Leading to Here with Jon Dawson

Meet Jon Dawson, a keen follower of his beloved Everton Football Club and the UK and Ireland Director of STAAR Surgical, a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of the EVO family of Implantable Collamer® Lenses (EVO ICL™). Their lenses provide visual freedom to patients, lessening or eliminating the reliance on glasses or contact lenses.

Jon’s inspiring career started in the family business, a local printer. He took it upon himself to go door to door to drum up business in his local area. He navigated various sales and management roles before taking the opportunity to lead STAAR’s strategy in the UK and Ireland.

Unlocking Leadership Potential: A Blueprint for Transformative Growth

As a leader of large teams and departments, you will know that leadership isn’t just about hitting targets and managing people. It’s about unlocking the potential within your teams and, just as importantly, within yourself. In an environment where the only constant is change, how you lead makes all the difference between just surviving and truly thriving. That’s why I’m excited to share our Leadership Blueprint—a powerful tool designed to help leaders like you break through the barriers that often hold you back and drive real, meaningful change.

Why the Leadership Blueprint Matters

In my experience working with organisations across various sectors, I’ve seen firsthand how easy it is for leaders to get caught up in day-to-day operations, often at the expense of strategic growth and personal development. The pressures of managing large teams and hitting KPIs can sometimes overshadow the importance of continuous leadership evolution. But the truth is, if you’re not growing, you’re stagnating—and so are your teams.

Our Leadership Blueprint addresses this head-on. It’s not just another leadership guide. It’s a strategic tool designed to help leaders navigate the complexities of modern business while fostering an environment where individuals and teams can excel.

What Sets Our Blueprint Apart

  • 1. Mindset First: You will have encountered those moments when your own thinking becomes the bottleneck. Our Blueprint emphasises the importance of mindset as the foundation of effective leadership. It offers practical ways to shift our perspectives, challenging the self-limiting beliefs that can hold us—and our teams—back.
  • 2. Actionable Change: While changing your mindset is critical, it’s equally important to translate those shifts into tangible actions. The Blueprint provides step-by-step guidance on how to embed these new ways of thinking into your daily leadership practice, ensuring that the impact is not just theoretical but real and lasting.
  • 3. Alignment with Organisational Goals: Leadership is more than personal development; it’s about driving the organisation forward. Our Blueprint ensures that as you evolve as a leader, your growth is aligned with your organisation’s broader strategic objectives, creating a ripple effect that benefits everyone.

What You’ll Gain from the Leadership Blueprint

The Leadership Blueprint is for leaders like you— who oversee large teams and departments tasked with managing, inspiring, and driving transformation. Here’s what you can expect:

Self-Assessment Tools: Understand your current leadership strengths and areas for development with actionable insights focused on areas where you can grow.

Tailored Action Plans: Develop a personalised roadmap that aligns with your leadership aspirations and your organisation’s goals.

Insightful Case Studies: Learn from peers who have successfully implemented these strategies in real-world scenarios.

Continued Support: Access resources that keep you on track, ensuring your leadership journey is ongoing and adaptive to new challenges.

The Path Forward

Leadership is about more than maintaining the status quo, especially at the helm of large teams and departments. It’s about driving significant, positive change. Our Leadership Blueprint will support you, providing the tools and insights necessary to elevate your leadership game and, by extension, the performance of your entire team.

I encourage you to download the Leadership Blueprint today and discover how to unlock your leadership’s full potential.

This leadership blueprint is a powerful tool designed to help experienced leaders, those new to the role, and those aspiring to join the leadership ranks. It will help you break through the barriers that often hold you back and drive real, meaningful change. As a leader, you will know that leadership isn’t just about hitting targets and managing people. It’s about unlocking the potential within your teams and, just as importantly, within yourself. In an environment where the only constant is change, how you lead makes all the difference between just surviving and truly thriving.

Are You on Course to Hit Your Goals in 2024?

Imagine it’s the end of the year, and you’ve missed the mark.

How does that feel?

In this video, we walk you through four essential steps and 13 critical questions to ensure you finish the year strong. Whether you’re working toward a calendar year-end or another timeframe, this process will help you identify potential risks, boost your confidence, and set you up for success. Plus, I’ve got an invaluable resource for you at the end to make sure you achieve your goals every time.

Ready? Let’s go!

A Blueprint for Leaders and Leadership

This leadership blueprint is a powerful tool designed to help experienced leaders, those new to the role, and those aspiring to join the leadership ranks. It will help you break through the barriers that often hold you back and drive real, meaningful change.

As a leader, you will know that leadership isn’t just about hitting targets and managing people. It’s about unlocking the potential within your teams and, just as importantly, within yourself. In an environment where the only constant is change, how you lead makes all the difference between just surviving and truly thriving.

Why do I find giving feedback so difficult?

Feedback has been described as the breakfast of champions, but giving feedback can be one of the toughest things we have to do, with many people avoiding giving feedback if they possibly can.

In this, another podcast in our series of questions from coaching conversations, Ricky and Graham focus on why some people find it so difficult to give good feedback and how developing your technique around feedback is a vital leadership skill.

From why we find feedback so difficult, through to models and structures to make you better at feedback – if you want to help the people around you be better at what they do, then this podcast is for you.

Workplace Pressure That Triggers Your Threat Response and How to Take Back Control

At one time or another, you will face Workplace Pressure That Triggers Your Threat Response, and you will need to know How to Take Back Control #fight #flight

Ricky Muddimer shares eight workplace situations in this video that can trigger your threat responses. We react in different ways at different times and to different triggers. Recognising the triggers is the first step; having coping strategies is the next, unlocking a deeper understanding and discovering how to help yourself.