Virtual Frontier

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 most valuable skills you need to work smart, trimmer, and grow a digital business that is easy to sustain and lets you work virtually anywhere.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 most valuable skills you need to work smart, trimmer, and grow a digital business that is easy to sustain and lets you work from virtually anywhere.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 most valuable skills you need to work smart, trimmer, and grow a digital business that is easy to sustain and lets you work from virtually anywhere.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 most valuable skills you need to work smart, trimmer, and grow a digital business that is easy to sustain and lets you work from virtually anywhere.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 most valuable skills you need to work smart, trimmer, and grow a digital business that is easy to sustain and lets you work from virtually anywhere.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 easily build freelance teams. We have selected best practices and the most valuable skills you need to work smart, trimmer, and grow a digital business that is easy to sustain and lets you work from virtually anywhere.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 easily build freelance teams. We have selected best practices and the most valuable skills you need to work smart, trimmer, and grow a digital business that is easy to sustain and lets you work from virtually anywhere.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 most valuable skills you need to work smart, trimmer, and grow a digital business that is easy to sustain and lets you work from virtually anywhere.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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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.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 simplicity, excellence, and courage, she helps other leaders lay the foundation for creating high-performing teams. Let's see how she accomplishes that.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 complex, but knowing the key elements of a successful team structure will simplify things. Find out how to implement these elements during this session.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 incoming information you have to manage, or do you sometimes feel that nothing works without you? Then let's talk shop. Today in this episode, I ask Manuel about the basics of products or services. What are the benefits for the business and the clients, the first steps forward, productive offers, and what pitfalls you might expect on the way? So listening to this episode will help you to productize your business and reclaim your entrepreneurial freedom and independence.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 happiness and productivity. But hey, let's take a step back and look again at the title Age of Loneliness. Is loneliness something you can relate to? When have you felt lonely the last time? Studies show that many do. After two years where many of us have lived partially or sometimes even in complete confinement, it is time to reconnect with the people we love and work with. If you have spent the last two years lonely and you wonder how to get out of this sickening, dark spiral, this episode is especially for you.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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, and how that will help you achieve your business goals without losing your mind on the way. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 will also see some fundamental misconceptions when we think and talk, probably too much about the term productivity. Sam is a great person to talk to about those topics as she has written two bestselling books on how to get things done and how little but constant changes can have a huge impact on your life.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 assumptions on commitment and availability, mixed up with some false beliefs about reliability and stability lead to these huge piles of job openings. Looking at your company hiring demands you might be confronted with a long list of openings, or worst, where you have openings that are lurking around on the job board for months. Let's be frank. Those openings are not only open on your job site. They are also reflecting the gaps of knowledge present in your organization. If you miss your hiring goals, you don't end up building all the things you need to build, or they move much slower and might lose relevance quickly. So, today we are going to have another look at solutions on how to hire skilled freelancers that you need so urgently.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 room, with a catchy title, hold on… "The Living Room Leader. Leadership Lessons for a hybrid future". Well, the title caught my attention so I reached out to Debbie and invited her to the show. Today we are going to talk about learnings from the pandemic and her book, why mental health issues are at a peak, and what patterns she recognizes looking at the future of talent acquisition and work.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 everyone can be unstressed and productive without the notion of feeling overwhelmed by the sheer amount of work piling up. Take a deep breath, take some time just for yourself and learn how to create free space in your personal and professional life.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 model and outsourcing, and of course, we'll also get to the possible benefits.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 felt that Anwar would be a great person to talk to. Find out how companies can become hubs for entrepreneurs and how the nine entrepreneurisms can help you to not only survive rather than rise to new frontiers. ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 content creators? What do we need to get right in the first place, to create content that impacts? Tune in and find out what are practical steps you can apply right away without big budgets.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 to aviation where he is the Owner of a consulting firm that specializes in safety management, also in film and television, and as a speaker, author, and coach. One thing all his roles had in common was promoting and encouraging others to be heard and understood. Those terms are becoming increasingly important in a world of work that is so interconnected and where on the other side people's attention span is constantly decreasing.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 circumstances, the growth of the company, and the surrounding environment. Let's be blunt and recognize first, we are most probably still running in a golden hamster wheel. How we can break out of these vicious cycles and gain back the freedom we were looking for in the first place? ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 room, with a catchy title, hold on… "The Living Room Leader. Leadership Lessons for a hybrid future". Well, the title caught my attention so I reached out to Debbie and invited her to the show. Today we are going to talk about learnings from the pandemic and her book, why mental health issues are at a peak, and what patterns she recognizes looking at the future of talent acquisition and work.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 actually help you to close gaps when they appear right away and not after months of analyzing and looking for the right talent.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 burnout is a leadership problem, what are young talents looking for at the workplace, his outlook on the future of work, lifelong learning, and the importance of community.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 to build a scalable and resilient business model? These and more questions we will tackle.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 aid responders for physical accidents but also for mental health issues. But this is still going to be a long way, as in most organizations mental health issues are blacked out whenever possible and hidden on the individual level out of fear that a mental health issue could affect the career or reputation.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 their work. Today we are going to discover what your organization can do to really crush it in 2022 hiring remote without boundaries.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 her crystal clear way of communicating and her commitment to helping business leaders to focus only on results forgetting about all the nonsense bullshit that is surrounding us day in day out.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬

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 clients but your dream clients, and why it takes a portion of consistency and patient, like with the most things in life.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 organization. How to close the gaps and create an environment where hiring the right people becomes a matter of days rather than months you'll find out in this session.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 difficult situations in complex circumstances, getting to the core of problems up to a consensual termination of the business relation.▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 

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 company.

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? 

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 mentorship can serve you the best and where to find mentorship. 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 business that is easy to sustain you can work on from virtually anywhere.Visit FLASH HUB  to get free access to the virtual business builder training. Learn how to build, grow, and scale your business with virtual teams and global freelancers in this free training.For our international community. This is an English episode and you can find the transcript of this conversation now in more than 20 languages, on our Blog, at HappyScribe Public, or watch the video with subtitles for this episode on our YouTube Channel. You'll find all the links in the show notes below.  

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 business that is easy to sustain you can work on from virtually anywhere.Visit FLASH HUB  to get free access to the virtual business builder training. Learn how to build, grow, and scale your business with virtual teams and global freelancers in this free training.For our international community. This is an English episode and you can find the transcript of this conversation now in more than 20 languages, on our Blog, at HappyScribe Public, or watch the video with subtitles for this episode on our YouTube Channel. You'll find all the links in the show notes below.  

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 and then we can get probably more clarity on why there are actually so few really high-performing teams out there and what could you do to change that within your teams.

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, it is an ongoing challenge to adapt the company structures to the constantly changing circumstances and conditions.

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 better have a look at things we can actually influence in our interpersonal relationships, and start removing demotivators, before trying to mess around with the minds of the people around us. Every week one specific business trend is examined and explained in compact and in detail. 

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 International Coach Federation, she belongs to the top 3 percent of leadership coaches worldwide. With her ThoughfullyFit model, she helps leaders and teams stop wasting time and energy dealing with frustrating people's problems.

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, burning a lot of money and wasting resources, that a good business growth strategy is essential for the sustainable success and growth of any organization. Every week one specific business trend is examined and explained in compact and in detail. 

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? Successfulcross-functional teams can help meet organizational goals and ultimately, more success.Every week one specific business trend is examined and explained in compact and in detail. 

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 up and see what the next CEO Q&A session here at the Virtual Frontier can do for you.Every week one specific business trend is examined and explained in compact and in detail. 

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 leader in your daily practice? These and more questions were discussed in this special #AskTheCEO Q&A sessionWhat helps you to stay focused? When do you get distracted and what are you doing about it? We really do care so share your thoughts in the comments or drop us a message.Every week one specific business trend is examined and explained in compact and in detail. 

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 with the changing dynamics in your teams? Probably you are an experienced leader but you wonder how you can improve your leadership style while working remotely? Then, this episode is especially for you. Every week one specific business trend is examined and explained in compact and in detail. 

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 individuals, can do to best prepare for the future.

Every week one specific business trend is examined and explained in compact and in detail. 

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 can lead actually to a situation where we do not feel to have everything to make a wise and fast decision. And we also draw some strategies on how to overcome this paralyzer of not taking decisions at the right time and with the required speed for the international community. This is an English episode, and you can find the transcript of this conversation now in more than 20 languages on our block at happy scribe public or watch the video with subtitles for this episode on our YouTube channel. 

Every week one specific business trend is examined and explained in compact and in detail.