Deep down, we want to grow as leaders and entrepreneurs. And to grow not only professionally and professionally, but also in personal and financial leadership. This pursuit of growth is essential to realize our full potential and create new value in a variety of areas:
- Your personal growth: mental, physical, spiritual and emotional health.
- Your private life in the quality of your life, in your relationships and well-being.
- Your business in profitability, and that not only in money, but also in the impact you make and the freedom of time to be able to do what you're good at and energized by.
- Your financial ability and freedom.
If you do not have a clear goal in mind, or a clear vision and mission in your life, it is good to first gain insight into that. Where am I now? Where do I want to grow to?
Understanding your growth: The growth phase as a leader of your life and business
To gain insight into where you are now and how you can continue to grow, an assessment can help. This assessment includes questions that help you evaluate your current situation and identify areas for improvement. It gives you insight and direction for your continued development and growth as a leader and entrepreneur.
By investing in personal and professional/business growth (and thus using your full potential as well as adding new value) you will achieve more in your own way. So it's a continuum of change and improvement, where you are constantly creating new value for yourself and others.
I myself use an assessment for my 1:1 clients in my leadership coaching program. Reflection questions that help focus your attention on what is most important to you personally and professionally. Because both go hand-in-hand. If you want to grow in your business, that also requires growth in personal leadership.
And underneath lies the important life questions:
What is the essence of your life?
What do you have to do here and want to leave behind (legacy)?
Holistic approach to AND AND
Understanding alone will not get you there. You will have to take action and start addressing it.
Indeed, growing a business requires a holistic approach that focuses not only on your business strategy, but also on innovation, value creation, personal leadership and personal development. So which ties directly into what I wrote in my Empowered Letters last week: Ever level a new strategy. Every new growth requires a new strategy. Your strategic leadership, your positioning and your business strategy you also have to change again and reinforce them with new value in order to be firmly and strongly grounded in your new position again.
The right people in the right position
This applies to yourself as a leader, as well as the people you work with and your team (and/or freelancers depending on your business model).
How can you grow a business?
From start-up to scale-up.
When starting and growing your business, a strong foundation - including your personal and business foundation - is crucial. This means you must have a clear, remarkable position and strategy that is easy to communicate. And your business, sales and marketing processes must be streamlined to produce consistent profitable results.
Your financial planning and leadership will also play a crucial role. A strategic offering and strong cash flow through multiple revenue streams are essential to generate both growth and stable income.
How can you grow in leadership?
Advancing from founder to CEO
As a company continues to grow, the founder (founder) must evolve into the role of leader. To do this, you must work on your leadership development. Developing your new leadership skills has a positive impact on yourself as (the new position in) your company.
Because you need to step up from your current position and strengthen your new position. The promotion from manager to leader. This requires a shift in focus from "playing the field" to "coaching the team. After all, you can no longer do everything yourself. To grow, you have to start freeing yourself more and more to make space. Because you need to spend your time and energy on what you do best and make the most impact. And start hiring others (team and/or freelancers) and coaching them through effective leadership:
- Consistent and inspiring communication
- Setting an example in reliability and follow-up
- Creating time for strategic thinking
- Making decisions in a timely and thoughtful manner
- Attracting and developing top talent
A successful CEO must also be flexible, able to adapt to changing circumstances and willing to let go of outdated approaches.
How your role of a leader (CEO) changes as a company grows
Personal growth is inextricably linked to professional/business growth. To strengthen your position and lead your business growth to new heights, you must also invest in your own personal development:
- Prioritizing your time and energy, freeing yourself even more and becoming more selective about what you want to spend your time and energy on.
- Good self-care for you with attention to your mental and physical health
- Consistently working on personal and business goals (AND AND AND)
- Continuous learning and asking for feedback
- Role model, role model for others: not only create personal success, but also inspire others in your organization and network to do the same.
- Collaborations, partnerships and co-creations through which you achieve more together, credit the successes and set the stage.
Every week I go Live on LinkedIn. My weekly Women & Leadership where I talk to women leaders and entrepreneurs about the turnarounds they have made in their lives and careers. With the challenges, failures and successes we've all experienced and what we've learned from them.
How do you change course when you feel you are no longer the right person in the right place? The deep desire for fulfillment, change to grow again, be challenged and make an impact. Because you know there is more in yourself. But also in life. Because what you are here to do and want to leave behind is great....
But you don't just give up your status, income and security, do you? Together with them I share my stage and want to show what is possible if you do take the step to change and stand for leadership in your company and your life. Standing strong in that position where you are seen, heard and appreciated.
Where do you stand as a leader? Leadership Assessment
We all have our own "Dyke of Equality. Which limits you because then you cannot see beyond it and see new opportunities and possibilities yourself, which others can from their point of view.
Where do you stand as a leader and are you ready for change?
For me also the reason why I always let others assist, coach and mentor me. They give me new insights and feedback, they mirror me and show me what else is possible. Where I still keep myself too small, miss opportunities and where there is room for growth in personal, business and financial leadership.
And each coach, mentor, strategist has his/her own backpack full of valuable tools, frameworks and methods that they deploy.
As a scientist and health economic/market/data researcher I have a lot of experience with questionnaires and assessments. What I use in my 1:1 projects and collaborations and which you also see regularly in my Empowered Letters in the form of asking good questions to come to good answers and new insights.
For example, the Strategic Growth in Your Leadership Test (Strengthen Your Leadership Assessment) provides valuable insight for leaders and entrepreneurs who want to grow profitably and forward-looking.
Here are some questions from the assessment:
- How clear and distinct is your position and business strategy on a scale of 1-10?
- To what extent are your business, sales and marketing processes automated and predictable?
- Does your business continue to grow when you are absent for several months?
- How many revenue streams do you have and is your cash flow projected?
- In what areas do you still lack crucial expertise in your business?
- Can you 😉/ team sum up the company's mission in one sentence?
- What key data and insights do you use to measure your company's growth and profitability? And how do you adjust your strategy and actions accordingly?
- How often do you launch new products or services?
- How much time do you spend weekly on strategic thinking versus operational tasks?
- How quickly do you make important decisions?
- What personal development goals have you set for yourself for the coming year?
By examining regularly, asking yourself the right questions, you will know where you stand as a leader and how your company is doing.
Where you stand?
What do you have to develop and do to continue to grow in your leadership?
One Life.
Lead it.
Live it.
Have a great week,
Gerdi
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Book tips:
Books that have helped me in my Framework Business Strategy
John Lewis Gaddis - On strategic thinking
Patrick-Bet David & Greg Dinkin - Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy
Alex Hormozi – $100M Leads
Alex Hormozi – $100M Offers
PS. I have a whole book list. If you are interested and would like to receive my favorite books list? Send me a message and I'll send you my favorites list. Sharing = multiplying.
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