Today's episode sponsored by Company Cam, features a discussion with Kevin Nolan, CEO of Nolan Painting, and Partner at Nolan Consulting Group. All of us would love to achieve the perfect balance between our career goals and our personal life. Using a written primary aim as a guide, Kevin gives his valuable insight on how to prioritize one aspect of your life over another without feeling unfulfilled and burnt out. As you listen to this week's episode, think about your work/life balance now and how you can use a primary aim to improve upon it for the future.

Today's episode sponsored by Groundwork, features a new voice to the podcast NCG Business Coach, Vince Christy. Vince leverages his extensive experience in all realms of Property Management to give you multiple tips and tricks to maximize your relationship with your PM. Taking on a contract at a commercial property such as an apartment complex or hotel brings lots of unique challenges.

Vince helps you better understand the roles and responsibilities of a Property Manager, while also sharing strategies on how to manage expectations, improve your communication, and even how to find commercial contracts.

Today's episode sponsored by Graco, features NCG Senior Business Coach and Director of Finance, Andrew Amrhein for another episode of our KPIs by Department Series. This time we are focusing on both Inside and Outside Operations. These two departments prepare and carry out the work of the work. The data produced by these KPIs helps us better understand efficiencies in company processes, how effective your training program is, and more. Andrew provides wisdom on how to best implement and interpret these KPIs and encourages us to look at a different perspective when it comes to collecting and tracking the information for forward thinking.

Today's episode sponsored by Sherwin Williams, features NCG Managing Partner and Senior Business Coach, Brian Nolan recapping our Grand Summit held just a few weeks ago in Nashville, TN. It was truly wonderful to get to finally see each other in person again, and meet new Summit members! In case you weren't able to join us this time, Brian shares some of his most powerful takeaways and highlights from the conference.

Today's episode features some of our best highlights from past episodes. Take a listen to some of the episodes released this year and focus on the subjects that really struck home. You will hear clips from five past discussions, featuring a variety of voices and topics ranging from conquering resistance, understanding how to leverage DISC profiles and recruiting tactics. We encourage you to listen to the full episodes if a particular highlight really captures your interest.

Today's episode sponsored by Sherwin-Williams features NCG Senior Business Coach and Director of Operations, Kathryn Freeman and our host Molly Nolan discussing the role of the Human Resources department in a business. No matter the size of your business, having a defined process for HR related responsibilities is crucial. You do not need to be an expert to start implementing HR processes! Kathryn explores some of the first steps to starting an HR department, when the right time to do this is, and how to find the right person for the job in this week's episode of Out of the Hourglass.

Today's episode sponsored by Company Cam features NCG Senior Business Coach and Director of Finance, Andrew Amrhein discussing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for the Sales and Marketing departments. You can't grow unless you know your numbers, where your leads are coming from and where your sales team is most effective! Andrew discusses some of the most important KPIs for these two interconnected departments. As well as, when and how to interpret and implement your analysis successfully.

Today's episode sponsored by Reach Local features NCG Director of Operations, and Senior Business Coach, Kathryn Freeman, accompanied by another of our NCG Coaches, Colin Nolan. Having effective one on ones with your employees is crucial for employee development. From keeping employees engaged to the most appropriate time for scheduling, Kathryn and Colin share a recipe of sorts for maximizing the success of these meetings in this week's episode of Out of the Hourglass.

Today's episode sponsored by Odell Studner brings you the latest episode in our Business is Messy series. NCG Senior Business Coach Brian Nolan and Nolan Painting President Kevin Nolan unpack this summer's business messes at Nolan Painting. This summer has been one for the books! The messes include understanding employee engagement, dealing with material shortages, how to manage customer expectations when working with an extensive backlog and more! Pick up new tips on how to navigate these messes in your business on this week's podcast.

Today's episode sponsored by Bookkeeping For Trades features NCG Senior Business Coach and Director of Finance, Andrew Amrhein discussing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) by Organizational Department. From Sales to HR, the Field and the Office, developing and tracking KPIs by specific departments is going to help you make critical adjustments in your execution to achieve your strategic goals.

An an introductory episode to our upcoming KPIs Series, Andrew flies over what metrics your team should be paying attention to with some ideas on how to best interpret the data into meaningful action to help your business succeed.