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In this latest series of the Defence Connect Podcast, the Australian Defence Industry Awards Winner Showcase, Defence Connect sits down with award winners from ADIA 2023 to find out what makes them the best and the brightest in Australia’s defence industry.

This inaugural episode features Excellence Award winner and Academic of the Year Dr Marian-Andrei Rizoiu, unpacking his research into combating the effects of misinformation.

• The podcast begins by detailing Dr Rizoiu’s background as a computer engineer, how he used his skills to assess information flows in online and offline environments and its impact on information warfare.
• Dr Rizoiu and host Liam Garman then unpack his research in detecting information operations agents beyond simply analysing what content they were posting.
• The podcast wraps up with the pair discussing how to combat and mitigate the impact of misinformation in our democracy.

Enjoy the podcast,
The Defence Connect Team

In this week's Quick Fire Friday (QFF) episode, Troy interviews Rob Cameron, the host of most episodes of the Quick Fire Friday Podcast. Turning the tables as Rob takes the hot seat to discuss recruitment for small businesses.

Recruiting the right team members is crucial for any business, but it can be challenging, especially for small-medium business owners. That's why we've launched "The Ultimate Recruitment Toolkit," a 10-day short course designed to help you become a more effective hiring manager. This course includes a playbook with templates, phone scripts, email templates, and behavioral questions to guide you through the hiring process.

We recognize that hiring A players can make a significant impact on your business's growth and success. On the other hand, making a bad hire can lead to financial and emotional costs that no one wants to deal with. That's why investing in your own learning and development as a hiring manager is crucial. Our course covers everything from creating clear job descriptions to conducting effective interviews and reference checks.

Using a professional recruiter is an option, but it comes with a cost. While they can bring in a pool of great candidates, it's essential to remember that the final decision lies with you. You should be confident in the person you're hiring, as you'll be living with the consequences.

So, if you're ready to take your recruitment skills to the next level, check out our Ultimate Recruitment Toolkit on growasmallbusiness.com. With the knowledge and resources provided in this course, you'll be on your way to building a strong and effective team that will drive your business to success.

Ready to dive deeper into this topic? Tune in to this week's podcast episode, where we tackle the pain and mistakes small-business owners make in recruitment and hiring team members.

Link to listen now! Don't miss out on this game-changing insight. 👇

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Quotes:

“The hardest thing in business is the people, but it's also where most of the value is.” — Rob Cameron.

“The impact that having an A player in your business can make on the growth and success of the business.” — Rob Cameron.

“The source of most of the pain and frustration in business is people when you've made a bad hire.” — Rob Cameron.

“The more people you can bring in at the top of the recruitment funnel, the better the odds that you're going to be able to find that A player that's really going to make a difference.” — Rob Cameron.

“Help people design a process that's going to give them relevant information on the A players that they want to choose from.” — Rob Cameron.

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In this Quick Fire Friday episode, Michael interviews John Warrillow, founder of the Value Builder System, a sales and marketing software for business advisors to find, win and keep their best clients. He’s based in Toronto, Canada. Asides from being the founder of a successful company, John’s also a host of the Built to Sell Radio, he’s an esteemed author of cohesive books. All of his works are focused on having a common thought, increasing the value of a business. 

Increasing the value of your business is essential, it’s a critical piece in entrepreneurship. Value bares financial growth, competitive advantage, and, most importantly, an exit strategy. John’s Value Builder System helps small-medium business owners build an asset as opposed to a job at a company, it assesses a business objectively based on the 8 Key Drivers of Company Value. Small-medium business owners should also balance their views on value and profit; to look more at the multiple, grow their profit, and grow the value of their business.

The one thing that John Warrillow would recommend a small business owner does based on his knowledge and experience, is that small-medium business owners should think of themselves more as owners, parents, of their businesses rather than CEOs of their companies; to evolve a business into becoming independent as their biggest aspiration. 

This Cast Covers: 

• The process and significance of making a company more valuable.
• The Value Builder System is software that helps entrepreneurs build their businesses as an asset.
• John’s journey into becoming what he is now, a man focused on creating value.
• Different components that qualify a business exquisite for acquisition.
• Small and medium-sized business owners are frequently emotional about their business.
• The 8 Key Drivers of Company Value.
• Benefits of making your business differentiated as it increases sellability.
• Stories John shared to inspire business owners to cultivate the value of their businesses.
• Small-medium business owners celebrate revenue too much.
• Encouraging small-medium businesses to look at the multiple, profit, and value.

Links: 

• John’s Linkedin
• John’s Company Website
• John’s Twitter

Additional Resources:

• Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You by John Warrillow
• The Automatic Customer: Creating a Subscription Business in Any Industry by John Warrillow
• Built to Sell Podcast 

Quotes:

“A business is transferable if it can run without the owner.” — John Warrillow.

“You teach what you want to learn.” — John Warrillow.

“Invest in companies with a deep and wide competitive moat.” — John Warrillow.

“Ego is what drives us to want to be the biggest shot in the room.” — John Warrillow.

“Evolving the way you think of your role as an owner of the business and thinking less as a CEO of your business and more as the parent of your business.” — John Warrillow.

Have you lost yourself? Are you feeling lonely? It may be because you are seeking external validation. Find out how to validate yourself in this episode where Hollie would show you how to throw out rule books and get in tune with your best self by validating yourself. You're worth the listen.

In this episode, Michael Denehey interviews David Reid, based in Brisbane QLD, Australia. David is a Human Resources Advisor, and a Management Consultant. David specializes in a range of supports around the “Human Element” of business practices, utilizing a range of Human Relationship (HR), Work Health & Safety, NLP, as well as Employee Engagement and Training services.

Since the year 2020 with the transition of “work-life balance” to “life-work balance”, David Reid assists small and medium business owners to develop a vital trustable staff, by implementing new staff engagement strategies to mitigate performance decline, and by assessing each of their employees’ skills and will. “You just got to engage and align, and so forth.”, he said. 

This Cast Covers:

• How Michael and David met
• David’s experience around “Human Element”
• Who David is and what his background
• What’s lacking in most of the business these days
• The challenges business faced in attracting and keeping good stuff
• The challenges that businesses and employees faced in shifting from work-life balance to life-work balance
• How attitude and care factors are the most important attribute in building an effective workplace
•  David’s recommendation

Links:

• David’s LinkedIn 
• David Reid - About.me

Additional Resources:

• Resources - Business 360

Quotes:

“Work-life balance has now become life-work balance in the eyes of many.” —David Reid.

“So what we're finding is the ideal candidate or capability is the skill and will.” — David Reid.

“It's eliciting, identifying firstly, what our motivators are and what we value, and looking for those similar types of things to fit with potential candidates.” — David Reid.

“So when we look at the skill and will, how do we assess will?” — David Reid.

“People need a sense of purpose, and you have to be clear on what their purpose is.” — David Reid.

Music from https://filmmusic.io “Cold Funk” by Kevin MacLeod https://incompetech.com. License: CC by http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Bulletproof Hygiene Podcast Episode 38

Hosts: Charissa Wood, RDH  & Brittany Simon, CRDH, BASD

Key Takeaways:
Intro
Educate And Give Options
Statistics Of Perio And Occlusal Disease
Assess Perio Health
Update Comprehensive Exam
Evaluation

References:

Bulletproof Hygiene Network 

Bulletproof Hygiene: The Guide For Finding Fulfillment Through Purposeful, Profitable Hygiene

Occlusal Trauma and Periodontal Diseases

Tweetables:

Without follow-up, the initial treatment or therapy will not be successful. Brittany Simon

Quick question for you: Do you think emotional intelligence is important in the workplace?

In this Leadership Insight episode of the Enlightened Executive, we discuss how you can assess your emotional intelligence. To receive the most honest assessment of your emotional intelligence, we would recommend a professional 360 assessment, however, if you’re interested in testing the waters first, in this episode we offer 10 questions for a DIY 360 assessment.

Emotional intelligence is important in the workplace because it can’t be outsourced to a robot or a factory, it’s no longer a “soft skill” -- it’s now an essential skill, and the higher your EQ, the more likely you are to get hired and promoted. If you’re interested in taking a full assessment or want to work on raising your emotional intelligence, let’s get connected.

Does your job make you come alive? Does it fulfill a great need in you that brings meaning to your life? If the answer to either of those questions is no, it may be time to reassess. Jonathan Fields, the host of the top-rated Good Life Project podcast, knows firsthand the effects of staying in a career that isn’t serving you. Now he helps others assess their true passion so that they can live more meaningful and inspired lives. So tell me, what’s your spark?

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Within this episode, Heidi explains why it is importance to regularly assess and harness your habits.  The reason for regular assessment is to ensure the habits we have are serving us well and supporting our health and wellbeing.

TO LEARN MORE:
www.TotalSomatics.com
www.HeidiHadley.com

- I explain why I often get called in by leaders before they fire a low performer.
- I share the 6 factors that I ask leaders about to confirm they have done all that they can do.

In this Episode:

Things are going to change in our life whether we want them to or not. Change is inevitable! There are 3 specific strategies that will help you with the process of change and discuss them.

Reference in the Podcast:

“To improve is to change.”

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ARN Podcast Ep. 152: Costume Change

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A young male patient woke with an acute onset of constant, shooting shoulder pain, is painful into abduction, reluctant to lift his arm, and feels like he’s losing shoulder strength. He has no recent history of injury. 

Can you diagnose this unusual cause of shoulder pain, based on this patient's symptoms and physical tests? What are your differential diagnoses and red flags to keep in mind with this patient? 

In this podcast, Jo Gibson puts your knowledge of shoulder pain and diagnostic skills to the test, and explores how you can treat patients with this diagnosis.

Links associated with this episode:

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• Improve your diagnosis of acute shoulder pain with 3 free videos with Jo Gibson
• Improve your confidence and clinical reasoning with a free trial Clinical Edge membership
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• Infographics by Clinical Edge
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Articles associated with this episode:

• CLICK HERE to download the articles associated with this podcast

• Clarke CJ, Torrance E, McIntosh J, Funk L. Neuralgic amyotrophy is not the most common neurologic disorder of the shoulder: a 78-month prospective study of 60 neurologic shoulder patients in a specialist shoulder clinic. Journal of shoulder and elbow surgery. 2016 Dec 1;25(12):1997-2004.

• Cup EH, Ijspeert J, Janssen RJ, Bussemaker-Beumer C, Jacobs J, Pieterse AJ, van der Linde H, van Alfen N. Residual complaints after neuralgic amyotrophy. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation. 2013 Jan 1;94(1):67-73.

• DO MAGDALIA PB. Neuralgic Amyotrophy. Challenging Neuropathic Pain Syndromes: Evaluation and Evidence-Based Treatment. 2017 Nov 12:197.

• Feinberg JH, Nguyen ET, Boachie‐Adjei K, Gribbin C, Lee SK, Daluiski A, Wolfe SW. The electrodiagnostic natural history of parsonage–turner syndrome. Muscle & nerve. 2017 Oct;56(4):737-43.

• Lustenhouwer R, Cameron IG, van Alfen N, Oorsprong TD, Toni I, van Engelen BG, Groothuis JT, Helmich RC. Altered sensorimotor representations after recovery from peripheral nerve damage in neuralgic amyotrophy. Cortex. 2020 Feb 28.

• Seror P. Neuralgic amyotrophy. An update. Joint Bone Spine. 2017 Mar 1;84(2):153-8.

Get access to free videos with Jo Gibson on diagnosis of shoulder pain at clinicaledge.co/shoulder

You need to assess virtual capabilities before you can effectively move into the world of virtual communications. 

First, you need to assess your own capabilities. Identify what virtual equipment you have and know how to use. Then, you have to assess the virtual capability of the people in remote locations that you want to communicate with. Identify their virtual capabilities. What equipment do they have? Do they know how to use the equipment? Are they comfortable doing so. 

Familiarize yourself with the types of virtual communication tools that are available. 

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The answer is in the numbers. How many workers are in the unit? How many workers showed up to the meeting? How many cards have been signed? Is support increasing or decreasing? Look to the numbers to find out. Don't rely on gut feelings alone. Measure success like a business does. Avoid waiting too long to assess campaign commitment. 

“Fail fast doesn’t mean pray and spray,” warns Ron Carucci when asked about companies who rush to market without due diligence and suffer from “EBITDA addiction.”  Ron has a 30-year track record helping organizations articulate and execute strategies that lead to accelerated growth.  In this episode, he shares two examples that demonstrate how he uses organization design to encourage clarity-driven innovation.  He also discusses the three ways to organize work and explains why your work, your people and your technologies must be integrated to stay ahead.

Do you ever feel like you'll never quite reach your ideal in your relationship? And does it bring you down? How do you take stock of how things are going in a way that helps you not only improve things, but also identify what your strengths are - what needs celebrating? On today's episode, you'll learn a simple process for assessing things in your relationship - and how to celebrate the things that are celebration-worthy. And you'll uncover a way to hold your ideal vision without it becoming something that teases you by being continually out of reach. How do you hold your ideal, while celebrating along the way? That's what's up in this week's episode of Relationship Alive - which also happens to mark the 3 YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the podcast.

As always, I’m looking forward to your thoughts on this episode and what revelations and questions it creates for you. Please join us in the Relationship Alive Community on Facebook to chat about it!

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