278 episodes
Business Confidential Now with Hanna Hasl-Kelchner Business Confidential Now with Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
-
- Business
-
-
5.0 • 26 Ratings
-
★ PRACTICAL ★ TIMELESS ★ NO NONSENSE ★
Discover the business issues hiding in plain view that matter to your bottom line.
Created for smart business owners, executives, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to increase their business leadership effectiveness and side-step the School of Hard Knocks.
Each Thursday you’ll hear top-line insights, tools and straight talk from experts, authors and change makers who share their secrets for more success on a wide range of business topics.
These are the trusted advisors, the ones Big Business pay big bucks for, who are quietly igniting change behind closed doors and transforming businesses around world. And now, you can join those conversations too by simply tuning in. It’s easy.
Our topics vary from week to week because business is multi-faceted and the higher you climb in your organization the more information you need to effectively lead your company and keep all of its moving parts aligned and moving forward.
We talk about everything from leadership and people management, to sales, marketing, and finance, corporate governance and risk management.
Why? Because business has lots of nooks and crannies.
It’s impossible to be good at everything or know everything.
Your expertise makes you a valuable contributor early in your career; but as your management and leadership responsibilities grow, so too does the need to expand your knowledge base because it’s essential to keep your finger on the pulse of your business and be able to ask the right questions to get the information you need to make informed decisions, as well as recruit the right talent.
We even talk about how to manage stress and keep your head from exploding because, let’s be real, things pile up sometimes and it’s tough to juggle everything.
It’s OK – you’re not alone – it’s a big club, one that you can join for free by listening to Business Confidential Now, one where you’ll be able to access resource packed information on every single episode page at https://BusinessConfidentialRadio.com.
The show was created by Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, founder of Business M.O. and the Legal Leverage Academy, several years ago because business comes at you fast and no one can afford to get blind-sided. Especially by something you didn’t know, but somehow SHOULD know in your role as a business leader and key decision maker.
Look - It’s not your fault, even if you have one of those fancy Ivy League MBAs, it’s impossible to have all the answers.
Hanna knows this to be true as a matter of fact because she HAS one of those fancy MBAs and even taught in a few top tier MBA programs. She’s also been a practicing business attorney who has seen first-hand what happens when things go south. That’s why she created this podcast.
Hanna knows how to ask the questions that get the answers YOU need to succeed.
She’s been a trusted advisor, who for more than 35 years has helped influential business leaders and decision makers ranging from start-ups to the S&P 500 to the White House. Hanna has also seen how what you don’t know in business really can hurt you and bite you in the assets.
The show typically runs approximately 25 – 35 minutes and releases a new episode every Thursday.
It’s usually an interview show; but, once in a while Hanna will put on her lawyer hat and feature some no-nonsense legal information.
Join Hanna and start listening to Business Confidential Now today.
The more you dive into our rich archive of past episodes, follow and subscribe to Business Confidential Now, the more you’ll be able to grow and protect your business NOW.
Listen on any app that supports podcasts, and visit https://BusinessConfidentialRadio.com.
Please remember to tell all your business friends about the show and leave a positive comment.
-
Part 5: How to Keep Positional Power From Being a Huge Achille's Heel with Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
Positional PowerPositional power is one of the most misunderstood and misused concepts in business.
It’s also why positional power can be an organization’s Achille’s heel.
Sounds like heresy? Let’s talk about that.
What You’ll Discover About Positional Power:* How positional power can promote an us-vs-them mentality
* How emotional intelligence supplements and strengthens positional power
* The blind spots positional power creates that threaten high employee engagement
* Why leaders serious about high employee engagement can’t hide behind excuses of political correctness, wokeness and free speech
* Why it’s incumbent on those with positional power to keep the employee-employer relationship on track
* And much more.
Host Hanna Hasl-KelchnerHanna Hasl-Kelchner is a champion for fairness in the workplace. She helps organizations gain clarity to make more informed decisions by reducing complex concepts into sensible, bite size pieces. Hanna accomplishes this as a business strategist and through her writing, speaking, consulting, and popular syndicated podcast, Business Confidential Now.
Hanna brings a unique perspective to the table, growing up in an entrepreneurial family and running a business before age 30 and blending it with decades practicing business law. Those experiences enabled her to successfully bridge the gap between the two disciplines during her career as a trusted advisor to influential decision makers ranging from startups to the S&P 500, Big Tobacco, and the White House. She has also been on the faculty at two top-ranked MBA programs: The Duke University Fuqua School of Management and the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business.
Related Resources:If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Leadership and Management episodes.
Contact Hanna and connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
Her new book Seeking Fairness at Work is now available on Amazon.
Part 1: Unveiling the Truth: Workplace Fairness Myths vs Reality
Part 2: The Key to Retaining Top Talent: A Fair Work Environment
Part 3: Why Low Employee Engagement is Not an Employee Problem
Part 4: 5 Toxic Leadership Trends that Kill High Employee Engagement
Join, Rate and Review:Rating and reviewing the show helps us grow our audience and allows us to bring you more of the rich information you need to succeed from our high powered -
Part 4: 5 Toxic Leadership Trends that Kill High Employee Engagement with Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
Toxic LeadershipThere are 5 toxic leadership behaviors that most managers don’t even realize have a negative impact on their employees.
Imagine how much better and more productive the workplace would be if even one of those toxic leadership habits could be toned down.
What You’ll Discover About Toxic Leadership:* How the severity, frequency, and duration of toxic leadership behaviors impacts employees’ perceptions of honest compensation, safety, and sense of belonging
* Why credit stealing is a top relationship deal-breaker and morale killer
* How bias drowns out facts with preconceived notions that either favors or disadvantages employees
* How if employees are not being intentionally included, they risk being unintentionally excluded
* How toxic leadership behaviors create unwritten rules and fear based environments
* And much more.
Host Hanna Hasl-KelchnerHanna Hasl-Kelchner is a champion for fairness in the workplace. She helps organizations gain clarity to make more informed decisions by reducing complex concepts into sensible, bite size pieces. Hanna accomplishes this as a business strategist and through her writing, speaking, consulting, and popular syndicated podcast, Business Confidential Now.
Hanna brings a unique perspective to the table, growing up in an entrepreneurial family and running a business before age 30 and blending it with decades practicing business law. Those experiences enabled her to successfully bridge the gap between the two disciplines during her career as a trusted advisor to influential decision makers ranging from startups to the S&P 500, Big Tobacco, and the White House. She has also been on the faculty at two top-ranked MBA programs: The Duke University Fuqua School of Management and the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business.
Related Resources:If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Leadership and Management episodes.
Contact Hanna and connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
UPDATE: Her new book Seeking Fairness at Work is now available on Amazon.
Part 1: Unveiling the Truth: Workplace Fairness Myths vs Reality
Part 2: The Key to Retaining Top Talent: A Fair Work Environment
Part 3: Why Low Employee Engagement is Not an Employee Problem
Join, Rate and Review:Rating and reviewing the show helps us grow our audience and allows us to bring you more of the rich information you need to succeed from our high powered guests. Leave a review at a href="https://lovethepodcast.com/BusinessConfidential"... -
Evaluating the Best Email Security Measures for Small Businesses with Stephen Jordan
SECURITY MEASURESWhat security measures do you have in place to protect your email messages?
We assume our emails are secure. But what if they’re not? How do we make sure our messages stay confidential?
Those are a few of the topics we’ll explore with our cybersecurity expert, Stephen Jordan, when we come back.
What You’ll Discover About Security Measures:* Why the security measures of email addresses provided by domain name providers are not enough
* 5 easy protocols you can configure right now that can improve email security measures
* Where to get the biggest return on investment in adding security measures to your email
* How to find a cybersecurity expert you can trust
* And much more.
Guest: Stephen JordanStephen has spent over 33 years providing computer related products and services to small businesses, working as a Technician, System Administrator, System Engineer, and I.T. Manager, with 30 of those years running his own business.
Stephen experienced the evolution of the industry as it changed from being the sales driven computer industry, to the more balanced sales and service I.T. industry, and then to the managed services industry, and has seen many new industries created, including cybersecurity.
Stephen sold his I.T. and managed services business in October of 2021 so he could just focus on matters of cybersecurity for small businesses, which brought him to start his latest business venture called Sound Cybersecurity.
Related Resources:If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Risk Management episodes.
Contact Stephen and connect with him on LinkedIn.
And check out his informative blog.
Join, Rate and Review:Rating and reviewing the show helps us grow our audience and allows us to bring you more of the rich information you need to succeed from our high powered guests. Leave a review at Lovethepodcast.com/BusinessConfidential.
Joining the Business Confidential Now family is easy and lets you have instant access to the latest tactics, strategies and tips to make your business more successful.
Follow on your favorite podcast app here as well as on Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn.
Download ♥ Follow ♥ Listen ♥ Learn ♥ Share ♥ Review ♥ Comment ♥ Enjoy -
Part 3: Why Low Employee Engagement is Not an Employee Problem with Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
Low Employee EngagementWhose problem is “Low Employee Engagement ?"
Managers tend to blame employees for being unmotivated making it the employees’ problem to fix.
But perhaps manager should look in the mirror instead? Let’s talk about that.
What You’ll Discover About Low Employee Engagement:* How the phrase low employee engagement respects the privilege of power
* Three reasons supervisors are more complicit in low employee engagement than they realize
* Why protecting and supporting high employee engagement is a management responsibility
* And much more.
Host Hanna Hasl-KelchnerHanna Hasl-Kelchner is a champion for fairness in the workplace. She helps organizations gain clarity to make more informed decisions by reducing complex concepts into sensible, bite size pieces. Hanna accomplishes this as a business strategist and through her writing, speaking, consulting, and popular syndicated podcast, Business Confidential Now.
Hanna brings a unique perspective to the table, growing up in an entrepreneurial family and running a business before age 30 and blending it with decades practicing business law. Those experiences enabled her to successfully bridge the gap between the two disciplines during her career as a trusted advisor to influential decision makers ranging from startups to the S&P 500, Big Tobacco, and the White House. She has also been on the faculty at two top-ranked MBA programs: The Duke University Fuqua School of Management and the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business.
Related Resources:If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Leadership and Management episodes.
Contact Hanna and connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
UPDATE: Her new book Seeking Fairness at Work is now available on Amazon.
Part 1: Unveiling the Truth: Workplace Fairness Myths vs Reality
Part 2: The Key to Retaining Top Talent: A Fair Work Environment
Join, Rate and Review:Rating and reviewing the show helps us grow our audience and allows us to bring you more of the rich information you need to succeed from our high powered guests. Leave a review at Lovethepodcast.com/BusinessConfidential.
Joining the Business Confidential Now family is easy and lets you have instant access to the latest tactics, strategies and tips to make your business more successful.
Follow on your favorite podcast app here as well as on Facebook, a -
How to Combine Accountability with Meaningful Work with Zach Montroy
Meaningful WorkMaintaining accountability in the workplace is a two edged leadership sword.
On the one hand we want employees to do meaningful work, on the other hand, what’s meaningful to management may not necessarily be meaningful to them, BUT it still needs to get done and therein lies the dilemma for executives, managers, and entrepreneurs.
What You’ll Discover About Meaningful Work:* How meaningful work connects employees’ unique abilities with the overall vision and mission of the company
* Why meaningful work requires synchronizing employees’ expectations
* How meaningful feedback contributes to meaningful work
* How to help employees overcome the fear of vulnerability when discussing meaningful work
* And much more.
Guest: Zach MontroyZach Montroy is a change agent and leadership team coach who has spent two decades in executive roles, honing his expertise in organizational strategy, people operations, people leadership and scaling companies. With a passion for helping leaders expand their impact and build trust, Zach draws from his extensive experience to help companies align their mission and values with their strategy.
Over the last five years, Zach has focused his efforts on helping entrepreneurs scale and grow their businesses, bringing his knowledge and insights to bear on the stickiest issues facing high-growth organizations. With a deep understanding of the importance of both strategy and culture in achieving sustainable growth, Zach helps companies create high-functioning, high-impact organizations through his innovative approach to leadership.
As a sought-after speaker and podcast guest, Zach is known for his ability to distill complex concepts into actionable insights that help businesses achieve their goals. Whether you’re looking to scale your business, build a high-performance team, or expand your impact as a leader, Zach’s expertise and passion for organizational strategy make him an invaluable resource for any entrepreneur or business leader looking to take their organization to the next level.
Related Resources:If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Corporate Governance and Culture episodes.
Contact Zach and connect with him on LinkedIn.
Also be sure to visit his business website, Intention Collective, and it’s corresponding LinkedIn page.
Join, Rate and Review:Rating and reviewing the show helps us grow our audience and allows us to bring you more of the rich information you need to succeed from our high powered guests. Leave a review at Lovethepodcast.com/BusinessConfidential.
Joining the Business Confidential Now family is easy and lets you have instant access to the latest tactics, strategies and tips to make your business more successful.
Follow on your favorite podcast app here as well as on Facebook, YouTube, and a... -
Part 2 The Key to Retaining Top Talent: A Fair Work Environment with Hanna Hasl-Kelchner
Retaining Top TalentRetaining top talent has always been a management challenge. It’s become even more so in our post-covid world where many employees who enjoyed the autonomy of remote work arrangements are suddenly faced return to office mandates.
For employees it feels unfair when the work is going fine. Yet those employee perceptions clashed directly with the management’s view of “Hey, we make the rules around here.”
When that happens, for employees it begs the questions: Do I stay? Or do I go?
What You’ll Discover About Retaining Top Talent:* The role of the implied social contract in retaining top talent
* What the covenants of good faith and fair dealing have to do with retaining top talent
* What good faith and fair dealing means in the workplace
* How the implied social contract legitimizes employee expectations of workplace fairness
* And much more.
Host Hanna Hasl-KelchnerHanna Hasl-Kelchner is a champion for fairness in the workplace. She helps organizations gain clarity to make more informed decisions by reducing complex concepts into sensible, bite size pieces. Hanna accomplishes this as a business strategist and through her writing, speaking, consulting, and popular syndicated podcast, Business Confidential Now.
Hanna brings a unique perspective to the table, growing up in an entrepreneurial family and running a business before age 30 and blending it with decades practicing business law. Those experiences enabled her to successfully bridge the gap between the two disciplines during her career as a trusted advisor to influential decision makers ranging from startups to the S&P 500, Big Tobacco, and the White House. She has also been on the faculty at two top-ranked MBA programs: The Duke University Fuqua School of Management and the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business.
Related Resources:If you liked this interview, you might also enjoy our other Leadership and Management episodes.
Contact Hanna and connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
UPDATE: Her new book Seeking Fairness at Work is now available on Amazon.
Part 1: Unveiling the Truth: Workplace Fairness Myths vs Reality
Join, Rate and Review:Rating and reviewing the show helps us grow our audience and allows us to bring you more of the rich information you need to succeed from our high powered guests. Leave a review at Lovethepodcast.com/BusinessConfidential.
Joining the Business Confidential Now family is easy and lets you have instant access to the latest tactics, strategies and tips to make your business more successful.
Follow on your favorite podcast app here as well as on a...
Customer Reviews
Fantastic host, real talk, to the point!
It was my pleasure to guest on this pod and the host/producer is a true pro. You’ll get a great return on your time investment when you choose this resource. Well done!
Professional, Concise, Informative
Hanna is a pro. I had the pleasure of being a guest on her show, and I was impressed with her professionalism, insightful questions, and the final edited product.
Actionable and engaging!
If you’re craving actionable advice and engaging content, look no further than Hanna Hasl-Kelchner’s podcast! Every episode offers fresh and introspective information for business owners and entrepreneurs. Highly recommend checking it out!