Can You Re-Imagine The Future?
These are very challenging times for leaders and business professionals. You are expected to handle the demands of world-wide uncertainty, as you lead you and your people through this period of change and instability whilst remaining confident, calm and assured.
Being a leader in Spring 2021 is a real test. For there is no rule book that tells you how to lead in these new and difficult times.
Times that calls for a great instinct; a sense of courage; a clear mind, well-developed values and a supreme focus. As you search for new ways forward, there is lots of resistance, fear and negativity to handle.
How you adapt in this period of unsettlement is vital. Letting things drift, expecting them to return to normal is not an option. For what was normal before, may not be normal once we come out of this phase of change. For the future we are moving into may not be the same as the past!
It’s critical that you have a support network, that helps you navigate a way through one of the most challenging times for business, ever!
This is where coaching is critical. My role as a coach is to be there for you, as you make this journey. To help you:
- Get clarity when you can’t see the future
- Be confident in bringing your team with you
- Have a plan when you are feeling totally overwhelmed
- Hold steady whilst everything around you feels turbulent
- Have courage when fear holds sway
There are so many answers to find, to so many problems. Which is fine when things are going well. When the team are winning. Or business is flourishing.
But these times are unlike no other? When the staff turn to you, and want answers as to how the business will turn around, what will you say? Right now they need you to be a Beacon of Light. Showing the guidance to help them through uncertainty.
The Top Five Areas You May Need Leadership Coaching For…
- Communicating With Others – When a leader is struggling, its impacts negatively on the quality of communication with those around them.
- Making Decisions – Procrastination takes the place of effective decision-making
- Overcoming Fear Of Failure / Lost Confidence – Once fear takes hold, no one in the business dare take a risk. And morale slumps!
- Working ON The Business not IN it – You may be busy. But doing what?
- Finding Time For Yourself Or Family – Working long hours is not the same as working effectively. Do you feel drained, because all you ever seem to think about are problems?
The Mindset Programmes
Working with someone steeped in coaching elite sports professionals, means that all the critical insights, strategies and tips that help them achieve peak performance, can all be transferred into creating an elite business mindset.
Everything that a sports professional does in preparing for action, can be utilised to your advantage.
There are three main programmes to choose from to will create that elite mindset:
1: MINDSET 30
The 30 Day Programme. One month of working together intensively, allows a rapid but thorough change of your working landscape. Both internal and external change made manifest.
2: MINDSET 90
The 90 Day Programme. Working together for three months allows rock-solid foundations to be established that will stand the test of time.
3: MINDSET 15
The Laser Coaching programme. Ideal for those short on time. Pay as You Go fifteen minute coaching sessions. High intensity. Supreme focus. Maximum of clarity. Getting to the point straight away. No messing.
Successful Business Clients
The Chicago Rock Cafe
Once a struggling high street business with huge staff turnover, where under-performance and de-motivation was the norm.
Leaders, managers and staff took Leadership Coaching on board to tremendous effect, transforming the working culture and thus the business, and the profits followed!
Unilever Port Sunlight
The creaking and dated ‘top-down’ working culture at Unilever Port Sunlight, was transformed, as the work-force were empowered to transform the factory into a place of innovation and inspiration.
Seen by the international Unilever family, as a model for how a factory based culture could be developed.
Glamorgan County Cricket Club
In the 2010 pre-season, Matthew Maynard invited me into Glamorgan. It had been a very long time since Glamorgan won a County Championship cricket match at Lords. Fifty-six years in fact.
But that stop situation was finally broken, when the Welsh side crushed Middlesex by seventy-six runs in the second game of the 2010 season.
Glamorgan then followed that success, with a dramatic two-day win at Worcester. The first time they have won a match in two days since 2002! And this is the first time that Glamorgan have won two games in April – ever!
Then Glamorgan won successive matches by an innings since 1948, and followed up that achievement by amazingly setting a world record in their next match, a stunning defeat of Leicestershire. Trailing by 125 runs on the first-innings, Glamorgan bowled The Foxes out for only 71 runs.
Then went on the get the winning total of 196 runs, without the loss of a wicket. A world-record for a team trailing by such a first-innings deficit.
Glamorgan won only two County Championship matches in 2009. In the 2010 season they won seven matches. A significant improvement.
Unilever Turkey
The management of Unilever Turkey Food Services Division, were struggling with fear of failure, and decision-making inhibition caused by past mistakes. So they called for Leadership Coaching to help them to re-imagine the future of their world-wide business.
Empowered to think differently, and no longer burdened by fear of failure, they created an original and imaginative vision for the business that was way beyond what they had dared imagine was possible!
They brought Unilever Turkey into the 21st century, positioning themselves as leaders in their field.
Guidance Service Ireland…
Leaders of this vital support service were struggling with draconian budget cuts and other global recession based restrictions. Leading to a de-motivated workforce and a sense of powerlessness.
However, after being introduced to new Leadership Strategies, the leaders recognised that they still had the tools and resources to continue to make a difference, despite the working conditions.
The lesson from the Guidance Service Ireland is that it doesn’t matter how difficult and challenging things are. You can still do amazing work!
Eriks / Wyco
In 2006 industrial products supplier Wyco, was taken over by Dutch engineering company Eriks.
To establish integrated thinking into the organisation, Team – Leaders from Eriks, took on Leadership Coaching, and boldly applied them into their working environments, transforming the working culture of the organisation.
Leading to a One Of Britain’s Top Employers Award for 2013!
Derbyshire County Council
Leaders were struggling with draconian budget cuts and other recession based restrictions. Leading to a de-motivated workforce and a sense of powerlessness.
However, after being introduced to Leadership Coaching, the leaders recognised that they still had the tools and resources to continue to make a difference, despite the working conditions.
The lesson from Derbyshire County Council is that you can still find ways to make a difference, even in adversity!
Her Majesty’s Prison Service HMPS
Governors from some of the UK’s most toughest prisons, took on board New Leadership Thinking, and boldly applied it into their ‘hard as nails’ working environments, transforming the culture of some of the UK most notorious prisons.
Luminar Leisure Bounces Back
Some of the UK’s top nightclubs were struggling.
Experienced ‘been there and done it’ managers were finding it hard to motivate staff, innovate and take risks in case they failed.
Taking the key lessons from the Leadership Coaching programme, the managers broke out of their well-established comfort zones, backed their entrepreneurial skills, and totally transformed their late-night entertainment businesses. taking the company share price to record levels at the same time!
Damian Hughes HR Director From ‘Unilever PLC’, Had This To Say…
Damian Hughes read my column in 442 magazine, and hired me to provide Leadership Coaching for managers and leaders, at the Unilever PLC flagship factory at Port Sunlight.
He had this to say about my work.
Martin Perry is a master of his art. He is unique within British industry. In my experience, Martin possesses the wit, courage and ability to make the spectacular happen, and to release the untapped potential that we all possess, both as individuals and within teams.
“I would encourage anyone reading this to extend an invite to Martin, share your challenge, light the blue touch paper and then stand well back and enjoy the show!
In The Leadership Zone
The aim of my work, is not simply to help you get back on track. No, it’s much more than that. I want you to be ‘In The Zone’.
You may have heard the phrase. Sports professionals use it a lot. But you rarely hear leaders and managers talk about it.
When a leader is ‘In The Zone’, decision-making seems easy. Everything you do turns to gold. You feel ‘lucky’. But you know that it’s more than that.
You feel focused and relaxed at the same time. You sense that everything is in place for success. You trust your instincts, and your hunches pay off.
When we work together, this is the journey that I will take you on. Are you up for it?
We can work on any aspect of your leadership that needs transforming. I will be helping you develop simple, but hugely effective strategies, to get your leadership back on track.
I will be in your corner every step of the way, as we take your leadership to a new level.
Contact Me
So, either call me on my personal mobile – 077897 56425. Tell me your situation, in complete confidence. From talking to me, you will quickly get an idea of how I can help.
Or fill out the form below.
You will then receive a call or email from me, to arrange a time to talk. By the end of this initial conversation, I firmly believe that you will start to see light at the end of the tunnel.
Remember – you could wait and hope that by magic, your become a better leader. But experience tells me that rarely happens.
The sooner we get started, the faster you will be on track to reigniting your leadership.