Episodes

Why Your Business Needs a Chief of Staff Interesting isn’t it that U.S. Presidents have a Chief of Staff (COS)? If you are like most people we take the title for granted and really do not think about what they do. Is it really a necessary position? The short answer is…Yes! Then why don’t businesses have a Chief of Staff? Well, in fact,, some do. But many of not most do not. Probably because they fully do not understand what the Chief of Staff role really is. For other people they think if the...

The Art and Science of Building Relationships that Lead to Success in Life and Business What do B2B and B2C have in common? People are the ones who make the decisions. Often there is an erroneous belief that competence, a good product, and professionalism is the most important aspects of business. However, the research suggests something different. And that is that relationships are what drive sales and success. Not just in business, but in life as well. But developing great relationships tha...

A Pathway to Dealing with Mistakes that Will Lead to Success Be honest. How does your business deal with mistakes? Do you punish people for making mistakes? Do you take them behind the verbal woodshed and berate them for their error? If you are like most businesses, there is no room for mistakes. You calculate mistakes as costly. They eat your profits. They cannot be tolerated. And the only corrective measure is to punish them. There is a better and more productive way. And that is embracing ...

From Worrier to Warrior We all face challenges in life. Some are personal and some are professional. Whether you are facing a divorce, death of a loved one, a financial crisis, or your business is flailing and failing. Life can confront us with challenges. How do you handle challenges? Are you a nuclear reactor that explodes and blows up everyone around you? Or perhaps you ignore it and hope it goes away? Or do you have another plan? In this episode of A New Direction Serial Entrepreneur and ...

10 Life Strategies to Make Every Day the Best Day Ever There is one thing that affects your work more than any other thing. Do you know what that is? If you answered your boss, you would be incorrect. If you answered your job, you would be incorrect. The one that affects your work positively or negatively is…wait for it…YOU! The fact of the matter is YOU have the power to change your environments, your job, and how you go into everyday problems professionally or personally. But how do we ...

How to Communicate with People That Don’t Agree with YOU or Who Don’t Think Like YOU Whether in business or your personal life, it doesn’t take long to realize you are going to come in contact with people who don’t think like you do. And when that happens issues are most likely will occur. The fact of the matter is none of us think exactly the same. And sometimes the differences in our thinking can cause conflict and sometimes even rebellion. The question then becomes: Is there a way to have ...

Feeling Stuck Maybe It’s Time to Think Like an Archeologist and Jump Start Your Career What do an archeologist and finding your career have in common? Turns out quite a bit. Like an archaeologist you are going to have to have a vision for your career. You are going to have to create your own map. You are going to have to dig and find artifacts (like your strengths, interests, gifts, and abilities) that you can make sense of what you have and where you may be going. You have to have a sense of...

How is Leadership When You are in a Crisis? At some point or another ever business will find themselves in a crisis. Whether that is from inside the organization, such as a leadership change or mismanagement. Other times it can be a surprise, where all of a sudden an outside circumstance such as COVID puts pressure on the business to make changes to survive. And sometimes mergers can happen that shift the culture so dramatically that create confusion, uncertainty and volatility. What is the r...

The Family Flywheel: The Secret Business Principles Successful Families Use to Create Sustained Wealth and Happiness I have read and heard it said, “there are no business problems, there are only personal problems that infiltrate your business.” Stop and think about it for a moment. As I have come to learn from personal experience and through coaching many clients…”if your life’s a mess you limit your success.” Can you apply business principles to your life and family and visa versa? The answer...

4 Types of Leaders and Becoming a Positive Influence Leader Let’s be honest. Success does not happen in isolation. In fact, if we look back there has been someone or many people that have had a positive influence on where you are today. It could have been a parent, teacher, coach, consultant, manager, supervisor, or perhaps a rale model you have never met that you took on some qualities and intertwined them with your own personality to help get you where you are today. Those people are Positi...

The Fastest Way to Profitability is Pricing Pricing your product or service can be a challenge. Often times businesses will spend tremendous amounts of money trying to price right only to go with a gut feeling about the right price. What is more most of the research on right pricing focuses on learning from their current customers and fails to address the question or the answer as to why prospective customers are not buying. Sure, there are pricing formulas that are espoused in business school...

Raising Your Conflict-IQ and Making a Bigger Impact on Your Business. Conflict is all around us. You don’t have to look for it, because it will find you. And successful leaders today are going to have to skills to deal with it. If you don’t have very good skills in conflict your company will not achieve success, lose productivity and instead it will implode because of it. We have all heard of IQ, also known as the intelligence quotient. Some of you may have heard of the more psychologically re...

Are You in a Rut in Your Life and Work? Are you going through the motions of life? Have you been checking all the boxes you were told to achieve? Do find it seems so meaningless? Does it seem that what you thought looked like financial freedom and bliss has become a job jail, bound by golden handcuffs? How’s your family life? Or do you even have one? How about your fitness? Finances? How’s your future? Is it a blur? And have you lost faith? If any of this sounds like you, please know you are ...

Sales is a Mindset, And that Mindset Starts with What You Believe About Yourself and the Taking the Right Actions If you are interested in sales or consider yourself a veteran of the profession, the question of being successful is ever illusive. The fact is you are only as good as your last sale, and no matter how many sales you close yesterday has no guarantees if you will sell anything today or tomorrow. Sales is not an easy profession. In fact, no other professional will hear the word “no” ...

How to Develop Your Brand and Become a Brand Renegade In today’s fast-paced and competitive business landscape, establishing a strong brand has become more crucial than ever before. It serves as the foundation upon which a company’s success is built. Whether you’re launching a startup, a small business, or an entrepreneurial venture, understanding the power of branding can be the key to unlocking remarkable achievements. In this, episode of A New Direction, “The Tattooed Millionaire” Sean Dow...

Building a Team is Not Easy, and It Must Be Intentional If you have ever tried to build a team from the ground up, then you know first hand the difficulties and challenges you can face. And in today’s business environment building a team can even be more challenging as more and more teams are some combination of remote and in office a “hybrid” if you will. What are the principles when trying to build a new team? On this episode of A New Direction Chief Potential Officer of Kevin Eikenberry gro...

Using Better Communication to Overcome Conflict in Every Area of Our Life and Business We live in a world of a communication divide. Just turn on or read the news and we read how there is conflict. One side says something they believe in the other side digs in their heels and shout back what they believe in. No matter where we turn what we really here is “they are wrong” and “we are right”. There is very little civility in differences of opinion. Even with those who work in government will res...

Leave Your Job and Create a Career with Purpose You are at a party or event on a Sunday afternoon. You are enjoying the company around you. It is filled with laughter and enjoyment. Then the party starts to wind down. People are leaving and then it hits you… You have work on Monday. But the truth is you are dreading Monday. Sure, you are good at your job. The money is good, but you really don’t want to go back to that job. Money is the only reason you are going to work, and even the money has ...

How to Get Real Accountability in Your Teams: Conscious Accountability We all say we want accountability. But the truth is the way that accountability is practiced is more transactional that relational. We often use power and threats to ensure accountability. Hold on. Stop. Think for a second is that really accountability or is that some form of external rewards and punishments for getting people what we want them to do? Now let’s think about this. In your closest relationships, I mean with th...

Making Remote Work Really Work In the Workplace Remote work is here to stay. More and more employees have a desire to WFH (Work From Home) since the pandemic practically forced employers to at the very least have had to adopt at the very least hybrid remote work conditions. Still, many employers have struggled with the idea of remote work and was more some have difficulty in making remote work…work. The biggest issue for many employers is how do you manage remote work employees. Questions like...

Relationships are difficult, but they don’t have to be as difficult as we make them. It doesn’t matter what type of relationship you are in. Personal relationships, business relationships, they all get complicated from time to time. And for most of us we get confused as to why. What is more we seem to get stuck and we cannot seem to find a way to undo the tangled relationship mess that we are not even sure how we got into in the first place. As if relationships were not hard enough, then throu...

Are You Looking for a New Career? Ready. Set. Get Hired! If you take a look at what is reported you would think getting a career position is easy. Well if you are one of those searching to get hired, you and I both know that it isn’t as easy as the statistics want to make it out to be. The fact is since the pandemic hiring has been more selective and tricky. But also more business are also now cutting back on hiring especially for the most desirable and well paying positions. So what is the an...

How Leaders Keep Their Employees Engaged and Productive Let’s be honest. We have seen more and more employees simply quit the workplace. Other employees are just doing enough to get a paycheck and disappear otherwise known as the “quiet quitter”. Research has demonstrated clearly that employee quitting costs companies across the U.S. between $450 and $500 Billion annually. What can you do about it as a leader? In this episode of A New Direction, we talk with award winning author and team exper...

How to Take Any Idea and Make it Successful in 5 Steps There is no doubt that when it comes to starting a business or just a business idea, there are many challenges. The one we concern ourselves the most is money. However, before you think about money have you considered who will buy your product or service? How do you get people to know about your business before you business even begins? The fact is you need a business strategy to improve your success in the most economic, efficient, and pai...