Enough white space

I have created the Impactful Leadership Manifesto to encourage leaders to consider the impact they are having on their various stakeholders.

It's easy to overplay what we input into our businesses (such as?hours invested), without considering the impact of these actions. The most successful leaders of the best companies understand that?impact on employees, clients, partners and shareholders matters more than input.

Mantra 6

As a leader it's all too easy to consciously/subconsciously fill every slot in your diary with meetings, projects and tasks. Leaders generally like to feel busy and definitely want to feel needed. Consequently, without realising we overwhelm our diary with ’stuff’ and 'important work that needs attention.'

However, the reality for too many leaders is that much of the 'stuff' that congests their timetables requires less of their time or could be done by someone else. In some cases this represents strategic work avoidance. Overloading yourself with operational work may be arduous, but on the other hand is familiar, doable and controllable.?

A more experienced?(or a more aware) leader knows their most important contribution to their business, their team and their clients is their strategic work. This can only be achieved when they have enough white space ring-fenced so that they can consider and create. This is uncertain, challenging, time-consuming work.

Step one in finding white space is recognising that you may be just busy being busy and not committing to the more complex tasks. That’s the easy step…

Step two is weaning yourself off the operational 'stuff' and being comfortable having more white space for strategic thinking.?

Step three is embedding this new behaviour. You will be pleasantly surprised with the more decisive?direction your businesses is moving.

As ever, it's easier to write than to do.

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Hello, I’m Nick Cramp. I’ve been working as business owner and coach now for around three decades.

During this time, it often occurred to me that many leaders feel unfulfilled by their work, which seemed a pity given the amount of time and effort they have invested. I want to change this, so have created and collected a selection of the best strategies for business improvement.

My main mantra is that an organisation must get better before bigger. The reason for this is that without the best people, processes and systems, you have no springboard to reach that next level and sustain this success.

In 2021, I published my book Better before Bigger – Rethinking Business Success, which alongside my coaching and courses, outlines a holistic approach to running a thriving company.

I want to guide ambitious leaders towards the best practices and results, so their reality can align with their ambitions.

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