I have lived, hard-earned experience in not only how to grow a business but sell it, including how to negotiate the deal and, what doesn’t get talked about as much, be prepared for life after the sale.
Working initially on a one-to-one with the business leader, together we will discover your values and vision, which in turn will give you the grit to let nothing stand in your way.
What do you truly care about?
A business lives and dies on its values. But it’s not enough for your values as a leader to be aligned with those of the business. They have to be one and the same. Anything else is just playing at leadership.
The difference between success and failure is giving up. And often, we give up because we don’t care enough. Or rather, we’re not doing something we really care about.
By helping you identify your values, your true passion, I can help ensure the business has the resolution it needs to never give up.
The road ahead
Knowing where you want to go is one thing. The big question is, why do you want to go there. That’s the difference between a business goal – which will only get you so far – and a business vision.
I will help you define a compelling, clear vision that can get potential buyers or investors excited, fire up a management team, unite staff and keep you going when you face the big challenges ahead. And believe me, you will face challenges.
The next step is to truly embed the values in your company culture and get people on board with the vision. This is done through a series of workshops.
Three workshops to expose the conflicts hidden in your organisation, shake up the old ways of thinking and working, and re-build based on shared accountability and values.
These can be done with the management team or with the whole organisation.
Workshop 1 - Bring out your untrue truths
Creating a safe space to say uncomfortable things. This workshop will allow people to air their grievances, ask the questions they’ve been too uneasy to ask and, most importantly of all, help you discover the challenges you didn’t even know about – which are often the ones that create the biggest chokeholds in a business.
Workshop 2 - Shock and Ah-ha!
A series of ingenious activities to flip the way people think about teamwork on its head, and shake people out of their old ways of thinking and working.
Workshop 3 - Re-building and belonging
Bespoke workshops and ongoing practices to help all individuals feel like they belong to something bigger than themselves.
To begin our journey together, email lisa@ekte-vision.com