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This podcast is all about the new virtual world of work. The globalized workforce is shifting more and more to remote work, virtual teams, and distributed collaboration. On this podcast, we talk with inspiring leaders, experts, and scientists about their learnings, findings, and experience when it comes to the future of work. We also share our own stories, experiences, and failures while discovering new virtual frontiers, so our listeners might have a nice takeaway (or at least, something to ...
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Check out the free new course https://www.flashhub.io/escape-now-start/ Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leadership skills, solve the digital agency hamster-wheel issue, and easily build freelance teams. We have selected best practices and the m…
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Check out the free new course https://www.flashhub.io/escape-now-start/ Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leadership skills, solve the digital agency hamster-wheel issue, and easily build freelance teams. We have selected best practices and the m…
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Check out the free new course https://www.flashhub.io/escape-now-start/ Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leadership skills, solve the digital agency hamster-wheel issue, and easily build freelance teams. We have selected best practices and the m…
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Check out the free new course https://www.flashhub.io/escape-now-start/ Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leadership skills, solve the digital agency hamster-wheel issue, and easily build freelance teams. We have selected best practices and the m…
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Check out the free new course https://www.flashhub.io/escape-now-start/ Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leadership skills, solve the digital agency hamster-wheel issue, and easily build freelance teams. We have selected best practices and the m…
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Check out the free new course https://www.flashhub.io/escape-now-start/ Check out the free new course https://www.flashhub.io/escape-now-start/ Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leadership skills, solve the digital agency hamster-wheel issue, and…
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Check out the free new course https://www.flashhub.io/escape-now-start/ Check out the free new course https://www.flashhub.io/escape-now-start/ Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leadership skills, solve the digital agency hamster-wheel issue, and…
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Check out the free new course https://www.flashhub.io/escape-now-start/ Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leadership skills, solve the digital agency hamster-wheel issue, and easily build freelance teams. We have selected best practices and the m…
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▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE: ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ ♨ EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN 00:00Intro 02:25 Part 1 08:20 Part 2 09:50 Part 3 11:31 Part 4 15:01 Part 5 ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leader…
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In this week's #AskTheCEO episode we will discover how to improve team efficacy on virtual teams, what the term efficacy stands for in the first place, and how this is related to efficiency and effectiveness. Find out how you can improve on them as they are key elements of successful high-performing teams. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLI…
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My today’s guest is Maggie Perotin. I found Maggie on Podmatch and today we are going to talk about female leadership, leadership skills in general, and how to get things done. Maggie is a Leadership Coach and the Founder and CEO of Stairway to Leadership. Her versatile and extraordinary career path stood out to me. With her work focused on simplic…
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Today, let’s talk about sales. To be more specific about B2B sales and how you can set up the right team structure. Why talk about structure? Because the right structure will determine substantially how much impact your activities have and how successful your team is while actually selling. Doing B2B sales nowadays might seem very complicated and c…
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In this episode, we are going to have a dive into the world of productized services. Do you still tell your prospects and clients what you're doing, how great your services are, and what new features you just added to your amazing portfolio? Do you have trouble delegating and controlling all parts of your business? Are you stressed by all the incom…
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Smiley is an international keynote speaker and best-selling author. Our conversation today is focused on Smiley's recent book titled Friendship in the Age of Loneliness. Now you may be thinking hold on. This is a business management podcast. Why do they talk about friendship? Spoiler alert. Having a best friend at work can dramatically host your ha…
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Priorities, goals, and tasks change. People come and go. The business grows. What also grows often equally is the chaos and the problems when you lack clear, transparent, and understandable role descriptions in your organization. So in today’s AskTheCEO session, we want to find out how to get role clarity, what a great role description looks like, …
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My today’s guest is Sam Bennett. In our conversation, we are going to discuss why at least 90% of work meetings are a complete waste of time and energy. You might think, I also attend some meetings that are not beneficial and without any outcome, or the outcome is just another meeting. Now, if you wonder how that plays into your productivity, we wi…
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The demand for talent keeps increasing dramatically, however, the vast majority of organizations are still mostly working with, or better say suffer from limiting themselves to only local approaches in the search of talent. Working with skilled freelancers & project workers is not a valid option for them at all. Concerns regarding safety, wrong ass…
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My today’s guest is Debbie Goodman. Debbie is the Group CEO of Jack Hammer, a globally operating organization based in South Africa that specializes in executive search and placement, talent advisory, and leadership coaching. During the pandemic, Debbie managed to write and publish a book for leaders that lead nowadays mostly out of their living ro…
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Are you feeling a little overworked, with a constant high workload, with accompanying tensions in your neck, shoulders, and back? Do you finish your workdays exhausted and somehow stressed and worried about tomorrow? Then you are right here. Today we are going to learn what you can do to create a work environment for you and your co-workers where e…
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This week we are going to discover what is behind the drop servicing business model and how you can use it the best way. Questions that may arise around this topic and that we are going to talk about are why should you consider the drop servicing business model, how quality is assured, what are the differences between the drop servicing business mo…
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Today I’m very glad to have Anwar Jumabhoy as a guest. Anwar is a distinguished speaker, author of the book nine EntrepreneurISMS, Management practice for a VUCA world, and a Partner at 21CC Education in Malaysia. Anwar and I are going to talk about entrepreneurship, innovation, and leadership in a VUCA world. As we do live in such times somehow, I…
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Our topic for this week is heavily focused on content creation. To be more specific, on the content creator economy. You might ask, is that even a thing? Somehow, many of us have become recently content creators, sharing ideas, knowledge, and experiences on social media or other digital platforms. What are the benefits of working with professional …
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Today we welcome Sean Tyler Foley. We are going to discover what makes a great speaker and why actually everyone is a public speaker. I’m happy that I’ve found Tyler for this topic. Tyler has been acting in film and television since he was 6. He is a versatile personality and has worked in a wide field of industries, from the oil and gas industry t…
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Today we are going to get a little bit more philosophical but without losing the focus to provide you with actionable ideas and content. Our topic ….freedom. To be more specific entrepreneurial freedom. Why is it that so many of us start an entrepreneurial journey and after some time has passed we find ourselves trapped? Trapped by the circumstance…
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On our today’s Q&A we’ll have a conversation about how to do a competency gaps analysis and more importantly show also how to close these kinds of gaps in your projects, teams, and organization. Let’s figure out why it is important to distinguish between skills and competencies, how you balance between these attributes, and how virtual teams can ac…
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Today I welcome Hamza Khan to the show. We are going to discuss some hard facts about leadership and burnout. Hamza is a bestselling author, a global keynote speaker, and lecturer at Ryerson University in Toronto. I found Hamza a while ago on a TV interview about burnout and stress at work. In this special episode, I’m talking with Hamza about why …
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In our session today we are going to talk about Growth vs. profitability. Growth and profitability are both important components when we talk about the success of a company. But what comes first growth or profitability? How do you get profitable quickly without burning money and resources for years while growing your organization? What can you do t…
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Today I’m joined by Dr. Ralf Friedrich. Ralf is an expert when it comes to coaching virtual teams and he is also a Mental health first aid instructor. As every organization above a certain headcount has a dedicated first aid responder for accidents at the workspace, Ralf is convinced and in my view righteously convinced that we not only need first …
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Today’s topic of our session is all about Remote Staff Hiring Benefits in 2022. The last year has clearly shown that working remotely is possible for many professions. Now, we see that a lot of organizations are still struggling with seeing the benefits of just getting the work done, no matter where your co-workers are actually located while doing …
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Today we are joined by Jody Thompson a true advocate and activist for making work better. With her bestseller books “Why work sucks-and how to fix it” and “Why management sucks- and how to fix that too” she has helped many people and hundreds of organizations around the globe to re-think the term work and actually how to get the work done. I love h…
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Today’s topic of our Q & A session is: “How To build a B2B Sales Funnel”. Are you looking for ways on how to improve your sales activities? Did you ever wonder how it would be to work only with your dream clients? In this episode we’ll discover how you can build up your B2B sales funnel, what do you need to do to get to work, not just with any clie…
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Today’s topic of our Q & A session is: “How To hire the right people”. Getting the right people on board and into work seems to be something getting constantly harder and harder. When you are missing skills on the one side you miss most probably opportunities on the other. And missing constantly opportunities could endanger the survival of any orga…
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Everyone knows them, who works with clients had them, we are speaking about the difficult ones. When a client relationship has turned into a state of “difficult” work will most certainly become stressful, and productivity drops. Today we’ll examine some important waypoints on the customer’s journey starting with the right onboarding, handling diffi…
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Are you short on talents within your organization? Welcome to the new normal. As discussed previously on this podcast with different experts, the overall shortage of talent will increase even more drastically in the coming years. Let’s find out how you could solve this issue, establishing creative environments and a sense of community inside your c…
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Let’s be honest. Management sucks. No one likes to be managed or to have their personal work managed by a manager. What are alternative CEO styles that can make a difference? Why the heck do we have whole industries set up with the sole purpose to manage people? Do we need managers at all? 💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE: Patriarc…
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Are you feeling overworked and overstressed? Are people in your team keep quitting, or do you face problems you have no clue how to address? Then it is probably time to look out for an experienced business growth mentor that can help you to overcome those hurdles and strive for better solutions. In this episode, you’ll learn how a business growth m…
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Flash Hub provides tools, workflows, and skills to hire freelance experts and set up your first team in a matter of days. Develop virtual leadership skills, solve the digital agency hamster-wheel issue, and build freelance teams with ease. We have selected best practices and the most helpful skills you need to work smart, less, and grow a digital b…
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Today’s topic of our Q & A session is: “The secrets behind high-performance Teams. Let’s be honest, everyone likes to work in a high-performance team. Or would you prefer to collaborate with a low-performance team if you had the choice? I don’t think so. But first, let’s clarify what are the components of a well-functioning high-performance team an…
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Working on a modern company structure is very important to every organization and its success in the long term. If your current business hierarchy structure is not supporting your goals you should review and improve it urgently. Having a modern business structure is more a constant process rather than an on-off thing. As a manager or company owner,…
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Motivation is complicated. If we look at all the different motivational theories out there, one could start to wonder which of these theories are actually working. Might it be a mix of all of them and each theory around motivation carries something truthful? Who knows? On the other side, it is very well known what demotivates everyone. So let’s bet…
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Do you really think your life is hard? Do stressful customers, colleagues or your partner easily drive you up the wall? Then let's hear what our today's guest Darcy Luoma can tell us about difficult situations in life and how to prepare for them. Darcy is a distinguished coach and professional keynote speaker. As a "Master Certified Coach" by the I…
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Might you think that the right business growth strategies for your business start with having very deep pockets and a huge budget? Let's see about that. Manuel and Daniel will speak in this week's #AskTheCEO session about the most common misconceptions when it comes to business growth strategies. Manuel will tell us how he learned the hard way, bur…
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Cross-team collaboration discipline is not a one-off exercise. It is an ongoing process that needs to be a part of the company’s work culture. Cross-team collaborations happen everywhere, but how often it is implemented in an explicit way? Do you foster it in your company, or does it just happen accidentally? Successful cross-functional teams can h…
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How many different digital tools you are using in your company? How often do you implement new tools to your stack? What effect does the toolset have on your workflow management? Do you feel increasingly overwhelmed by the flood of tools in your everyday life? When you want to get more clarity on what tools to use and how to select them best listen…
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Do you struggle to stay focused? Have you ever wondered what professional athletes are doing to get into this immersive state of focus just before a competition and then unleash this incredible outstanding performance? How to stay focused in your daily practice? How could you apply some of that in your personal life and also as a business owner and…
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In this special #AskTheCEO Manuel and Daniel will talk about some ground rules when it comes to developing your leadership style and speak about important actions you can implement right away to improve the work with your teams. Have you recently stepped up to a leadership role? Has your start-up grown and are you trying to find ways how to work wi…
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The future of work is coming. The big questions around are, how we are going to embrace this new future, will the AI and robots take all our jobs, can the future with so much technology still be human, or is the human at the core of this future? Let's shed some light on what possible scenarios can look like and what organizations, as well as indivi…
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Every week one specific business trend is examined and explained in compact and in detail. 💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE: What changes have occurred since the pandemic hit the talent market? Why it will only get harder to find new talented employees in the future? What do you need to change in your hiring and onboarding cycle? W…
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In this episode, we welcome Astrid Schrader from The Arc Training. This is actually our second conversation, and I'm very delighted to have Astrid back on the show today. We are going to speak about how delayed decision-making can actually screw up the business. We find out what are the essential risks when we tend to delay decision-making, what ca…
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