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15 Principles of Person Growth I Have Learned During My 15 Years of Working With Leaders

⭕️ You will never fully convince someone they are wrong, only reality can. Support them to expose their reality

⭕️ The place you most need to go is hidden where you least want to look. Get a coach, board, mentor and give them freedom to challenge you.

⭕️ There is no evolution without skin in the game. Evolution is often dependent upon facing your fears.

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11 Things To Quit If You Want To Get Off The Energy Rollercoaster

More than anything else your energy is contagious.


Enthusiasm and passion are great and I’ve seen leaders carry themselves on it for incredible lengths of time.


But wired energy, nervous energy, hyper vigilant energy, afternoon energy slumps and home energy crashes take their toll on your health, ability to focus, and your significant relationships while also setting the tone for the type of energy running through the business.


The best part is, that these changes don’t require massive investments in time and energy outside of what you’re already committing to.


They just require a change in habit. The reward will be more energy, more focus, more clarity, more calm and more presence.


The potential of where those things will take you and your business are impossible to measure and limited only by your imagination

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8 skills you MUST master to be an effective Leader

The brain is a survival machine that creates survival mechanisms to protect itself.

Many of these protection mechanisms can inadvertently cause problems inside an organisation.

The leaders must master these 8 skills to not be taken over by these mechanisms.

That is in part, what it means to lead.

To own your own emotions and behaviours in response to what is happening around you.

Which of these 8 do you most need to place your attention on?

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14 things I’ve Learned In My 14 Years of Working with Business Leaders

Business leaders tend to wear ‘hard work’ as a badge of honour. Arriving first, leaving last and then continuing to work into the evening often stay up til midnight and beyond.


They do this despite the fact that they aren’t being paid to work hard. They are being paid to keep the business in high performance mode and the best way to do that is to keep themselves in high performance mode. A tired and overwhelmed leader will soon start making decisions based on their own limited bandwidth and will quickly create a tired and overwhelm business. I help my clients to find and protect their own high performance mode so that they can better support the business to locate and maintain high performance mode.


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