How Your Environments Impact Your Success in 2025

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In the final part of The CEO Playbook series, Rudolf Rautenbach and John Watson breakdown the critical role of environments in maximizing one's effectiveness in their roles and relationships.

They explore personal preferences for workspaces, the importance of building relationships in various environments, and the need for intentionality in assessing and improving these environments. One cannot leave environments up to chance that they will work in your favour. Intentionality in choosing environments can lead to better outcomes in roles and relationships. The networking events you attend should energize you, not drain you; so choose wisely.

There are 4 practical strategies unpacked to help you in 2025:

Cast Away - get out of bad environments

Change - help improve your current environments

Choose - find better environments to operate in

Create - if it doesn't exist, be the captain of a new environment

Regularly reflecting on your environments will help you make better decisions in 2025 that will directly impact your roles and relationships too.

Key Learning Points In This Podcast:

• The Importance of Environments
• Personal Preferences in Work Environments
• Building Relationships in Different Environments
• Assessing and Improving Work Environments
• Intentionality in Roles, Relationships, and Environments
• The Four Cs of Environment Management
• Creating Positive Environments

When you’re ready this is how we can help your business

RISE

We formalise informal training. Within working teams, knowledge gets shared on a daily basis. We learn from each other, establish processes and create culture. New staff fit into this over time, as they become accustomed to the company’s way of work. The founders, Paul Janisch and Rudolf Rautenbach were involved in various training initiatives over the years. These projects delivered value, although mostly through compliance processes.

Where these fail is that it focusses on eternal training and neglects the staff of the company. Where internal staff are involved, it takes them out of the office for extended periods and decreases productivity. There had to be a better way. This is it.

OWNERSHIELD

Ownershield came about when the founders asked the question “how do your create sustainable solutions to deal with ownership in South Africa, taking into account the extreme poverty that exists in this country.”. Pooling their collective 30 plus years in the auditing and black economic empowerment consultation industries together they launched Ownershield to tackle this problem. Ownershield offers a dynamic range of ownership solutions that cater for all sizes of companies operating in South Africa. All solutions are based on a subscription model without a setup fee.

JOHN CONNECTS

Do you wish your company could connect with the right clients and partners? Do you wish your team member’s were not scared to network and put themselves out there more? You are just one conversation away from changing your trajectory. Have an introductory conversation with John Watson today and discuss solutions in new business development, networking events or confident connector coaching.

Cheers,

John & Rudolf