Make life easier for yourself.
Life is hard. And running your own business is hard. And having a team that doesn’t perform just adds to that difficulty. But it doesn’t have to be that way. I can help. Together, we can help you lead a team that you can rely on.
Some of my thoughts on what it takes to be a leader
We have to calibrate
I don’t know about you, but I had no idea what sort of leader I was. What I was good at. What I wasn’t so good at. What I was like under pressure. What impact that had on others and their performance.
That’s been a hard, long journey of discovery. Filled with potholes and accidents.
I can help you accelerate that learning journey. We can figure out what you’re amazing at, what you need to polish, and how you can be even more brilliant, so that your team can too.
Communicating well
Minus all the fluff and myth, leadership is just a series of relationships. And, like all relationships, it needs great communication.
Sometimes, we think we’ve been clear, but we haven’t. Sometimes we think we’ve been thoughtful and careful, but we’ve ended up with someone in tears (or is that just me….?).
Clients who’ve worked with me have discovered what their default communication style and preference is. And how their communication lands, or doesn’t, with others. They’ve learnt new ways of communication that create clarify, harmony and high performance.
Learning to motivate
Humans are beautiful in their diversity of thought and perspectives and actions. They can also be utterly baffling! Why on earth is that person behaving that way???
Clients who come to work with me have literally tried EVERYTHING to get their teams to perform in the way that they would like. They’re at their wits end. But they don’t stay that way…..
We soon learn what makes their teams tick, and how to use that information to select the right motivation tool or technique to get them performing BRILLIANTLY!
Moderate Performance
Telling people that they need to improve their performance is the kind of conversation that leaves me feeling a bit sick. It’s hard! What if they disagree? What if they kick off? What if they run out of the room crying (true story…)?
Sometimes, it feels so hard, we just don’t bother. and then we get frustrated by their continuing underperformance that we have to ask others, or ourselves, to backfill. What if there were another way?
Simple models, techniques and a generous dose of the right mindset and this problem becomes easier than painting by numbers! And that’s how I help.
The art of delegation
You’ve grown you business from a small, inspiring spark of an idea. You’ve nurtured it, protected it, worked for it, spent long nights on it. It’s flourishing and you’re super proud. But you can’t do it all anymore.
How do I give this precious and fragile part of me to someone else to deliver?? What if they don’t care as much as me? What if they’re not as good as me? What if they mess it up?
Learning to delegate, and truly let go, of our businesses is something I help business owners do. They gain back their sleep, their sanity and their time. And in return, they see their revenue grow, their profits swell, and their anxiety shrink.
Stress: the Derailer
Did you know that 80% of our performance comes down to our mindset? Not what you know, or what you can do. But how you are feeling on any given day. And guess what? Stress is a massive vacuum cleaner when it comes to our mindset. Because, “under stress, we regress”.
As part of my coaching programmes, I always help leaders manage their stress so that they can continue to be BRILLIANT leaders, even when the proverbial is hitting the fan!
We work on their ‘leadership shadow’ and build personalised resilience building plans that keep them in top performance. Zero stress = zero regress!