Today’s topic is Inspire Growth – step 9 in the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠AIM Leadership Roadmap⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ – how to lead with confidence, accelerate impact, and deliver results in a leadership role. Inspiring growth is the third step in the Create the Movement phase and the final step in the AIM Leadership Roadmap – with a focus on moving your organization from status quo to creating impactful change. Inspiring growth will help you go from striving to thriving as an organization. Listen in as I outline three steps to Inspire Growth and some other tips to inspire growth in your people and business ..read more

Today’s topic is Enable Change – step 7 in the ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠AIM Leadership Roadmap⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ – how to lead with confidence, accelerate impact, and deliver results in a leadership role. Enabling Change is the first step in the Create the Movement phase of the roadmap – with a focus on moving your organization from status quo to creating impactful change. Enabling change will help you develop change champions out of change resistors and implement change that sticks. Listen in as I outline three steps to Enable change: Follow a change management roadmap Develop change-savvy leaders Create str ..read more

Today’s topic is Align Your Team – step 5 in the ⁠⁠⁠AIM Leadership Roadmap⁠⁠⁠ – how to lead with confidence, accelerate impact, and deliver results in a leadership role. Aligning Your Team is the second step in the Make an Impact phase of the roadmap – with a focus on leading your team to develop a game plan then execute on game day and everyday. Aligning your Team will help you go from inconsistency to being in sync by building common understanding and buy-in to goals, behaviours, and expectations. Listen in as I outline three steps to Create plans: Player assessment Team asse ..read more

Today’s topic is Create Plans – step 4 in the ⁠⁠AIM Leadership Roadmap⁠⁠ – how to lead with confidence, accelerate impact, and deliver results in a leadership role. Creating plans is the first step in the Make an Impact phase of the roadmap – with a focus on leading your team to develop a game plan then execute on game day and everyday. Creating Plans will help you go from having ad hoc to do’s to establishing concrete plans for your whole team. Listen in as I outline three steps to Create plans: Understand the current state Develop vision and priorities Assign actions Downl ..read more

Today’s topic is Synthesize Ideas – step 3 in the ⁠⁠AIM Leadership Roadmap⁠⁠ – how to lead with confidence, accelerate impact, and deliver results in a leadership role. Synthesizing your ideas is the third step in the Commit to Action stage of the roadmap – with a focus on you as a leader going from overloaded with too many things to do, to creating clarity and confidence to do what’s next. Listen in as I outline three steps to Synthesize your ideas: Capture all your ideas Develop decision criteria Choose priorities Download your free ⁠⁠Situation Assessment Interview Guide ..read more

Today’s topic is Assess Your Situation – step 2 in the ⁠AIM Leadership Roadmap⁠ – how to lead with confidence, accelerate impact, and deliver results in a leadership role. Assessing your situation is the second step in the Commit to Action stage of the roadmap – with a focus on you as a leader going from overloaded with too many things to do to creating clarity and confidence to do what’s next. Listen in as I outline three steps to Assess your Situation: Meet the players Learn the business Determine the structure Download your free ⁠Situation Assessment Interview Guide⁠ and us ..read more

Welcome to my new Two Minutes of Talking Change podcast series – The AIM Leadership Roadmap. When I embarked on writing a book in 2020, my original idea was to write a book about confidence – what is it, how do you get it, and how do you instill it in others. I’ve coached loads of people over the years who lack confidence but certainly do not lack accomplishments.  I interviewed over 30 leaders to better understand what shook their confidence when taking on new roles. Fear of failure was the number one answer. These were seasoned and successful leaders with many accomplishments to their n ..read more

Innovation isn't an idea problem. It's a leadership problem. My guest - Robyn M. Bolton - let's us in on the secret to sparking innovation in your organization and the reasons why innovative ideas may not be bubbling to the surface in your organization.  How does this relate to leading change? Innovation is something new that creates value, 'something new' requires change!  Tune in to find out the ABCs for inspiring innovation.  Robyn is the Founder & Chief Navigator of MileZero LLC, an innovation consulting firm that helps leaders confidently use innovation to grow their bu ..read more

My special guest - Lindsey Agness - tells us the need for answering the WIIFM during change - tune in to find out what that is. She gets to the heart of who we need to be thinking about when aiming to make change in organizations and what criteria we need to address to do change right.   Lindsey Agness is one of the UK’s leading change specialists, specializing in staff engagement, performance improvement, behavioural change and motivation. Her career includes 11 years as a change management consultant, corporate trainer and coach for PwC then as a business owner and entrepreneur. She has ..read more

My special guest - Rishwinder Sethi - highlights the need to educate and converse with people prior to asking them to do things during change. He outlines what people need to know and understand before they can be good change leaders, and why it's important for leaders to understand where they are at on their own change journey before they can successfully lead others.  I couldn't agree more with his sentiments - this is why I created AIM Changer - an experiential course to give leaders the tools, support, and confidence needed to lead during times of change, whether they chose the change ..read more