Making Business Profitable with EBITDA Growth Systems
Welcome to Making Business Profitable with EBITDA Growth Systems, the podcast where business owners, leaders, and operators in manufacturing come to sharpen their edge, scale smarter, and build highly profitable companies.
Hosted by Mike Watkins and Dave McKeown, co-founders of EBITDA Growth Systems, each episode delivers battle-tested insights, real-world stories, and step-by-step strategies on topics like sales and marketing pitfalls, workforce retention, ERP systems, turnaround culture, onboarding best practices, quality control, strategic planning, and leadership development. Whether tackling common blind spots or diving into cutting-edge tools and operational efficiencies, Mike and Dave equip you with everything you need to solve the right problems, hire and retain the right people, and ultimately, build a business that thrives.
Whether you're a CNC machine-shop owner, executive, or operations leader, you'll walk away with practical tools you can implement immediately. From leadership and sales to operations and culture, Making Business Profitable cuts through the noise and brings you the conversations that matter most to your bottom line.
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Making Business Profitable with EBITDA Growth Systems
Episode 3 - Is it important to have a good manager?
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The answer is a resounding yes. Good managers are arguably the most important cog in the wheel of a successful business. According to the Gallup Organization the quality of the manager is the single most highly correlated factor for employee engagement and retention. Employee engagement and retention are highly correlated to productivity, efficiency and profitability.
This segment describes the characteristics of good managers and characteristics of bad managers. Gallup Organization research indicates that only 14% of new managers will be successful in their new roles. 86% of managers will be modestly successful of fail in their new roles. What a call to action for SMB owners to train their managers!
