Episode 12 - Mentoring - Special Guest - Dr Natalia Weichowski

Episode 14 - Mentoring - Special Guest - Curt Mercadante

Curt is a marketeer, business man, self described Freedom Club Owner and successful mentor and coach.  Based out of the US, Curt has created a Freedom movement of people who want to change their life through a number of core ways  1. Identifying the individuals super powers 2. Aligning a vision 3. Creating the structure around you for alignment of the above 4. Identifying 3 outcomes to persue - daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, yearly and so on 5. Flow Background and Experience He was in the midst of running an extremely successful public relations/advertising agency and landing one big client after another. You move around a lot in that walk of life. Regular flights to catch meetings…conference calls and follow-ups…managing the collective anxieties of a demanding clientele base. His family was growing and so was his bank account. Mercadante did what he could to embrace the little moments that matter whenever they cascaded into view, but he also had to contend with the next thing: the next meeting, the next fire to put out, the next brand to promote. A carousel ride that continued in seeming perpetuity, Mercadante was satisfied with the growth of his business — because, why wouldn’t he have been? — though he couldn’t help but feel that there was something missing from the rush a surging career is supposed to offer. Then he remembered what a superhero looks like. Nicholas Mercadante, Curt’s father, was that superhero, almost quite literally. After graduating with an engineering degree from the University of Notre Dame, the elder Mercadante embarked on a career path that would be tough for any child to live up to. When your dad helps design electronic systems on space craft and fighter jets — you needn’t pine for comic book characters to save the day. All you have to do is look across the dining room table if you want to catch a glimpse of someone who boasts actual interstellar superpowers. But that wasn’t the primary reason why Mercadante’s father set such a high standard. What it really came down to was work ethic. Doing what needed to be done. When Nick Mercadante found himself facing a career switch later in life, he got a paper route. A paper route! Why?  Simple: income was necessary. If there was going to be a gap in employment, that gap had to be filled. There wasn’t time for the ego to obstruct necessity, especially when there were mouths to feed. The only problem was time. There just never seemed to be enough of it. His father was a superhero, a man who literally helped change the world. Curt, for all of his strides made professionally, did not feel as though he was contributing to the verifiable betterment of anyone’s lives. He was a skilled distributor of information, sure. But just because he was successful did not mean he was particularly proud. Or fulfilled. A change was coming. Not right away, not in one fell swoop. Time, precious and fleeting, you could watch the seconds fall from the clock all while wishing you were doing something else somewhere else. Curt needed some of that time to reestablish his direction without letting too much of it go to waste. He began by informally coaching clients, friends, and colleagues. It was a natural fit. Curt had a snowglobe perspective of what his charges were dealing with. He could see the avenues in which they were misdirecting their energy, the biggest hurdle that causes most professionals to stumble. Indecision is another trap most fall victim to, be it due to a lack of confidence or woeful procrastination. Curt cut through the noise and guided his fledgling clientele away from their self-destructive habits and watched as they reached new heights at a pace so rapid, even he was surprised.

Episode 13 - Mentoring - Top Tips for Interview Debriefs

Do you want to be a top biller?  Do you want to be the best recruiter possible? Interview Debrief 1. Trial Close – gather as much information as you can on the interview so you can work with the candidate to ensure you can begin the trial close process. Remember you are looking for what would stop them saying yes, leaving you with only a yes answer 2. Email Summation – sounds basic, but again, so many people don’t use this tool. Its all about getting the candidaets to commit to writing down what they have said and what they will accept 3. Face to face close / debrief – if you can, this is critical as it means you have a much more powerful connection to the candidate.  Stay tuned for more top tips on my 3C's training philosophy - candidates, clients, company.  Check out my new DCF Experience Podcast for mentoring and coaching tips for those in the recruitment industry. Please leave me a voice message on here or email me at david@dcfdigital.co.uk [david@dcfdigital.co.uk].

Episode 12 - Mentoring - Special Guest - Dr Natalia Weichowski

Super excited for my exclusive personal brand coach on today's show.  Dr Natalia is a personal branding expert, LinkedIn Influencer, Coach and Consultant. Below are some of her many highlights: 𝐌𝐘 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 📘 At twenty-nine, at the peak of my corporate career and deep unhappiness, I quit my job and started from scratch. 📘During a nine-month sabbatical I changed the way I think, speak and act. I committed to design my purposeful dream life and founded Think Natalia. 𝐌𝐘 𝐎𝐁𝐒𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 & 𝐌𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 📗 My obsession is coachsulting people who left corporate to do their own thing. Teaching coaches/ consultants how to market themselves, how to build thought leadership personal brands on LinkedIn. 📗 My aim: A tribe of one million thinkers and doers to challenge, to change the status quo. 𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐌𝐄 📙 I coachsult and speak globally, am German and live in Dubai. 📙 I started as a Social Scientist, turned into a Dr. of Philosophy, a LinkedIn Marketing Unicorn, a Forbes Coaches Council Member and the Middle East's leading Edutainer. 📙 Books, food, exploring new places, self-improvement and ticking things off my to-do-list make me happy 𝐌𝐘 𝐒𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐂𝐄𝐒 (𝐢𝐧 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐆𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧): 📒 Coachsulting -> Visit www.ThinkNatalia.com/personal-branding for details and results 📒 Self-study Online Courses -> www.ThinkNatalia.com/online-courses 📒 Keynotes & Trainings: Personal Branding, Content Marketing, LinkedIn -> www.ThinkNatalia.com/keynote-speaker

Episode 11 - Mentoring - Top Tips for Interview Debriefs

Do you want to be a top biller?  Do you want to be the best recruiter possible? Interview Debrief 1. Questions asked – the interviewer, the company, the team, the structure 2. Assessment – qualify if they think they are right, motivations (non financial) 3. Package – break down every part – this is critical at 1st stage as you don’t know how many more interviews there will be and you must have this early on. Stay tuned for more top tips on my 3C's training philosophy - candidates, clients, company.  Check out my new DCF Experience Podcast for mentoring and coaching tips for those in the recruitment industry. Please leave me a voice message on here or email me at david@dcfdigital.co.uk [david@dcfdigital.co.uk].

Episode 10 - Mentoring - Special Guest - Andrew Sillitoe

Andrew is a business psychologist, performance coach, public speaker, and author from Kent, England. Blending 20 years’ experience as an elite international sportsman and coach along with three published books and an acclaimed TED talk, Andrew’s innovative and straight-talking views on leadership, teamwork and strategy has resulted in his advice and guidance being sought after by key figures at several FTSE 100 companies. In 1997, Andrew made the move to Canada to pursue a professional roller hockey career and develop his coaching skills. He succeeded in both, becoming the first British player to play professionally while his thriving coaching business was born. In 2004, he moved into the corporate world as a sales and marketing consultant for Yellow Pages. in 2007, his unique and visionary approach in business saw him headhunted by a consultancy to speak about a “winning mindset”. It proved the spark that lit his future career path. Just a year later, he’d developed a new method to enable elite athletes and business leaders to fulfill their potential. This was the seed that eventually blossomed into his renowned 4 Keys approach.