"I came to see in my time at IBM that Culture isn't just one aspect of the game….. It is the game" Lou Gerstner

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power. Lao Tzu

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Dr Stephen R Covey

Because management deals mostly with the status quo and leadership deals mostly with change, we have to become much more skilled at creating leaders. John P Kotter

There are many leaders, not just one. Leadership is distributed. It resides not solely in the individual at the top, but in every person at every level who, in one way or another, acts as a leader to a group of followers — wherever in the organization that person is, whether shop steward, team head, or CEO. Daniel Goleman, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

Dr Stephen R Covey

Leadership is the sum total of who you are. Leaders are developed not simply born. We can all develop ourselves to be able to guide others. Anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. Bill George, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership

Authentically Towards Success

Build authentically successful, profitable businesses that have a positive social impact.

Businesses of all sizes need a clear sense of purpose to drive business success. Irrespective of whether you are deep in start-up, juggling the demands of small business, or running a large company, without clear purpose and every one within the business pulling in the same direction, valuable time, resources and ultimate business success can easily be lost. Utilising the latest academic research and real-world experience, we work with business owners to understand and set vision, purpose, values, objectives and strategies. We then collaborate to bring these essential elements into a sustainable business culture that has everyone moving in the same direction and empowers all team members to make consistent choices. As we know, the majority of strategic decisions are not made on weekend retreats. They are made in the heat of battle. Having these core business elements in place ensures you and your team understand the impact of a decision as it is made, not at some later date when the consequences are already set.

Business Strategy Map

Utilising a structured framework, we help start-ups, small businesses and well-established large businesses to review, revise and create these fundamental business elements and ensure all in the business are pulliong in the same direction.

At Authentically Towards Success, we welcome the opportunity to collaborate with you and to build a basis for sustained performance for your business.

connected network Our Business Builder service is geared to start-up businesses wanting to establish operations, prepare funding pitches or move from pure start-up mode into business operations. We will take you through a structured start-up planning process, focusing on those aspects of the business planning cycle that are abolsutlely necessary to get you moving. While the focus of many start-ups is getting on with product development, we add value by complimenting the product development mindset with creation of the foundational vision, values and culture that will be the basis of your business success.

Through a combination of facilitation, coaching, mentoring and consulting we will guide you through the process of setting your business up for success. We will also facilitate the definition of success measures, so you can monitor the evolution of business performance as you progress.

Launch your business on the path to success now!

Team Health Check A Business Health Check can be as narrow or as wide as you need. We will review what is in place, how well that fits with your business direction and then address only those elements that are necessary to get you to on the right path. Then we will apply facilitation, coaching, mentoring and consulting practices to understand the culture and values to ensure they are aligned with the business strategy elements outlined above. Communication will be a constant and consistent feature of our engagements. The Business Health Check culminates in and interactive session to review the current state and outline the next steps.

This can be a fantastic way to refresh, reinvigorate and motivate your business towards success.

It is time for change. Many factors lead us to this point. External business drviers, the need to innovate, changes in leadership priorities and vision, or a combination of all those factors lead us to the point that the current vision, values, strategies and culture need to shift. Our focus is to make our Business Transformation service flexible to your needs. Together, we decide the level and scope of our engagement in your transformation effort. Our objective is to help you and your teams embrace change by becoming very clear on the drivers, need and approach.

Renewing these business foundation principles sets the scene for successful business transformation, with ongoing, consistent and constant communication one of the keys to ensuring change is embraced and enacted. The result is a strong, profitable, authentic business heading forward.

Talk to one of our consultants to see how Business Transform can work for you!