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Business Coach, Business Mentor, Business Consultant. Who Do I Need?

Mark Hamawi — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 01:20:47 +0000

A business consultant, a business coach, or a business mentor? These terms are very confusing. Some people use them interchangeably, making it difficult for interested clients to understand the difference.

These experts have specific expertise to help you with particular business needs like employee management, environmental impact assessment, and more. Yet, a business mentor gold coast can offer solutions to all your business problems from experience.

Still unsure? This analysis helps you explain which of these you need. So keep reading to find out about your ideal business coach on the Gold Coast.

Business Consultant

A business consultant is an expert in a particular subject matter. Hence, you can seek the help of one depending on the subject matter your business deals with. For instance, you can hire one if:

You’re a large company and need help with studying a matter of environmental concern and possible solutions
You need someone to help initiate a company’s growth
You need someone to facilitate your annual planning
You’re looking to increase productivity. The business consultant can study your company, map out relevant stakeholders, and create a management and improvement structure.

Business Coach

A business coach can help you develop an excellent team of workers, build the individual skills of these teammates, and strengthen them to help you achieve your goals. Likewise, a business coach motivates and strategically trains your employees in line with your business objectives.

A business coach can offer guidance on teamwork, money usage, and time management. You can also seek the help of a business coach when you need leadership, cash flow, or employee recruitment and management. Operational performance, sales, planning, incentives, and communications are also expert areas for business coaches.

Business Mentor

A business mentor is simply a representation of a successful business. You’d need a business mentor to guide you on how to grow your business using their experience. Fortunately, a business mentor can offer comprehensive guidance on the challenges and solutions any business can face.

A business mentor can also give you advice based on their point of view. It might not necessarily be professional advice. So, you must countercheck the solutions your business mentor suggests with your business consultant for more accuracy.

There is no single answer to whether you need a business mentor, consultant, or business coach. Whichever you need exclusively depends on your business needs. So, if you need any of these or need help with choosing the ideal expert for your business, contact Leader House, your business coach on the Gold Coast for professional assistance.

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Vision leads to success

Mark Hamawi — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 00:48:55 +0000

When we think of visionaries, people’s minds tend to go to celebrated historical figures like Nelson Mandela or Henry Ford, who saw a better future and shaped the world as we know it. But vision is not reserved just for a select few, and it is not something out of reach.

Every single one of us has a vision, whether we are aware of it or not.

We all dream and aspire to something better in one area or another of our lives. And we are all capable of seeing ways of doing things better, achieving bigger sales, perfect customers, or creating an ideal organization.

That is all that a vision is. But what makes a difference between the true visionaries and the rest?

They act on their vision. They truly live it in every waking moment, and it shapes every step they take.

Do you want to leverage your vision to achieve more success? Here are a few tips to bear in mind.

Get clear on your vision. The clearer you are, the easier it will be to stick to it when the going gets tough.
Design your action steps. What needs to happen today to make your vision come true? And next week? Next month? Next year? Having a solid implementation plan will make the difference between a vision that comes true and one that remains wishful thinking.
Surround yourself with the right people. Having a great vision doesn’t mean that you’ll be able to do it all yourself. But the great thing is that you don’t need to do it alone. Fill your dream team with people who compliment your skills, and you’ll go a lot further.
Get your team behind your vision. If you’re aiming high enough, one thing is for sure. Not everyone will agree with you, and that’s fine. But you must make sure that the people on your team do share your passion and your fuel. After all, you depend on their skills and drive to help get you where you want to go.
Bulletproof your mindset. You will face challenges on the road to success, but bulletproofing your mindset will help carry you through it. Keep your vision top of mind, revisit it daily, and look for mentors to help keep you accountable.

Related Tag: Mindset Coach Gold Coast

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7. Business Series: Element 4 – CEO Mindset part 2

Mark Hamawi — Wed, 13 Oct 2021 01:53:19 +0000

The first step in achieving your CEO mindset is for you to ask yourself this question “Do I BELIEVE I am the CEO of my business”.

Business Series

8. Business Series: Element 4 – CEO Mindset part 3

To have a CEO mindset, you need to spend more time working on, rather than in, the business. To do that effectively, a successful CEO is focused on 3 key questions. Resolving those questions will result in higher profits and growth in the business.

7. Business Series: Element 4 – CEO Mindset part 2

The first step in achieving your CEO mindset is for you to ask yourself this question “Do I BELIEVE I am the CEO of my business”.

6. Business Series: Element 4 – CEO Mindset part 1

Mindset is key to success in business. And framing the correct mindset in business, from the start, enables powerful growth and high profits to be achieved. Lets ensure you have the CEO mindset which will attract all desired elements into your business environment from the start.

5. Business Series: Know Your Numbers Part 2 – Ratio Analysis

The secret used by CFOs of large companies, Ratio Analysis. Knowing how to use ratios gives you a fast way of measuring your business position in a context that can drive better performance.

4. Business Series: Know Your Numbers part 1

It’s simple. If you don’t know where your business stands, then any decision you make is based on assumptions and perhaps leading you to failure. The easiest way to know the truth, is to know your business numbers! This video is the first in a sub-series about Knowing Your Numbers… and we start at a basic P&L overview. Enjoy!

3. Business Series: Structure

Knowledge is power, and this video is about understanding what your options are when it comes to forming your business structure. This one is out of my ordinary line of videos. It’s much more technical, none the less the content is fundamental to success.

2. Business Series: Business Planning

How you start your business often dictates what your business will become. And if you start without a plan, it’s likely your business will become disorganised and potentially become another failed statistic. This workshop gives you the tool to build a business plan, and create a solid foundation for business success.

1. Business Series: Introducing The Series

Business is often a complicated and confusing journey, only because it may have been commenced with insufficient understanding, planning and resources. This series provides you with business basics to get the foundations right, allowing you to grow a profitable, exciting and long term successful venture!

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8. Leadership Series: Principle 6 – Delegation part 2

Mark Hamawi — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 02:18:41 +0000

Continuing the 12 steps to mastering delegation, plus your checklist to success.

Leadership Series

8. Leadership Series: Principle 6 – Delegation part 2

Continuing the 12 steps to mastering delegation, plus your checklist to success.

7. Leadership Series: Principle 6 – Delegation part 1

In my opinion, the art of delegation is the most crucial skill every business owner must master. Let’s unpack these 12 steps to delegation. Without them, the journey to growth and success is forever filled with unnecessary challenge and difficulty.

6. Leadership Series: Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence has a stronger influence on success than IQ. That’s because managing your emotions is key to leadership and influence. Further, your ability to be in tune with the emotions of others allows you to connect. Watch this video for further insights.

5. Leadership Series: Behavioural Profiling

If you’re hiring staff and you’re not using a behavioural profiling tool, your chances of successfully hiring the right person is reduced by 62%. That means lost time, money and energy. Watch this video to understand DISC profiling and make team building easy.

4. Leadership Series: Communication Basics

Communication is singularly the most powerful tool available to leaders. Mastering this skill differentiates leaders from managers. This video shares a couple of key tips to connect through communication.

3. Leadership Series: HPT Leadership Pillar

High Performing Teams require a leader that can add value to the team and steer them to greatness. This video pinpoints and unpacks the critical element to realise those outcomes.

2. Leadership Series: 10 Pillars To Effortless Leadership

This workshop is a dive into the 10 foundational pillars that a leader must work on, in order to achieve effortless influence.

1. Leadership Series: Introducing The Series

If you are struggling to inspire and influence your team, this series is for you. We will unpack the skills and tools a leader needs to communicate with clarity, and lead effectively. Higher profits, growth, positive teams are just some of the benefits you will…

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6. Business Series: Element 4 – CEO Mindset part 1

Mark Hamawi — Fri, 17 Sep 2021 01:37:48 +0000

Business Series

8. Business Series: Element 4 – CEO Mindset part 3

7. Business Series: Element 4 – CEO Mindset part 2

The first step in achieving your CEO mindset is for you to ask yourself this question “Do I BELIEVE I am the CEO of my business”.

6. Business Series: Element 4 – CEO Mindset part 1

5. Business Series: Know Your Numbers Part 2 – Ratio Analysis

The secret used by CFOs of large companies, Ratio Analysis. Knowing how to use ratios gives you a fast way of measuring your business position in a context that can drive better performance.

4. Business Series: Know Your Numbers part 1

3. Business Series: Structure

2. Business Series: Business Planning

1. Business Series: Introducing The Series

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7. Leadership Series: Principle 6 – Delegation part 1

Mark Hamawi — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 06:29:34 +0000

Leadership Series

8. Leadership Series: Principle 6 – Delegation part 2

Continuing the 12 steps to mastering delegation, plus your checklist to success.

7. Leadership Series: Principle 6 – Delegation part 1

6. Leadership Series: Emotional Intelligence

5. Leadership Series: Behavioural Profiling

4. Leadership Series: Communication Basics

3. Leadership Series: HPT Leadership Pillar

High Performing Teams require a leader that can add value to the team and steer them to greatness. This video pinpoints and unpacks the critical element to realise those outcomes.

2. Leadership Series: 10 Pillars To Effortless Leadership

This workshop is a dive into the 10 foundational pillars that a leader must work on, in order to achieve effortless influence.

1. Leadership Series: Introducing The Series

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What NOT To Do As A Leader During Crisis

Mark Hamawi — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:30:40 +0000

I’m excited and saddened at the same time during these “different times” we are currently experiencing through COVID.

On one hand, every day I think and feel that I have the opportunity to develop and grow, because we cannot be living the same way now, as we were pre-COVID. The simplest of our usual routines and tasks have to be approached differently. That means, adapting, growing, changing, re-prioritising, re-valuing and re-thinking. That makes me excited. I see opportunity, I feel energised. And this is how I feel, despite the fact that I am suffering, as everyone else, through the economic effect of COVID.

Which brings me to what saddens me. It’s not the economy and it’s not the loss of income we are facing. It is simply the death toll, and the tragedies that some people are living through. That hurts. And I look forward to seeing that end as soon as possible.

In light of that, and despite the tragedy, I chose to focus on the positive. As a leader in crisis, now more than ever, you need to be aware that choice is key. What you choose to experience now, will determine your ability to lead during this crisis. Because choice creates intention, and intention is the foundation of everything. Whatever you intend, becomes. And if you intend on nothing, you get that also.

Therefore, if you do anything right now as a leader, do this. Intend on being an exceptional leader in crisis. Because your role is crucial during these emotional and tense days. You can choose to create a safe and positive environment for your teams, which will enable them to better manage and process what is occurring. As a friend of mine reminded me, being able to hold space for those around you, is a fundamental quality of an effective leader. The positive and powerful intention creates that space that you can hold and share with others. A space in which growth, development, and healing takes place.

During crisis, the team is looking at you more than ever before. They look at you consciously, and also sub-consciously. They also feel you at those two levels. Which means that they are processing your behaviour and making decisions about it on one level. And they aware of that. And on a deeper level, your behaviour and your energy (or aura or vibration) are triggering within them emotions and responses that they are unaware of. These, all put together manifests in the behaviours that will be experienced in your business and towards your business. This in turns decides if your business/operation will fail or succeed.

As a consequence, in order to have a business and team that get through this, or even better, the catch-phrase of this crisis is “not just survive, but thrive through this”, your role as a leader is to ensure that your behaviour, and that of your team is calm, decisive and effective.

Now, I’ve decided to write this blog from the “negative” perspective. So I’m not going to list what you should do to achieve this, I’m going to list what you shouldn’t do. The reason for that is that often if you get a “how to do” list, you may very well do that, but you may also continue to do the very things that are damaging your leadership and business. Therefore, this list is about becoming aware of what NOT TO DO as a leader in crisis. That will ensure you are not dynamiting any good work you are doing.

Let’s explore that DO NOT DO list. This list can help you choose better behaviours which in turn will make your intention more positive and attractive to others. Furthermore, it will enable you to hold space for others, which in turn will open more doors for you and your business;

DON’T IGNORE THE FACT THAT IT’S A CRISIS

It is important to recognise this, its magnitude, and scale. Its human effect and its toll. That doesn’t mean you are focusing on the negative, it just means you are aware of the facts. And more importantly, be aware of its impact on those around you, so that you can communicate with empathy and compassion.

More importantly, acknowledging a crisis allows you to explain to your team the science and theory behind the stages of crisis. For example, I love this article by Morela Hernandez (writing for MIT Sloan Management), who says “Effective leadership can make crises manageable instead of overwhelming. Leading through crisis typically involves adopting a systematic approach to problem-solving: Stages of crisis include issue detection, response, recovery, and learning”

When you explain this to your team, they start to see that “this too shall pass”

DON’T KEEP THE SAME OBJECTIVES, TARGETS AND GOALS

Let’s face it, whether you have been affected directly or not, the landscape has changed. Therefore it is important to shift your goals, whether they be personal or professional, in order to match reality. Our goals tend to be linked to the outcomes that we desire. And when we set those goals, it creates an instruction to the sub-conscious mind, which then helps to manifest the outcomes. Our behaviour and intention will be linked to that.

If you don’t shift your goals, your behaviours become erratic and somewhat disconnected from the new reality. That, in turn, creates a sense of confusion and disassociation from your team. They will feel somewhat unsafe and uncomfortable in your presence. Clearly, that is not the feeling you desire. So, shift your goals now. Make them realistic.

DON’T KEEP DOING THE SAME THING

If it’s broke, fix it. Don’t operate through this crisis with the philosophy that if it worked in the past, it will continue to work. This is the time to look at your business. It’s the opportunity to re-assess and re-examine.

Certain parts of your business will not work during this crisis. They will either need to be eliminated or restructured. Whether it’s how you operate, what you sell, how you communicate to clients, or how you distribute your product, you need to examine it and make a decision. If it’s bleeding your cash flow, make that decision now. It is not the time for analysis paralysis or procrastination. It’s also not the time for excessive meetings and communications about the same matter.

An effective leader in crisis will make the tough decisions, in a timely manner.

DON’T BELIEVE IT’S YOUR DOOM

Hey, it’s quite simple right. However, truly check in to yourself. Are you seeing this as the end? Are you seeing this as the straw that broke the camel’s back? You might not be saying it out loud, and you might not be acting on it, but regardless, it will affect your results and it will affect how your team responds to you.

If you are being fatalistic, shift that perception immediately now, and say to yourself, now it’s time to find ways to make my business better than ever before.

DON’T OVERREACT

All eyes are on you, boss! And guess what, they are judging. In order to make the most of that opportunity, ensure that your behaviour is calm and constructive. The killer of that is just one outburst, one overreaction. It immediately saps your credibility. And while most will understand that this is normal under duress, it doesn’t reduce the fact that your leadership impact will be dented.

Overreaction manifests in many forms. Excessive meetings and communications, impulsive strategic shifts, micro-managing, becoming stoic, blaming etc.

And guess what is behind your overreaction? Well, it’s simply the fact that you have lost control (fear is the emotion). And you can only lose control if you try too hard to keep control. So during crisis, be comfortable that you will have less control. Be flexible and as Bruce Lee said, “be like water my friend”. Water fits into any shape and gets through any obstacle. As a leader, be like water and go with the flow more during crisis.

DON’T CLOSE YOUR MIND

One of the key survival instincts is to minimise everything so that you can focus on what is important. In itself that is a great strategy. However, it can take over and I hear my clients say “let me just get through this and then I’ll…”. And they freeze everything else in their lives and act as though the only thing left, is to survive.

Well, if that is your behaviour, then that is the outcome you will get. Just survive.

To get better than that, be prepared to do the survival work, but don’t let that drain all your energy. Meaning you go home, and just think about the problems. Instead, keep looking at growth, keep learning about what’s possible, keep engaging in adaptive and constructive conversations. If you just become defensive, you will act defensively, and that is not effective in a crisis.

DON’T SACRIFICE YOUR HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Following the point above, it is easy to think about deferring your healthy routines in order to spend more time on dealing with the changes needed for survival. The key to being a great leader is the ability to maintain clarity, energy, and positivity. Eating well, exercising, meditating, and surrounding yourself in nature are more, therefore, more important during crisis that ever before. In which case, keep doing them, and more so, do those more. You will find the time when you use time effectively.

DON’T FORGET TO BE GRATEFUL

I don’t need to say too much here. In crisis, and especially during COVID, be grateful you and your family have shelter, health, and food. Anything over and above that is a blessing. Be grateful for your team, be grateful for your clients and suppliers. Appreciate all those in your community and circle.

And where possible, contribute by helping those who need it and be generous with what you have as others may have much less.

Because the list of what not to do is so extensive, I’m not going to go into detail on each of these here. I will share some videos on the many of them, and you can get in touch if you want to chat about them further. But I do want to list them here, just so that you become aware of the behaviours you don’t want to do;

DON’T;

Lose sight of your long-term mission
Fail to communicate
Fail to be transparent
Aim for perfection
Be inflexible
Let stress overtake you
Point fingers
Freeze
Act too slowly or too quickly
Fail to delegate
Be untrusting or untrustworthy
Keep information from your team/s
Speak negatively or discouragingly
Be too relaxed, or not urgent enough
Have a fixed mindset
Stop training your team
Solely money focused
Manage based on reaction to the present only
Forget the power of visualisation and affirmations
Forget the greater good

I invite and encourage you to use this list, and you’ll find that you will better filter the developments that are occurring daily, ensuring you are being more calm, collaborative, transparent, and effective. I often say that success is not measured by how high you climb, it’s better measured by how many you take with you along the way. Now, more than ever, your focus on others and lifting them, will help you shine as a leader.

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What Type Of Leader Are You?

Mark Hamawi — Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:28:35 +0000

Are you leading? Or is your team bleeding? What qualities of a good leader do you already possess and where should you focus to improve? These are questions you’ll be able to answer after reading this blog post.

Investing in your leadership qualities can generate huge benefits. Not only do you experience higher self-esteem and genuine satisfaction from your work, but so will your team members. The success of your business will, of course, be the real icing on the cake for everyone.

See the ‘qualities of a good leader’ and ‘an effective team’ below, but first I’ll cover the qualities of a ‘bleeding team’ and ‘an ineffective leader’. Which camp do you see yourself and your team in?

Qualities of an ineffective team (bleeding team)

Low morale
Time wastage
Work duplication
Unproductive
Conflict
Blame game
“I/me” focused rather than team and company focused
Low quality work
Lacking initiative
Fearful
Tired

Qualities of an ineffective leader

Indecisive
Disorganized
Micro-manager
Ego driven
Unapproachable
Authoritative
Task focused
Divisive
Short-sighted
Poor listener
Emotionally disconnected

Qualities of a good leader

1. Outcomes focused

People are all different and while many may want details on ‘how’ to generate the outcomes, a lot of self-motivated people will want to adapt and work out the best ways for them to reach the desired outcomes. Being a leader who focuses on the outcomes and allows your team to work out the best way to get there allows team members to become creative, explorative and adaptive. This leads to greater satisfaction for team members.

2. Strategic

Being strategic in leadership requires the ability to plan for long term growth while maintaining short-term financial stability.

3. Inspiring

A good leader is able to inspire passion within their team. It is not enough to just be passionate as a leader, a good leader is able to inspire the whole team to similarly feel and enact on the passion for the business vision and mission.

4. Effective communicator

A good leader is an effective communicator. You’ll be an active listener, be generous with your time and be present, build trust and rapport – relationships, be clear and succinct, good at asking questions and providing feedback and most of all, be empathetic.

5. Emotionally intelligent

Emotional intelligence is one of the most important qualities of a good leader. Most successful leaders are skilled in this area.

Emotional intelligence is about having personal awareness around your own emotions and behaviour and having the self-management skills to positively manage your behaviour and tendencies. It also includes social awareness around other people’s moods, behaviours and motives and being able to respond effectively to improve those relationships.

This article gives a good overview of important habits of highly emotionally intelligent people.

6. Highly organised and systematic

Systems are essential for time, quality and efficiencies management. They save time and provide for continual improvement and updating. Without them, you’ll be continually covering old ground and fail to move forward.

As a leader, you’ll be in high demand. Managing your time and being highly organised around your tasks is imperative. Otherwise, you will be thrown from one fire to the next and drift away from your most high value and strategic tasks that you should be focused on.

7. Consistent

A good leader maintains consistency around actions and behaviours within the business and relationships. This is particularly important when dealing with individual team members. All team members are treated the same – consistently.

8. Has an open door policy

A good leader is approachable. An open-door policy is essential for team mentoring, skill-building, systems improvements and relationships. A good leader is also mindful of how to manage their open-door policy, so it doesn’t interfere with their own productivity.

9. Confident

Being seen as confident provides a calming effect on your team. You may not always feel confident, but your team needs to feel that you are.

A confident leader is decisive and even if those decisions turn out to be wrong decisions, you’ll confidently admit to your mistake and go about making new decisions to move forward.

Building self-confidence will help you become a more confident leader.

10. Informed

As a good leader, you’ll stay up to date with facts and information and feed it through to your team.

If you are demonstrating the qualities above, then you are an effective leader and your team should reflect the qualities of an effective team, below.

Qualities of an effective team

When your team is no longer running around leaking time, chasing their tail, unsure of their role, etc. they become a much more effective team and these are the qualities that you can expect them to be demonstrating:

Proactive
Collaborative
Confident
Supportive
Productive
Motivated

How do you shape us a leader?

After assessing yourself and your team against the qualities outlined for a bleeding team, an ineffective leader, an effective team and the qualities of a good leader, how do you stack up? Where could you focus to improve your qualities of a good leader?

If you are unsure and would like more information on becoming a better leader, please contact us.

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High Performing Teams

Mark Hamawi — Thu, 12 Mar 2020 14:55:54 +0000

For most of us, life is based on team work in one form or another. Whether it’s within our family, community, classroom, sport or work, we are often a member of a collective of individuals working together. The concept of team even comes down to the simplest unit, the husband and wife team. And our experience of life, work and play therefore depends on our performance not just as individuals, but more often, as a team member.

As leaders, our primary task is to ensure that the team is performing at it’s best. That way, the results are achieved for the team members and for the club, household or business. Simple right!? Of course not, as most leaders know, this is a challenging journey that requires the combination of technical, emotional, logical and spiritual skills in order to achieve high performance.

Before I continue further, let’s define the main term here, High Performing Teams (HPT). What does that look like? To keep it simple, let me bullet point some of the characteristics of a HPT, and you can then gauge whether your team is ticking the boxes;

Communication flows easily and openly
Goals and targets are clear and often met
Values and beliefs are shared, and commonly agreed
Trust and support is felt by all
Conflict is accepted and resolved without toxicity or damage
Acceptable behaviour is agreed and respected
Non negotiable deliverables are set and respected
Self-regulating and autonomous behaviour is the norm
A strong feeling of energy, creativity and positivity is present
Everyone is accessing their strengths, and getting training to overcome their weaknesses
There is an excellent balance between technical and emotional intelligence
Leadership traits are based on mutual encouragement rather than dominance

As you read this list, your either thinking “great, we’ve got this” or your now calling someone to get some help. Because without these characteristics, the goals and outcomes you desire as a leader, business owner or parent, are going to be very hard to achieve.

And here’s the interesting part readers, most business owners and leaders focus on targets, skills, tasks and processes. Many companies fail to train their leaders on this subject matter, and choose instead to focus on training which relates to product output, rather than human behaviour. A 2016 Gallup poll found a shocking 82% of executives aren’t very good at leading people. Gallup estimated that this lack of leadership capability costs corporations up to $550 billion annually. The good news is, the solution is simple. Focus on having a training program within your organisation or even for yourself which teaches you about leadership and how to create high performing team members.

To give you a little head start, here are some of the techniques I train the leaders that work with me or how to create a HPT culture. Through workshops I run, and through the one on one Effortless Leadership Program , I teach them the following;

Understand how people create reality and interpret events differently
Learn the different ways people communicate
Learn about emotional intelligence
Master influential body language
Be aware of what rapport actually means
Create a coaching culture within your organisation
Have several simple goal setting and decision making models that you use consistently with your team
Communicate in a manner which is Towards goals rather than Away from issues
Implement systems and techniques for conflict resolution and trust creation
Getting buy-in for your ideas and strategies
Building relationships based on helping others grow and develop
How to get consensus on targets and non-negotiable deliverables

Quite often, when they begin, the leaders feel anxious and often fearful of their role. Even experienced business owners and managers will express that they hate being the boss or leader. They feel it’s lonely, unappreciated and grinding work. Once they learn, implement and master these behaviours, they find that achieving goals and targets becomes easy and enjoyable. They become energised because they are no longer trying to get people to do something. Instead they are helping those around them find their strengths and develop fuller and happier lives at work and at home. Let’s face it, we all perform at our peak when we can see how it makes our lives better right?

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The Single Biggest Secret To Success

Mark Hamawi — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:45:03 +0000

We are now well into the new year and new decade, so let’s make this the one where you achieve the outcomes you desire. In previous blogs, I have been sharing the 10 Pillars to Effortless Leadership . And after discussion with my readers and clients, many seem to feel like they understand them all, however, they are unsure of what to actually do, in order to get effortless leadership.

Guess what… that’s OK and that’s exactly what you should feel and think. You may or may not know that we all must travel through 4 stages in order to become competent at anything. And then after that, mastery becomes a possibility. The four steps are (and I’ll just list them here, and will talk about them more in a future workshop);

• Unconscious Incompetence – You don’t know what you don’t know
• Conscious Incompetence – You know what you don’t know
• Conscious Competence – You know how to do it but have to think about it
• Unconscious Competence – You know how to do it without even thinking about it

Back to the 10 pillars, some of us may be at any of these 4 steps above. And some of us may be at different stages with each pillar. However, to become effortless, you need to be in stage 4 for each pillar. And even better, you would have been at stage 4 for a long time, and therefore you are at a mastery level! And what’s the hurry? This is a journey, not a race.

For example, many leaders are at mastery level when it comes to the Pillar of “knowledge”. Having the technical skills & knowledge in their job. For example, the General in an army has the technical know-how on how to read terrain, etc in order to develop a strategy of attack or defense. They would be a master at it. However, is that same General a master at the Pillar called “Bring in The Heart”? If not, then they will struggle to get the same results compared to the General that can get the troops behind them because they connect on a heart-felt level.

Some of you may read this and think “I don’t have time, or patience or the personality to master all these traits”. Well, let me assure you that you do and you must. Otherwise, your leadership efforts will always be much harder, more stressful and less fruitful. Which means you’ll love the hard-fought life everybody does. Instead, if you’d like to achieve immense success and happiness with relative ease, and become effortless, you have to master these traits. It’s not negotiable. And it’s not easy at the start but it is when you know-how! And guess what, this is what we are going to do together. Because remember pillar 9, this is what coaching and mentoring is for!

Now, the first step is to accept that you need to master each trait. The next step will be to break it down and focus. Because like any skill, you can’t master it just by doing it ALL at once. You have to break it down. For example, if you think about Tennis, to become a master in this field you have to be exceptional at serving, volleying, groundstrokes, smashes etc. And then there’s racquet knowledge, crowd management, emotional management, etc. Consequently, a great coach will have their player focus on one skill at a time, and then break that skill down into further micro-skills, and create drills to perfect those. Therefore, they look at the serve and perfect the toss, the backswing, the up-jump, the follow-through etc.

And that is precisely how getting great results in life and in business is done. It all becomes much more achievable when we break down what we have to do into smaller chunks, and focus on that chunk for a period of time. And then move on to the next. Be aware, the only rush you have is the choice you make to stay average. So make the choice to be great, and perfect each sub-skill. That is the single biggest secret to success.

As you can see, this blog ties into a video I posted in January about “what is your torch pointing at?” Because if you are shining a very wide beam, or your beam is jumping around from this to that, then you will struggle to make headway. However if your beam is narrower, almost laser-like, then you will have more success and forward momentum. And also be sure that your beam isn’t pointing backward because that makes getting ahead very arduous indeed!

Now, let’s make this happen. Let’s become effortless leaders. In order to do that we will turn these pillars into traits that you possess naturally. They won’t be an act or a performance, they will be you. And hence you will have the beliefs that will give you the attitude of an effortless leader. And when you get into that space, you will have a mindset that is heart-felt. Because that is effortless leadership, it’s a mindset that is heartfelt and results in attracting opportunity and growth everywhere. That is what teams follow!

So ask yourself, are you ready to become an amazing leader and influencer and enjoy success, wealth and happiness? If your answer is yes, then you will enjoy the next steps of working with me.

As of next month, I will begin to break down each pillar into sub-skills. And then from there we will build a framework of how to practice and implement those skills into your daily life and business routines. And we’ll do that through monthly blogs and videos. In addition, we will also be launching an online membership opportunity wherein you’ll be able to get more lessons on how to master effortless leadership. Once you achieve that, you will be able to lead teams and your organisation to the results you have always desired, whilst having some fun along the way!

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