The Consultant and The Millennial

Throw a rock anywhere in America and you'll likely hit a company full of people sure growth is impossible because "the other guys are just too big/rich/well resourced/got into the market first." According to Rob Steinmetz of iCare Advisors, none of those things should be a barrier to success, from starting cold. Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com, Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. 

Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. Get in touch with seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

 Due to two episode files getting corrupted this week (ugh), here’s the very first episode of The Consultant and the Millennial, on why managing older vs. younger millennials is so different, and how to execute on knowledge transfer as baby boomers leave the workforce.  

"If half of your hires are a bad fit, there's $100,000-200,000 a year walking out the front door just in a small business. And usually nobody notices the bleeding." Haydn. On this episode, we look at how the pendulum has swung from the trend of "impossible characteristics" to "going purely off of feel," and how to get the art and science of interviewing right. Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com, Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn. 

Ryan Foley of Foley Learning hops on The Consultant and the Millennial this week to help with one of the most frustrating elements of any career...getting buy in from the people you work with. Connect with Ryan at foleylearning.com Connect with Haydn at peopledrivenresults.com Connect with Seth at digitalprofitfarm.com

OK, we're back. I (Seth) became a parent and was also in a near fatal Amtrak accident. More on that later. I'll be posting episodes every couple of days, to catch up on what we've recorded but didn't release during the insanity that was the last six weeks.

A quick look at if/when Podcasting makes sense for your brand or business in light of Spotify's big purchases yesterday.

Delivering bad news internally or externally is never easy. But MoviePass has made headlines this year for particularly notable bumbling. On this episode of The Consultant and the Millennial, Seth Tower Hurd and Haydn Shaw look at how to handle bad news and make the best of a rough situation.   Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

Feel like the taboo of being "the kid" amongst your older direct reports is holding you back from success you deserve, here's how to handle this tricky situation.    Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

Collaboration can be any managers nightmare. When you get 12 hands on the wheel of a car its easy to crash.  Here's why and how to change your mind about it.    Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

This week we encourage you to grab your remote as we discuss how Netflix and Chill can actually increase your business acumen. If you want to understand a major shift in management and work culture over the past decade, you need to understand two shows: The Office and The Bold Type. These shows explore the management of gen xers (the Office) and the new must have management style of the Millennial (the Bold Type). We examine the differences between these shows and what we are seeing in today’s work place.   Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

In this episode of the Consultant and the Millennial Haydn and Seth explore the good, the bad, and the ugly of feedback. Giving feedback is a skill that every manager can grow in. Many of us can pin-point encounters with receiving negative feedback in a badly delivered way but can come up with few examples of a stellar boss who gave it right. In this episode we cover the fundamentals that will help you become that example of how to kill at giving feedback to your employees.  Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

Here's a mid 2018 update on social media strategies and platforms. Seth breaks down the basics. A look at Facebook, Instagram, Linked In, and why you should be writing on Medium. He also breaks down the current climate of Twitter.  Haydn discusses why you should never hire or manage a social media employees with out being active in the platorm yourself.   Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

This Episode Haydn and Seth break down why there can be frustration in the hiring process with Millennials. They put the power back in your hands to help you understand what you can do differnetly in the hiring process in order to find the right candidates, have better retention, and a better fit.  Listen in to hear how to avoid hiring pitfalls and to learn hiring keys; such as why knowing your style and approach as a manager and conveying the truth honestly during the hiring process can be your greatest step in improving the process.  Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

This is part two of the conversation between Seth Tower Hurd on "Why Teams Get Stuck." Your company can have the best product, a bulging bank account and the most brilliant employees...but if you can't work together, everything is grinding to a halt. This episode will help you to zoom out and attack the problem from above, rather than getting caught up in the minutia of "I can't believe _____ said" in that meeting. Check this episode out, and get your team moving again. (Or, kill it and form a new team that can get moving). Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Nathan: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Benchmarkservices. Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

One of the most frustrating aspects of business is a team that just can't get the job done.   In fact, the annals of business history are littered with companies flush with cash who eventually went broke, because they just couldn't make good stuff anymore.   But it doesn't have to be that way. Unsuccessful teams get stuck in two stages of working together, and those are obstacles that can be worked around. Seth Tower Hurd and I break down how.   We'll continue with pt. 2 of this discussion next week. Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Nathan: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Benchmarkservices. Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

In a now infamous memo months before the company went under, Blockbuster reported to their employees why "Netflix wasn't a threat," because A). People like reading the back of the DVD box B). Customers like picking up snacks and C). It's great to run into your neighbors at Blockbuster. Turns out people like pushing one button laying on their couch more than all of that.  However, the story of Amazon "killing" Borders or Netflix "killing" Blockbuster, what most people miss is that Barnes and Noble, Redbox, Family Video and countless local bookstores were not "killed" by technology, but continue to thrive. Technology didn't single-handedly "disrupt" Blockbuster or Borderes out of business, their own poor customer service and above market prices  did as well. Brian Utter leads Shine.FM, a radio network covering three states. In 2018, broadcast mediums are in competition with hundreds of other outlets, from podcasts to YouTube videos, for attention...and yet religious broadcasting has seen it's biggest growth from 2010-present.  In this episode, we discuss why Brian says "Shine.FM isn't a radio station" as we look at staying vital to your tribe during great technological disruption...and also dive into creating culture when managing in a legacy organization.  Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Nathan: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Benchmarkservices. Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

From Sun Tzu's The Art of War to C.S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia fantasy children's books, Seth and Haydn break down books that can have a huge impact on your career, regardless of whether or not they're currently trending on the NY Times list. r..Or...how a 5,000 year old treatise on war can make you more money, and why books like "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" still find millions of new readers each year.  Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Nathan: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Benchmarkservices. Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.

This week Nathan R. Jaising joins us on the Consultant and the Millenial. Nathan is President and CEO of Benchmark Psychiatric Services which provides outpatient psychiatric services, counseling, and  psychiatric testing.  This weeks episode we adress pain points for a small business owner.  The first being "why do things move so slowly for the owner." Haydn addresses this by encouraging business owners to remember that to the employee that movement is occurring much faster than it is to the CEO. By eliminating leadership perspective vs employee perspective and identifying obvious weak links, one can then begin to identify and release bottlenecks in the system. We also address the Pain point of unfollowed processes that eat up time and tactics to weed out employees who refuse to follow processes as well as to redirect the employee back to the process and system so the CEO is not solving and becoming the owner of the solution.   Join The Consultant and the Millennial Facebook Group and grow alongside other leaders as we dive deeper into topics covered on the podcast!  Get in touch with Nathan: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Benchmarkservices. Get in touch with Haydn: hadyn.shaw@peopledrivenresults.com, peopledrivenresults.com,  Facebook, Twitter.  Get in touch with seth: seth@digitalprofitfarm.com, digitalprofitfarm.com, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn.