Jonny and Matt discuss their 5 leadership principles from lessons learnt from a 20+ year consultancy of over 1,000 clients. These include operational rigor, commercial alignment, and the power of a coaching culture in business leadership. They discuss how leaders can maintain discipline and effectiveness amidst the monotony of routine tasks, while also fostering a strong coaching culture that nurtures growth. Drawing on insights from their Roots and Shoots white paper and Patrick Lencioni's The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, they explore how aligning key functions across sales, marketing, HR, and finance can drive success.
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Hello and welcome to the Growth Workshop Podcast with your hosts, me, Matt Best and Jonny Adams. In this podcast, we'll be sharing insights from our combined 30 plus years experience and hearing from other industry leaders to get their thoughts and perspectives on what growth looks like in modern business.
We'll cover all aspects of leadership, sales, account development and customer success, alongside other critical elements required to build an effective growth engine for your business. This podcast is aimed at leaders from exec all the way down to line managers. Johnny, hi, great to see you again.
How are you doing? Very good, thank you, Matt. Lovely to see you again. We've rolled on a bit more time since our last conversation, which is great. Doing very well, thank you. How are you? Good, yeah, very well, thanks. So what's been happening in your week this week? I do like this part of our conversation.
It actually gives me a great opportunity to reflect on some of the things that's been going on with our clients just in the world in general as well. I had a fantastic trip to Toronto where we've worked with one of our longstanding clients for many years.
Really interesting about sort of leadership, focusing on some key leadership principles and people really recognizing the value of developing others and also developing themselves. So that was a great takeaway. Come back. Over the red-eye flight, landed, bit of jet lag, but now I'm glad that we're coming up towards the weekend. What about you, Matt? Yeah, nice.
That jet lag coming the other way is horrible, isn't it? Yeah, for me, I had another... you know, fun-packed week working with a lot of clients. It's been fantastic being back face-to-face. I know we've been living in the virtual world for so long and actually just getting back in front of people and in those sort of workshops, it's really engaging. It's been really enjoyable.
So yeah, I had a really interesting conversation actually again on the leadership piece with a client and they've got all the sort of right ideas. It's just how to put that into practice. And sometimes it's all balancing the process with the people. And I know we're going to talk a bit about that later today, but just Really interesting.
We've got all this in place, but why are we struggling to get it moving? Yeah, did some prep work with another colleague on how we're going to help them in tackling that challenge. So it's great. So in terms of today's conversation, Johnny, I think the topic for today is what are the five principles of successful leadership? And I think it's... This is a really interesting topic to dive into.
I'm sure people listening will have their own perspectives, maybe even have their own principles that they've delivered in different organizations that they've worked in the past. But obviously, we take these principles or we created these principles based on the thousand clients that we've worked with or that SBR have worked with over the years, many of those on leadership programs.
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