The New Year is upon us! Start on the right foot by thinking about these 5 areas that will enable you to transition into the new year by focusing on the primary things that affect a healthy business. Join your hosts Steve Smith and Will Robertson and get the motivation for a fast start to 2020.

One of the best ways to get support in your business and a reasonable cost is hiring a Virtual Assistant. This show discusses how to hire and manage VAs with Dave Braun, Chief Freedon Officer from HireMyVA.com. Listen in and learn the right way to get the most from your Virtual Assistant.

On today's show, we're going to talk about resolving employee conflict by listening to employee concerns to foster an open environment. Make sure you really understand what employees are saying by asking questions and focusing on their perception of the problem.

Human nature tends to reinforce the idea that telling people what they do wrong will get them to improve faster than reinforcing what they do well. Actually, when people are supported and acknowledged for their strengths and positive results, they develop and improve much better over time.

Your business's performance depends mainly on you knowing your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. This is SWOT and it is very useful for planning, strategic direction, utilization of resources and decision making along the way.

What really defines you? Work, hobbies, family, community? How much of your identity is influenced by the things you store, clutter or hording? When does one become another? In this episode, we discuss the effects of clutter on your self image.

On today's show, we're going to talk about how to get the people who run your business to work as a team. Your executives, your managers, etc. need to understand the value of coordinating and collaborating with each other instead of operating in a silo or running everything through you.

This episode will discuss why employees don't always accept responsibility for their jobs, their results or mistakes they make. We'll talk about how you, as a manager/ leader can establish a relationship and an environment that promotes taking responsibility.

In this episode, we're going to look at selling practices. Value is what causes people to give up something to get what they either want or need. We’re going to discuss the difference between sell value and price and offer some tips on how you can sell value instead of reducing your price.

Today, we are going to dive into the topic of training, it's benefits and what businesses need to do to enhance their investment of time and money. With tight job markets and millenials/ gen Zs being the predominant talent pool, companies need to understand what they need/ want from their new career choice.