The models behind better decisions.
Coaching is not just accountability. It is a set of models that change how an owner sees their business. We are writing a short, practical article on each one we teach — free to read, with the questions to sit with and how to apply it. 91 are published so far, with more added as they are written.
How you think, decide and lead yourself. The business only grows as far as the owner does.
Performance on Purpose
Are you performing well — and is that performance serving something that matters?
Read guide →The Three Freedoms
Financial, time and mind freedom — the three things owners actually want.
Read guide →Identity and Beliefs
Behaviour follows belief. Change the belief and the behaviour follows.
Read guide →Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy and Confidence
Three different things that get called confidence — and only one is trainable overnight.
Read guide →Emotional Intelligence
Self-awareness, self-management, motivation, empathy and social skill.
Read guide →The Motivation Map
Work out what actually drives you, then build the year with the grain.
Read guide →Principles and Universal Laws
The handful of principles you'll hold even when it costs you.
Read guide →Comfort, Stretch and Stress
Growth lives in stretch. Not comfort, and not stress.
Read guide →DISC and Personality Style
Your natural style, its blind spots, and how to flex to other people.
Read guide →Control and Responsibility
You control less than you think and are responsible for more.
Read guide →Scarcity vs Abundance
Two ways of seeing the same market, with very different results.
Read guide →The Stages of Learning
From not knowing what you don't know, to doing it without thinking.
Read guide →Latent Potential
The gap between what you're producing and what you're capable of.
Read guide →The Rubber Band
Tension between where you are and where you want to be is useful.
Read guide →The Emotional Change Curve
Why people dip before they improve — and what to do about it.
Read guide →Rocks, Pebbles and Sand
If you don't put the big things in first, they don't go in at all.
Read guide →Privilege and Responsibility
Ownership gives you both. Most owners only feel one.
Read guide →Man on the Moon
A goal big enough and specific enough to organise everything else.
Read guide →Making Decisions
Most decisions are reversible. Treat them that way and move faster.
Read guide →Ask the Question, Yield the Answer
The quality of your thinking is set by the quality of your questions.
Read guide →How you lead, develop and get results through other people.
Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?
Inspirational leadership rests on being yourself — skilfully.
Read guide →Social Styles
Assertiveness and responsiveness — and how to flex to whoever's in front of you.
Read guide →Backbone and Heart
Hold your position and stay connected. Most leaders drop one.
Read guide →5 Star Coaching
A structure for coaching someone rather than solving it for them.
Read guide →The GROW Model
Goal, Reality, Options, Will — the coaching conversation in four moves.
Read guide →The Formula for Change
Dissatisfaction × vision × first steps must beat the resistance.
Read guide →OARBED
Above the line: ownership, accountability, responsibility. Below it: blame, excuses, denial.
Read guide →Situational Flex
The best leaders change style to suit the moment, not their preference.
Read guide →How the business grows — strategy, profit, cash, sales, systems and scale.
Good to Great
The disciplines that separate great companies from merely good ones.
Read guide →The Ceiling of Complexity
Every business hits a level where what got you here stops working.
Read guide →The 4 Decisions Driving Growth
People, strategy, execution, cash. Get one wrong and growth stalls.
Read guide →The 10 Departments
Every business runs ten functions, whether or not anyone owns them.
Read guide →The Planning Hierarchy
Vision to strategy to plan to action — and where it usually breaks.
Read guide →State Your Price and Shut Up
The most expensive words in business are said after the number.
Read guide →Team Development
Forming, storming, norming, performing — and why you can't skip storming.
Read guide →The Performance Matrix
Results and behaviours. The people who score well on one but not the other are your hardest calls.
Read guide →The Will/Skill Model
Four people, four completely different management approaches.
Read guide →Lifetime Value
What a customer is worth over the whole relationship — and what that changes.
Read guide →The 5 Ways
Five levers. Small moves on each multiply into a very different profit.
Read guide →Which of these applies to you?
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