Video Transcript Hello I'm David Deane-Spread. Thanks for being here today for your business learning opportunity! Today we're going to look at why your effective leadership is so crucial. If we were to recognise that the Holy Grail for business is in fact sustainable growth and profit, and by that, I mean not just simply […]
I desk-top researched the question of ‘the top 10 SME owners’ biggest challenges?’ I found that the answers to be: Reducing operational costs Finding and keeping new business Quality improvement of both products/services and processes Growing the business Improving profit Staff issues, including hiring and culture Improving productivity Reducing time constraints Dealing with uncertainty Competition […]
Small to medium enterprises are the engine room of the economy. They employ a staggering 99.8 of the Australian workforce.1 Yet they are also the most vulnerable.2 For example, they are vulnerable to: fluctuating banking policy and behaviour; inability to fund growth and innovation; the buying and marketing power of large enterprise; the ebb and […]
The greatest failures in war, commerce and community have been caused by failure at the top. I’ll go a step further: 100% of enterprise failure (whether government, commerce or community) is caused by the senior leadership, whether a large enterprise or a small enterprise, and success is caused by the whole enterprise, There’s a harsh […]
There are those leaders who become losers when Sucking the sauce of seeming special, Sanctioning suspect strategy Studying spreadsheets Selling spin and styles of slavery. They may be busy, but they are not engaged leaders. Because of the law of gravity They are the primary cause of Employee disengagement Poor performance Pathetic productivity […]
Firstly, remember, it’s an aspirational plan. Get clarity on the values, the purpose and the vision, in that order. The values are the rules of the ‘game’, how we think, what we say and do and do not say or do. The purpose is the main service/offering/product that expresses our values. The purpose expresses also […]
Andy (not his real name), was a good team member, but had been distracted from his work by family matters – his wife had been diagnosed with cancer and his daughter’s partner had mental health issues. Andy’s performance had fallen and his supervisor, my client, spoke with him and designed a plan to support Andy […]
Adam and Eve are very different to their biblical namesakes. They had followed similar paths earlier, as university graduates and then fast tracking to executive roles. Whilst they haven’t met each other, they know of each other, because they are both my clients. I met Adam first, when he was the chief operating officer of […]
For the last nearly half-century I’ve been on the learning path to success, (in this instance business – but it can be success in anything) and I’m still on it. My behavioural traits and thinking style enable me to move fast, be decisive and remain curious about everything. Whilst all that is very useful, it […]
Many people who become leaders do so with self-doubt. I know, because I did too. What we think about ourselves becomes a story, one we tell ourselves. In my case, as a 20-year-old newly commissioned officer in the army, I had concerns about many things: Would I make a mistake? What if they think I’m […]
