If you’re a small business owner, you’re a business leader – and without a clear leadership mandate, your culture will either be making you money, or taking it away. Worse still, an absence of leadership will not only erode profits, but leave you open to a leadership high-jack. Here’s why.
Whether staffed by one or several, leadership influences the culture of your business and permeates day-to-day decision-making, which in turn, impacts outcomes, performance and results. From customer service to marketing; cashflow management to financial strategy, leadership provides the fuel to either motivate, empower and grow – or distract, misalign and disconnect.
While effective leadership can increase creativity, attract more customers and improve productivity; ineffective leadership can increase staff turn-over, decrease morale and promote a mindset of judgement and blame – costing you lost time and money. Worse still, an absence of leadership (a consistent lack of reinforced values and culture-influencing customs), can leave your business open to a leadership highjack, where the most dominant person in your business will dictate the culture. No one is as passionate about your business as you are (it’s your money, after all), so a leadership high-jack – no matter who it is – is going to cause trouble.
Comprising the way you describe, motivate and empower yourself and others – your leadership style impacts decisions, and decisions result in actions that collectively, either make or break a business. Carefully devised, leadership can positively influence how you view yourself, how you interact with others, and how they interact with you. So what are you waiting for? Get empowered – avoid a leadership hi-jack. Ask us how today.
