Wool Academy with Elisabeth van Delden

Making your business attractive to the finest talent is one of the most difficult challenges facing you as a business owner.

Compounded by the lifestyle driven, passionate millennial generation becoming more and more influential in todays recruitment marketplace, we business owners are facing difficult decisions when choosing the right team members to introduce to our organisation.

Louisa Harrison-Walker successfully recruits some of the UK’s finest talent into the most prestigious organisations in the country.

Louisa shares her experiences navigating the Generation Y recruitment process, and shares her 3 way roadmap to successfully creating a culture that millenials flock to.

Links mentioned in this episode:

* Benchmark Survey Monkey Results

* Louisa Harrison-Walker on Twitter

* Benchmark on Twitter

* Heineken Recruitment Video

You can’t miss this one guys, it’s some of the most valuable advice you’ll ever hear.

The more you expect from yourself, the more you will excel.

This week I talk to Duncan Michael-MacGregor, a digital entrepreneur who owns and operates Duck on Water, a web design and development studio based in the south of the United Kingdom.

Duncan is currently overcoming the challenges associated with recruiting his first full-time employee, the risks associated with that and hunt for the 'right person'.

This episode focusses on actionable tips from Duncan to ensure that finding the right employee, at the right time is as secure and measured as it can be.

Throughout the episode we talk about conquering the mysterious "Superhero Syndrome" that all business owners face, zero hour contracts and Duncan shares his top 3 pieces of advice that you can implement when deciding to become an employer for the first time.

Don't forget guys, the more you expect from yourself, the more you will excel.

Welcome to Excellence Expected.

Episode 1 is my opportunity to thank you for picking up the show and beginning this journey with me.

During the episode I talk about how I bounced back from a business catastrophe to become founder of a rapidly growing design & digital agency, whilst also discussing how that rapid growth and the challenges it brought, caused me to burn out only two years ago.

I take this opportunity to talk about what you can expect from each episode of Excellence Expected and the value that you, as a business owner or entrepreneur, can draw from the podcast.

I also introduce my free eBook "The Essential 14 Day Guide to Cutting Your Working Hours and Increasing Your Impact", which is my blueprint and work-through template that will show you how to create more time every single day, become instantly more effective in your business and create the time to enjoy the things that matter to you.

Excellence Expected is a podcast for business owners, by business owners, with each and every episode adding value to your busy business life.

Let's learn, share and grow together; don't forget: the more you expect from yourself, the more you will excel.