the power of doing less to achieve more with Professor Leidy Klotz as he uncovers the secret weapon of successful businesses – subtraction.
05.30.2023 The Art of Firing a Client: 4 Signs You Should Let Them Go Michael and Megan use their experiences running companies to reveal the four telltale signs it's time to fire a client. They also discuss how to establish healthy boundaries, respect your team's morale, and create truly satisfying client relationships.
05.23.2023 How to Take Time Off as a Business Owner Summer is fast approaching and that means that it's time to start finalizing those vacation plans. Yes, you read that right: you need to take a vacation. Here's how to get it done.
05.16.2023 5 Building Blocks to a Company That Runs Itself + Q&A with Business Owners This special episode includes a panel discussion with four experts and a Q&A with business owners like yourself.
05.09.2023 Reset Your Expectations for Meetings As a leader, how can you make sure that your meetings are productive and efficient? What might that mean for your business?
05.02.2023 The Power of Feedback \| Ayelet Fishbach In this episode, we walk through two different forms of communication: feedback that you give to others and feedback that you give to yourself.
04.25.2023 5 Tools for Attracting and Retaining Top Talent Gain the competitive edge to ensure you find and keep the right talent.
04.18.2023 Change the Frame to Win the Game In today's episode, we explore limiting beliefs as they apply to both the marketing and HR departments of your organization. More importantly, we also offer some actionable liberating truths that your teams can use to grow.
04.11.2023 What's Keeping Your Business Small? \| Ozan Varol Michael and Megan talk about four actions that you can take to generate the breakthroughs you need to grow your business. After that, Joel speaks with author (and former rocket scientist) Ozan Varol. He talks about some common traps that ...
04.04.2023 The Best Way to Scale Yourself and Your Business The cap on the growth of your business is you. Michael and Megan talk about how to scale yourself and your business. After that, you'll get an in-depth look at that free Business Growth Coaching Call.
03.28.2023 5 Questions to Get Unstuck and Achieve Your Goals \| Tim Vandehey Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller share five questions that will help you get unstuck and back on track towards achieving your goals.
03.21.2023 The Small Business Owner's Guide to Marketing and Publicity \| Susie Moore Learn how the basics of marketing and publicity from author Susie Moore and Full Focus Chief Revenue Officer, Courtney Baker.
03.17.2023 Bonus: Amy Porterfield has Tips for Entrepreneurs and Business Leaders Joel talks with Amy Porterfield talk about her new book, Two Weeks Notice: Find the Courage to Quit Your Job, Make More Money, Work Where You Want, and Change the World.
03.14.2023 3 Big Mistakes Leaders Make When Delegating \|Amy Porterfield Chances are that you're delegating wrong. Michael and Megan share three mistakes that business owners regularly make when delegating. Then, Amy Porterfield talks with Joel Miller about what experience has taught her about delegation.
03.07.2023 Why You Need a Community for Achievement \| Henry Cloud Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller talk you through three reasons that you need community in order to achieve your goals. After that, Joel Miller speaks with Dr. Henry Cloud about the importance of trust in all of our relationships.
02.28.2023 3 Ways You're Probably Sabotaging Your Calendar If you want to accomplish those exciting goals that you've set for yourself, then your most important resource is time. The problem is that time is a finite resource and you already have so much to do! The only way ...
02.21.2023 Don't Let Your Goals Die Setting a goal is one thing. But, the trick is finding a way to push towards accomplishing your goals when life starts throwing obstacles in your way.
02.14.2023 How to Change Your Money Mindset One of the most common limiting beliefs that business owners have is: "I'm simply not good with money." Michael and Megan help you change that story with some actionable tips.
02.07.2023 The Neuroscience on Better Thinking As the saying goes, "Knowledge is power." With that in mind, it is time to explore not just what we think, but how we think and, even more crucially, how we can optimize our thinking.
01.31.2023 How to Rewrite Your Story Michael and Megan share ways that you can challenge the negative stories from your internal Narrator and put it to work for you.
01.24.2023 Self-Coach Your Way to Success \| Ethan Kross In this episode, we tackle the negative mindsets that are blocking your progress.
01.17.2023 High Leverage Habits for the New Year Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller discuss the habits that they're currently working on. After that, Joel Miller speaks with Courtney Baker about two habits that are a vital part of the Full Focus System that many people simply miss.
01.10.2023 How to Empower Your Employees to Win \| Helen Kupp Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller will share six ways to empower your employees to win. After that, Joel Miller speaks with Helen Kupp, co-founder of Future Forum about how to create more employee engagement through flexible work environments.
01.03.2023 Fresh Start for a New Year \| Katy Milkman There is a lot of data behind the effectiveness of the Fresh Start Effect. Understanding how to harness the new year could be the difference between a good year and a great year.
12.27.2022 Setting Goals That Actually Work For You In this episode, Megan and Michael talk about five mistakes that people make when setting goals and how to move forward. Then, Joel speaks to author Luke Burgis about the importance of how we're motivated.
12.20.2022 Start with a List We're exploring lists that business leaders can make to provide clarity and increase happiness and motivation.
12.13.2022 Change the Frame to Win the Game In today's episode, we explore limiting beliefs as they apply to both the marketing and HR departments of your organization. More importantly, we also offer some actionable liberating truths that your teams can use to grow.
12.06.2022 5 Lessons Learned from a Heart Attack Michael Hyatt returns to the podcast after a quadruple bypass surgery and talks directly about what he's learned throughout his recovery.
11.29.2022 How to Finish Your Year Strong With all of the parties, holidays, and year-end festivities, how do you steer your organization towards its end of year goals while also maintaining sanity in your life?
11.22.2022 Modeling Gratitude for Results \| Chester Elton Gratitude isn't just a nice thing to express, it's also a way to increase productivity and profitability in your business.
11.15.2022 The Power of Feedback \| Ayelet Fishbach In this episode, we walk through two different forms of communication: feedback that you give to others and feedback that you give to yourself.
11.08.2022 Reset Your Expectations for Meetings What if meetings could be good?
11.01.2022 Diverse Opinions for Effective Decisions \| Wendy Smith We explore various ways that decisions can be approached as a leader.
10.25.2022 The Hidden Half of Decisions \| Eric Johnson As a business owner, every time that you solve a problem it probably feels like you're doing your job. But, what if you're actually undermining your business' longterm potential for growth?
10.18.2022 The Pruning Principle \| Dr. Henry Cloud Whether you're talking about programs, processes, personal commitments, or even people - over time, they all tend to accumulate. You simply end up with more of everything. In order to grow, you're going to have to prune.
10.11.2022 #154: How to Handle Dissent and Disagreement in Your Organization Dissent isn’t comfortable, no matter which end you’re on. But it’s essential. Companies that don’t welcome dissent are in danger of falling headlong into damaging situations that would have been avoidable —if only someone had mustered the courage to speak ...
10.04.2022 #160: Celebrate Eagerly To Boost Your Company’s Success In this episode, Michael and Megan discuss the way a culture of celebration leads to confidence for your team and momentum that breeds success.
09.27.2022 #164: The 6 Biggest Lessons from the Past 10 Years Michael and Megan reflect on the past 10 years and explore the top 6 lessons they have learned while building a thriving business.
09.20.2022 6 Essential Ingredients for Effective Strategic Planning Michael and Megan help you plan for success in 2023 by offering you 6 essential ingredients for an effective strategic plan.
09.13.2022 How to Avoid Quiet Quitting in Your Business Michael and Megan talk through four specific strategies that leaders like you can use to avoid quiet quitting among your employees.

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