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Having a clear strategy can help your business navigate in turbulent times -however, creating a strategy that is simple and easy to understand is usually quite difficult. In this second part, I walk through the final questions that can help you develop a strategic plan for your business. Key Questions: 1. Where will you play? The focus Question. 2. How will we win? The Success Question 3. What Capabilities must we have? The Resource Question 4. What management systems do we need? The Systems Question Visit businessleaderscoach.com/strategicplan2 If you enjoy listening to The Business Leaders Coach Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends over on LinkedIn... Thank you!

Having a clear strategy can help your business navigate in turbulent times - however, creating a strategy that is simple and easy to understand is usually quite difficult. In these next two episodes, I walk through some questions that can help you develop a strategic plan for your business. Key Questions: 1. The Purpose Question – why do we exist? 2. The Core Values Question – what do we stand for? 3. The Vision Question – what do we want to see? 4. The Goals Question – how will we measure our success? Visit businessleaderscoach.com/strategicplan1 If you enjoy listening to The Business Leaders Coach Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends over on LinkedIn... Thank you!

If almost all successful people have encountered failure along the way, then failure could be seen as the path toward success. This is the last episode in our series on How to Fail Forward. In this part 5, I highlight that our perspective must be to embrace failure and see it as part of the journey. And then take on the mindset that "Failure is the path towards success". Visit businessleaderscoach.com/howtofailforwardpt5 If you enjoy listening to The Business Leaders Coach Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends over on LinkedIn... Thank you!

When we fail, sometimes we find it hard to forgive. The capacity to forgive ourselves and others could be daunting, but it is necessary if we want to move forward. Over the last few weeks, we have been going through a series on How to Fail Forward. In this fourth episode, we see why it is important to: Forgive yourself and others. Visit businessleaderscoach.com/howtofailforwardpt4 If you enjoy listening to The Business Leaders Coach Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends over on LinkedIn... Thank you!

Have you ever felt the need to blame something or someone when you have failed at something? Well, most of us do. Over the last few weeks, we have been going through a series on How to Fail Forward. In this third episode, we see the benefit of asking ourselves: Have I Done Everything I Could? Visit businessleaderscoach.com/howtofailforwardpt3 If you enjoy listening to The Business Leaders Coach Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends over on LinkedIn... Thank you!

We are going through a series of five episodes looking at the topic: How to Fail Forward, and in this second episode, I ask; “What Do I Still Need To Learn? Sometimes the reason why we are facing a failure is because we need to learn something from it. Therefore, asking the question; “What Do I Still Need to Learn?” is important. Visit businessleaderscoach.com/howtofailforwardpt2 If you enjoy listening to The Business Leaders Coach Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends over on LinkedIn... Thank you!

How we handle failure can play a key role towards how we achieve our goals. Over the next five episodes, we are going to be looking at the topic:  How To Fail Forward, and in this episode, I ask; “How Do We See Failure? I share some mindset statements that should help us start to see failure from a more healthy perspective. Visit businessleaderscoach.com/howtofailforwardpt1 If you enjoy listening to The Business Leaders Coach Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends over on LinkedIn... Thank you!

We all know that things are changing rapidly in the world of work, and recently Gallup pulled together what they called the 'Big 5'. According to them, the workplace is seeing the biggest disruption in some time, and it is changing the way we work and the future. This episode covers 'The Big 5 Disruptions That Business Leaders Must Address and what you can do. Visit businessleaderscoach.com/big5disruptions If you enjoy listening to The Business Leaders Coach Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends over on LinkedIn... Thank you!

Peter Drucker, the father of modern management, is known to have said: "In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long time perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the internet, not e-commerce. It is the unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time – literally – substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And, society is totally unprepared for it". In this episode, I share why learning to lead yourself is the essential skill of the 21st Century, using this quote to give us this insight. I also highlight counterintuitive behaviours we need to adopt to lead ourselves and inspire those around us to do likewise. Key Resources Lead Yourself First: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude by Raymond Kethledge and   Michael Erwin Performance Pipeline by Stephen Drotter Visit businessleaderscoach.com/learningtoleadyourself. If you enjoy listening to The Business Leaders Coach Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends over on LinkedIn... Thank you!

In this short podcast episode, I share why Business Leaders Coach is explicitly on a mission to help small and medium-sized businesses grow from start-up to scaleup. I give a very high-level overview of why the economy grows when leaders choose to grow their businesses. Visit businessleaderscoach.com/whenyoursmallbusinessgrows for statistics shared in this episode. If you enjoy listening to The Business Leaders Coach Podcast, the best way to support us is to take just a few seconds and leave a rating and/or comment over on iTunes or share it with your friends over on LinkedIn... Thank you!