And why delaying it costs growth, team development, and client experience There’s a moment in every growing business where what used to work suddenly doesn’t. The founder can no longer be in every decision. Informal conversations stop being enough. Good people start pulling in different directions — not because they […]
The Hidden Reason Growing Businesses Stall: Weak Leadership Structure Read More »
If you lead a business, a team, or even a single project, you’ve probably noticed something:Your ability to lead others is limited by your ability to lead yourself. It doesn’t matter how strong your strategy is.It doesn’t matter how good your team is.It doesn’t matter how much experience you’ve accumulated.
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Why leadership—not strategy—is your biggest growth lever You’ve built something special. Your business has a point of difference. Clients like what you do. Your reputation is growing. And yet… you’re straining to grow. Profits are flat—or worse, slipping. Your best employees are getting frustrated. The high performers you want to
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You probably already have a “leadership team.” Most established businesses do.You meet regularly, discuss the issues, and make decisions — yet somehow, growth feels stuck.The same problems keep resurfacing, and the CEO still feels like the bottleneck. Sound familiar? It’s because many businesses have a group of leaders, but not
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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.
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
Who is (or Should be) Making Key Decisions in Your Business? Read More »
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
What exactly is “failure” and how can we use it to succeed in Business? Read More »
Are you an old hand leader but keen to learn more about how leadership is changing or you’re someone who is starting your leadership journey and realising how complex yet fascinating the journey is? I believe the best way to learn is to read, reflect, discuss and give a few
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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,
How can you improve the performance of your Leadership Team? Read More »
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
How can you improve the performance of your key business asset? Read More »
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
What to do if your leadership style isn’t working. Read More »
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
What is the optimal leadership style for an owner/CEO of a medium sized business? Read More »
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
Has your business’ leadership changed as your business grows? Read More »
