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Hiring Management on a Fractional Basis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with Ben Wolf

Hiring Management on a Fractional Basis: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with Ben Wolf

Your company is growing, you’re getting too busy to do everything yourself, and you’re wondering if it’s time to hire a fractional or full-time COO. How do you determine if your company is ready? What do you need to do to get your organization prepared for this big step? What skills does the owner need to make this new arrangement work, and what skills does the COO require to succeed? What are the disadvantages of hiring a manager on a fractional basis? Is hiring a fractional COO just a way to save money, or are there some hidden organizational benefits, too?

Join Meny and Ben Wolf, the founder of Wolf’s Edge Integrators – the largest Fractional COO firm in the world – as they answer these and many other questions. It’s an episode that might permanently change the way you think about upper-level management and the way you integrate executives into your company.

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The Secrets of Successful Hiring and Onboarding with Anna Shcherbyna

The Secrets of Successful Hiring and Onboarding with Anna Shcherbyna

Hiring remote workers offers benefits both to businesses and their employees… and this can also lead to headaches and mistakes in hiring and onboarding.

In this episode of Let’s Talk Business, Anna Shcherbyna, CEO of Remotivate and an expert in helping companies recruit remote management and leadership offers practical advice to ensure that your company doesn’t waste time and money by hiring people who look and sound great – but are actually all wrong for your business.

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LTB 82 Dr Jeffrey Magee CSP/CMC/CBE/PDM | Hiring The Right Team

How to Energize Your Team for Maximum Productivity—with Dr. Jeffrey Magee

Business success hinges on a lot of factors, but one that stands out in importance is human capital. For a business to boom, it needs to hire the right team. Meny Hoffman is joined by Dr. Jeffrey Magee, author, publisher, and expert on human capital development. Dr. Magee explains how you can identify which persons are right for your team, how you should manage them and why you need to hire the right people. Find out who are the right people for your team and hire them with these tips from Dr. Magee. 

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SPECIAL EPISODE: An Exclusive Interview With Our Host, Meny Hoffman—Part 2

Coming back to the interviewee’s seat in his own show, Meny Hoffman rejoins Chava Shapiro for the second part of their exclusive interview. In this episode, they talk about all things leadership – from its broad definition to the nitty-gritty of what every contemporary leader needs to be aware of as they play their role in today’s changed and changing world. Whether you’re leading a Fortune 500 company or a small business with fewer than five employees, these leadership principles are going to resonate with you and change the way you lead. Leadership certainly isn’t easy, but it’s significantly easier if you’ve got someone by your side teaching you the ropes. Listen in and let Meny be your guide for today.

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How to Build and Sustain a High-Performing Team—with Ira Zlotowitz

We all know that a good team can make or break a business. But do you ever wish you could simply clone yourself and create a team of people just as motivated, knowledgeable, and passionate about your business as you are? Ira Zlotowitz, the founder and president of Eastern Union Funding, knows a thing or two about building and sustaining high-performing teams; he grew his own business from a four-person office to a company of over 100 people, closing roughly $5 billion in national loan volume in 2019 alone. In this practical, no-nonsense interview, we discuss how to cultivate a culture of excellence (starting from the very first interview); how to hire the right people; how to master the skill of delegation; and how to make your current employees more valuable to your company.

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Embracing Failure is the Key to Success—with Brian Scudamore

I’m thrilled to share the newest episode of the Let’s Talk Business Podcast with you. I interviewed my friend Brian Scudamore, founder and CEO of O2E Brands, the banner company for mega-brands including 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and WOW 1 DAY PAINTING.

Brian is no stranger to growing a business; his brands are household names around the world, grossing over $400 million collectively. He’s also no stranger to failure; he speaks openly and humbly in the interview about how his own failures were springboards for his success.

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Why Isn’t My Salesperson Closing Enough Sales?

When is the last time you hired a salesperson that you think is absolutely perfect for the job, only to find out they can’t close a sale if their life depended on it?

If this has happened to you, you’re in good company.

For a long time, I wondered why this is such a common scenario—why is it that someone can seem like a great salesman, but when it comes down to it, they have a hard time gaining the full trust of clients?

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