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Ep. 155: Organizational Muscle Sneak Peak: The Marketing Chapter
NCG is back for another sneak peek of Kevin Nolan’s soon to be released book, Organizational Muscle. If you are a routine listener of our podcast, you are familiar wit...
Ep. 154: Making Connections in the CPC: Alignment of the Why
Nolan Consulting Group’s Planning Tool, the Cascading Planning Cycle (CPC) is defined by a core set of planning activities from annual, quarterly and monthly meetings...
Ep. 153: Introducing the Succession Planning Process
As a Business Leader who has poured time and energy into building a business that has impacted the lives and careers of many, there will come a time when retirement is...
Ep. 152: LEAN Tools Explored - Elements of the Control Plan
We welcome back NCG Coach Jim Bradley for a continuation of our LEAN podcast series - this time, we’re talking about the elements of the Control Plan. In our past epis...
Ep. 151: Refocusing Sales Behaviors - Let’s Not get Beat by the Decision Process
NCG Sr. Coach Andrew Amrhein joins us for a timely conversation bringing the focus back to the world of Sales. For those businesses impacted by seasonal change, the Sp...
Ep. 150: Organizational Muscle Chapter Sneak Peek: Hiring the Talent!
Earlier this year, we invited Kevin Nolan, Partner at Nolan Consulting Group and CEO at Nolan Painting to join us on the podcast to announce the upcoming release of hi...
Ep. 149: 2023 Grand Summit Conference - The Recap
For many of our listeners, Summit Members and sponsor partners who joined us in San Diego - it was an amazing few days of learning, sharing and engagement last month- ...
Ep. 148: Putting the Cascading Planning Cycle to Work: The Monthly Core 3
Colin Nolan, Sr Business Coach here at Nolan Consulting Group is ready to bring us all back into the mindset of planning…we are just about to wrap up Q1 of 2023 after ...
Ep. 147 Lean Series Continued : The Kaizen Event
Our LEAN Podcast Series here on Out of the Hourglass rolls on with NCG Business Coach, Jim Bradley. Today - we are introducing the Kaizen Event! If Lean is a lens th...
Ep. 146: Business is Messy & A Preview of Building Mental Strength
Brian Nolan and Kevin Nolan are back with a special edition of Business is Messy - we get a temperature read on the messes of the current business environment in tande...
Ep. 145: Connecting the Dots: The Employee Welcome Experience & Retention
NCG’s Managing partner, Brian Nolan joins today’s episode to discuss the importance of creating a welcoming experience and structure for those new employees joining yo...
Ep. 144: The Visionary/Integrator Relationship: A Dynamic of Conflict & Collaboration
NCG’s own Director of Operations and Sr. Business Coach, Kathryn Freeman, takes over as episode host for a one on one conversation with Nicole Hanik, Chief Integration...
Ep. 143: Managing to the DNA of a Sales Team ~ A dynamic lens of strengths, weaknesses, and skills
CEO & Founder of Trifit Business Development, a sales training and recruitment firm and author of Hooked on Hopium, Overcome the Biggest Obstacle to Your Sales Succes...
Ep. 142: Lean Series Continued: A focus on DMAIC
We are back with NCG Business Coach, Jim Bradley for a continuation of the LEAN Podcast Series here at Out of the Hourglass. We kicked off the series back in the Fall...
Ep. 141: Problems, Change & Continuous Improvement
Our 2023 Season is kicking off with Kevin Nolan, Partner at Nolan Consulting Group and CEO of Nolan Painting for a sneak peek into one of the Chapters from Kevin’s new...
Ep. 140: Business is Messy ~ Walking into 2023
Welcome to 2023! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season and are settling back into your routines with fresh perspective and optimism for the year ahead. Th...
Ep. 139: Giving Feedback ~ Why...when...how?
NCG's Managing Partner, Brian Nolan, and Nolan Painting's Field Supervisor, Conal Mulreany, tackle the tricky topic of Giving Feedback, a critical part of any manageri...
Ep. 138: Opening Up the LEAN Toolbox ~ TIMWOODS
On today's podcast, Molly welcomes back NCG Business Coach, Jim Bradley to continue the conversation on LEAN thinking and how to apply the concept to operational proce...
Ep. 137: Biz Dev is Back! It's Time to Refresh your Sales Strategy
Let it be known - Biz Dev is back! We all can feel the shift - the last couple of years of endless leads and months of work on the calendar are slowly starting to diss...
Ep. 136: The Use of Technology in Process Improvement
On this week's episode of Out of the Hourglass, Kathryn Freeman, NCG Sr. Business Coach and Director of Operations welcomes a new guest: Nicole Hanik, Chief Integratio...
Ep. 135: Business is Messy Series ~Riding the Rapids~
We're back with another highly requested Business is Messy Podcast Episode featuring NCG Partners and brothers Brian Nolan and Kevin Nolan. When we last heard from ...
Ep. 134: Navigating the Legal Risks of Employee Termination
NCG's Managing Partner Brian Nolan, takes over the mic to host a critical conversation on Labor Laws and Employer Protection with David Walton, an experienced Labor an...
Ep. 133: Who Says Promo Products have to be boring? A conversation with Boxed Sourcing & Production
On today's podcast, Molly sits down with the team at Boxed Sourcing & Production - a women-owned and operated company specializing in branded and promotional goods. Th...
Ep. 132: NCG Book Club ~ Who Not How ~ by Daniel Sullivan
The NCG Book Club has been busy! We've read a lot of great books in the last several months and we have a new one to add to that list - "Who Not How" by Dan Sullivan. ...
Ep. 131: Lean Principles - Applying Lean thinking to the Trades
On today's podcast, Molly welcomes NCG Business Coach Jim Bradley, for an introduction to the concept of Lean Thinking and its application to operational strategy and ...
Ep. 130: NCG Book Club: The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni
Are you a member of, or a leader of...a team? Yes - of course, and today's podcast is all about teams! Three members of the NCG Book Club join Molly for a discussion a...
Ep. 129: Gearing up for Annual Planning
Welcome to Q4! Ready or not, it's fall ...and Annual Planning Season! On today's podcast, Molly welcomes Brian Nolan, Managing Partner here at Nolan Consulting Group f...
Ep. 128: Position Visions & DISC Assessments
In this week's episode, two of Nolan Consulting Groups' finest take the mic for a conversation about two tools used frequently at NCG: the DISC Profile Assessment and ...
Ep. 127: Diagnosing Problems
This week we bring back NCG Sr. Business Coach Andrew Amrhein for a conversation on Diagnosing Problems. How do we fully understand an issue to address the specific pr...
Ep. 126: The Impact of Summit Member Adventure
Today's podcast detours from our usual business topics and takes us on a kayaking, hiking, and camping adventure off the coast of Washington state among the beautiful ...