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De-stress Your Business — 167 episodes
E166: Why Charging Using Timesheets Kills Innovation and Value, with Ron Baker
E165: AI Is Here. Everyone's About to Become a Manager.
E164: I Built a 100% AI Accountancy Firm. It Nearly Put Me in Prison.
E163: Navigating Mergers Without the Headache, with Alex Black FCCA
E162: Workplace Drama Without the Stress
E161: Why Money Stress Is Not About the Money, With Catherine Morgan
E160: The Mindset Shifts That Make Leaders Great, With William C. Davis
E159: Turn New Hires Into Raving Fans in Their First Week
E158: Create Awesome Case Studies Even If You Hate Writing
E157: How to Make Technology Actually Work in Your Firm
E156: Process in Practice, From Alexis’s Session at the ACCA Roadshow
E155: Navigating Your Way to a Stress-free Business Sale, With Richard McMullan
E154: Talking to Employees About Poor Performance, Without the Stress
E153: Should I Fire Them or Give Them Another Chance?
E152: Why HMRC and Tax Causes So Much Stress and How to Tackle It, with Paul Aplin OBE
E151: How to Handle Customer Feedback Without the Stress, With Rachel Harris
E150: Supporting Teams Through Mergers and Other Changes, With Nikki Adams
E149: End Financial Stress Forever, With Mike Michalowicz
E148: How to Respond When Your Entire Team Walks Out, With Eriona Bajrakurtaj
E147: Taking the Stress Out of Annual Planning
E46: Thanks for 2024! A Special Rhyming Holiday Episode
E145: How to Overcome Resistance to Adopting New Technology, with David Kime
E144: Faster and Easier LinkedIn Networking to Get More Leads, with Ashley Leeds
E143: Cast the Net Wide to Get the Best Talent, with Chloe Britnell
E142: Tapping into Emotions to Close More Sales, with Kelvin Gieck
E141: How to Win the Day, Every Day, with Baiju Solanki
E140: Taming the Tech Tsunami to Find the Right Tools, with Abby Anderson
E139: Make It Easy for Managers to Resolve Poor Performance
E138: Set up Your Team to Avoid Constant Distractions
E137: Get the Best out of Your Managers
E136: Empower Your Team to Solve Problems
E135: Scale Without Losing the Soul of Your Business, with Ernesto Mandowsky
E134: Using Org Structure to Make Scaling Easy, with Will Farnell
E133: How to Be at Your Best When It Matters Most
E132: Automation Without Overwhelm, with Isaac Perdomo
E131: How to Eliminate Crunch Time Stress, with Graeme Tennick
E130: Elevate Yourself and Be a Bold Leader, with Dawn Marriott
E129: What Happens When There Is No Process
E128: Grow Like a Subscription Business, with Louise White
E127: How to Charge Your True Value
E126: B2B Marketing Made S.I.M.P.L.E
E125: Making 7-Figures from a Business Podcast
E124: How to Stay at the Cutting Edge, With Mark Lee
E123: Do I Need an Ops Manager to Manage Business Processes?
E122: Does Structure Take The Fun Out Of Your Business?
E121: When Is The Right Time To Document A Process?
E120: Should You Video Processes or Capture Them as Text?
E119: Affordable Talent, Without Hunting Unicorns
E118: Why Your Work Ethic Is Killing Your Business, with Erin Mathie
E117: Keep the Magic as You Grow
Episode 116: Embrace Your Inner Control Freak
E115: How to Create a Positive Culture, With Sophie Theen
E114: How to Master Product Design From the Inventor of Trunki
E113: How to Empower Your Team to Solve Problems
E112: Scaling Your Business When You Are the Brand, with Chris Ducker
E111: How to Make Delegated Tasks Stay Delegated, with Adrienne Dorison
E110: Master the Art of Profitability, with Reza Hooda
E109: Step-by-step, How to Focus on a Specific Avatar
E108: How to Turn Stage Fright Into Stage Might, with Andrea Pacini
E107: 3 Wastes of Time That Choke Your Business, with Lloyed Lobo
E106: Leveraging a COO to Go From Chaos to Freedom, with Emma King
E105: One Life-Changing Habit to Get You More Time Back, with Jeff Gosling
E104: How to Delegate and Make Yourself Redundant, with Kirsty Darkins
E103: Close More Sales Without Being Pushy, with Matthew Elwell
E102: How to Scale a Consultancy Business, with Tony Lockwood
E101: Taking the Stress out of Enterprise Sales, with Zoltan Vardy
E100: The Best Bits from 99 Episodes
E99: Funded vs. Non-Funded: What’s Best?, with Greg Head
E98: Letting Go, to Grow Your Business with Joe Siecinski
E97: Growing Faster Using Simple Systems, with Adi Klevit
E96: Get Your Business Working for YOU, with Sanjiv Dodhia
E95: Bootstrapping 3 SaaS Companies, with Melissa Kwan
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E94: Document Faster, Delegate Better
E93: Your Business Should Run Like Clockwork, with Mike Michalowicz
E92: Should You Work with Your Family?, with David Holland
E91: Growing Faster Using Value-pricing, with Ayon Bhattacharyya
E90: How to Break Team Silos
E89: Email Marketing with Less Stress, with Rob and Kennedy
E88: Live a Life You Love Without Burning out, with Will Polston
E87: Can’t Be Delegated? That’s BS.
E86: Being Consistent with Your Marketing
E85: Staying Fit While Scaling Up, with Kirk Miller
E84: Doing the Tasks That Make You Happy, with Jason Graystone
E83: Ninja Strategies for Growing Cashflow, with M.C. Laubscher
E82: How to Get Your Team to Follow the Process
E81: Scaling to $10m Without Constant Stress, with Jordan Fleming
E80: Removing Bottlenecks Using Smarter Questions, with Sam Knowles
E79: 6 Months of Impactful Content in 60 mins, with Georgia Kirke
E78: Predictable Cashflow, with George Theodosiou
E77: Stress-free Lead Generation on LinkedIn, with Helen Tudor
E76: Winning Consistently with Your Marketing, with Mat Wilson
E75: Fail Fast: Learn Faster, with Henri Ghijben
E74: How Marketing Experts Use AI, With Alfred Goldberg
E73: AI Tools to Make Your Business Unstoppable, with Jay Williams
E72: Setting up a New CFO for Success, with Kevin Appleby
E71: Reducing Stress With Automation, with Lisa Catto
E70: Run like Mcdonald’s: Systemizing for Success, with Marianne Page
E69: Lessons from Losing £500m, with Gerald Ratner
E68: The Personal Pain of Closing a Business, with Penny Power OBE
E67: Flow, Don’t Leak: Optimizing Cash Flow with Ian Morgan
E66: Recovering Debt Without the Stress, With Clayton M Coke
E65: Becoming Homeless Due to Cash Flow, with Stu Davidson
E64: A Checklist for Reviewing Your Pricing
E63: Why Cashflow Needs Process
E62: 8 Levers to Improve Your Cashflow
E61: Finding 5* Employees: Stress-Free Hiring, with Danielle Mulvey
E60: Reducing Stress Through a Healthy Body and Mind, with Shim Ravalia
E59: How to Stay Ahead of the Disruptive Power of AI
E58: Iterating Our Sales Process (with Epic Results!)
E57: How Many Tools Do You Need in Your Business?
E56: Preparing for the Big Event
E55: Stress-free Money Management, with Denise Duffield-Thomas
E54: Introduce AI Into Your Business The Pragmatic Way
E53: Killing a 7-Figure Business Due to the Stress, with Gary Das
E52: Reducing Feast and Famine in Business, with Cordelia Kate
E51: How to Turn AI into Your Best Junior Employee
E50: Creating Grown-up Businesses with Paul Avins
E49: The Risks That AI Presents to Your Business
E48: How to Survive 48 Business Acquisitions, with Jonathan Jay
E47: What You NEED to Know About AI and ChatGPT
E46: Why You Need to Take a 4 Week Holiday (as a Business Owner)
E45: What’s Your Life Changing Goal for 2023?
E44: The Process That Tried to Ruin Christmas
E43: How To Get on Top of Your Business Finances
E42: Remove the Stress From Getting New Clients, with Arfa Iqbal
E41: Line Managers Need Onboarding Too
E40: What’s Your Life Changing Goal?
E39: Remove Your Key Person Dependencies
E38: Stop the Same Mistakes From Happening Again and Again
E37: Don’t Think You’re Process Oriented? Think Again
E36: How to Explain What Your Business Does, with Garth Jemmett
E35: When Should a Business Start Working on Their Processes?
E34: Most Leaders Can Free Up 15 Hours Per Week
E33: Holding Onto Great Candidates You Can’t Hire Right Now
E32: The Easy Way to Manage Job Applicants
E31: How to Assess Someone’s Capability to Do the Job
E30: How to Interview for Culture Fit
E29: A Simple Way to Define Your Core Values
E28: Why [Clear] Core Values Are a Game Changer
E27: How to Review Skills-fit Before the First Interview
E26: Don’t use CVs or resumes to filter candidates (!)
E25: How We Get over 1000 Applicants for Every Role
E24: What Is an A-Player and Can I Really Afford to Hire One?
E23: How to Manage Effectively When You Wear Many Hats
E22: How to Manage Your Employee Onboarding Process
E21: How to Make Employee Onboarding Self-Service
E20: How to Start Employee Onboarding Before Day One
E19: The Essential Steps for a Role Onboarding Process
E18: The Essential Steps for a Company Onboarding Process
E17: Why Software Engineers Hate Documenting (And How to Help)
E16: How to Deliver Employee Onboarding That Doesn’t Suck (And Frees Up 100s of Hours of Your Time)
E15: Why Most Employee Onboarding Sucks!
E14: Stop the Rot: How to Make Sure Content Doesn’t Go Stale
E13: How to Make Sure Documentation Actually Gets Used (!)
E12: How to Create Checklists Your Team Will Love 😍
E11: The Pyramid of Guidance Your Team Needs
E10: The 8 Reasons Why Most Documentation is Doomed to Fail (Part 2)
E9: The 8 Reasons Why Most Documentation is Doomed to Fail (Part 1)
E8: When the S**t Hits the Fan: How to Reduce Stress When Faced with Major Incidents
E7: The Agenda for a Really Effective Team Meeting
E6: Meetings Are Your Friend (— Here’s How to Use Them)
E5: Don’t Blame Your Colleague (It’s a Process Issue, Not a People Issue)
E4: How to Deal With Issues (And Avoid Conflict)
E3: The Types of Task You Should Be Delegating
E2: How to Free Up 15 Hours (Per Week!)
E1: How to De-stress Your Business