Leadership is an essential aspect of any successful business. Effective leadership can lead to increased employee engagement, improved productivity, and better business performance. In this blog post, we will explore the direct correlation between improved leadership and business performance.
Things might start to creak as your company grows in size. Weaknesses can be exposed, and they aren’t always fixable once the quest begins. Some have achieved decent progress but hit a glass ceiling. Some are unfamiliar with scaling up and developing their businesses. Has your company remained stagnant for
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As a business coach, one of the most common issues I encounter with my clients is a lack of effective time management. Many entrepreneurs and business owners feel overwhelmed by the constant stream of tasks and responsibilities that come with running a business, and struggle to prioritise and manage their
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As a business owner, you’re probably used to keeping the firmest possible grasp on every aspect of your organisation. Yet this is a problem – or several problems – when it’s time to grow. How can you expand without losing control of essential functions? Who do you trust to take
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There’s nothing more important to a growing business than the quality and timeliness of decision-making. Yet how do you know if you are making optimum decisions? Who is actually making them? How do you decide who decides? When you drill down into your business decision-making process, it may be murkier
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There’s a vast gap between having a vision and making it real. Many businesses get trapped in this critical space, pursuing aimless ideas instead of identifying achievable outcomes, then making them happen. Here lies the beauty of Objectives and Key Results, or OKRs. They take the stress out of business
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It is bad to fail, yeah? Especially at work or in your business? Should we feel that failure is shameful, demonstrates you, your team or your organisation aren’t good enough? Well what if I told you that we can use failure to be much more successful than you have ever
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The age old question: how to deliver the product or service that your customer needs or wants at the right time? I’ll respond by asking a further question: Is your team on the front lines empowered to make decisions? I mean the decisions that will genuinely meet the needs of
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Teams that have a big impact on business performance like the Board, Leadership Team, Management or Operational teams, don’t just become high performing unless the team have collaborated themselves to create clarity, structure and confirmed the boundaries for the team. So what are the structures and boundaries needed? Creating structure,
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Leaders almost always also lead a team, whether that is an Executive Leadership team, a Management team or or a team of workers. So what do you do if you absolutely know or have a good feeling that your team isn’t working together, they are pulling in different directions or
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Ever wondered why you keep hearing about coaching and what all the fuss is about? This article in Business News outlines what it is about Coaching that is driving the huge demand for Business, Executive, Team, Career or Life Coaches. Firstly the article defines what is a professional coach: “an
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To quote Chanel Cumberbatch “A coach is like a partner, while a consultant is more like an advisor.” This is something to keep in mind when you’re deciding where you should start your search for someone to help and guide you to make your business exceptional. When you are doing
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Do you agree that your employee’s are your business’ key asset? Your employees are also likely to be your largest cost base. So focusing on improving that asset in your business makes sense when you think of it that way. So how can you assist your key asset to meet
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All leaders have a style bias, that is the style we naturally default too which can be referred to as your dominant style. This is often the dominant style we have seen modelled by leaders close to us like our parents or leaders we have looked up to in the
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“Life changing, completely life changing” – that is what I was thinking after finishing this book. It was recommended by my Executive Coach Jill Livesey My key take-aways were: To change habits we need to focus on our identity. If you identify as a non-smoker then you will be a
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As a business or in life we grow and develop ourselves over time, sometimes quickly during a spurt or slower at other times. Do we know, without some guidance, how to improve ourselves or our business at the speed which is sustainable for ourselves, our clients and the planet? Also
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Daniel Goleman’s research on Leadership resulted in defining six different styles of leadership and showed that an individual can exhibit more than one style, in fact a good leader can use different styles in different contexts with different people or teams. That said most leaders have a default leadership style
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It may come as no surprise that a business with 5 employees has to be led differently to a business with 350 employees. Not only is the complexity of the number of relationships vastly different but also the design of the business has a lot more clients plus usually a
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This is the book that kicked me off on my next phase of learning. It is inspirational to people like me who had spent a lot of time in traditional universities or large corporations. This was an awakening, thankfully 7 years ago which has lead me to where I am
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Orchard Coaching’s owner Charlie Winn has achieved his Coaching certification by IECL. Charlie has been coaching Agile teams, coaching Executives and business owners for over a number of years and already has his certification as an Agile Coach (SAFe SPC) and certification as a Rugby Coach (Rugby Australia Level 2)
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What stage of growth is your business in? Business size is calculated in many different ways, by revenue or offices, however when trying to ensure your business has its core elements in place, you should be looking at the complexity driven by the number of employees in your business. So
Many businesses’ nirvana is to have a flexible, visual and data driven solution so that employee’s OKR’s (Objectives & Key Results) cascade below the organisations strategic Objectives and be confident all are pushing in the same direction. What about if: Every employee could access a visual representation of cascading OKR’s,
Orchard Coaching has teamed up with the ReWild Group to offer the Organisational ReWilding Business Growth methodology. Is your SMB (<350 employees) set-up for growth? Is your business stuck at the same size? Is your business lacking confidence or isn’t as resilient as you need it to be? Are you
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