015: Breaking Barriers to Growth - with Sam Lindley

<p>On today's episode, we talk to business coaching expert Sam Lindley of Cloud9 Business Coaching. Sam’s experience is in SME businesses - coaching mindset and supporting business owners across a variety of industries. Sam works with individuals to overcome mindset problems and helps them to develop knowledge and skills required for successful entrepreneurship. Through Sam, we can learn how to break through barriers to growth and discover a community of supportive ideas about growing your business.</p> <p>LEARNING OBJECTIVES:</p> <ul><li> The effect of the pandemic initially slowed business owners down in their approach to growing their businesses. Now that we’re settling into this new way of working, businesses are starting to bounce back and continue as they were.</li> <li>It takes 21 days to form a new habit and the lockdown has helped business owners to focus working on their business rather than in it.</li> <li>Mindset and motivation are the key things that are holding people and business owners back so focusing on one thing to do every day helps you to be disciplined.</li> <li>Every day you should tackle one thing that makes you feel positive. Positivity breeds productivity which in turn, breeds a positive mindset.</li> <li>As a leader, socialising and being able to keep up your team’s morale is incredibly important. Putting some form of bonding activities in place, even in lockdown, can help with the motivation of your team.</li> <li>Use this period to identify where the gaps in your business are. Make that a focus so that your business comes out of this pandemic stronger than it was before.</li> </ul> <p>BEST MOMENTS:</p> <p>‘’We're far more used to and adapted now to this new working and we're ready [to buy]. We're ready to do business as usual. We're ready to crack on because we've realised this doesn't stop and if we do and we stop innovating and stop growing and developing, then we're not going to survive this pandemic and get through lockdown and come back into some sort of normality.’’</p>