Over the last couple of episodes Vicky and Julia have talked about how to create a successful recruitment process.  This week they are talking about what comes next - induction, and how to get the most out of this crucial stage in an employment relationship.

Hope you enjoy it!

Welcome to the second in our mini series exploring how to create recruitment heaven, and this week Julia and Vicky are talking about recruitment interviews and how to get the most out of them.  

This week Julia and Vicky talk about one of the toughest leadership tasks out there - Recruitment.

Lots of people claim to be amazing at this, and they might be.  But lots of others have lost their confidence and have decided to stop growing their business because of the struggle to find good people who will stay.

So what can we do about it?  Listen to find out

As business owners we are expected to be keen and enthusiastic all the time.  But what to do when we just feel a bit meurgh?  This is what Vicky and Julia are talking about this week.  Exploring some of the underlying causes and giving solutions.

We hope you find it useful!

Did you know that for a lot of businesses a significant chuck of their profits are being eaten away through a lack of quality assurance?  The costs of not doing things right first time can be the difference between profit and loss.

so this week Vicky & Julia are talking about what this means and give tips for how to start turning the tide in your business

Culture - It is such a buzzword isn't it?  so much so, that everyone assumes that people know what we mean by the term.  But if we don't like the atmosphere inside our business then changing our culture become even tougher if we don't really know what it is we are talking about.

Vicky & Julia found this weeks session really interesting as organisational culture means different things when you are looking at it from an emotional intelligence perspective and from a more mainstream management one.   And then there is all the fun of our previous experiences to share.

We hope you enjoy it!

This week we were inspired by Vicky having Covid to explore how we can both prepare for the inevitable times when ill health puts a spanner in the works, and how we can cope better when we are ill.  Lots of our usual mixture of mindset and pragmatic business advice.

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What causes a team to stop firing on all cylinders?  It is easy to spot from the outside - higher staff turnover, stressed managers, lower customer service, and just a feeling that things are not going well.

This week Vicky & Julia discuss their own experiences of being a part of a mis-firing ream, and what business owners and managers can do or think about to turn things around.

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One of the biggest business and most persistent business challenges is how to go about generating new business leads.  This afflicts organisations of all sizes - and the solutions are by and large the same.

Is there a magic bullet?  No - but Julia and Vicky explore some of the key things you can do to have an immediate performance improvement.

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Given we are in a post-pandemic, war just started in Europe world this week, Julia and Vicky are discussing the business and mindset benefits to contingency planning.  Not the sexiest topic to be sure, but one which has a big impact for business survivability, and mindset.  Honest - It is a much more interesting conversation than we are making it sound in writing.......