Virtual Frontier

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. 

💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why there is so much demotivation present?
• Table Soccers, high salaries, and gym pass
• What you need in your team to drive autonomy
• Building trusting relationships
• Help the people around you to get better

♨  EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

00:00 Intro 

01:59 The vast majority is demotivated

05:30 Thriving Autonomy 

10:40 Purpose in your company is healthy

18:18 Creating impact that means something

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.  

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#CrossTeamCollaboration #flashhub #virtualfrontier #Business #growth #strategies #remotework #virtualteams #MadeOnZencastr

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.

💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why should the CEO with 9-15 hours per day be very aware of his physical fitness?
• How did Darcy develop this urge to train?
• How did her physical training help her in the most difficult situations in her life?
• What is the Thoughtfully Fit model?
• Why do I need to strengthen my inner core

♨  EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

00:00 Intro 

02:08 Darcy's story and background

10:40 Humans are complicated

15:00 When Darcy's own model became her stronghold

25:00 Why community is so important

42:00 The Thoughtfully Fit model explained

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.  

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Get your personal copy of Darcy's Book Thoughtfully Fit here

Take the quiz and find out what is your biggest hurdle

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#DarcyLuoma #LifeIsHard #PersonalTraining #ThoughtfullyFit #flashhub#virtualfrontier #simplecast #happyscribe #remotework #virtualteams #ApplePodcast #podmatch

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. 

💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Systematic growth solutions are not budget-related
• Productized Services and clear offers
• Define your sales funnel
• Thinking about the sales life cycle
• Analyze your blind spots

♨  EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

00:00 Intro 

02:10 What you need is a strategy and the right one

06:30 Do you have a nice idea?

11:48 Have you thought about your sales life cycle?

13:57 Keep the focus on what matters

18:45 Get your roadmap

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.  

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#CrossTeamCollaboration #flashhub #virtualfrontier #Business #growth #strategies #remotework #virtualteams #MadeOnZencastr

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? Successful

cross-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. 

💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Choose the right team
• Have a leader
• Align project goals and share them with everyone
• Build greater communication and management skills across the organization
• Give employees the right tools to collaborate

♨  EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

00:00 Intro 

02:33 Running a crossfunctional team

06:20 What does the project manager does

10:20 How to align leadership while working with different teams

14:45 Avoid wasting money on useless tools

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.  

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#CrossTeamCollaboration #flashhub #virtualfrontier #CrossTeamProjects #remotework #virtualteams #MadeOnZencastr

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. 

💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

• First the requirement then the tool. How can you validate the real need for a tool?
• Let's implement this new tool. How should you select new tools for your company?
• Cost trap. Tool accumulation without overview.
• What are some key success elements of implementing a digital
  workplace strategy?

♨  EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

00:00 Intro 

02:40 How many tools Manuel has in use?

05:50 Don't use Slack for documentation?

09:40 Did you find a new tool?

12:10 Avoiding the cost traps when choosing tools?

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.  

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#WorkflowManagement #flashhub #virtualfrontier #ChoosingTools #remotework #virtualteams #MadeOnZencastr

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 session

What 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. 

💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What is it about getting into a flow?
• How can I increase these times of flow?
• The more the merrier? SMART Goals
• How can I find out what routines are working for me and establish them permanently?
• How to set up the environment Office/Remote?
• Timeboxing and sticking to that plan. How to set up timeboxing that actually works constant?
• How to stay focused in uncertain troubled times?

♨  EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

00:00 Intro 

01:50 Manuels story as a professional athlet

06:37 Increase flow time

11:20 More goals vs smart goals

17:06 The importance of timeboxing 

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.  

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#leadershipStlyes  #flashhub #virtualfrontier #simplecast #happyscribepublic #remotework #virtualteams #MadeOnZencastr

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. 

💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Building trust, Credibility, Common ground, Compelling position
• How can I as a CEO find out what leadership skills the people I work with directly need to develop
• Developing negotiation skills. Asking the right questions
• How can I be an influencer? What is it about influencing?
• How to become a better listener?

♨  EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

00:00 Intro 

01:45 How Manuel started to work on his leadership style and skills

06:37 Ground rules while developing a leadership style

13:30 Help your team working on leadership skills

19:25 Improving your listening skills

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.  

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#leadershipStlyes  #flashhub #virtualfrontier #simplecast #happyscribepublic #remotework #virtualteams #MadeOnZencastr

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.

💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

• How will the world of work change
• Disruption and uncertainty
• What are the jobs of the future
• How AI and automatization will change the workforce
• The future must be human-centric

♨  EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

00:00 Intro 

03:36 What changed during the pandemic?

08:30What is your outlook for the near future?

13:33 Jobs altered or enhanced by the bot

15:47 21 Jobs in the future

21:49 Skills will be important in the future

25:07 AI and automation will change organizational design and structure

31:47 Enhancing the role of humans and not just deploying technology

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.  

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Follow Manish on LinkedIn

Drop Manish a message and find out how your future of work could look like 

Download the report 21 jobs of the future

Download the report 21 more jobs of the future

Check out Manish's profile on Cognizant

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#futureofwork #postpandemic #golbalworkforce #flashhub#virtualfrontier #simplecast #happyscribepublic #remotework #virtualteams #PandoraPodcasts

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

💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

• What changes have occurred since the pandemic hit the talent market?
• Why it will only get harder to find new talented employees in the future?
• What do you need to change in your hiring and onboarding cycle?
• Why do you want to work with self-managed people?

♨  EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

00:00 Intro 

01:57 What changed during 2020?

04:46 The war on talent just started

09:08 Changes in the hiring and onboarding  

12:45 Getting rid of bureaucracy and foster self-management

15:06 Find the right people that want to work self-driven

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.  

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Follow us on Facebook and engage in our daily discussions: 

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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. 

💡 QUESTIONS AND VIEWS HIGHLIGHTED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Why do we tend to delay decision making in unknown territories
• What are the essential risks when we delay decisions
• How can we overcome the paralysis of not taking decisions
• Why you should be prepared for failure

♨  EXCERPTS YOU MIGHT WANT TO JUMP IN

00:00 Intro

03:17 Astrids retrospective and how her business evolved

13:00 Is it the Lack of self-confidence?

17:36 Is your company public statement bullshit?

31:20 Feeling alive when moving forward

36:10 Fear is actually a great thing

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 English-speaking 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.  

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Get your free first coffee coaching with the Arc coaches

Attend one of the upcoming Mastermind Dinners at The Arc

Follow Astrid on LinkedIN

Don’t Worry Failure Will Find You by Andy Goldstein

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