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Business Confidential Now with Hanna Hasl-Kelchner

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 Empowerment in Business and How to Transform Tragedy into Stunning Success | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:10

Empowerment in business can be a formidable force. But when you’re feeling stuck in your career or your business, and especially when tragedy strikes, empowerment can feel out of reach. Hear the remarkable backstory of SmartFem and it’s founder Lea Woodford, author of Lead, Share, Empower and the role empowerment played in her company’s success.  WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT EMPOWERMENT IN BUSINESS:  * Why business empowerment is a critical skill for every executive, manager, and entrepreneur. * How business empowerment contributed to the SmartFem success story. * The 2 things you need to do to keep business empowerment fueled. * How to empower your team and yourself. * Why following your passion isn’t enough for staying empowered and what you need instead. * And MUCH more. GUEST: Lea Woodford helps you think bigger and bolder about your business and your career. She is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of the SmartFem Media Group, a full service digital marketing and advertising company. Lea has an amazing career, with extensive experience as a business consultant and entrepreneur as well as a publicist, columnist, and radio and TV personality. As if that weren’t enough, somewhere along the way she decided the only way she could make a difference and empower women was to create her own magazine that bridges the online community with the local community. So, she created SmartFem. And because she is passionate about working with young professionals, Lea makes sure that SmartFem helps create opportunities for interns and graduates from ASU’s Walter Cronkite School. Besides being a media expert, Lea is also a top speaker. Lea motivates her audience in the same manner she motivates her team. She encourages you to “find your voice” and she shares her ups and downs as well as her successes and failures – to give your audience a fresh perspective on marketing, leadership, innovation and customer service. It’s all about empowering you to be more and do more. Actually, her most recent book,

 Free Business Contract Forms Pros and Cons | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 10:25

Free business contract forms downloaded from the Internet sound like the perfect solution to high priced law firms. But are they too good to be true? Join host Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, author of The Business Guide to Legal Literacy, and discover what you need to know before you use them. WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT FREE BUSINESS CONTRACT FORMS:  * The 4 advantages of free business contract forms.  * Why the cheapest solution isn’t always the least expensive.  * The biggest drawback of using free business contract forms.  * Why free business contract forms don’t necessarily reduce legal fees.  * And MUCH more. HOST: Hanna Hasl-Kelchner empowers smart executives, managers, and entrepreneurs with big picture thinking and the legal literacy advantage. She is an ivy-league trained business expert, entrepreneur and recovering S&P 500 business lawyer. In the course of her 30+ year legal career she has written and negotiated thousands of contracts, directed hundreds of lawsuits, and managed multi-million dollar legal budgets. She knows where the pitfalls are.   Her mission is to help you access the business information you need to succeed and to sidestep the speedbumps and landmines hiding in plain view.  That’s why today she spends her time interviewing the fabulous guests you hear on Business Confidential Now and providing leadership development to executives, managers and entrepreneurs. Hanna helps them sharpen their risk management radar, reduce legal costs, and leverage legal knowledge for a competitive business advantage. Hanna accomplishes this through her public speaking, consulting, training, and coaching work at Business M.O., LLC and its education division, the Legal Leverage® Academy, using methods honed while teaching at two top tier MBA programs (Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and the University of Virginia’s Darden School). She makes learning simple, easy, and fun.   Hanna is a best-selling author whose ground-breaking book,

 How to Successfully Master Fast-Paced Learning | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 27:50

Fast-paced learning is a must if you want your business to thrive. But how are you supposed to accomplish that when confronted with a daily avalanche of information?  Hear what leadership readiness expert, Erika Andersen, has to say about fast-paced and high payoff learning, next, on Business Confidential Now. WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT FAST-PACED LEARNING:  * Why “being bad” is essential to fast-paced learning and effective leadership. * How to reconcile “being bad” with being responsible in our jobs. * 4 skills necessary to excel at fast-paced learning. * The competence trap and what to do about it. * How self-talk can sabotage fast-paced learning. * The difference between fast-paced learning and high-payoff learning. * And MUCH more. GUEST: Erika Andersen helps forward thinking business leaders prepare for the future. She is the founding partner of Proteus, a coaching, consulting, and training firm that focuses on leader readiness. Over the past 30 years, Erika has developed a reputation for creating approaches to learning and business-building tailored to her clients’ challenges, goals, and culture. She and her colleagues at Proteus focus help leaders at all levels get ready and stay ready to meet whatever the future might bring. Besides being a consultant and advisor to the CEOs and executives of corporations such as NBCUniversal, Facebook, Hyatt Hotels Corporation, GE, HULU, and Madison Square Garden, Erika also shares her insights and expertise about managing people and creating successful businesses by speaking to corporations, non-profit groups and national associations. A prolific author, Erika is one of the most popular leadership bloggers at Forbes.com. She has also written a number of books, the most recent one is called Be Bad First—Get Good at Things FAST to Stay Ready for the Future. Erika’s books and learning guides have been translated into Spanish, Turkish, German, French, Russian and Chinese, and she has contributed to and been quoted in a variety of national publications, including the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and The New York Times. RELATED RESOURCES: Contact Erika and connect with her on Facebook, and Twitter. Also be sure to check out Erika’s other books:...

 Strategy Execution Tips to Achieve Higher Performance | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:54

Strategy execution, the ability to turn plans into action, is often easier said than done. If implementing your business plans takes three times longer than expected and costs more than expected, you’re not alone. Discover a better way to achieve more success with our next guest, Gary Tomlinson, co-author of Discovering Execution: The Key to High Performance Organizations.   WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT STRATEGY EXECUTION:  * What better strategy execution can mean for your organization. * 2 essential questions you need to ask yourself before you can master execution as a business competency. * 3 critical factors you need to pay attention to if you want to improve strategy execution. * The most counter-intuitive leadership responsibility for more business success. * The leadership challenge of strategy execution on the individual contributor level. * Why commitment to strategy execution matters more than anything else. * And MUCH more. GUEST: Gary Tomlinson helps organizations bridge the huge gap between business planning and implementation by showing them how to master strategy execution as a competency. Gary is a founding member of the Keyne Institute, where he employs the KeyneLink process to help clients successfully clarify and achieve their strategic objectives year after year. Gary is also a consultant, motivational speaker, educator and serial entrepreneur, having founded six successful businesses. As a result, Gary is well versed in the areas of entrepreneurship, leadership, organizational execution, and communication. As a matter of fact, Gary regularly speaks on those subjects. He has been lecturing at North Carolina State University’s College of Management for more than 28 years. More recently, Gary has taken distilled his best tips and strategies on how to bridge the gap between business planning and implementation into a new book: Discovering Execution: The Key to High Performance Organizations.

 Hiring the Right Employee Made Easy for Busy Entrepreneurs | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:29

Hiring the right employee can be a challenge if you’re looking to build a high performance team. It’s especially challenging if you’re in a start-up or massive scale-up phase. Join host Hanna Hasl-Kelchner as she welcomes performance coach and serial entrepreneur Stan Peake to discuss how to make the process easier for busy entrepreneurs who can’t afford to make mistakes.  WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT HIRING THE RIGHT EMPLOYEE:  * The role of business performance in establishing criteria for hiring the right employee.  * 3 types of interviews you need for identifying and hiring the right employee. * How to identify a potentially toxic employee when interviewing. * Critical questions to ask during the interview process. * How to access the right talent pool to build a high performance team. * How to set expectations during the hiring and onboarding process. * And MUCH more. GUEST: Stan Peake helps values-based leaders live their business dreams through INSite Performance Coaching LTD. Stan says he was born to be a coach and help others unleash their potential. A serial entrepreneur, Stan’s first foray into running his own business came at the age of 21 when he started his own personal training business. Ten years later he bought into a second business that went through a merger and was later acquired by a larger holding company. Always moving forward, Stan’s current venture, INSite Performance Coaching, has helped businesses in a variety of different industries, ranging from fitness and health to legal, construction, tourism, energy, finance, fashion, and fundraising. Stan is also the co-author of Swim Upstream: Unsubscribing to Conventional Wisdom. RELATED RESOURCES: Contact Stan and connect with him on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. SUBSCRIBE, RATE AND REVIEW: Subscribing is easy and lets you have instant access to the latest tactics, strategies and tips.  Become a Preferred Listener or subscribe to the show through your favorite podcast feed.  Rating and reviewing the show helps us grow our audience and allows us to bring you more of the information you need to succeed from our high powered guests. Download ♥ Subscribe ♥ Listen ♥ Learn ♥ Share ♥ Review ♥ Enjoy ASK YOUR QUESTIONS OR RECOMMEND A TOPIC OR GUEST: * E-mail feedback (at) BusinessConfidentialRadio.com CONNECT WITH ME:           DISCLOSURE: This post may contain links to products to products on Amazon.com with which I have an affiliate relationship. I may receive commissions or bonuses from your actions ...

 Amazingly Easy Ways to Create Awful Business Agreements | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 11:07

Business agreements can make or break your organization. Yet it’s amazing the number of self-destructive habits many executives, managers and entrepreneurs engage in.  Join host Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, author of The Business Guide to Legal Literacy. Discover the common deal making habits that can sabotage your business success and ability to build wealth.  WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT BUSINESS AGREEMENTS:  * 5 common habits that can wreak havoc with business agreements. * How faulty assumptions impact business agreements. * Why ignoring confidentiality and your intellectual property rights can be fatal. * Why business agreements that are treated like an inconvenience are a joke. * And MUCH more. HOST: Hanna Hasl-Kelchner empowers smart executives, managers, and entrepreneurs with big picture thinking and the legal literacy advantage. She is an ivy-league trained business expert, entrepreneur and recovering S&P 500 business lawyer. In the course of her 30+ year legal career she has written and negotiated thousands of contracts, directed hundreds of lawsuits, and managed multi-million dollar legal budgets. She knows what buttons to push to get results.  Her mission is to help you access the business information you need to succeed and to sidestep the speedbumps and landmines hiding in plain view.  That’s why today she spends her time interviewing the fabulous guests you hear on Business Confidential Now and providing leadership development to executives, managers and entrepreneurs. Hanna helps them sharpen their risk management radar, reduce legal costs, and leverage legal knowledge for a competitive business advantage. Hanna accomplishes this through her public speaking, consulting, training, and coaching work at Business M.O., LLC and its education division, the Legal Leverage® Academy, using methods honed while teaching at two top tier MBA programs (Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and the University of Virginia’s Darden School). She makes learning simple, easy, and fun.   Hanna is a best-selling author whose ground-breaking book,

 How to Use Business Contracts to Improve Cash Flow | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 15:08

If you’d like to improve cash flow without increasing your sales or marketing costs, join host Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, author of The Business Guide to Legal Literacy, and discover business contract solutions that are easy to implement and that get results. WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT HOW TO IMPROVE CASH FLOW:  * 2 ways contracts improve cash flow and help engineer a healthier bottom line. * Why verbal agreements are tough to enforce. * Common contract excuses that don’t hold water. * 4 specific contract terms that can improve cash flow. * How to win the Battle of the Forms. * And MUCH more. HOST: Hanna Hasl-Kelchner empowers smart executives, managers, and entrepreneurs with big picture thinking and the legal literacy advantage. She is an ivy-league trained business expert, entrepreneur and recovering S&P 500 business lawyer. In the course of her 30+ year legal career she has written and negotiated thousands of contracts, directed hundreds of lawsuits, and managed multi-million dollar legal budgets. She knows what buttons to push to get results.  Her mission is to help you access the business information you need to succeed and to sidestep the speedbumps and landmines hiding in plain view.  That’s why today she spends her time interviewing the fabulous guests you hear on Business Confidential Now and providing leadership development to executives, managers and entrepreneurs. Hanna helps them sharpen their risk management radar, reduce legal costs, and leverage legal knowledge for a competitive business advantage. Hanna accomplishes this through her public speaking, consulting, training, and coaching work at Business M.O., LLC and its education division, the Legal Leverage® Academy, using methods honed while teaching at two top tier MBA programs (Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and the University of Virginia’s Darden School). She makes learning simple, easy, and fun.   Hanna is a best-selling author whose ground-breaking book,

 4 Business Lawsuit Mistakes Entrepreneurs Never Want to Make | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 16:37

A business lawsuit is a financial and emotional rollercoaster. It’s no fun. But there are four common mistakes entrepreneurs are prone to make that can make it even worse. Join host Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, author of The Business Guide to Legal Literacy, and discover what they are and what you should be doing instead.  WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT A BUSINESS LAWSUIT:  * 4 ways entrepreneurs increase the cost and pain associated with a business lawsuit. * How even Judge Judy fell into a common business lawsuit trap. * Why few business lawsuits are truly frivolous. * The goal of every smart entrepreneur when managing a business lawsuit. * How insurance can let you down when you’re facing a business lawsuit.  * And MUCH more. HOST: Hanna Hasl-Kelchner empowers smart executives, managers, and entrepreneurs with big picture thinking and the legal literacy advantage. She is an ivy-league trained business expert, entrepreneur and recovering S&P 500 business lawyer. In the course of her legal career she managed hundreds of lawsuits and multi-million dollar legal budgets. She knows where the bodies get buried. What racks up the costs and how to chop them down to size. Her mission is to help you access the business information you need to succeed and to sidestep the speedbumps and landmines hiding in plain view.  That’s why today she spends her time interviewing the fabulous guests you hear on Business Confidential Now as well as provide leadership development to executives, managers and entrepreneurs on risk management techniques and how to reduce legal costs. Hanna accomplishes this through her public speaking, consulting, training, and coaching work at Business M.O., LLC and its education division, the Legal Leverage® Academy, using methods honed while teaching at two top tier MBA programs (Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and the University of Virginia’s Darden School). She makes learning simple, easy, and fun.   Hanna is a best-selling author whose ground-breaking book,

 How to Name a Business or Product and Not Create an Identity Crisis | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 14:59

How to name a business or product is challenging. Join host Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, author of The Business Guide to Legal Literacy, to examine the pros and cons of how to name a business or product and discover the factors that can lead to a serious identity crisis. WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT HOW TO NAME A BUSINESS OR PRODUCT:  * The 8 most common ways to name a business or product. * The pros and cons of common business and product naming methods. * The best ways to avoid an identity crisis when picking a name. * The way to turn what you name a business or product into an incredibly powerful marketing tool. * And MUCH more. HOST: Hanna Hasl-Kelchner empowers smart executives, managers, and entrepreneurs with big picture thinking and the legal literacy advantage. She is an ivy-league trained business expert, entrepreneur and recovering S&P 500 business lawyer.  Her mission is to help you access the business information you need to succeed and to sidestep the speedbumps and landmines hiding in plain view.  That’s why today she spends her time interviewing the fabulous guests you hear on Business Confidential Now as well as provide leadership development to executives, managers and entrepreneurs. Hanna accomplishes this through her public speaking, consulting, training, and coaching work at Business M.O., LLC and its education division, the Legal Leverage® Academy, using methods honed while teaching at two top tier MBA programs (Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and the University of Virginia’s Darden School). She makes learning simple, easy, and fun.   Hanna is a best-selling author whose ground-breaking book, The Business Guide to Legal Literacy: What Every Manager Should Know About the Law. It’s been cited by Wikipedia to highlight the bottom line value of legal literacy. She also the co-author of the best-seller

 How to Target Business Development and Find Your Ideal Customer | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 31:10

Business development is at the intersection of sales and marketing. But how do you identify your ideal customer or client . . .  the one that’s ready, willing and able to buy from you? Join host Hanna Hasl-Kelchner as she welcomes award winning marketer, Steve Napolitan, author of Capture Clients, Close Deals who has some answers for you. WHAT YOU’LL DISCOVER ABOUT BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT:  * How laser focused business development increases your success in a shorter period of time. * How your vision, mission and values influence business development. * How your ideal customer/client differs from other customers/clients. * Why finding the right customer/client makes everything else in your business better. * 3 simple steps to help you focus your business development to target your ideal customer/client. * How startups and small businesses can get paid for customers/clients they don’t sell to. *  How laser targeting your business development increases the value and efficiency of your marketing budget. * And MUCH more. GUEST: Steve Napolitan helps you grab the attention of your perfect client, lead them to your product or service and increase your sales. He does it using his Client Capture Process, a scalable, customizable system that he says has helped his clients make millions. Steve focuses on bridging the gap between a company’s brand and their target markets by providing innovative marketing and communications with measurable effectiveness. Steven has been recognized by national media as a pioneer in the new media marketing.  He has produced award-winning content, including hundreds of advertising, marketing campaigns and internal promotions for companies such as Apple, Intel, Charles Schwab and Nestle, to name a few. His branding and storytelling talent even extends to films and television. Interestingly, his last TV Series, Livin Loud, was picked-up by MTV Australia for Primetime broadcast and sold into other markets around the world. Steve recent book,

 Professional Business Networking Strategies You Can’t Afford to Ignore | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 34:39

Professional Business Networking Strategies You Can’t Afford to Ignore

 How to Get More Sales Credibility and Boost Business Growth | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 30:19

How to Get More Sales Credibility and Boost Business Growth

 Effective Employee Development Made Easy and Affordable | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 32:21

Effective Employee Development Made Easy and Affordable

 How to Improve Customer Experience Management for Stellar Results | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:35

How to Improve Customer Experience Management for Stellar Results

 How to Improve Findability and Turbocharge Website Performance | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 35:05

How to Improve Findability and Turbocharge Website Performance

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