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.

With over 70 inspiring and successful leaders sharing their insights, thoughts, and experiences on our podcast, we summarise the key themes, messages, and characteristics that make them successful and outstanding leaders.
From creating a vision, authenticity, emotional intelligence, decision making, leading in challenging times to adapting to the shifts in leadership required when leading a millennial team.
Self-leadership stands out as the start point. How can you lead others if you're not leading yourself and aiming to be the best you can be?
Being authentic, highly emotionally intelligent, understanding your team, and being kind has also been strongly emphasised across many episodes.
Helping your team to flourish and encouraging creativity at work to allow for the development of new ideas is also considered a top priority. Along with having the right mindset, putting customers at the heart of your business, being resilient and asking why.
Find the topic that you want to learn more about and listen to the guest episode for practical tips and ideas for implementation.

Our guest David Nour is a top thought leader on business relationships, he shares how Curve Bender relationships can dramatically alter your growth trajectory. A prolific author, David talks about the 15 forces that are reshaping the world and heavily influencing what we do. 
Join us to find out why you should run fast in the opposite direction from companies that have a disconnect between elite executives and those in the mailroom. David shares his views on why Servant Leadership is the future to attract and retain the best teams.
We also discuss:
✔️ Using intuition as a data point
✔️ Be hard on performance and soft on people
✔️ Separate emotion in decision making
✔️ Entrepreneurialism, growth mindset, and being digitally aware
✔️ How to have a Curve Bender Relationship 
David invites you to join his forum for further discussions on Curve Bender Relationships at Nour Group Forum
 
Find out more and connect with the podcast hosts
If you are interested in becoming a guest on our podcast or finding out about our business growth consultancy and coaching programmes; we welcome your feedback or questions you may have.
The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies unlock business growth potential and achieve results beyond expectations.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
Connect with the hosts here:
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
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Do You Want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
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Rebecca has over 25 years experience of in leading and growing companies. Having previously grown an 8 figure business, before selling to a FTSE 250 organisation. She now works with large and small businesses to achieve transformational growth fast.
 
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