Interviewing new candidates can be challenging. How do you know if someone is genuinely interested in working with you and your team or if they are just in it for the paycheck? This week Josh looks into some different techniques on how to weed out dud employees from holding you back. [...]

Start to think about how often in life, you go into a conversation wanting something from the other person. We don't want to be selfish, but doing it unconsciously can lead others to not wanting to work with you. When you just want something from people without giving anything in return, people will see [...]

Make sure your employees have an emotional connection to the work they are doing. If the work they are doing can fulfill them, they are going to work harder and stay longer. Any company can offer fun perks, but they’ll have a higher employee turnover rate if they can’t get people invested in the [...]

People get so hung up on reviews and ratings. But listening to extreme reviews, the 1 star and the 5 star, aren’t helping you grow. Listening to the middle ground is going to let you hear the good and bad to understand that you’re doing well but there’s always room for improvement. It can [...]

Do your employees long for Fridays and dread Mondays? Change your work environment by gamifying your work place. Make fun challenges for your team so they want to work harder. A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down is also potent as an adult. How are you going to inspire your team to [...]

Anger can lead to a toxic work environment. It’s easy to ignore someone’s bad behavior and not deal with it. But one person being angry in a company can effect everyone’s mood and how they work. If words control you, everything can control over you. You have to be in control of your own [...]

Hal Bowman joins the podcast today to talk about his experience as a teacher. When he teaches, he wants to make sure that he is having a powerful impact on his students. He has made it his goal to find the most valuable ways teach. He breaks down how he was able to make [...]

A lot of people hold themselves back by sticking to the way it's always been done. But in actuality, conventional wisdom is keeping you from being innovative. The people who think outside of the box, are the ones who can adapt to change and be ahead of the curve. You have to come up [...]

Just because someone has been working for longer than you doesn't mean that they are working harder than you. Hard work is always going to outshine someone who sits back because they've been around forever. Show up with your hard work and ambition and you'll go further.

Matt Jung is the CEO and co-founder of Comfort Research, maker of Big Joe products. When Matt and his co-founder started their business, they didn’t know the first thing about culture. But when their company expanded and they had to hire employees, it became clear that they needed to identify core values and use [...]