Next Steps for Business

Is it worth putting time in to Personal Development?
What does it bring?

How do you transform yourself?

We believe it is a big contributor to your own success. Now success means different things to different people but if we want to achieve bigger and better things for ourselves, be it your career, your business, your home life, your romantic life, your spiritual life, it takes investment.
Dave and Marie talk through what Dave believes about personal development, what drives him onwards and why.

IF we can work out our reason of Why then we a reason to invest.

How do you fit all of this in?
Dave lists a plethora of ways you can find those gaps in your busy schedule.
Dave mentions The Compound Effect which was written by Darren Hardy
He also mentions authors Jim Rohn, Dr Stephen Covey

Recently been promoted and unsure how to act?
How about setting up your new business and struggling to understand what priorities should be acted upon?
What about a colleague who's recently been given a bump up on the career ladder but isn't performing well. You're not sure what but know there's something wrong?
Perhaps you've been a head of a department or company and you have a high turn over of staff, wondering why?

What ever the basis this podcast is worth a listen

Dave and Marie talk through the steps you need to go through in order to help transform you from a worker for someone else in to a great leader. Be it a business leader of your own business, a senior manager for a large company or a director of a SME. Which ever it is there's a transformation that is required. These key areas are highlighted and discussed on why its important.

Do you have any good pointers for other struggling managers?

You've all heard about Work Life Balance but we don't think that's what you should look at, instead it should be all about Work Life Boundaries.
However, what are they?
What Steps could you take to spot how you are wasting time or effort?
What Steps can you take to spot you are blurring your boundaries?
What impacts will you suffer from if you don't manage these?
What are the tell tale signs of Burn Out or overwhelmed?

As a business leader, what questions should you ask to check on your team?
What are the benefits of getting this right?

To answer all of this Dave & Marie bring Tamson from Amara Coaching & Training

Why do start ups fail?
What steps can you as a business owner undertake to ensure your business, be it a new start up or an established one, to ensure you don't become one of the failing statistics?

Dave and Marie chat through a whole host of steps you can employ to save your business going under.
At the end of the day they don't want your business to fail but in fact want them to prosper and grow hence the reason for all of these podcasts!

Got a business idea but wonder if you're the right person to start a business?
Recently started a business again questioning if you're a business owner?
Why did Dave and Marie start Next Steps or their own businesses?
In need of some motivation to get your business off the ground?

All of these and more are covered in this podcast.

So looking for a better visualisation on Sales Techniques? 
Struggling to remember all of the steps a complex sales takes to get over the line?
We have a guest today, Ade Fleet from Salesade who uses a great association with elephants and how you can apply this to complex sales.
Ade spends time with Dave and Marie to explain his system and how it can help your business.

How do you move from being a good leader to a great leader?
How do you get the most out of your team?
How do you be in tune with your team so you can help spot blockers, remove road blocks and pull together as a team?
Just because you are there for your team does not mean you do their job but does mean you support them.

Answers to all of these and loads more supplied by today's guest Tamson Amara, Director of Amara Coaching & Training. Her insights in to human psyche, based on her training on the Chimp Paradox brings so much. Listen and hear what she has to say on how you can look to improve your leadership

Things are opening up but how can you gain the winning edge?
What steps should you be looking at doing within your business to catch the wave of activity?
What should you consider within your business?
Dave and Marie chat through their belief on how the economy has performed in the first quarter, how this current quarter is performing and how the next few months will pan out.
Then what steps you should be considering so you make the most of it, not to over extend and what you can do to make a difference to your business

What steps are you doing with your business to sneak ahead of the competition and maximise this opportunity?

What is Business Continuity?
How does it apply to my business?

Dave and Marie talk through 5 key areas you should consider to be provisioning for within your business.
Scarily more than 50% of businesses do not have a Business Continuity plan.
Even more scarily out of those that do, over 30% haven't even implemented it yet
Further scary stats that up to 20% of business actually test it.
Are you one of those businesses?
What should you be thinking about?
What areas should you cover?

Can you afford not to plan and implement one?

Ever fancied writing your own eBook?
How hard is it? 
What do you do with it?
What should it be on?
Why should I bother to write an eBook?

Well Dave has asked these questions and decided to talk to Marie and Sue Grogan about it as they have written their own books.
Sue, who has appeared on the podcasts before talking about Wellbeing, and is a Director of Joined-up Working Associates. She has written a number of paperbacks but recently embarked on writing her own book, inspired by our Marie.

If you were to write an eBook, what would it be on?