Finding The Upside

Everyone is trying to find the secret sauce to finding and keeping talent in a challenging labor market. Everyone's talking about how difficult it is to find staff. In terms of where the issues lie,  there’s more than meets the eye. In this episode, I am addressing the current labor situation and I'm giving it to you straight. A lot of what's happening now is that we have reached the tipping point with what we've experienced in the last year or so. And if you're a business owner, or if you're running a corporation, part of addressing this challenge is changing your mindset and shifting your perspective.

Show Notes: Secrets to Building an A+ Team by MariaDR

Starting before you're ready…it's a concept and a phrase we hear a lot these days. It’s common for entrepreneurs and businesspeople to suffer from the obsession to make something perfect before we let it go —whether it be a business project or new initiative. Sound familiar? And that perfectionism is something that definitely holds us back. It holds us back from making progress and getting started. In this short episode, I’m talking about this journey, my own journey with unraveling that tendency and coming to terms with that fact of how that would paralyze me.  That desire of wanting it to be perfectly done. There's a quote that says “Done is Better than Perfect.” We are unpacking that in today's episode.

Training people is an investment in your business…it addresses everything that has to do with your company's success. NOT training your staff is like not investing in your own business. And as an entrepreneur, you really have to think about the cost of not doing it. Training is the key to ensuring the outcome you want for your staff’s well being and the health of the business - they are interconnected. Episode 7 - True Leadership: Training your Team is an Investment is the second episode in a series that I am doing called TRUE LEADERSHIP. This 5-part series of mini-episodes is being released throughout the next two months. In this second mini-episode, I’m talking about the second aspect of leadership which is all centered on this fact - investing in training your team!

There is power in having a deeper understanding about the foundational principles of leadership that leads to whether or not you are able to create an environment that is conducive to high performance.  There are so many things that are a part of that that many leaders aren’t aware of, and truthfully some ignore. Leadership is an area that I spent a lot of time in my own life on, leading others, teaching, talking about and working on with my clients. Episode 6 - True Leadership: How to Achieve High Performing Teams as an Entrepreneur is the first in a series that I will be doing over the next two months called TRUE LEADERSHIP. This will be a 5-part series of mini-episodes that will be released throughout the next two months. In this first mini-episode, I’m talking about the first aspect of leadership which is all centered on this fact - you are working with people!

Throughout my life and career, mastering and fine tuning the art of communication was and still is always a focus. As I navigated many situations, I needed to get a better understanding with the words I was choosing, how I was saying things and how I was being perceived. Was I connecting with someone in a way that aided the communication or hindered it?  There’s so many things that come into play when this topic is brought up.  In this episode, I’m talking about Communication - an area where we as humans need to always be striving to develop better skills to communicate in a way that allows us to connect,  be understood and help understand others.

Having a mindset that allows us to find the opportunity in any challenge is important in every aspect of our life. Today on the podcast, we're going to focus on how we find that and keep ourselves in that space to be able to find opportunity no matter what is happening around us. The bottom line is that it definitely is something that starts with your approach and your mindset.

Even though we know that, we may sometimes forget how important it is to maintain that mindset… really check in to see how we're approaching things, and where our head is at. If we're not checking in with how we're thinking, whether we're thinking about things from an optimistic viewpoint, or we've slipped into negativity, it really can impact everything.  Not only how we approach things but also what we attract. Are we attracting positive things? Are we attracting negative things? It can sometimes be a struggle to keep yourself in that space.  In this episode, Maria is talking about exactly that and will share 3 Ways to Manage Your Mindset.