Business Confidential Now with Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
★ PRACTICAL ★ TIMELESS ★ NO NONSENSE ★ Discover the business issues hiding in plain view that matter to your bottom line. Created for smart business owners, executives, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to increase their business leadership effectiveness and side-step the School of Hard Knocks. Each Thursday you’ll hear top-line insights, tools and straight talk from experts, authors and change makers who share their secrets for more success on a wide range of business topics. These are the trusted advisors, the ones Big Business pay big bucks for, who are quietly igniting change behind closed doors and transforming businesses around world. And now, you can join those conversations too by simply tuning in. It’s easy. Our topics vary from week to week because business is multi-faceted and the higher you climb in your organization the more information you need to effectively lead your company and keep all of its moving parts aligned and moving forward. We talk about everything from leadership and people management, to sales, marketing, and finance, corporate governance and risk management. Why? Because business has lots of nooks and crannies. It’s impossible to be good at everything or know everything. Your expertise makes you a valuable contributor early in your career; but as your management and leadership responsibilities grow, so too does the need to expand your knowledge base because it’s essential to keep your finger on the pulse of your business and be able to ask the right questions to get the information you need to make informed decisions, as well as recruit the right talent. We even talk about how to manage stress and keep your head from exploding because, let’s be real, things pile up sometimes and it’s tough to juggle everything. It’s OK – you’re not alone – it’s a big club, one that you can join for free by listening to Business Confidential Now, one where you’ll be able to access resource packed information on every single episode page at https://BusinessConfidentialRadio.com. The show was created by Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, founder of Business M.O. and the Legal Leverage Academy, several years ago because business comes at you fast and no one can afford to get blind-sided. Especially by something you didn’t know, but somehow SHOULD know in your role as a business leader and key decision maker. Look - It’s not your fault, even if you have one of those fancy Ivy League MBAs, it’s impossible to have all the answers. Hanna knows this to be true as a matter of fact because she HAS one of those fancy MBAs and even taught in a few top tier MBA programs. She’s also been a practicing business attorney who has seen first-hand what happens when things go south. That’s why she created this podcast. Hanna knows how to ask the questions that get the answers YOU need to succeed. She’s been a trusted advisor, who for more than 35 years has helped influential business leaders and decision makers ranging from start-ups to the S&P 500 to the White House. Hanna has also seen how what you don’t know in business really can hurt you and bite you in the assets. The show typically runs approximately 25 – 35 minutes and releases a new episode every Thursday. It’s usually an interview show; but, once in a while Hanna will put on her lawyer hat and feature some no-nonsense legal information. Join Hanna and start listening to Business Confidential Now today. The more you dive into our rich archive of past episodes, follow and subscribe to Business Confidential Now, the more you’ll be able to grow and protect your business NOW. Listen on any app that supports podcasts, and visit https://BusinessConfidentialRadio.com. Please remember to tell all your business friends about the show and leave a positive comment.
Episodes
Maximize Human Capital
Being able to maximize human capital to optimize employee engagement is the unspoken goal of every business.
Yet not all talent is created equal, and too often entrepreneurs, especially those in startup mode, rely on their gut feel and past experience in assembling their teams.
But today's guest says a data driven approach to decision making helps sidestep predictable people prob...
Ethical Use of AI
When it comes to the ethical use of AI in your business, you want to do the right thing and you assume you will.
But what if artificial intelligence is like an iceberg with hidden danger below the waterline?
No one wants their business to be the Titanic, and that’s why we’re going to explore how to start thinking about the ethical use of AI to successfully navigate those hazards.
W...
Employee Development
Employee talent development sounds scary to business owners and leaders, who fear that investing in an employee’s career encourages them to look for greener pastures elsewhere.
Managers will claim they don’t have time, that it’s really the employee’s responsibility, that they really can’t give employees what they want. So they’d rather ignore the situation because there’s no value...
Beyond Profit
How do you measure business success beyond profit? How does it connect to your deeper purpose in life? Your why?
Discover one entrepreneur’s amazing journey and how you can connect your business beyond profit too.
What You’ll Discover About Creating Goals Beyond Profit:
* The personal awakening that led Steve Farrell to create a goal beyond profit
* How to find our own goals beyond...
Business Turnaround
A successful business turnaround is a terrific way to transform an organization that’s stuck, but how big does the plateau have to be before you take action?
And what kind of action is necessary to jumpstart healthier growth and profitability? Today’s business turnaround expert, Rich Allocco, shares his insights.
What You’ll Discover About a Business Turnaround:
* The 3 red ...
Inclusive Leadership
Inclusive leadership can be a sensitive subject.
On one hand we can appreciate the concept intellectually, but emotionally, when someone says we’re not being inclusive it feels like a personal attack because we’re often unaware of how our behavior impacts what others see and hear AND more importantly, how our own culture, experiences, and biases shape what we do and say.
How do we ...
EMPLOYEE CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Employee career advancement is typically thought of a climbing the ladder of success with one promotion after another. But Julie Winkle Giulioni says they’re SO yesterday and offer fresh perspectives on employee career advancement to help your business win the war for talent.
What You’ll Discover About Employee Career Development:
* How changes in the marketplace re...
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Organizational change management can make or break an organization regardless of size.
According to McKinsey & Company 70% of all change initiatives fail because we’re creatures of habit and biologically hardwired to stick with what’s worked for us in the past. It’s not helpful when battling change going into the future, like a pandemic, shifting markets, supp...
BE FUNDABLE
If you want your business to be fundable, to have ready access to money when you need it, there are certain things you need to do.
What are they? (Just in case you ever DO need money from outside sources . . . because believe me that’s NOT the time to find you’re not fundable.)
Luckily, today’s guest, Merrill Chandler is an expert in the field and he explains why your credit score is NOT th...
THRIVE AMID ADVERSITY
How to thrive amid adversity and uncertainty is a perennial question. Add a financial crisis or a health crisis like Covid to the mix and you’ve really got a hot mess on your hands.
So how do you keep your head up and continuously thrive amid uncertainty?
Meridith Elliott Powell, author of Thrive: Strategies to Turn Uncertainty into Competitive Advantage, offers insights...
WORKPLACE TRUST
Workplace trust can ebb and flow like an ocean tide depending on what we say and how we say it. Little things can mean a lot, especially when it comes from someone in a position of authority.
Getting it right means sharpening your soft skills and today’s guest, Anne Baum is going to share some soft skill secrets to help you build workplace trust more consistently.
INCREASE REVENUE
Can you really increase revenue without selling more? How cool would that be? Right?
Today’s Summer Classic guest, Ken Wentworth, also known as Mr. Biz, says yes you can. Listen now to get the inside scoop.
What You’ll Discover About How to Increase Revenue:
* How eliminating the “silent business killer” lets you increase revenue
* Myth of the Loss Leader
* How ...
READ NONVERBAL BODY LANGUAGE
Are you unsure of how to read nonverbal body language at work? Could you be missing out on subtle clues about what someone is really thinking?
Imagine how valuable it would be if you were better at decoding those signals? It could help you be a more effective leader, negotiator, or team player.
It’s powerful indeed, my friends. Today’s Summer Classic guest, Martin Broo...
BUSINESS MOTIVATION
Keeping your business motivation high can be challenging. Sometimes it can feel like pushing a mule up hill. There are days you feel it and, let’s be honest, days you don’t.
How can you keep your business motivation mojo turbocharged?
Today’s Summer Classic guest, Dr Ronald Dalrymple, is the author of The Inner Manager and a licensed psychologist who offers some tips and strategies.
...MAGICAL CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Does creating a magical customer experience sound like a bunch of marketing pie in the sky?
Well, today’s Summer Classic guest is a Disney management alum, and he says that you don’t need a roller coaster or nightly fireworks to create a magical customer experience.
What You’ll Discover About the Magical Customer Experience:
* How to adopt the magical customer ...
EMAIL TIME MANAGEMENT PRODUCTIVITY
Want to tame your inbox and get more email time management productivity? I know . . . it sounds too good to be true.
Unsolicited sales pitches, subscriptions you never signed up for, cc’s on conversations that don’t quit, not to mention the spam. It takes time to sort through that mess every day to keep it from choking your computer altogether.
Productivity...
HOLLYWOOD STRATEGY
Hollywood strategy is a more glamorous version of what every business needs to do – focus on where to play and how to win. But a cohesive plan can often elude us.
Today’s Summer Classic episode features a Hollywood mega entrepreneur with an amazing story whose journey gives us a peek behind the curtain into his secrets for success.
What You’ll Discover About Hollywood Strategy:
UPDATED COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Updated communication skills? Are you kidding me? Why would we need those?
We’ve been communicating just fine up to now, and it’s gotten us where we are.
But is there something more we could do to let our talents and message shine? Today’s guest, communication expert Dianne Chase, has some ideas.
What You’ll Discover About Updated Communication Skills:
PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY
How do you foster more connection and psychological safety in the workplace?
Sounds like a “nice to have,” not a “got to have” thing, but today’s guest, Mike Brcic says it actually plays a huge role in business success. And in today’s episode he explains how to do it.
What You’ll Discover About Psychological Safety:
* The most common misunderstanding about psychological saf...
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Unlocking high performance and motivating high employee engagement isn’t easy.
What kind of people, practices, and management strategies actually work?
Today’s guest, Alicia Parr, has some valuable tips and explains how.
What You’ll Discover About Employee Engagement:
* Why employee engagement is really about “people energy”
* How employee engagement becomes more challenging a...
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