Firstly, let us explore why is this even a relevant question. Surely everyone sets up a business to grow it, don’t they? We have experienced that most people who set up, run (or take over) a business have the want and desire to be successful, yet usually, they have not even considered how it would grow; there is an expectancy that growth would just happen!

Okay, let’s go straight for the values jugular- what are your values?

• Do you know?

• Have you paused and thought er…..

• What are the business values- your own or where you work?

• Do you know and can easily say them, and then if I asked why, can you give me a real reason why?

• Can you share examples of how you live them?

Values, as with mission statement and purpose, can become cliché and overall be a waste of time therefore values schmalues! Here’s some real feedback we have got over the years doing values workshops with businesses large and small

Do you ever get frustrated when you don't get understood? You know you've said what you needed to say, yet the other person doesn't get it? Do you blame them?

Or when you are explaining a task, you get told they understand what is needed and how to do it. Then, you check-up, review, or worse, get a complaint and find out that they didn't know what you were talking about?

We got reminded in a recent workshop how important the way we speak impacts all we do. So in the workshop, we got asked – “what is the most important thing we can do to get heard?

Well, not 99, 7 actually!

Using our RLC 7 Daily Leadership Principles, we share how a framework of principles can personalise your style and create the skill to be the best leader you can be. Have you ever been asked what leadership is? At RLC, we have been asked this many times in workshops and with Leadership teams worldwide, and we are amazed at some of the answers we collect. Here are a few of the worst ones

Meaningful or meaningless- An interesting topic that creates paradoxes throughout. We look at it from many different aspects and this fully re-edited version of the book by myself, Leadership or Leadershit (re-edit by Debbie Halls-Evans). I focussed on one aspect when I first wrote this chapter of the book- the difference that meaningful and meaningless impacted the work, role, and leadership. We explore more in this re-edit of meaning versus happiness and updated meta-studies that allow us to explore our own meaning and be curious about the differences and benefits of meaning and meaningless!

What’s better? Inspiration or Expiration? They call a no brainer, but if that is all this means, this would be the first and last sentence. It isn’t! As a supplement since the Leadership or Leadershit book was written in 2016, my wife Debbie and I have discussed Inspiration in all of its forms. The overall summary we make is that inspiration is from within first, always. Inspiration is overused as a word and real inspiration in action. You get inspired to do something, take action, and a new outcome occurs. How often does that actually happen?

What is Leadership Intentionality? Have you ever been asked what Leadership is? Better still an even more challenging question is ‘How could you go and do Leadership right now?’

At RLC, we have asked this many times in workshops and with Leadership teams worldwide, and we are amazed at some of the answers we collect……