Next Steps for Business

What is High Performance?
How can your team achieve high Performance?
What steps do you need to undertake to make your team a High Performance Team?

Dave ponders this and brings in Coach, LinkedIn Live Streamer, Mentor, Leadership Expert and fellow Brummie Andrew Jenkins from PDX Consulting
Andrew has so many years working with Leadership teams that he helps organisations grow 
Andrew brings in so much personal experience in to the show and explains how you can generate your own high performance team.

What steps do you take to ensure your team is high performing?

So many of us now are working from home or have a home office.
We had to make do during the Pandemic but now we get to choose.
Some of us have decided to set up a full time office at home, be it, converting a guest bedroom, set up a chalet in the garden, converting a brick building in the grounds or working from the dinning room table.
Whatever you decided is applicable to your circumstances, how do you make the most of it?
What steps can you do to ensure you are operating effiiciently?
Need some ideas on how you can improve?

Look no further, as in this podcast, Dave is joined by Adrea Yorston, Director and Chief Designer at Interior Squirrel
Andrea has so many years of experience as a designer and her views on how you can make the most of your work environment are superb. She shares her knowledge on what you need to consider, how you can keep your items safe and even how you can repurpose environments when you are not working.
You can even see some of their creations on houzz. 

The 7 Habits of highly Successful People by Dr Stephen Covey
Why is it a must read?
How does it help a business leader in their personal and business life?
What are the 7 steps?
Who should read it?

All of these questions and many more will be answered by Dave in this podcast.
Dave walks through the 7 Steps and how he has applied them to his life, both business and personal. He takes time to highlights some of the key points on why you should read this book.
Rather being dictatorial on what you should do, Dave simply outlines how he has been affected by the book and gives you little tasters on some of the book's contents so you know how good it is,

Have you read it yet?
Is it about time you read it again?

Are you in control of your time or do you feel you are at the beck n call of others?

Looking for inspiration on how you can master your life?
What does mastery look like?
How would you feel if you lived your life on your terms?

Dave brings in super podcast fan Fahimah Adam, barrister and director of No 7 Legal Services to talk through her approach to life and business. Fahimah has been on an epic voyage for the last 10 years working out what is right for her. She candidly explains her motivation and her secrets in this no holds bared talk through her focus.

What steps are you taking to get the lifestyle you want?

A key attribute to being a business owner is Resilience
Why?

Lots is thrown your way. The battle between Getting Stuff Done (GSD) and developing yourself, people, products & services, direction of the business, changes in the market, compliance... the list goes on.
So how do you handle this?
In this podcast Dave talks through some components to this key attribute and how you can help yourself.
Worth listening for all business owners, senior management and aspirational career minded individuals

In life, like in business we have our "book"

To get the most out of life we need to balance our book, but what does that mean?
Dave takes you through how you can balance your book.
How you can consider looking after yourself, which we have heard on previous podcasts how important making time for yourself is. Dave outlines areas on where you can look after yourself and how you can get more out of life

What is your approach to life and work? How do you strike your balance?

Its so important to stay on top of the constant changes happening on Social Media to ensure you are maximising your reach.
Arguably an important part of your Marketing Strategy

So what's changing on LinkedIn?
What new features can you now use on your profile?
Who would know?

Well Dave called upon Chief Socalite, Queen of Social Media, Karen Cureton, Director of Cureton Consulting Ltd. 
Karen covers all of the  latest updates on LinkedIn, in her usual, friendly, straightforward manner. Explaining it well to Dave, so that he can understand

Struggling to get motivated?
Wondering how to get stuff done?
Struggling with symptoms of CBA?
Are there any techniques which can spur you on to delivering more? Doing the things you want to get done?

In this podcast Dave talks through some great techniques you can deploy which will help you through the minefield of being motivated 
Dave uses real world examples on how he achieves so much in a day, week and year. All of this he does highly motivated. He shares this so you can go from strength to strength. Why not try his steps to motivation to get yourself going?

If i said to you I can give you an hour back a day would you believe me?

Are there any techniques you can apply to reclaim your day?
Are there any disciplines you could adopt to make you more effective?
Do you make time for self improvement, sleep, wellbeing?

In this podcast Dave talks through some steps you can undertake which will allow you  to Own you day.

What techniques do you apply to take control?

What is the difference between Flexible Working and Hybrid working?

What should a business owner consider to support Flexible Working?
Are there any pitfalls for Flexible Working?

To help answer these questions and many more Dave is joined by Sue Grogan from joinedupwork.co.uk 

Sue helps Dave learn about the pitfalls of flexible working and how you can avoid them