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Ask The Coach Podcast

Are you ready to take your business to new heights? Do you feel like you are babysitting your team? Are you exhausted and don’t have enough time with your family? No matter what challenges your business faces, this show will help you implement a solution.

Join professional business coach Oliver Baezner as he addresses the most common issues in business today. With his panel of expert guests and by sharing his time-tested resources, you are guaranteed to find the right tools to help your company breakthrough to great!

Work Life Balance

Is the way you’re working, really working? We are more stressed than ever in today’s world. What is causing you to be stressed: lack of sleep, long work weeks, Technology, lack of diet and exercise?

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Start-Stop-Continue

Taking a step back and really being honest with yourself about where your business is, is a valuable way to spend your time. What do you need to STOP doing? What do you need to START doing? What do you need to CONTINUE doing, to have an impact on your business TODAY!

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Performance Reviews and Feedback

Performance Reviews are an important communication tool that you should be using in your business. They benefit both the Employer and the Employee; but what should a performance review consist of? How do you know if you are including the right things on their review?

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What Makes YOU Different?

What sets you apart from your competition? Sure, you provide the same service but what should your customers know that makes you UNIQUE? It could be something you do, a skillset you bring to the table that most in your field don’t have or an approach to your business that makes you, YOU; what makes you different?

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Goal Setting That WORKS!

You hear a lot about goal setting and have probably done it in the past, but why wasn’t it effective? Learn some highly effective goal setting strategies; digging deeper than anything you have heard in the past. Goal setting can work when done the right way and when it doesn’t become a chore!

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Remove Your Constraints

80% of the constraints facing your business come from the 5 inches between your ears; that’s right, they come from you! We’ll discuss how you can remove the constraints from your business and overcome what’s holding you back.

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Surround Yourself with the Best Team

Surrounding yourself with the best team starts as early as placing the ad! Learn how to find the best people for your team so that you can focus on taking your business to the next level.

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Customer Lifetime Value

What are your customers worth to you? All to often we lose sight about what our customers are really worth. Most of us know the concept of our customers lifetime value BUT we don’t spend the time to calculate it. What will it cost you to lose a customer? What will it cost you to gain a new customer? We’ll discuss this all and give you some tools to put it to work for you in your business!

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Four Success Pieces - Clarity

This 4-part miniseries we will discuss the 4 Success Pieces that any great business needs. In part 1 we dive into Clarity. Do you have a direction? Are you clear about where you are going? “If you don’t know how you are going to get there, you will never get there”

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Four Success Pieces - Systems

In part 2 of this series on “The 4 Success Pieces” that any great business needs, we dive into Systems. Why are systems important? What type of systems do you need to implement and how do you know if they are working?

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Four Success Pieces - Growth

Without sales you have no business…period! I often hear business owners tell me that are doing well because they are standing still, but here’s the thing, while you are standing still your competitors are growing and getting better. What does that mean for you? You are failing behind!

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Four Success Pieces - Leadership

In the final part of this mini-series I ill discuss Leadership. What does great leadership mean? What can you be doing that you are not already? We could talk about leadership for hours, but this a good place to start!

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Delegate or Die!

Do you own your business, or does it feel like your business owns you? We will discuss the four delegating leadership styles and the potential pitfalls to each of them. WHY you need to delegate, HOW to delegate, WHAT to delegate and WHOM to delegate to. You will walk away with a new way of looking at how you do business, and who will help you get things done.

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Millennials and the Multi-Generations

Are Millennials really lazy, entitled, selfish and shallow? Or are they optimistic, accepting of differences, challenging the status quo and financially responsible? Eleanor Culver from REALHR joins to discuss the five generations in the workplace, experiences she has had to deal with and how you can avoid making the same mistakes.

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Leadership Excellence

Great leaders exhibit the same five qualities of excellence and they translate those qualities into building teams of excellence. We will share the five qualities so you can evaluate your own leadership and ideas to help you become a better leader that your people will want to follow!

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Appreciation at Work

People desperately want to feel appreciated and valued in their jobs; yet most people don’t feel appreciated. Appreciation at work is the “Pay” that everyone is looking for in todays work environment. With everyone doing more with less in todays business world, this is the “Raise” that people are looking for and aren’t getting.  Special Guest Dr. Paul White

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Network Your Way to Success

In today’s world we are more connected than ever, yet with all the social networks and communication tools, we feel more disconnected than ever. Could it be that some of the “old school” strategies, like networking are still the solution not only to feel more connected, but to also grow businesses today?  Special Guest Ivan Misner

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The 6 Easiest Ways to Generate Leads

Your business must consistently generate new leads to make “a sale” and stay viable. We share the 6 easiest ways to generate new leads for your business. You will absolutely generate new business by implementing some of the strategies that you will learn. In fact, you might even take your business’ sales to a whole new level!

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Are you Fearless in Business?

Having worked with businesses and business owners for many years now, I have seen many of them struggle with fear. The fear of Failure, the fear of Being Wrong, the fear of Rejection and the fear of being Emotionally Uncomfortable. We will be talking about the fears that hold people and companies back and what to do about them. Special Guest Katheryn Plaza

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Improve Your Company’s Communication

Effective communication is the key every human interaction. Whether its with your team, your clients, or even your friends and family. Yet companies usually spend very little time teaching their employees how to communicate more effectively and efficiently. We will discuss how Behavioural Assessments can also be the best tool when you want to recruit the candidate. Special Guest Margaret Maclay

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You are DEFINITELY in Sales!

If you own, run or lead a business then you are in sales; PERIOD! The one thing that all businesses have in common is that they all need new business to continue to grow and thrive. The 10 P’s of selling are the 10 things that everyone selling something needs to think about, how to go from one ‘P’ to another ‘P’ and how they all tie together.

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You are DEFINITELY in Sales! Part 2

Part 2 of the 10 P’s of Selling will teach you how to get to the “close” and ultimately sell more, while dealing with the toughest objection, the price, like a pro!

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Time Management Makeover

Do you love being in demand but perhaps over committing and underperforming? Maybe you reach the afternoon and wonder what the heck you’ve done with your day. Do you feel like your business owns you instead of the other way around? We will share the top time management strategies that are guaranteed to help you get more accomplished while finding more time in your day!

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Financial Well-Being

Whether you are living pay cheque to pay cheque or have an established savings account, understanding your current financial state is the first step to creating financial freedom. How do you know where you are, where are you going and how are you going to get there? Special Guest Tom Feigs

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