My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle

My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle episodes:

• 05.30.2023

  Building your content marketing muscles with guest expert Pamela Wilson

  Pamela Wilson, author of Master Content Marketing Bill Ringle and Pamela Wilson discuss how content marketing differs from social media marketing and what steps to take to attract leads that become profitable customers for small business marketers. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete...

  
• 05.15.2023

  The best leaders value profits and people with guest expert Andrew Bryant

  Andrew Bryant, author of The New Leadership Playbook: Being human whilst successfully delivering accelerated results Bill Ringle and Andrew Bryant discuss details of decisiveness, inclusiveness, and accountability as leadership plays that leaders of small and mid-size companies can use now. >>> Visit...

  
• 05.08.2023

  Retaining top talent demands that you create a culture of growth, respect, and opportunity with guest expert Merrylue Martin

  Merrylue Martin, author of The Big Quit Survival Guide: Tools and Tactics to Attract the Best, Retain Top Performers & Nail the Talent War Merrylue Martin and Bill Ringle discuss the dangers of a dull work culture or toxic interactions that...

  
• 05.01.2023

  The invaluable lessons contained in feedback with guest expert Chuck Mollor.

  Chuck Mollor, author of The Rise of the Agile Leader: Can You Make the Shift? Chuck Mollor and Bill Ringle discuss insights about how you can benefit from messages contained in feedback from 1:1s to 360s for small business leaders. >>> Visit...

  
• 04.17.2023

  A published book changes lives for the author and their readers with guest expert Chandler Bolt

  Chandler Bolt, author of Published: The Proven Path From Blank Page To 10,000 Copies Sold Bill Ringle and Chandler Bolt discuss the top obstacles and paths to becoming a published author based on 6,000 success stories at Self Publishing School for ambitious SMB...

  
• 04.10.2023

  Find your greater potential with guest expert Jim Wetrich

  Jim Wetrich, author of Stifled: Where Good Leaders Go Wrong Bill Ringle and Jim Wetrich discuss the traps and solutions to the causes of working in isolation, ignorance, and unawareness to gain greater clarity and effectiveness for small business leaders. >>> Visit...

  
• 04.03.2023

  Bring out the gold nuggets to share with media to get the most exposure with guest expert Liz Kelly

  Liz Kelly, author of 8-Second PR - New Public Relations Crash Course (2nd Edition, 2022) Bill Ringle and Liz Kelly discuss how to refine your story and your message to the elements that will get the greatest response from the media...

  
• 03.27.2023

  Personal growth accelerates business growth with guest expert Byron Morrison

  Byron Morrison, author of The Effective CEO: How to hone your focus, prioritize your time and take control of your CEO role Bill Ringle and Byron Morrison discuss how you as a business leader can avoid becoming the bottleneck in your...

  
• 03.20.2023

  Your Message Matters with guest expert Johnathan Milligan

  Jonathan Milligan, author of Your Message Matters: How to Rise Above the Noise and Get Paid for What You Know Bill Ringle and Johnathan Milligan discuss what it means to share a message, be a messenger, and find your voice so...

  
• 03.13.2023

  The Core Skills Needed to Become a Leader Regardless of Your Work Title with Tania Luna

  Tania Luna, author of The Leader Lab - Core Skills to Become a Great Manager, Faster Tania Luna and Bill Ringle discuss insights into becoming a great manager and overcoming the obstacles to implementation for small business leaders. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for...

  
• 03.13.2023

  400: From Management Mess to Leadership Success with guest expert Scott Jeffrey Miller

  Scott Jeffrey Miller, author of Management Mess to Leadership Success Bill Ringle and Scott Jeffrey Miller discuss the importance of being clear and explicit with your intent in all communications for small business leaders because in the absence of details, people...

  
• 02.24.2023

  Using Data Visualization to Extract the Hidden Insights and Stories in Your Business with guest expert Steve Wexler

  Steve Wexler, author of The Big Picture: How to Use Data Visualization to Make Better Decisions – Faster Bill Ringle and Steve Wexler discuss the approaches and benefits of presenting data as charts, images, and infographics to make better decisions, build...

  
• 02.20.2023

  Write a book to serve as a lighthouse that guides and serves your prospects, customers, and clients with guest expert Anne Janzer

  Anne Janzer, author of Get the Word Out: Write a Book That Makes a Difference Bill Ringle and Anne Janzer discuss the beneficial reasons for writing a book, overcoming common obstacles, and how to maximize a book as part of your...

  
• 02.13.2023

  How to gain the unfair advantage in growing your small business with expert Stu Henecke

  Stu Heinecke, author of How to Grow Your Business Like a Weed: A Complete Strategy for Unstoppable Growth Bill Ringle and Stu Heinecke discuss growing like a WEED model to grow, conquer, and protect your turf for small business owners. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com ...

  
• 02.06.2023

  Removing the friction from your customer journey with guest expert Melina Palmer

  Melina Palmer, author of What Your Customer Wants and Can't Tell You: Unlocking Consumer Decisions with the Science of Behavioral Economics Bill Ringle and Melina Palmer discuss how to identify and apply the science underlying the decisions your customers are making...

  
• 01.30.2023

  Your customers want their problems solved and sales is the first step with guest expert Nikki Rausch

  Nikki Rausch, author of The Selling Staircase: Mastering the Art of Relationship Selling Bill Ringle and Nikki Rausch discuss relationship selling as working with your prospect to solve a problem and not at them to make a sale for small business...

  
• 01.23.2023

  What it really takes to unleash the power of your second in command with guest expert Cameron Herold

  Cameron Herold, author of The Second in Command: Unleashing the Power of Your COO Bill Ringle and Cameron Herold discuss the role of the COO, the importance of matching the stage of the company and the relationship chemistry with the CEO,...

  
• 01.16.2023

  Performance conversations that can transform your business with expert Christopher D. Lee

  Christopher Lee, author of Performance Conversations: How to Use Questions to Coach Employees, Improve Productivity, and Boost Confidence (Without Appraisals) Bill Ringle and Chris Lee discuss how your managers can adopt a coaching methodology to improve your business conversations and performance...

  
• 01.09.2023

  Business success is easier when you stop doing the things that make it hard, confusing, and unclear with guest expert Michael Neill

  Michael Neill, author of The Inside-Out Revolution: The Only Thing You Need to Know to Change Your Life Forever Bill Ringle and Michael Neill discuss ways to have and communicate a clear vision as a small business leader so that you...

  
• 01.02.2023

  Embrace the paradoxes of leadership to rise to new heights with guest expert Tim Elmore

  Tim Elmore, author of The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership: Embracing the Conflicting Demands of Today's Workplace Tim Elmore and Bill Ringle discuss how leaders today need a stronger cognitive to deal with the wide range of education, expectations, exposure, and...

  
• 12.12.2022

  The constellation model of leadership with guest expert Matthew Barzun

  Matthew Barzun, author of The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go Bill Ringle and Matthew Barzun discuss leadership insights for small business leaders from Matthew's perspective as a United States ambassador to Sweden and...

  
• 12.05.2022

  Habits different from what you read on social media with guest expert Wendy Wood

  Wendy Wood, author of Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick Bill Ringle and Wendy Wood dive into the distinctions of what habits are so that with accurate detains and understandings, you can select and upgrade...

  
• 11.16.2022

  Uncovering the transformative wisdom from interviewing 30 great minds with guest expert Scott Jeffrey Miller

  Scott Jeffrey Miller, author of Master Mentors Volume 2: 30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest Minds Bill Ringle and Scott Jeffrey Miller discuss the importance of being clear and explicit with your intent in all communications for small business leaders because...

  
• 11.14.2022

  Smashing through the 'Overlooked Expert Problem' with guest expert Michelle Mazur

  Michelle Mazur, author of 3 Word Rebellion: Create a One-of-a-Kind Message that Grows Your Business into a Movement Bill Ringle and Michelle Mazur discuss creating a pithy statement that brings prospects to do business with you for small business leaders, marketers,...

  
• 11.07.2022

  Navigate from Crucible Pressure to Satisfying Significance with author Warwick Fairfax

  Warwick Fairfax, author of Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance Bill Ringle and Warwick Fairfax discuss finding your bearings after a hugely public muck-up for small business leaders. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and more...

  
• 10.31.2022

  You must ascend any mountain of challenges yourself, but you succeed when you bring others along with guest expert Whitney Johnson

  Whitney Johnson, author of Build an A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve Bill Ringle and Whitney Johnson discuss the power behind thinking of your team as a collection of S-curves for small business leaders, managers,...

  
• 10.24.2022

  The ability to change your perspective allows your leadership to shine with guest expert Amer Kaissi

  Amer Kaissi, author of Humbitious: The Power of Low-Ego, High-Drive Leadership Bill Ringle and Amer Kaissi discuss the benefits and disasters resulting from business leaders who lacked (sufficient) humility, the essential component to combine with ambition for small business leaders and...

  
• 10.17.2022

  Start by cultivating a change culture with guest expert Barry Moltz

  Barry Moltz, author of Change Masters: How to Actually Make The Changes You Already Know You Need to Make Bill Ringle and Barry Moltz discuss how our brain chemistry helps us survive but not thrive as business leaders and how to...

  
• 10.12.2022

  MQ4B Booster 23.3  Restoring Work Relationship Blunders

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Today on Track 1, I'd like to share with you how to win the battle between short-term satisfaction and long-term goals, excerpted from my friend Barry Moltz's...

  
• 10.05.2022

  MQ4B Booster 23.4 What Leaders Do to Become More Influential

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Today on Track 1, I'd like to share with you a mini case study of how Starbucks is persuasive by design, from my friend Brian Ahern's book,...

  
• 10.03.2022

  Influence accelerates the quality of your business relationships with guest expert Brian Ahearn

  Brian Ahearn, author of Influence PEOPLE: Powerful Everyday Opportunities to Persuade that are Lasting and Ethical Bill Ringle and Brian Ahern discuss improving your ability to influence others ethically as a small business leader. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes and...

  
• 09.28.2022

  MQ4B Booster 23.3  Restoring Work Relationship Blunders

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: A the behind-the-scenes look at the work that The Richardson Group (TRG), Chick-fil-A's marketing agency, did to produce an outstanding tagline. Track 2: Here is how...

  
• 09.21.2022

  MQ4B Booster 23.2 Making Positive Impressions

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: A the behind-the-scenes look at the work that The Richardson Group (TRG), Chick-fil-A's marketing agency, did to produce an outstanding tagline. Track 2: Here is how...

  
• 09.16.2022

  From Management Mess to Leadership Success with guest expert Scott Jeffrey Miller

  Scott Jeffrey Miller, author of Management Mess to Leadership Success Bill Ringle and Scott Jeffrey Miller discuss the importance of being clear and explicit with your intent in all communications for small business leaders because in the absence of details, people...

  
• 09.14.2022

  MQ4B Booster 23.1 — High Performers set up their environment for success

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: I'd like to share with you the keys to The Self Discipline Challenge that Barbara Oakley describes in her book, Learn Like a Pro: Science-based...

  
• 09.12.2022

  Better learning is today's competitive advantage with guest expert Barbara Oakley

  Barbara Oakley, author of Learn Like A Pro, Science-Based Tools to become Better at Anything Bill Ringle and Barbara Oakley discuss the advantages that improved learning abilities give you and your people to add capacity to your business. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for...

  
• 09.06.2022

  412: Hybrid selling requires us to have a different toolkit for success

  Andy Springer, author of Virtual Selling: How to Build Relationships, Differentiate, and Win Sales Remotely Bill Ringle and Andy Springer discuss the research-based skills and routines used by sales top performers for small and mid-sized business leaders. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete...

  
• 08.16.2022

  MQ4B Booster 22.9 — Embrace Multidimensional Thinking to Develop Your People at Work

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: I'd like to share a mini-case study that Julie Winkle Giulioni shares in her terrific new book, Promotions are So Yesterday, about Kai and Leland.  Track...

  
• 08.10.2022

  MQ4B Booster 22.8 — Use Email Triage to Cut Down on Junk Email at Work

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: I'd like to share with you the specific tips that Anne talks about in her book on how to craft a better subject line. Track 2:...

  
• 08.03.2022

  MQ4B Booster 22.7 Use confrontation effectively

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: I'd like to share a story that Lance tells in his book, The WE Gear, about when he and his friend Richie, as teenagers, convinced...

  
• 07.26.2022

  MQ4B Booster 22.6 How you do anything is how you do everything

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: No matter what industry you serve, here are the 6 core buyer motivations. Track 2: A mindset around taking personal responsibility that I learned from T....

  
• 07.19.2022

  MQ4B Booster 22.5 Avoid confusing consensus with concordance

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: The discussion was scattered and tense when she first arrived, so after building rapport and establishing some ground rules, Patty facilitated the first part of...

  
• 07.18.2022

  The most valuable changes are found just outside your comfort zone with guest expert Adam Markel

  Adam Markel, author of Pivot, The Art and Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life Bill Ringle and Adam Markel discuss the questions that lead to life- and business-changing pivots for small business leaders. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert...

  
• 07.13.2022

  MQ4B Booster 22.4 Use the 80-80-Go Principle to Break Free from Perfectionism

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: A deeper perspective on imperfectionism from Stephen Guise, author of How to be an Imperfectionist. Track 2: This one is called  the "80-80-Go Principle," and it...

  
• 07.06.2022

  MQ4B Booster 22.3 Put Distractions on a Diet

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: I'd like to share with you a valuable distinction between two types of mindfulness. After all, meditation often gets a bad reputation because some people...

  
• 06.29.2022

  MQ4B Booster 22.2 Gathering insights from Blindspots

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: He describes how he worked with a client Tami, who wanted to go from "surviving to thriving" in her work and life. Here I'd like to...

  
• 06.22.2022

  MQ4B Booster 22.1 Using the S-Curve to Hire and Develop Top Talent

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: How Jeremy Andrus, the CEO of Traeger Grills, overcame the resistance of the management team when he came on board. Track 2: Tips for using the...

  
• 06.14.2022

  MQ4B Booster 22.0 Experienced managers cultivate 1+1=3 relationships

  Listen to these two tracks of booster content just for ambitious small business leaders. Track 1: Based on the interview of Rachel Pacheco, author of Bringing Up Boss. A favorite story that Rachel tells in her book, Bringing Up the Boss,...

  
• 05.25.2022

  How to gain the unfair advantage in growing your small business with expert Stu Henecke

  Stu Heinecke, author of How to Grow Your Business Like a Weed Playbook Bill Ringle and Stu Heinecke discuss the grow like a WEED model to grow, conquer, and protect your turf for small business owners. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com  for complete show notes...

  
• 05.09.2022

  Resolving conflict is a critical skill for workplace relationships with guest expert Dr. Paul White

  Dr. Paul White, author of Making Things Right at Work- successfully managing conflict at work Bill Ringle and Dr. Paul White discuss insights around expectations, indirect communications, burnout, and rebuilding trust for small business leaders. >>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more...