Helping your business get the new year started right. Jim Blasingame reveals his "December cleaning" ideas for helping your business start the new year without the baggage and bad decisions of the previous year.

What kinds of questions do you ask in an employment interview? Marie Dubuque joins Jim Blasingame to recommend a productive way to interview prospective employees during the hiring process.

Should you form a partnership or a strategic alliance? Pam Harper joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the difference between a strategic alliance and a partnership and why you should know the difference.

Becoming a better delegator could solve a lot of your problems. John Dini joins Jim Blasingame to report on an Alternative Board survey that indicates small business owners are not very good delegators, and the problems this creates.

If you're not an HR professional, you probably need professional HR help. Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to talk about why most small businesses need the help of an HR professional firm to help them at least with hiring.

How disciplined are your hiring practices? Bob Kustka joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the problems created by being impatient and undisciplined when hiring new employees, and how to get rid of this poor management behavior.

Can a little water really make that much difference? Ivan Misner joins Jim Blasingame to recommend offering filtered water to employees - both hot and cold - to encourage them to drink more water to improve their health.

Both sides of your paradoxes are parts of you. Kelle Olwyler joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the power of your personal paradoxes and how to benefit from understanding both sides of your paradoxical pendulum swings.

How to cut your non-performing behaviors. Kelle Olwyler joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how she takes stock of her performance for the past year and shed those behaviors that held her back before the new year.

Bruce Piasecki joins Jim Blasingame to discuss his event where business managers large and small will learn more about how energy issues impact their businesses and their customers.