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• Work life balance is bullshit;
• No one in your life cares how hard it is, surround yourself by people who get it;
• Self care is not selfish;
• Stop being a martyr;
• Drop the guilt.

As I shared last week, recently I was reflecting on the fact that it has been 15 years since I threw in the towel on a stable, well paid, leadership position with a multi national organisation to set up my own business, and so the Footprint brand was born.

Whilst I may have been anything but the text book approach, I knew what I wanted to do and just went head first in. Whilst I had some skills, plenty of grit and a no nonsense approach to success being inevitable, I can’t say that there hasn’t been hurdles to overcome along the way.

One of the key lessons I’ve learnt in these 15 years is the importance of your team – your employees, the contractors and suppliers you work with, the mentors and advisors you seek support from and everyone else that is part of this journey.

Now I’d been building high performing, successful teams since I was a teenager, so this wasn’t news to me, but there are certainly some lessons that I have needed to take on to truly understand the recipe t...

Hello and welcome to Episode 57 of the People Powered Business Podcast!

Today's episode is part 2 of a 3 part series – where I am sharing 15 of the most important lessons I’ve learnt in my 15 years in business.

Today we focused on teams, specifically the most impactful lessons I have learnt about building talented, triumphant and winning teams.

Here are my 5 top lessons (although I’ve learnt many many more):

• You can’t outrun a bad hire;
• If you don’t expect too much from them you might not be let down;
• Trust is everything;
• They need boundaries, and you need to uphold them;
• They need a few key things from us, so listen in hard.

Also mentioned in this episode was episode 29 “If you don’t expect too much from me, you might not be let down”
Listen to Episode 29 here.

As well as episode 10 ‘Are you tolerating too much’ with special guest Shandra Moran
Listen to Episode 10 here.

In addition, I extended an invitation for you to join us in our free Facebook Group, HR Support for...

Recently I was reflecting on the fact that it has been 15 years since I quit my stable, well paid, leadership position with a multi national organisation to, within 7 days, set up my own business, and the journey of The Footprint Group took it’s first step into the world.

Whilst I certainly don’t think the way I decided to go about this entrepreneurial journey is a text book example of solid business planning, it was the only way for me. I was youngish, impulsive, stubborn and had been dreaming of doing this for the longest time. Why hadn’t I done it before? The usual story – the people around me thought it was risky, uncertain, crazy, against the grain.

But in a period of 3 days where the timing was like a perfect storm to make this decision a no brainer.

So I resign, spend the week of my notice period setting up business names, company structures, getting logo’s designed, preparing a full policies and procedures document, finding and leasing offices – and 7 days later I w...

• You can’t hide;
• You need courage;
• Don’t pretend to know or have it all together when you don’t;
• Communication is king;
• Your people come first.

Like most leaders and managers of teams, you have probably found yourself in a place where you had had success in building your team, you have found great people, you have kept great people.

Yet, at a certain point, things weren’t all working as well as you liked with your employees.

Perhaps you realised your latest hire wasn’t ideal, or you were getting attitude from one of the team, they just didn’t seem to be doing what you expected, or you needed to exit someone but the thought of having to do that was less than comfortable.

The first thing you need to know is that it is totally normal, and there are always going to be points as you grow your business where things get a little wobbly in certain parts, despite the fact that you have other elements of your team running along seamlessly.

I don’t need to tell you what you already know, and that is that you can’t build a business that delivers you success and results (whatever they look like for you), without having a te...