Delegating properly
Not handing over tasks and taking them back. Handing over an outcome, agreeing what good looks like, and living with it being done differently from how you would do it.
Leadership coaching
The business has grown. Your role has to change with it.
For owners who have built something that now waits on them. Delegation that survives contact with reality, the conversations that keep getting postponed, and becoming the person the business does not need in the room.
What it involves
- Delegation that survives contact with reality
- The conversation you keep postponing
- Being less of a bottleneck
- What only you can genuinely do
- Your managers included where it helps
- Fixed fee, agreed before you start
What it is
When the business has outgrown how you run it
There is a point where the thing that built the business — you, doing it, deciding it, checking it — becomes the thing holding it back. The team waits for you. Decisions queue behind you. Holidays are not really holidays.
Leadership coaching is about that transition: from being the best operator in the business to being the person the business does not need in the room.
What we work on
The four that come up every time
The conversations you are avoiding
The underperformer, the founding employee who has not grown with the business, the family member. Avoided conversations are the single most expensive thing in most small firms.
Being less of a bottleneck
What only you can genuinely do, what you have simply never let go of, and how to tell the difference.
How you show up
A bad mood in an owner-managed business is a company-wide event. Consistency is a leadership skill, not a personality trait.
What changes
What people report at ninety days
- Decisions get made without you in the room, and mostly you agree with them
- The uncomfortable conversation happened, and it went better than the version you had rehearsed
- You know what only you can do, and it is a much shorter list than you thought
- A week away does not cost you a fortnight catching up
Questions
What people ask about leadership coaching
Is this different from one-to-one business coaching?
The rhythm is the same; the subject is not. One-to-one coaching works on the business — priorities, pricing, decisions. Leadership coaching works on you as the person running it, which is the right choice once the constraint is your role rather than your plan.
My team is four people. Is that too small?
No. Four is exactly where it bites, because it is the size at which everything still routes through the owner but there is now too much of it to hold.
Will you work with my managers too?
Where it helps, yes — sometimes the useful session is with the person you are trying to hand something to. That is agreed up front rather than sprung on anyone.
What does it cost?
Agreed on the discovery call, as a fixed fee before you start. There is no price list because the programmes differ in how much work they involve.
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