When you are faced with challenges or big obstacles for the first time, how confident are you that you will be able to manage through them? In today's episode, Business Wingmen, Steve Smith and Travis Smith discuss the pitfalls and strategies for adopting a more courageous approach to managing through uncertainty.

Working at home has its benefits and its issues. Today's episode discusses how to make working from home a highly productive endeavor. Join Steve and Travis for their lively way of dissecting and recommending ways to excel.

As a start-up, you don't know what you don't know. In today's episode, your Business Wingmen, Steve and Travis Smith. talk about what they learned after their businesses were underway. They discuss the massive learning curve, the importance of taking initiative, the benefit of a mentor and things to avoid like Plan B.

If your interviewing practices are like your dating habits, you may be in trouble! Today's episode compares the two and discusses the common practices that can help or hurt your ability to reach agreement without regretting it later. Join Steve and Travis for 'The Parallels Between Dating and interviewing.

In this episode, Steve and Travis discuss the effects of workplace conflict and how to handle it. A big part of harnessing the positive aspects of conflict within a team are how it's viewed and what leaders must do to address it before it damages workplace relationships.

Your success as a manager or leader is dependent on how well you recognize behaviors and actions that affect your organization. Doing things that hinder performance without you recognizing it are called blind spots. Others see the damage but you don't. There's a host of things that leaders do to create blind spots and a few things you can do to correct them once you recognize the affects they have on your team. Steve and Travis share their experiences in this area on today's episode called 'Blind Spots in Business'.

If you have never hired anyone or only interview when you have an opening, it's likely your candidates are much more prepared than you are. In today's episode on 'Hiring Tips for People Who Don't Hire Much', Steve and Travis Smith offer some great tips for being a much more effeective interviewer which leads to choosing better people for your business.

Is leadership authority granted with the title you hold or earned based on how you handle yourself and deal with the matters in front of you? Today's episode discusses the challenges and solutions to building the authority you need to be your best leader.

How you conduct yourself at work, around clients or in meetings says loads about your professionalism. Understanding business etiquette is critical to presenting yourself as a top flight professional that others want to work with and be around.

Soft skills are the professional characterisitics that take business people from good to great. If you aspire to move up in your organization but lack the soft skills to be affective at higher levels of responsibility and authority, you might not get there. Today's episode discusses the most critical soft skills to master.