Lead To Succeed

Find out if being an authentic leader and showing a degree of vulnerability brings improvement in financial performance.
Amanda Coulson founded her successful business over twenty years ago and has learnt a lot about leadership during that time.
In her early days of leadership, she was told that vulnerability was not a good trait to show. When she began to appreciate that it’s ok to share your vulnerabilities, it considerably changed her approach and the success of the business.
We also discuss:
Delegation not abdication
Leading from the heart
The impact of vulnerability as a leader on financial performance
Taking a hard look at clients that don’t align with your values 
Facing big challenges, and how your team can help you through them.
 
If you would like to find out about Amanda’s leadership programme, contact Amanda at https://svcsolutions.co.uk

How A Poor Leadership Experience Shaped Nicholas's Approach
Nicholas leads remote sales teams and provides practical leadership tips on this. He shares what he learnt from an unsatisfactory leadership experience, and how he is using that to be a better leader.
We also discuss;
Setting team expectations
Correlations between a team spirit in sport and top performance in business
Tips and techniques that help a team perform better
Leading with intention
You can contact Nicolas here.

Start with the end in mind when launching your business
This is the advice of Michelle Seiler Tucker, a merger and acquisition specialist who has sold over 500 businesses. Michelle considers leadership to be everything when it comes to growing a business and a good leader gets to really know their team.
With Michelle's extensive experience of helping companies to become saleable, we talk about what's needed for a founder to maximise the value of their business
We discuss;
The importance of understanding employees perceptions
Tips and advice to create a business you can sell 
The one question you need to ask every potential new recruit
You can contact Michelle at Seiler Tucker 

What does it take to successfully lead a remote team, regardless of whether you employ that team directly or not?
Brett has a passion to help managers hire teams, delegate, and be a great person to work with. We talk about the challenges of leading a growing business, the importance of having an earn it mindset, and why leaders should focus on their team, not the outcome. 
We also discuss;
How to be  successful leading remote teams
Why you fundamentally can't have a great team with a poor leader
The paradox of vulnerability
A great way to improve communication efficiency 
You can connect with Brett here.

Leading Teams - what makes a successful team for outstanding performance?
Our guest is Matt Schlegel, author of Teamwork 9.0.  We discuss the importance of knowing your team and their personality dynamics to achieve high levels of team resilience and performance.
However, as Matt explains the starting point to leading successful teams is having a high degree of self-awareness yourself and knowing how to complement your skills with those of the team.
We also discuss
How using a diagnostic assessment on yourself and your team helps in communication and building trust.
Knowing your dominant start point, i.e., head, instincts, feeling, and what that means to you as a leader.
Why knowing yourself first is essential to building a powerful and effective team.
How the 9 Enneagram dynamics fit together to optimise team performance.

Our guest, Tom Flatau, is an accredited brain and behavioural specialist and CEO of Twi.
Tom works with business leaders and teams globally to improve business performance by understanding how we can change our brain to become more effective leaders.
 
Tom’s interest and understanding of neuroscience started at an early age when he was told that his brother is the intelligent one. This left a niggle that Tom wrestled with, the impact of which fostered his interest in neuroscience and how it impacts leadership and team dynamics.
We also discuss:
The scientific evidence of a growth mindset and why it matters in business
Why we must exercise our brain and the type of exercise it needs
Unconscious bias – its impact on leadership and team performance
Creating awareness of unconscious bias and how to balance it

There is a revolution in business, which is turning on its head, the old adage of getting it right first time, to getting it wrong first time.  Instead, fail fast and learn from it.
Our guest Tamer Shahin has an incredible business story to share. He has experienced growing a business to over $100 million and losing it all overnight, and then becoming personally in debt to the tune of $2 million. 
Not having experienced failure before, this changed Tamer's perspective on life, leadership, and growing a business. Now he believes in embracing and integrating failure into every business because you will learn fast, and have a better business as a result. There is a caveat though, which we discuss on the podcast.
We also discuss -
The fear of failure and why it's not healthy
How Tamer is helping others to grow their businesses
How a culture that embraces failure actually encourages innovation and transformation
Why it's important to encourage your team to be themselves
 
If you'd like to take the Business Quiz mentioned in the podcast you can access it here. https://ceoentrepreneur.com/business-triage/
If you'd like visit Tamer's youtube channel, The CEO Entrepreneur, here's the link.
https://www.youtube.com/c/CEOEntrepreneur
 

Reg Rix is the co-founder and CEO of CarFinance 247. We hear his extremely down-to-earth and pragmatic approach to leadership, and growing a business.
Reg has experienced many business challenges, including facing the responsibility of putting a previous business into administration. This didn’t stop him; he used that experience as massive learning when it came to his next business venture.
Reg shares his views on leadership, resilience, and the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. Reg speaks candidly about the personal sacrifices he has made in growing his company, and what is important for continued business success and growth.
We also discuss:
Why Reg has changed his mind about culture
Future challenges
Managing a successful day
Why it’s all about talented people
Practical leadership advice
Join us for a conversation about leadership and what it takes to achieve success.