It’s September! holidays over, kids back to school, I always see it as the ‘business new year’. We’ve hopefully had some time to forget about the business but now it’s time to lay down plans for improving your business. We should also be thinking about how we can improve and support ourselves, after all as business owners we’re driving the …
The Leaders Mind #1 Resilience – Get Back Up On Yer Bike
This is the first in a series of posts on the minds of a leader that make them who they are. I heard an inspiring interview on the radio last week. On September 2, 2013, at the age of sixty-four, Diana Nyad emerged onto the sands of Key West after swimming 111 miles, nation to nation, Cuba to Florida, in an …
How Business Leaders Get CLARITY
Each Power of Seven group does a leadership retreat every year. The first one is called CLARITY. It’s all about getting clarity on your professional and personal life and ensuring work/life alignment. What’s the point in being successful in business and not in life and vice versa. After a CLARITY retreat you have a vision and strategy for YOUR future. …
Leadership is What Happens When The Leader is Absent
When I went online for some interesting photos to put with this blog post I came across the Irish Times headline ‘Leaders fall but others rise up and inspire’. It says it all. Here’s a few quotes from that online article: Men who would be captains in any other era and another who will lead them now. “It was 25 …
Excellence in Internal & External Customer Service
A recent Power of Seven meeting by the Business development group at the City Bin Co. in Galway. A fantastic display of internal and external customer service initiatives. Rock on City Bin, what a great example of an Irish SME becoming a global leader in their sector.
Step Forward – Step Backward? You Choose.
Many Power of Seven groups are doing goal setting at the moment. It gives everyone something to aim for and also provides context for that member in their group. As I was out running the other morning an idea came to mind (I usually get at least one good idea or break through when running). 🏃 The challenge I was contemplating …
Employed Managing Director Challenges? New Group for MDs starts soon.
Being an employed Managing Director is not without its challenges, such as: being undermined by your employer (CEO, Owner, board, etc) working harder than most yet not having equity (or enough) in the business. not having ultimate decision making authority doubting yourself because you were not the entrepreneur feeling isolated corporate politics lacking certainty that all this hard work is …
Spend More Time With Chargers, Less With Drainers
Do a little audit over the holidays. Scroll down through recent calls on your mobile, emails over a week, meetings in your diary, or wherever your time is occupied with others. Identify those that drain your energy [DRAINERS] and does that charge your energy [CHARGERS]. Make strategic decisions to spend less time with DRAINERS and more time with CHARGERS in …
Power of Seven In The News
Printed in Irish Independent Business Supplement 11th Sept 2014 Bringing Business Owners Together To Solve Problems Barry Walsh (46) is the founder of Power of Seven, which teams up business leaders with their peers to help one another solve business challenges. “I came up with the idea by chance. In my work as a leadership consultant and business coach I found …
What Well Known CEOs of Irish Companies Say
A few short video’s put together by IBEC on Competitiveness, Innovation, Growth & Confidence. Take your pick! (duration 2.45 mins each)