Secret to Business Growth

You can have the best business idea in the world, so what if you don’t have the right people around you to help you grow the business.

I have been fascinated with Leadership for over thirteen years and one of the great strengths of an Outstanding Leader is first that they know and understand the top three strengths of each of their team members.

Mother Teresa once said to Bob Geldof “I can’t do what you do and you can’t do what I do, but together we can create something wonderful.”

Leaders know that with a great team behind them they can leave a wake and create lasting impact.

Four Lessons to the Secret of Business Growth:

• Know your top three strengths.
• Delegate everything else.
• Know the top three strengths of each of your immediate team.
• Say no to what you know is not your top strength.



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Enemy of Greatness is Security

Without realising it, very often our businesses are most vulnerable when things are going really well.  You could be thinking what a mad statement to make but in business we sometimes take it easy when targets are being reached and profits achieved. A sense of complacency can creep in.

I was recently speaking at a conference in Ireland; my opening line was ‘nothing fails like success’. At first I could see the shocked faces in the audience and then I went on to speak about the Celtic Tyre years where business boomed. Recently Ireland has and currently is experiencing some lean times, yet very often the lean times can be the best of times because it makes each of us stop, step back and re-look at everything we currently do.

When leaders step back and simplify, very often the hunger in the belly relights again and it fires up our enthusiasm to move forward and take a risk.

Four Lessons on Why the Enemy of Greatness is Security:

• In 2011 there is no security except the security of knowing that when you fail, learn the lesson and get up again.
• Complacency stunts business and personal growth.
• The hunger in the belly is the key to enthusiasm.
• Step back and take a fresh look at everything you do.

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Leaders are Born to Climb

One of my favourite authors is Krishnamurti and in one of his books he talks about mountain people and valley people. He explains that we are all born into the valley of life. We grow up in the valley and very often as we grow and develop, we feel that silent voice say ‘climb you were born to climb’ yet we meet many people who tell us to not climb, sit still and play small.

Every now and then as we grow older, we often see people leave the valley and head for the mountains. They have followed their call and when you ask people where they are going, often the response will be ‘forget the mountains, you might never come back’ and yet deep inside the silent voice says climb.

As I write this blog, you might be a leader who left the valley and is now living on the mountain of life.  You listened to the inner voice and took action, went for the mountain and half way up built the lonely house with the picket fence and the chickens pecking in the garden. If you are that person, Krishnamurti’s advice is knock down the house, kill the chickens, listen to the silent voice, it’s calling you to climb again.

You are a leader born to climb.

Four Lessons about the Climb:

• If you are currently in the valley of your life, stop, turn inwards and listen to your inner voice. It is telling you to leave the valley and climb.
• Turn off the outside noise of other’s opinions and trust your own voice.
• If you are half way up the mountain and life has become stagnant, listen to the inner voice and know you were born to climb.
• Do something different and start the climb again.

  

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Stop the Inertia

Have you ever had those moments or even days when inertia set in and you could not be bothered about anything?

How did you break it?  The only way to break it is to change your behaviour.

I recently read Marshall Goldsmith’s new book called ‘Mojo’ and he asks two great questions to help you break it. As you go through your day, evaluate every activity you do by asking yourself:

• How much long term benefit and meaning did I experience from this activity?
• How much short term satisfaction and happiness did I experience?

Marshall believes the above two questions will help break inertia.

Too often in life we continue to do what we have always done. If we don’t change our behaviour we don’t become more effective.

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Know When to Move On

Recently while on a holiday break to North Devon, my husband and I decided to walk parts of the North Devon Coast each day.

On the third day of walking the rugged woodland path to Clovelly, we stopped to take in the magnificent views of the Bristol Channel when we were joined by a fellow walker. After a few minutes of talking, the gentleman began to tell us about his vision.

For over 20 years he had developed a very profitable printing business which had created a lot of jobs for the local people of Cornwall. At 57 years of age one of his good friends offered to buy the thriving business. He then took some time out to decide what his next vision would be if he said yes to selling his business. He knew it was important for him to have a vision to keep his mojo and drive in life. In his spare time away from the business he loved to walk so he decided to turn his hobby into a future vision and made a decision to sell the business and walk all of the Cornwall and Devon coast line, photographing it along the way. On the morning that we met him, he was two years into that vision and loving it.

Lesson learned from fellow walker:

• Have a vision so big it feeds your mojo.
• As a leader know when to move on.
• Vision is also being aware of future trends and the fellow walker could see a lot of changes ahead in his business. For example, one reliable major client was the local council and that business was beginning to dwindle.
• Have a vision so big it excites you every day.

Going First Class, Travelling in the Wrong Direction

Have you ever been on such a high that you missed the detail?

Recently, I was the Conference Speaker at a large Symposium in London. After I walked off that stage I was buzzing and the feel good factor just continued.  I was in the zone; living my dream and being of service to the corporate clients all around me.

I got into a taxi and headed to Euston Station, my return ticket was off peak so I decided to upgrade to a peak time ticket. I paid an extra £130 and the guy who sold me the ticket began to glow as well, so much so that he told me to go and sit in the First Class coach G.  I followed some other people and found coach G.  I was relaxed and made a phone call, ten minutes later I looked at my watch and it was 5:21pm, Virgin Trains must be running late I thought as we were due to leave at 5:07pm.  Then I looked out the window and saw platform 5 was on the other side, which was the platform I was supposed to be on!

I turned to the gentleman in the seat behind me and asked him if this train was for Liverpool. No was his reply as the train was pulling out of the station, this train was heading for Manchester. How could I have missed the detail when I was in the zone?

What to do when in the zone

1. Stay grounded
2. Pay attention
3. Remember to sweat the detail
4. Be aware of your surroundings

Be First Class – Travel First Class

I live by a simple motto saying ‘Don’t talk about it, be it…’

To be it means we have to be first class, no excuses, no poor me. It takes discipline and courage to be what you came here to be. When you are first class, no one questions you, they just know it.

By the essence and the presence of who you are and everyone who works for you, it’s not about walk the talk; it's about be the talk… be the brand. Be the product or service that you are. Ooze it, radiate it, respect it… the world right now needs presence, energy and positivity.

Change Your Environment

Are you getting the results you want in life and business?

If not, maybe it’s time to look at what’s going on in your environment. When you surround yourself with the right environment, you have a better chance of succeeding. This might mean:

• Rearranging the office.
• Rearranging your home.
• Studying books on people who have succeeded at what you want to do or be.
• Looking at who you currently mix with… maybe it’s time to attract new friends and business associates into your life.

Eight Top Tips for Changing the Environment

1. Write a clear out list.
2. Clear out the clutter.
3. Be ruthless; get rid of anything you don’t love. Example: books, pictures, dead plants.
4. Sort out your files in the office.
5. Add colour to the office with fresh flowers.
6. If you work in a sales environment, put a picture of what you will buy with the money you will earn from new sales.
7. Bring in healthy snacks to the office, ones that will increase your energy levels.
8. Place two litres of water on your desk and drink it before the end of your day.

When there is beauty and order in your environment, you are more likely to succeed.