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Leadership.

Inspire your people so they come to work with the same passion and energy as you.

To succeed in business today you need to operate in a very flexible, dynamic way. How you inspire and motivate your team is everything. An “I'm the boss and I'll tell you what to do” approach just doesn’t work anymore.

Good staff simply leave.

Wouldn't it be better to motivate your people to want to stay and work hard to help your business succeed?

Now, imagine what your business would be like if all your people came to work with the same passion and energy as you...

Your staff would be more motivated, fulfilled and effective, bringing you increased productivity, performance and profit.

Did you know:

• People go to work to satisfy their own personal needs and aspirations. Most people simply want recognition and reward for their accomplishments - and this is not necessarily money. If you can meet their basic requirements you will dramatically increase your staff’s happiness and their effectiveness.
• The way to inspire your people is to transform your approach to your business. Involve your people by giving them both freedom and support. Treat them as volunteers rather than paid employees. In doing this you create the potential for your staff take responsibility. They will be more creative, suggest ways to improve the business, and solve problems themselves. As a result your employees will become highly motivated and fulfilled.
• People want to feel proud of their place of work, they want to feel connected, and know that what they are doing is worthwhile. Often staff are disillusioned with their work – they cannot see the point to it. They cannot see the broader, higher purpose or what the business is really about. Give them hope and opportunity. Make them an important part of your ‘success model’.
• Most people who resign from their jobs, are not moving for money or career progress but because they are sick of their immediate boss. Each time they do the costs to the company are between 50 and 250 per cent of their annual salary. Staff should be able to say of their managers: 'they make my life easier'. What do your people say?

When staff aren’t performing as well as they should be, most managers will try to discover what the problem is and deal with the issue, often through ‘retraining’. Busy, stressed-out staff get sent on ‘time management’ courses; poorly performing teams go on ‘team building’ workshops…. Do these really make the breakthroughs that you need? I guess not!

Now there's nothing wrong with sending people on courses like these. It’s just that this might not be what your people need to really inspire them and make significant changes to take your business forward. Symptom-fixing with general training courses will rarely get to the root of the issues.

However, dealing with the deeper root causes can have a profound, long-lasting and beneficial impact on your business, your people and your success.

Free Business Development Audit

At Henderson Barker we provide a Business Development Audit. This is a two-hour consultation where we look at the issues your business currently faces, and the areas where your staff are under-performing.

We’ll show you how you can think about these issues in a different way and where you could use some simple but powerful techniques to inspire your people and increase their effectiveness.

The Business Development Audit is valued at £395, but this month we are currently offering a limited number of audits free of charge.(Please note subject to availability).

To request a free audit either send us an email or use the contact form on this web site—one of our consultants will then contact you to arrange a mutually convenient time.

If the audit identifies a requirement for leadership or management development we will propose a solution to meet your needs and your budget.

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