Business Talk Sister Gawk

Ever wondered how to prepare your business to get in front of investors? Malcolm Macaulay shares the different ways he started looking for capital to grow his business, and why he's going after investors. He gives us a good overview of what steps he took to get started in the process, and how he's preparing his business, LightSpeed Lift, for their review. Take a listen!

Business valuations are typically done by an independent 3rd party to ensure the accuracy of a business' value when being purchased or passed on to a new owner. Northspan Vice President, Bob Palmquist shares the processes of how and why someone would want to this and what you need to know if you want to get one done yourself. Take a listen!

Here's why to be careful of benchmark rules, why it's important to dig into your industry's data, and why you should be adding value to your business years before you ever consider selling it. Northspan Vice President, Bob Palmquist, pulls from over 30 years of finance knowledge to help us understand how businesses can be quantified into actual worth. 

This week, Aaron Brown talks about why "Robber Barons" were so dubbed, how much of our infrastructure was expedited by some pretty wealthy people, and where exactly they made a lot of their money in the early 1900's. If you love history, this episode is for you. 

In the early 1900’s, this woman made a wild west town the place for women’s fashion. She managed to bring her business through buying out a competitor, surviving a fire that took $25K of her inventory, and even brought robbers to justice when the law was busy with bootleggers. Dottie Power was the instrumental force that brought high society fashion to rural America.

Over 100 years ago, Dottie Power, became the very first fashion writer of rural America, bought her dresses by the trainload, and sold the trendiest designs, all while educating new migrants about how to shop for American clothing with style. You're not going to want to miss this amazing Business History series featuring historian & podcaster, Aaron

Bekkah is finishing up a 5 part series that any manager who's been struggling with difficult employees should listen to! Bekkah covers how to address problematic behaviors utilizing company policy, communication, and clear performance improvement plan goals. She also gets into the managing the emotional difficulty of letting someone go while truly caring about them and their future WITHOUT sacrificing the boundaries you need to have as a manager. If you missed the previous podcasts on this topic, should check out parts 1-4 first!

Bekkah covers some mental health disorders to know about that could require an adjustment in your teaching techniques in order to help those you manage learn better. She discusses the importance of modeling the behaviors you would like to see in your work place, actionable ways to teach people what the correct standard of work should look like, utilizing delegation, and cultivating a management team that supports one another.  If you missed the previous ones in this series, you're going to want to listen to parts 1-3 before this one! Take a listen! 

If you're a manager and are working with some pretty difficult individuals, this series is for you. This week, Bekkah is getting into the details of understanding if you personally are undergoing compassion fatigue or just plain burnout while managing others. She also starts getting into some mental health diagnoses that can be helpful to understand as you manage others to know if there are more helpful tools and techniques you can use to encourage a positive work environment. 

This week, Bekkah is picking up the second episode in the 5 part series that every manager who's had to deal with difficult people should listen to. She discusses how to look for patterns of behavior with the person you're managing, the importance of connecting relationally to truly care about the person you're employing, the value to having scripts when entering into disciplinary action, and maintaining good documentation of specific incidents. Take a listen!