Business Leaders...
Lead with Impact: Turn Resistance into Transformative Change
Transformation Leadership - Specialist Coaching and Support
Is Your Business Transformation An Uphill Struggle?
A common challenge for business leaders is getting the right people engaged in their transformation. This is especially true with digital transformation, which is high on the agenda for most organisations.
The result is constantly having to push in order to make meaningful progress, which can be exhausting. For many it's the sheer volume of work, balancing strategic goals alongside constant demands from those around you.
Customers, shareholders, team members, colleagues, all pulling on your time, and all "urgent". Meetings, constant emails, teams or slack messages, even over the weekends. It could be that even in quiet times you find your mind wandering to the pile of things you have to get done.
I've been there too!!
And what gets squeezed? Time with family and friends and doing the things you really enjoy, not achieving your personal goals. Even if you're there in person maybe you're frantically checking emails, lost in thought, making calls, not truly present.
It Doesn't Have To Be This Way!!
It would be easy to think that this is all there is, that it's inevitable but it's not! It's actually a sign that low engagement is holding you back. It's a sign that you're not tapping into the huge well of energy and innovation existing in every organisation. It's lying dormant and unused. This represents a huge opportunity to accelerate your strategic goals, deliver your transformation, build your reputation and also get your life back!
You may be running a big project, potentially something bigger or more complex than you've done before. Potentially customers are demanding more and more and it's hard to keep up.
You know what needs to happen but it's hard motivating others in the same way, creating the kind of energy in your organisation that you need. Everyone is busy. They may even seem engaged but you're just not making the progress you're hoping for. You may even be noticing low engagement from people or teams close to you, people you thought were fully onboard.
Understand the Psychological Triggers To Engagement
The good news is that there are a few psychologically based principles that once mastered and applied consistently, will unlock engagement and deliver transformational outcomes without the long hours and the stress. You'll be achieving great results whilst also being able to focus on what really matters...your partner, your friends, your kids and the things you enjoy.
Increase Your Value and Open up New Opportunities.
Drawing on decades of experience in delivering transformational change in global organisations, tailored 1:1 coaching and support is specifically help you unlock the latent power in your business so you can achieve your goals faster whilst working less. You'll learn how to increase engagement in your ideas and initiatives, whilst also confidently dealing with any resistance, so you can focus on making more impact.
Imagine for a moment how it will feel as your reputation grows and new opportunities open up. You're working less because you're confident that people are creatively engaged and energetically pushing towards making the transformation a resounding success...you've truly unlocked the power of collaboration.
You're spending quality time with family and friends, whilst others around you at work are burning the midnight oil, just to keep on top of things.
You're confident in your career that as the pace of change continues to accelerate, because you know you have exactly the right skills and experience be at the forefront and in high demand.
How does that sound?
Are you ready to fast track yourself to great outcomes with less stress? Ready to amplify your reputation as a trusted transformational leader and live the life you dream of?
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What's your biggest challenge right now?
What is the one thing, if solved right now would make the biggest difference? Here are a few of the common challenges I regularly help leaders with:
Low Engagement and Resistance to Change?
It's very common that employees, colleagues and even other leaders are disengaged and resistant to the changes that need to be implemented. Typically this comes from a lack of understanding, fear of the unknown, or a perceived threat to their current roles.
The trouble is that it's not always obvious where it's coming from.
- Address the Root Causes: We'll get to the underlying reasons quickly so you can address them before they become a problem.
- Powerful Communication Techniques: Craft and deliver compelling change messages that resonate with different personality types and preferences.
- Influencing Without Authority: Practical tools and techniques you can use right away to get the right people onside and supporting your change, whether it's executives, investors, colleagues or other stakeholders.
Need More Transformation Leadership Experience?
Leaders are often promoted into roles and expected to hit the ground running and make things happen without prior experience or specific training.
They are unfairly left feeling unprepared, unsupported and overwhelmed. They can also feel exposed and over-reliant on external specialist resources.
- How to fuel engagement: We'll work through simple, accessible techniques that you can implement right away. No lengthy training courses on theory or change management best practice, just practical guidance that works. You'll be confident that you have a solid grasp of triggers that drive all human behaviour, so you can increase engagement, unlock innovation and accelerate pace.
- Conflict Resolution Techniques: Understand the psychology behind conflict, recognising the emotional triggers (in you and others) then develop smart, practical approaches to move from conflict to unity and commitment.
- Mentorship and Guidance: Knowing what to do is one thing, applying it in practice is something very different. You'll be fully supported as you take those important steps from knowledge into practice and then onwards to true mastery.
Overwhelm and Stress?
Leading an organisation or a team, especially through change, can be an incredibly stressful and lonely experience, with feelings of self-doubt, overwhelm, potentially even burnout.
If left unchecked, this can affect your mental and physical wellbeing and even impact on family and close relationships.
- Advanced Prioritisation and Focus Techniques: We'll work together to develop the powerful habits adopted by the most admired leaders and highly effective people throughout history.
- Unlock Your Inner Power: Most people leave untapped potential at the mercy of their limiting beliefs. We'll work through time proven approaches to reduce stress and take control of your inner world so you can deal with all of life's challenges with supreme confidence and greater ease.
- The De-Stress SOS Protocols: For those moments when you're caught up in the emotional storm, there are some very powerful, practical techniques you can apply in minutes to get you back in control. And of course, we are here to talk it through because a problem shared is a problem halved.
Are you ready to accelerate your career and open up new opportunities?
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Tailored to You!
Everyone is different and your needs are unique so the coaching and support will start and end with you, your goals, your frustrations and where you need the most support.
Save Time & Effort
Time is valuable!! Why waste time searching for answers and making the common mistakes? Fast track yourself to transformational leadership mastery!
Decades of Experience
I've learned the hard lessons so you don't have to! I've studied what works and applied it in practice. Draw upon decades of practice supported by the latest in Behavioural Psychology and Neuroscience
Specialist Tailored Support To Fast Track Your Impact
Your needs are unique and so the specialist 1:1 support and coaching is specifically tailored to where you are now, whether you're just starting out, a seasoned leader or somewhere in between. You'll be drawing upon decades of experience and the latest in behavioural science and neuroscience but in a practical and accessible way. A way that gets you fast results without spending time learning lots of theory. Practical strategies that you can implement right now and get results.
What others are saying...
*****
"Mark combines that rare blend of excellent people skills (he is an exceptional listener), with a strong professional background in leading change, and, finally, the critical ingredient of understanding exactly which approaches to deploy in order to best support and deliver your change initiative successfully. Mark excels at knowing when to challenge you and when to provide reassurance or more support"
Louise Welch – Senior Director, Global Operations – PlayStation
*****
"Mark is absolutely great to work with. His subject matter expertise is, of course, impressive but no surprise. What has been more important on this project is the way that Mark works. He engages everyone involved at the outset, he is crystal clear with his communication and he has the ability to work at pace whilst also taking time to bring everyone on the journey with him"
Alan Evans – Executive Coach & ex Transformation Director at Game UK
*****
"There is no substitute for Mark's 'in the trenches’ experience over decades and across such a wide range of industries and pressured scenarios. If you need expertise from someone pleasant to deal with, highly entertaining, and ahead of the curve for his clients, you need to get in touch with Mark"
David Santineer – Business Change Specialist and Change Management Institute Lead
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Hi, I'm Mark
My experience in delivering transformational change started in the late 90's when the music industry I was in at the time went through a huge industry transformation as they battled with the rapid decline of their market as a result of the internet. Resistance was everywhere and this needed a new set of skills. Bit by bit I started to apply a different approach, an approach inspired by a couple of excellent mentors I was very fortunate to have at the time. Leaders who seemed to deliver their goals effortlessly and never appeared stressed, they were also well liked and constantly in demand.
As I began to apply the same principles, my job in leading transformation projects and programmes got so much easier, my business relationships improved and my career took off. I went from running local IT business improvement projects to delivering global multi-year changes in organisations like EMI Music, JP Morgan and Warner Music.
I launched Applied Change in 2010 and since then I and my team have consulted, coached and mentored leaders in a wide range of sectors such as manufacturing, finance, telecoms, engineering, publishing, distribution, retail and many others. Our clients include Universal Music, PlayStation, Bekaert, PIAS, Watson Marlow, Vodafone & Accenture.
My team and I have combined our decades of practice with the latest behavioural science (through our collaboration with University of West of England) into the High Impact Changemaker Formula and Change Journey Navigator tool. These are now making it even easier for leaders to get great results consistently. I'm an active contributor in the Change Management Institute and Association for Project Management as well as a regular speaker on the topic of change adoption and dealing with resistance to change. I'm a big music lover too and in my spare time I do love to spend a bit of time on my decks, mostly playing House or DnB.
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