Soar Higher With Jason Ballard

This week, Joel and Jason chat about preparing yourself for your next opportunity. To be prepared for what's next, you should first consider where you are at today. Start with an honest assessment and ask these questions:What are my abilities and strengths? What do I need to work on to better myself?What are my short & long-term goals?  A goal without a plan is just a wish. Are your goals written down? Do you have a plan written for these goals? If you don't know where to start, consider turning your goals into SMART Goals:SpecificMeasurableAchievableRelevantTime-bound  Show Links:LinkedIn: Jason Ballard LinkedIn: Soar HigherSoar Higher FacebookSoar Higher Youtubewww.soarhighercoaching.com

If you are feeling burnt out, if you are feeling unchallenged, or if you have been on the fence about moving on to a new job, you are going to want to listen closely to this one. On this episode of the Soar Higher Podcast, Jason and Joel explore a topic that just about everyone experiences at some point in their professional career: being stuck in their occupation. Jason discusses the first signs of being "stuck", and then offers some great and actionable advice for removing the glue that is keeping you in your current position..Show Links:LinkedIn: Jason Ballard LinkedIn: Soar HigherSoar Higher FacebookSoar Higher Youtubewww.soarhighercoaching.com

On this week's edition of the Soar Higher Podcast, Jason & Joel discuss team dynamics and why they are so important. All companies are made up of people, and your products and services will never escape the influence of those people. in fact, 93% of companies experience dysfunctional teams. After listening to this episode, not only will you have a better understanding of what team dynamics are, and why 93% of companies experience dysfunction within their established teams, but you will also learn:The four stages of Team DynamicsHow to perform an audit of your team7 tips/steps to help you optimize the performance of your team.  .Show Links:LinkedIn: Jason Ballard LinkedIn: Soar HigherSoar Higher FacebookSoar Higher Youtubewww.soarhighercoaching.com

This week on the Soar Higher Podcast, Jason and Joel welcome Jason's good friend, Ben Simmons to the studio. Ben is a Senior-level Architect and Associate at Schmidt Associates in Louisville Kentucky. He has spent a career designing and developing corporate offices for high employee count companies. With the major technological shifts, the COVID-19 pandemic, and numerous other factors, today's corporate office looks much different than it did even a couple of years ago. Ben & Jason dig deep into how companies need to design their offices to adapt to the rapidly changing workplace culture today. Show Links:LinkedIn: Jason Ballard LinkedIn: Soar HigherSoar Higher FacebookSoar Higher Youtubewww.soarhighercoaching.com  Guest Links:Ben Simmons - https://www.linkedin.com/in/simmonsben/ Schmidt Associates - https://schmidt-arch.com 

On this episode of the Soar Higher podcast, Jason and Joel have a great conversation with the #401klady, Jeanne J. Sutton with Strategic Retirement Partners. Over the past decade, she has built a successful practice serving as an investment advisor representative and financial consultant for families and businesses. Jeanne also has expertise in employee benefits. She provides a ton of great information on how the workforce has changed in regards to what employees want and expect, from competitive companies. Show Links:LinkedIn: Jason Ballard LinkedIn: Soar HigherSoar Higher FacebookSoar Higher Youtubewww.soarhighercoaching.com Guest Links:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/401klady/ Strategic Retirement Partners - https://www.srpretire.com/who-we-are/team/jeannef/

In today's episode of the Soar Higher Podcast, Jason and Joel discuss changing workplace cultures and how successful business executives are adapting to develop a winning culture at their company. Jason starts the show by comparing and contrasting two NFL organizations (Detroit vs Dallas) and then discusses 5 important steps that can help turn your organization's culture around.Show Links:LinkedIn: Jason Ballard LinkedIn: Soar HigherSoar Higher FacebookSoar Higher Youtubewww.soarhighercoaching.com

On today's episode of the Soar Higher Podcast, Jason and Joel have a in-depth discussion on how the newly coined "Great Resignation" is disrupting business, and how top executives need to take it into account, and adjusted to keep their workforce operating. The Great Resignation, is an ongoing economic trend in which employees have voluntarily resigned from their jobs en masse, beginning in early 2021. Possible causes include wage stagnation amid rising cost of living long-lasting job dissastisfaction, safety concerns of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the desire to work for companies with better remote-working policies.Listen in on this episode to hear Jason's thoughts on the topic, and some very important advice on how places of employment need to treat their staff to survive moving forward. Show Links:LinkedIn: Jason Ballard LinkedIn: Soar HigherSoar Higher FacebookSoar Higher Youtubewww.soarhighercoaching.comThe Great Resignation 

Welcome back for the 6th episode of Soar Higher with Jason Ballard, and Co-host, Joel Wieland. This episode focuses on the topic of Fear, and how it affects businesses. Fear is something we all face, but without knowing how to manage it, fear will prevent you from achieving your goals. There are 6 types of fear that commonly prevent executives from performing at their full potential:Fear of failureFear of the unknownFear of losing controlFear of changeFear of rejectionFear of success  These fears and practical guidance on facing fear are provided in this episode, along with much more great advice and stories. Enjoy the show!Show Links:LinkedIn: Jason Ballard LinkedIn: Soar HigherSoar Higher FacebookSoar Higher Youtubewww.soarhighercoaching.com

On this week's installment of the Soar Higher podcast, Jason and Joel welcome their first guest into the studio, Janna Donovan! Janna is a licensed therapist, mother, author, and former over-worker turned Work Stress Guru. After about 20 years of high-level corporate experience, Janna experienced a period of burnout that many high-level executives do. After experiencing therapy to get herself back into a groove, she discovered a new passion. Janna now helps those who are going through the same issues with work stress and burnout that she did through coaching and consulting.If you are finding yourself in a position of work-related stress, listen to this episode to hear some tremendous advice from two experts who can help! Show Links:LinkedIn: Jason Ballard LinkedIn: Soar HigherSoar Higher FacebookSoar Higher Youtubewww.soarhighercoaching.comGuest Links:Website - https://www.workstress.guru"Burnout Diaries" Book - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/burnout-diaries-janna-donovan/1140170608?ean=9781737576501Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/workstressguru/

In the final installment of the Leadership overview series, Jason and Joel discuss what a leader ought to be doing to make sure they are staying on the path towards effectiveness & continuous improvement. Jason recommends that every aspiring leader does the following 4 things:Ask yourself, "Does leadership even interest you?"Perform a self-assessment of leadership traitsAudit real moments where you succeeded or failed in a role of leadershipSource feedback from those that you lead.  Below you will find a lot of helpful links to tools that can be used to assist you in the performance of steps 2-4. A lot of other great advice and stories are included in this episode so tune in and soar higher!Show Links:LinkedIn: Jason Ballard LinkedIn: Soar HigherSoar Higher FacebookSoar Higher Youtubewww.soarhighercoaching.com