Mads Singers Management Podcast

Episode Summary As you know by now, a business that efficiently runs is much more likely to find continued success over the long term. If you’ve ever asked yourself as an entrepreneur, “How to increase business efficiency?” Well, let me tell you - efficiency boosts productivity and can give you an edge in today’s competitive market.Adam and I talked about how to increase business efficiency and its high points. A lot of entrepreneurs out there are struggling to scale up simply because: They haven’t identified the deeper layer of the business industry they are in. Have you identified the business industry you’re in? You’re in for luck! Tap in now and tune in until the very end to know how that matters!  Listen to this week's show and learn:  How to get to know your business; Why getting to know your business industry helps you improve business efficiency; How can you begin training your brand.  Episode Resources:  Start A Party Rental Company The Tent Guy  Mads Singers Free Management Training Join Mads Singer

Episode Summary It’s no secret how hiring remote workers or setting up your virtual team made you save tons of cost. Since the pandemic, remote working has become the new norm. Do you agree? In fact, a lot of businesses right now offer hybrid work set-ups. If not, they are hiring remote workers and setting up their very own virtual team. Omar and I talked about our experience in having our virtual teams. He shared how his communication dynamic has been working for him, which made his business scale up to its capacity now. He shared proven tips on how to keep remote employees engaged and the productivity it yields. By now, there’s no proven science yet, in terms of communication dynamics for managing a remote team. But one thing’s for sure: If you are not effectively managing people face-to-face, there’s no chance you’d be with a remote team!Tap in now and tune in until the very end! Listen to this week's show and learn:  How do you manage a remote team differently?; What are the better ways of your communicat

A lot of business owners underestimate the power of employee motivation in managing people. No wonder you’re here today wondering whether or not you can increase motivation without doing a lot. Anthony joins me today as we’re chatting about how you can exactly do that, which will save you time and money in the long run. What’s unique about Anthony is that - he acknowledged that, over the years, his management style has changed. And that’s greatly influenced by the industry he is operating. He knew how the “necessary why-s” and the relationship play a role in motivating people. You don’t get the best results most of the time, but when you effectively manage to motivate your employees and manage them well - not only you are able to close the loop. You can also leverage it to achieve your business goals while you allow them to thrive. Tap in now and tune in until the very end! Listen to this week's show and learn:  How do you get the best result by improving motivation;  3 ways to motivate your employees better;

Episode Summary Is there a one-size fits all cadence for tracking employee productivity? Let alone managing your employees? Austin Kerr is joining me today, who runs a management software helping managers run their teams smoothly daily! Austin and I recognise the different management problems that exist both in the corporate setting and especially for small business owners, who struggle the most regarding management. Like myself, Austin is also very passionate when it comes to people management! His software greatly helps in tracking productivity among your people, making management easy-peasy! Austin and I shared our favourite management resources, too, so make sure you tune in all the way to the end! Listen to this week's show and learn:  How does one hire the right person?; As a business owner, how can you make sure that you onboard your people correctly?; When is the right time for promotion?; How do you determine how much raise to performing employees?;  When do productivity tracking ends and managing b

Episode Summary Like myself, this week’s guest, John Papaloni, is a serial entrepreneur whose people management skills are put into action every single day. John, CEO of Papaloni Media, shares his proven and tested tips on how to manage staff effectively, especially when you’re a small business owner wanting to gain the traction you’ve been wanting to see! John and I talked about delegation and how this became his most challenging people management attempt in the business he has, especially when he was starting up. He also shared how other people management takeaways worked for him and how neglecting the tips on how to manage people at work became ineffective for him at a time that you can learn from. If you’re a business owner who’s just starting up and you don’t know where to begin in managing your people, make sure you don’t miss this episode! Learn how to manage staff effectively for FREE and in case you need any support for your team’s growth, sing out!Listen to this week's show and learn:  How you can b

Episode Summary Sara Sheehan joins us in today’s episode! Sara and I talked about one of the most common topics around people management, which is having the best company culture. Is there such? Sara puts it - company culture’s foundation is supported behaviours. And this came from her years of experience from a human capital perspective. Sara highlights, though, that while it means supported behaviours among a group of people, it is important that you are clearer with the desired outcomes you want to achieve out of tolerance and in your business context. This is how you can create the best company culture while realistically achieving action, accountability and productivity. We also agreed on one aspect: An unhealthy company culture led by a poor leader is a disaster! Suppose you feel like you are looking to sprint the corporate ladder, or wanting to create an impact that fires across all cylinders, or delegated to change a company culture that fails the business. In that case, this is an episode you should

Episode Summary This week, I am speaking to Daryl Urbansaki, who spent years doing Meta-Analysis to finally study at least - on a scientific basis the ultimate key success factors in business that make money across the board! These business success factors are the ones you would want to take a list on! Key factors in small business success or any business may seem complicated to you, but the truth is, Daryl has had it summarised for you! While he's able to do half the battle for you, good and effective leadership is still crucial for it not to work against you and your business objectives. At the end of the day, concepts are only as good as the ones implementing them. Magic happens when you put your mind into it! Learn how you can integrate these critical success factors examples in your business, and navigate it to your advantage!Listen to this week's show and learn:  8 fail-proof key success factors in business that make money; Where do business owners struggle the most?; The single most important thing a

Episode Summary In an age where boundaries between our home and work life are blurring, it’s important for us to discuss the most often overlooked personal development opportunities in your business goal. I am thrilled to be joined by Kerry Paul today to discuss a topic I super love - personal development and growth and how business owners get along with that! Every business owner faces two factors when running a business: Internal and external. While internal factors are easier to deal with, what really challenges your business goal is when factors outside of your control confront you, regardless of whether or not perceived and pose a greater risk. Ultimately, the way you adapt and deal with your businesses’ hits and misses directly affects your finances - which as a business owner myself, I am very sensitive to. Get a unique insight into Kerry Paul’s insightful expertise, especially on how you can start exploring personal development opportunities, what you can learn and what you can do next!Listen to this

Episode Summary Delegation has been a core topic, you know, I am very passionate about. So, I am super thrilled to have NaTandya Dowell, in today’s podcast episode as we discuss the pitfalls of delegation of work and why delegating effectively as a small business owner can be very hard! It’s known that a lot of solopreneurs turned into entrepreneurs have difficulty on how to de delegate. This is hugely because they thought of the business idea, built their business way up, and developed it further hence their strong attachment to their business. While this is valid, this is the pitfall many small business owners are dragged into, eventually leading them to get stuck. Make sure you don’t forget to download this on your list and learn from NaTanya, who’s successfully done that! Listen to this week's show and learn:  How you can transition delegating effectively from corporate to becoming a business owner yourself; Which is your bigger problem? Your business model or your delegation skills?; How can small busin

Episode Summary Can you achieve "profit predictability" in your small business operations by simply being effective in communication leadership? Adam Liette, Smooth Operations founder, joins us in today's podcast episode and shares how this is possible! Behavioural science tells us that every interaction affects people's performance. Each interaction can work best when we work from a place of comfort or on schedules, when people know what is expected of them and see those expectations met. That's where effective communication leadership comes in place - providing my team members with predictability and creating a more guaranteed space for your profitability. In essence, Adam leverages on structured and tangible remote team communication to predict roadmaps for your team and small business operations with the use of an operating system he designed. To him, every business is a living, breathing organization. It's not just an org chart—it's also a group of people with whom you interact in ways that influence the

Episode Summary Are you caught in the grip of unproductive meetings or not understanding your business and people’s functions as you thought they should be? Tristan Wright, joins us in today’s podcast episode to share how huge of an impact it can be when you acknowledge that the missing point to your small business success is an effective business alignment process!  In many circumstances, finding a fix is easy when looking at an isolated problem. But how do you overcome "misalignment" to bring about and see the real change and impact on your small business? You can say with certainty that there are two things that every small business can easily do to turn things around: acknowledge the need for change, and execute! If you are having a hard time choosing the right direction for your business and not getting enough traction, listen in to today’s episode and make things turn around! Follow our practical alignment tips, and you'll be on your way to a well-aligned and successful business! Listen to this week's s

Episode Summary If you are a business owner looking to accelerate in scaling your business, this recruitment tip and podcast episode is for you! Funny to say, Mike and I have been friends for a while, but it’s only now that I have him on my podcast! Mike and I wonderfully exchanged our ideas around recruitment and how he’s using this recruitment tip to improve his hiring process! Mike knows that people are the business's greatest asset and the most challenging part of the business too. So, for him, having great talent goes a long way! Mike knows that getting rid of the wrong people is a huge factor in performance and profitability. It is the difference between good and great companies, the best leaders, and dysfunctional ones. Recruitment can be challenging, but using this recruitment tip will make you a better manager. Listen until the very end, and take note of this recruitment hack for you to improve your hiring process! Listen to this week's show and learn:  What is the hardest part of running your busine

Episode Summary In my experience, fixing a workplace conflict, whether it is remote or not, always involve quite - a unique dynamic. Lorraine Segal, our guest for today’s podcast episode, not only knows how to navigate her way through it but mastered the way to it! Lorraine thinks of conflict differently. People think when there is conflict, they automatically think that something is wrong. Truth is conflict is part of being human. Most of the time, we approach fixing workplace conflict by simply telling the people involved that “you have to be the better person” or “think of it that it’s just another conflict” - essentially, downgrading the conflict to something that is inexistent. Listen ‘til the very end of this podcast and learn the factors to include in conflict remedy, reframing conflict, your unique approach to conflict remedy, and how you can identify a healthy conflict from an unhealthy one! This episode will be your cheat sheet in people management! Listen to this week's show and learn:  What is ref

Episode Summary Today, putting people first can be your competitive advantage for all kinds of businesses, not just the ones that do good. How does it do that? Andy Alsop, CEO of The Receptionist, joins us in today’s episode as we talk about the employee-first culture or employee supremacy!  Andy doesn’t talk about giving it all away. Instead, we looked at the idea of employee supremacy as making executive decisions that’ll allow employees to feel valued, have autonomy, and be excited about their roles and work. The bottom line is this...when you tap into the power of your people, they will surprise you with what they are capable of creating - their performance goes up, and the value created by your whole team goes way up! All this and more in today’s episode! Listen to this week's show and learn:  How much should you invest in your employees to get your desired result;  Discover tips on how you can champion employee supremacy in your current business; Andy’s biggest management mistake & what he invested

Episode Summary Yet again, we have a very interesting discussion in today's podcast episode! Lucas Root, a podcast himself, shares the importance of having a solid business community and 5 business success factors! Whether leading business or projects for his clients or mentoring his clients to become empowered leaders, Lucas is a heart-centered expert in business. Business is not just about money. How you relate to the people in the business and the people around the business affect your business's bottom line greatly! Lucas believes that the way to influence that is by engaging your business as "your community" instead of thinking that they are your employees. For Lucas, a business leader, effectively helps people discover the unique language of their business and help them get into the rhythm by using the language of growth across the board. Discover this and more business success factors in today's episode! Make sure you tune in all the way to the end! Listen to this week's show and learn:  What does a gr

Episode Summary Our guests for today’s episode started scaling businesses very interestingly. Harrison Baron founded his business today from podcasts! And look, here we are discussing management tips and tricks on my podcast! There is a lot of debate about how to manage your employees and create a good workplace culture. It's no longer just about getting the work done. Today you have to manage people, which is significantly more complex than managing labor.Harrison and I discussed our thoughts on what a good workplace culture looks like. Harrison believes that workplace culture is not what you say, but it’s how you do it, to which I absolutely agree! We also discussed how the best leaders thrive when things get tough from a business perspective. We both subscribed to the view that an effective leader needs to be able to give someone a clear trajectory of what exactly it is that they should be doing, how best to do it, and how much you can expect them to achieve in the role if you expect that person to perform

Episode Summary Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: Leadership Gap. While I have been very passionate about leadership and management, this episode is a first!Josh Melton of Athens Cleaning joins us today as we discuss the downstream damage of leadership gap and what it means for you and for your business. What’s more important is -  how do you identify that there is indeed a leadership gap? And how this blindly affects your business bottom line? Josh loves connecting people to other people, ideas, and opportunities that help them take their businesses to the next level, and it fueled him to close the gap that greatly affected his business first. Make sure you tune in until the very end to know how you can identify and quickly fix the leadership gap that you may not know, until this point, exists in your business!        Listen to this week’s show and learn:  How can self-responsibility & self-management improve your leadership style; How culture shift can create a significant difference in the way

Episode Summary We are entering a new era of warfare that is more complex than ever before. It requires mission-driven leadership to unify teams on a singular mission, no matter how diverse or dispersed they are.Jon Rennie, a business owner, author, and former naval officer joins us in today's episode. Jon's former submariner experience brings in unheard-of leadership principles and found the basic underlying principles for success at sea can lead to high-performing teams on land.Jon's mission-driven leadership leads others to accomplish the mission by relying entirely on the actions of his fellow employees. He fundamentally believes mission-driven leadership means that there is shared responsibility as well as shared vulnerability. Hence, regardless of rank or experience, every employee is vitally important.Tune in 'til the very end and learn how you can create an environment where all of your team members can build on the strengths of each member and how you can get your team working toward the same goal!Li

Episode Summary This week, I am speaking to Patrick Kilner, who has advocated lead generation through the right network and influence. What’s interesting about Patrick is that he built his success from the global recession over 10 years ago. And relied heavily on networking and having the right relationships, which helped him thrive above the global crisis! Since then, and after seeing the impact it made on him and his business, he realized how lead generation, as we know it today, became very superficial and lacked depth. He’s always believed that the only way to make your business “disruption” proof is through using influencer pyramid. He also shared a very practical way of networking for small business owners.I know we’ve covered some exciting episodes about networking for small business owners BUT today’s episode is one thing you would not want to miss! I never thought lead generation as we know it today has a weak point no one talks about!*BONUS*Tune in until the very end and learn how you can get a free

Episode Summary We all have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. But, why does it seem that others can get the most out of every minute of the day? Believe it or not, like you, they don’t have any superpower to slow down time. However, they applied the time management tips they learned, which worked for them!In this week’s episode, John and I share a topic a lot of you have been very familiar with: time management. As an entrepreneur and leader, you may not realize it, but how you manage your time reflects your priorities in your business. It greatly reflects how you decide on matters involved in your business, be it the slightest concern or the biggest impact it can have on your business. Today’s labor shortage and remote flexibility setup clearly revealed how we handle our priorities as business owners and leaders. Do we control our time and priorities or otherwise? Don’t miss out on John’s expert tips that can make a huge difference in managing your time and everything else that goes after it!          Listen to