I hope you’re having an amazing day.

Today I want to talk about why understanding your unique personality style matters.

Let me explain.

Recently I ran a training program for my clients in my Boardroom program. We are exploring at the moment how to motivate, inspire and influence their team around them to lead to greater levels of success for their team & business.

In this training, we explored the four different personality styles, what motivates each personality style, what drives and inspires each personality style as well as what demotivates each style.

The reason we are exploring this topic & concept is that so many leaders and business owners fall into the trap of assuming that they can lead everyone on their team, and everyone around them the same way in order to get the same results.

This is simply not true.

As I was walking everyone in the training through the four main personality styles, I made a comment that one particular personality style, called the Stabiliser per...

Welcome to the start of a new year! 

I’m sure you’ve got a million things running through your head in terms of what you’d like to achieve this year! And it’s awesome to have heaps of goals to work towards and it’s fantastic to have entered a new year with a level of energy and excitement towards what you’re wanting to achieve. 

A trap that many fall into so easily at the start of a new year is getting excited, writing down a massive list of goals and things that you want to achieve this year, making a start on everything and taking massive amounts of action, then getting super overwhelmed and burnt out and by March they’re not taking any action towards their goals and they’re back to doing the same old thing that they did last year. 

Today I want to talk to you about an amazing concept that’s been pivotal in my life and it’s helped my clients achieve the results and the success that they are looking for. 

It’s a concept called Simplify, Prioritise, then Execute. 

The reality is t...

I hope you’re having an amazing day. 

I’ve just finished reading Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin, it’s an incredible read and I highly recommend it. 

In their book, they talk about a concept which is that there are no bad teams, only bad leaders.

This is a super interesting concept for me, and one that I want to explore with you a little bit more in today’s post. 

This teaching element is based on the premise that every leader and every business owner needs to take absolute and extreme ownership for everything that is in their life and for everything that occurs and happens around them. 

So, if a team member or an entire team is performing poorly or fails to hit a deadline or gets a terrible outcome on a project, it is actually not the team’s fault, but the leader or business owner’s fault. 

Instead of blaming or berating the team for what went wrong, we need to stop, pause and ask ourselves “how did I let my team down here”? Or “as the leader or business owner wh...

A topic that has come up a lot recently in my group coaching programs is how do you influence, motivate and inspire those around you to perform at their best. 

It’s a super interesting topic and one that has a number of angles to it. Today I want to explore with you one element or angle that makes a significant difference to being able to motivate, inspire and get the most out of your team and the people around you which is - Create A Community. 

You see many leaders and business owners fall into the trap or the assumption that just because their team and the people around them are working and have a job, that they’re automatically inspired and motivated to perform at their best all the time. This simply isn’t true. 

It is the role of every leader and every business owner to be looking for ways to constantly inspire and motivate those around them to continue to push themselves, to get outside of their comfort zone, and to perform at their best. 

This requires that you change your p...

As we come into the end of the year, there is a really important concept that I want to remind you of in today’s post. 

And that is, you need to be really conscious of looking after yourself and fitting your oxygen mask first.

Let me explain. 

You see sometimes as leaders & business owners, we get caught up in feeling hyper responsible for our team, our business and everyone around us. We feel like we need to be working the hardest. Working the longest hours. Wearing the brunt of all the issues and challenges and taking that all on for ourselves. 

Today I want to remind you that if you don’t look after yourself first, then you’re no good to your team, your business, your family and all the people around you. 

If you’ve noticed that you’re slipping into saying yes to everyone, trying to be all things to all people, and spreading yourself thin to keep the people around you happy, then this post is for you.

Today I want to remind you that if you’re burnt out, if you have no energy, ...

Do you want to step out of your comfort zone and achieve bigger things for your business and self-growth?

Do you want to be more conscious when you start to pursue things that make you comfortable?

If we are always in our comfort zone we are not growing. If you want to be at a level of success, achieve new things, set new goals you have to set the intention to do the uncomfortable. Getting out of our comfort zone is not easy but with the right determination and focus, you can achieve it.

As a business leader, you have to recognise that you and your team members are naturally wired to pursue what is comfortable. Recognising what naturally occurs to us as humans is a step towards understanding how to overcome it. 

If you want to learn more, follow the link below to watch the video. 

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Josh ‘Downside of Pursuing Comfort’ Stone

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Do you feel like you are constantly missing the mark with your clients? 

Do you always feel on the back foot even when you think you've done a good job? 

In today's video I would like to walk you through the concept of expectation vs. reality. 

Today I want help you address this issue and help you turn your clients into raving fans of you, your team and your business! 

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Do you know what your strategy is?

Do you know what your plan is for your team and your business over the next 6, 12 and even 24 months?

We see, without a plan and without a strategy, sometimes things can feel a little bit directionless. It can feel like you’re turning up each and every day and doing whole bunch of things and activities - but are they moving you in the right direction?

It’s one of the biggest sabotages and biggest blocks I see happening with leaders and business owners in the engineering and construction industry. Whereby they just turn up every day and take action for the sake of taking action and they don't really know what they’re taking action for.

And then they finally stop and actually lift their heads up in 3 - 5 years’ time and they think to themselves - "this isn't really where I wanted to be"...

So today I want to really encourage you to pause for a second and think about where you’re going?

What does the next 6, 12 and even 24 months actually look like for you, y...

Do you find yourself constantly getting pulled down into and stuck in the day to day operations and the general running of projects? 

Would you rather be spending more time in your days and in your weeks setting and then acting on the bigger picture strategy and the bigger picture vision of where you want to take your team or business?

Unfortunately, if you’re not creating the time in your calendar to focus on strategy and vision and where you want things to be heading in the next 12, 24 & 36 months – then your team and your business will become stagnant.

Your team and your business need to know that the actions they are taking every day are part of a larger plan and a larger strategy.

They need to know that there is someone looking at the longer game and the longer term plays and steering the ship towards these outcomes.

 And that someone is – you. 

If you want to learn more, follow the link below to watch the video. 

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Josh ‘Vision & Strategy’ Stone

Last week I shared with you a really powerful insight from one of my clients, Phil, around changing how you view delegation.

Today I want to explore with you some of the common blocks and the common elements that hold so many good leaders and business owners back from delegating to their team and the people around them more - who quite frankly could be doing more and have more time in their weeks to do these activities.

The first block I see a lot of is that they’re too busy.

Meaning that they just don't feel like they have the time (or are not prepared to make the time) to really sit down with a team member and show them how to do a particular task.

What they don’t realise is that this process is such a good investment of their time, because it means that this team member is getting better at certain tasks in the business over time. It also means that as the team member gets better at this particular task, it is freeing them up to focus more on strategic thinking and the direction...