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As we approach the end of another Financial Year end how have you fared? Have you met your goals? Reached your targets? Adjusted your plan through out the year? When you submit your figures to your accountant will it be a surprise where your business is at OR you have a good idea on what they will come back with? You can't change the past but if you've not stayed on top of your finances throughout the year, then you can start to plan next year's finances. Dave and Marie talk through what steps you should have been doing this last year, why its important and how you can gear yourself for the coming year. They provide a list of tips and good practises for you to tackle this coming year, so you will be on top of your finances and have no nasty surprises back from your accountant! What strategies do you adopt to ensure you are on top of your finances?

As you come to the end of the Financial Year end, what can you do with spare money to be TAX effective? How can you combine this with planning for your future? To help answer these questions Dave brings in guest, Neil Wattam, Director and IFA of Wattam Kirby Mee.  Neil draws on his extensive Financial Advice and brings a number of interesting ways you can invest your money, reducing Tax and providing for your future. What tips do you have for planning for your future? Are you prepared for your next phase of life?

Negotiation appears in so many ways  Both parties have requirements but how do you ensure both parties win? Or do you go for Win Lose, where you walkaway the victor and heck ti their thoughts? In this podcast Dave talks through where negotiation is required and some simple steps and examples on how you can walk away with what you want. What steps do you follow in negotiation? Do you go for Win regardless of the other side? Do you often cave in when confronted with other situations?  

Why? Three powerful letters which should be the bedrock of your decision making. How is it so powerful? Well if you can fully understand Why you are doing the job you do, why you are working towards something then when the winds of hardship come blowing you will be able to continue rather than collapse. It is the motivation top performers pick themselves up, dust themselves down and keep on keeping on. In this podcast, Dave talks through the key aspects of know your why and how it can help you make 2022 to be a winner What is your Why?

Hot on the heels of last week's Goal Setting Podcast we were asked about more details on goal setting and what you need to do to ensure your goals are successful Cue this podcast So how do you ensure you realise your goals? What additional steps should you consider to succeed at your goals? How do setting targets help achieving goals? What aspects of targets do you need to focus soon to ensure the targets are relevant? All of these questions are more are tackled by Dave as he runs through further fundamentals on achieving your goals. What tips do you recommend to undertake to be successful in goal setting and achievement?

New Year, New Goals but how do you know you have set great goals? A business should be annually renewing their goals at a minimum as well as monitoring their progress throughout the year.  What steps should you undertake to ensure your goals are fit for purpose? How will you know if your goals are the right level? Are there any steps you can take to ensure your goals stretch you enough for growth or are too ambitious? Should you have over ambitious goals? What is a good goal? What are they made up of? Dave and Marie talk through smart goals and a second way of setting goals. How often do you renew your goals? Are your goals easy to achieve?

Everyone has a book in side them, so they say Great But what do you need to do to make it happen? What steps should you take to undertake this? Is there a process you can undertake to make it easier? To answer all of these questions, Dave decided to bring Marion Parrish, The Accidental Manager who has recently published her own book. Marion explains the steps she used to publish her own book successfully. With this information, what is stopping you writing and publishing your own book?

Struggling to recruit? Finding potential employees facing to turn up to interviews? Struggling with a strategy to take on staff? What steps should you undertake to be successful recruiting? Dave is joined by Marion Parrish, Director of The Accidental Manager Coach. Marion explains why the job market is like it is,  How you can take steps to improve your recruitment process, gain a higher uptake policy and retain existing staff

Procrastination is common but is a massive killer to productivity. The tempting thing to put work off that you don't want to do by over thinking or "dilly dallying". Fear of failure, fear of it being too difficult, reluctance of what people will say all all symptoms of not starting work or starting it but not finishing it. So how do you overcome it? How do you recognise it in you? Assuming you want to be highly productive then this podcast is for you. Dave talks through steps you can take to recognise you are falling in to procrastination and what you can do. What steps do you take to fight procrastination? Do you fight procrastination? 

How well are you ready for the coming Holiday Season? Have you considered how you are going to cope with your team out? Your suppliers taking a break? You taking a well earned break? Or should you? Dave talks you through Short Term, Medium Term and Long Term planning, Additionally, this is activity you need to be performing NOW! Give yourself a chance this December

What is High Performance? How can your team achieve high Performance? What steps do you need to undertake to make your team a High Performance Team? Dave ponders this and brings in Coach, LinkedIn Live Streamer, Mentor, Leadership Expert and fellow Brummie Andrew Jenkins from PDX Consulting Andrew has so many years working with Leadership teams that he helps organisations grow  Andrew brings in so much personal experience in to the show and explains how you can generate your own high performance team. What steps do you take to ensure your team is high performing?

So many of us now are working from home or have a home office. We had to make do during the Pandemic but now we get to choose. Some of us have decided to set up a full time office at home, be it, converting a guest bedroom, set up a chalet in the garden, converting a brick building in the grounds or working from the dinning room table. Whatever you decided is applicable to your circumstances, how do you make the most of it? What steps can you do to ensure you are operating effiiciently? Need some ideas on how you can improve? Look no further, as in this podcast, Dave is joined by Adrea Yorston, Director and Chief Designer at Interior Squirrel Andrea has so many years of experience as a designer and her views on how you can make the most of your work environment are superb. She shares her knowledge on what you need to consider, how you can keep your items safe and even how you can repurpose environments when you are not working. You can even see some of their creations on houzz.