My Job Here Is Done - Career Success Podcast
If you're the savvy and motivated entrepreneur - or - the hard-working and driven professional intrapreneur who is climbing the career ladder, this fast 20-minute podcast is just for you. Join business pros and hosts Dave and Kelli for entertaining and valuable street-smart advice on propelling career success or your own business forward.
Episodes
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? The buzzword “quiet quitting” was coined during the pandemic when overworked employees felt underappreciated and struggled to find ways to achieve work/life balance. We talk about this trend and how a similar leadership trend, #missingmanager, affects the workforce and your business.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* What is “Quiet Quitting,” and why is it happening
* What are #missingmanagers, and how do t...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Finding solutions to large problems or big goals is greatly simplified by using the One Percent Rule of tackling one small piece at a time to make the goal or problem more easily achievable.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* What is the One Percent Rule
* How to apply the One Percent Rule to business or your personal life
* Examples of how some famous people describe the One Percent Rule to achieve success
*...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Rules. Why we need them, why they are important to our leadership, career, and business growth, and why people generally don’t like rules.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* Where rules started (hint - pretty long ago)
* Some of our first learned rules
* Meep Meep (the rules of the Roadrunner)
* A better way to communicate rules that help people follow them
* 111-year-old business rules that remain super-valid t...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? There are many benefits to communicating with empathy both for yourself and your employees - and it’s free! You already know how to be empathetic, so bring that to work and enjoy the benefits of empathetic leadership while you propel your career or business forward.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* Resources available to learn about being an empathetic leader
* The difference between sympathy and empathy...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? The competition is not scary, and we explain why in this episode. Your competition is merely other people with a range of competencies. Most of us grew up thinking certain jobs or careers were for special people only. Not true! Don’t allow fear to hold you back in your career decisions or choices.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* There are no careers or jobs reserved for special people only
* There is...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Speaking to others clearly and effectively, in a way to make your point simple and memorable, is an art of communicating. Conveying messages to your business team in a concise fashion means better career success and faster business growth. Think, “One Thought to a Rap” - we explain it all in this podcast episode.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* Kelli insists on embarrassing Dave by digging up some of his ...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Recessions and the adverse effect they can have on unprepared businesses. Thankfully, on average, recessions last less than a year and rear their ugly head only once every 5-6 years. Recessions are always temporary, and survivable, but you plan way ahead. Plus, that planning will help your business in the long run and during the good times too.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Comp Creep - Runaway Pay - Compensation plans that hurt your company and your employees. We ask … How can a person earn a $100K annual salary for being a receptionist in a small company? We show you how it happened, why it shouldn’t happen, and how to fix it before it happens in your business.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* Meet Archie and April, a couple we met on the beach who inspired this episode
* O...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? The old verbiage of the customer is always right and the customer comes first can actually damage your business, employee morale, and customer satisfaction. Businesses must determine whether potential customers are a good fit for them and if the business is a good fit for the customer for both to be successful. When employees come first, they will delight customers who will feel as if they come fir...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Employee feedback and why it’s often sugar-coated or not fully honest; and by honest we mean brutally honest. It’s essential for leadership career success and business growth for employees to not fear anything when asked to provide input and opinion, but often they feel there will be consequences if they speak out. We look at this problem in detail.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* Trust in Leadership and i...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Doing more with less is actually Doing More With Stress. COVID forced us to make what we thought would be temporary changes, and our teams stretched to adapt - they did a great job! But what we thought was temporary now seems permanent and it’s taking a toll on mental health and promoting the Great Resignation. It’s now Doing More With Stress and we need to fix it.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* The diffe...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Working for yourself. We think that many people are very capable of pulling this off, but some don’t naturally have what it takes. We talk about how you can see if you’re ready to take the next step in self-employment for your career success by taking a simple assessment during this podcast.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* Why is working for yourself getting more popular?
* Some stats from the US Bureau of ...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Pissed off customers and why great customer service is essential to career success and business growth. We look at why customer service fails to deliver so often and some ways you can use to do a better job. We look at the metrics of CAC, LTV, and Churn, and learn about the terror of a customer who invokes “Plan T.”
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* A story about Kelli’s recent bad experience with a software...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Asynchronous Work, also known as Async Work, is a fast-growing and popular way to engage your teams and workforce. As you listen, it may initially sound like this change won’t work for your business, but give it a chance - we think we’ll help change your mind. Async, which has elements of LEAN and AGILE methodologies is a great new process of workflow for career success and business growth - and how...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? The SPIFF - is it an Incentive to fail? SPIFF, SPIF, or SPIV are all the same form of a short-term bonus paid to employees that may be used inadvertently to cover up a bigger problem. SPIFFs can be distracting to your leadership career success and business growth. On this podcast episode, we have two stories to tell that are all about that SPIFF and a suggestion for an alternative.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE ...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Workplace Bullying. It’s a growing problem in business that often hides in plain sight and is more than just an employee problem. We share a troubling story about this, discuss the current state of the employment laws, and offer some unique suggestions and resources to help mitigate bullying in the workplace.
WHAT TOPICS DO WE COVER?
* Remember when bullying was just a kid’s thing?
* Some troubling sta...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Overusing tools like PowerPoint in your presentations. Most people use these tools as a crutch thinking that it helps the presentation. Sometimes they do, but often they distract from the message. Career success and business growth rely on you being YOU! You are the star of the show, and you don’t always need Mother’s Little Helper to shine through. We show you a few ways to break your addiction.
WHA...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Work-Life Balance - what is it exactly? Is the word “balance” confusing us into thinking that the hours we spend working and the other hours we spend in life should equal each other? Yes, many people believe that, and unfortunately, it’s not that easy. In fact, the math doesn’t work out at all. You can’t have a work-life balance if you try to calculate a formula for it, but you can have a work-life ...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? Listening to your inner voice. Do you ever get a hunch? Sure you do - everyone does. It’s that intuition-like sensation deep inside of you that tries to sway your decision … and then the hunch you had was right! Maybe you’ve said … I have a bad feeling about this … and got out of trouble in the nick of time - that’s also a hunch. Hunches are not guesses, they are rooted in fact and should be taken ...
WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT TODAY? We go letter by letter through the CRM. If you work with customers in sales, support, or literally in any fashion, you likely use a CRM, and as your business grows you’ll depend on ‘C’ - the Customer data portion of the system. You also rely on the ‘M’ for Management of the information stored, producing reports, and reminding you of important customer-related events. But your career success and adva...
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