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How can you prevent frustration and anger from poisoning your business? Jim Ballard joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how to prevent frustration from turning into anger and creating a toxic working environment that results in high employee turnover.
What can school administrators - and business owners - learn from killer whales? Jim Ballard joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how one school turned around a failing school by applying the principles used by trainers of killer whales.
What can school administrators - and business owners - learn from killer whales? Jim Ballard joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how one school turned around a failing school by applying the principles used by trainers of killer whales.
Where else can you find a discussion about connecting killer whales, parenting and small business? Jim Ballard joins Jim Blasingame to offer some ideas on what we can learn as business owners and parents from Orcas.
How can the coaching mentality and practices benefit your small business? Jim Ballard talks with Jim Blasingame about how to use the coaching approach with employees, but also to acquire a coach for yourself, as the leader of your organization.
How do we find peace in our workplace? Jim Ballard talks with Jim Blasingame about how find peace and productivity by finding out about other before we require them to listen to our story.
The words we use in our small business do matter. Jim Ballard and Jim Blasingame talk about why it's important to take a little extra time and consideration before we speak or deliver something in writing, including advertising.
How do we balance our lives during anxious times? Jim Ballard talks with Jim Blasingame about some things we can do to maintain an even keel during tough times, including learning how to be better consumers of all of the information we're being bombarded with.
Are you experiencing information overload? Jim Ballard talks with Jim Blasingame about what this looks like and how to avoid it so that it doesn't result in failure.
Are you an "or" person or an "and" person? Jim Ballard talks with Jim Blasingame about the "genius of and" and the "tyranny of or," and why you should know about the impact of these two attitudes.