I want to share a growth story with you.

A typical SME business owner challenge. Doing everything.  All the jobs in the business depend on you. Working exceptionally hard.

It’s the ‘Owner’s Trap’. Too busy to stop and think, to develop the business or yourself as the leader in your business. Growth stalls as you have no more hours to give, cannot absorb more stress.

A scenario described well in Michael Gerber’s eMyth

The questions to ask yourself:

  • What do I want?
  • Why am I in business?
  • What does life look like when the business is enabling the life I want?
  • Am I leveraging my time effectively or am I doing the same jobs ‘x’ years in?

The approach needed:

  • Leverage your skills, knowledge, experience – to play to your super strengths
  • Learn to systemise, train and delegate jobs below your level of skill / value
  • Get clear on your vision, mission & roadmap for the business
  • Align your personal & business goals and align all key stakeholders
  • Instil the discipline and focus of systematically working ON the business, not just doing the ‘technician’ jobs in the business
  • Shift from a time for money exchange to invest money to get time back to work on the business and yourself – in team, systems, specialist skills, knowledge and personal development

The result:

  • The business grows. Your team grows. You grow. Your work/life balance improves. Your confidence grows. You get in the business of realising your goals (personal & business). You and your highly engaged team enjoy the journey and the progressive development & achievement. Growing a business becomes fun!

“After all, we’re in business to get more life”

Watch this short video to hear from Laura, owner of LK&A Associates, on how she’s transformed the trajectory of her business and her role within it – Click here