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What is the primary focus of a leadership team?

At some point, one person running everything just doesn’t cut it. A strong leadership team isn’t a nice-to-have—it’s essential. This blog breaks down the 4 key functions of a high-performing team: preventing founder overwhelm, reducing solo accountability, bringing specialist expertise, and challenging the status quo to future-proof your business.

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What tasks or responsibilities should be delegated?

As a founder, delegation can feel like walking a tightrope—delegate too soon and risk chaos; too late and you burn out. This blog shares a practical 3-criteria framework to help you delegate with confidence, protect your energy, and scale sustainably. It’s about finding the “just right” zone—your own Goldilocks sweet spot.

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What are the qualities of a good leader?

Discover the 5 essential traits every great leader must have—humility, proactivity, resilience, agility, and expertise. A must-read guide for founders building a strong leadership team.

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The Founder’s Guide to Taking a Real Holiday (Without the Guilt or Laptop)

Are you taking a real holiday—or just calling it one while replying to emails on the sly? If you’re a founder, the “pseudo holiday” trap is real. In this post, we break down the three types of breaks leaders tend to take—and why only one actually helps you reset, reconnect, and refocus. If you're serious about long-term success (and the people you care about), it’s time to aim for Option 1.

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Delegate the Pace for Smarter Business Management

Discover why founders shouldn’t set the team’s pace and how delegating this role leads to more consistent performance, sustainable growth, and better business management.

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What does a business leader do?

If you want to empower others to lead more so you can lead less, then you have to be clear which parts of the business you want them to be accountable for going forward. This is a crucial part of the transition from founder-led to a leader-led company.

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How much is leadership coaching?

Most founders and CEOs who purchase business coaching are doing so for the first time, so it can understandably be difficult to work out how much to spend. They may recognise there is a gap and a need but aren’t sure either how to spend on closing that gap. As a guideline coaching will be an investment of between 1-3K per month for a typical SME depending on the a number of factors outlined below.

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Leadership coaching vs executive coaching

Discover the key differences between leadership coaching and executive coaching—and learn how leadership coaching can help your growing business develop confident, capable leaders.

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How Leadership Coaching Helps Founders Let Go Without Losing Control

This is the question we normally get to after our initial exploratory session with an overwhelmed but still ambitious founder. At this point they have a fundamental choice to make which impacts their own future but also that of their employees, and the company itself.

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Not All Business Coaching Is Created Equal: How to choose the best fit

As the business coaching industry has evolved over the last 5 years in particular the offerings available to companies looking to invest in coaching have increased. Like most growth industries niche offerings appear giving the buyer more options but at the same time potentially more confusion as to what to buy.

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Why Most Founders Feel Trapped—And the Deep Work Fix That Frees Them

Founders crave freedom. They would love to spend more time on their business and less time in it. They can become frustrated and, at times, overwhelmed by the reliance on them, but the blind spot is that it’s a self-created dependency, as they are missing one crucial element.

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Leadership Without the Drama: Practising Objective Detachment

The theme this week, walking our talk.

It is very easy for a coach to suggest a behaviour or way of working to others, but in many areas of life, it is more challenging to apply the same advice to ourselves. This week in TRC, we have spent time focusing on one such subject: Objective Detachment.

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Why leadership coaching is an essential investment and not an optional cost

When leadership coaching is viewed as an optional expense, businesses risk stagnation. But for growth-focused founders, it's a strategic investment—one that strengthens teams, retains top talent, and unlocks the CEO’s time to lead, not just manage. Here’s why smart businesses make coaching a budget priority.

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Bloated, Busy, and Drifting? It’s Time to Rebuild from the Inside Out.

Core commitments should be at the heart of every business. These are the non-negotiables around which the company operates and to which it adheres. In athletic performance, having a strong, defined core (the muscles around the centre of your body) enables you to operate at a higher level for longer.

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Are You Choosing Your Stakeholders or Just Accepting Them?

Every founder and leadership team wants to attract the right people, but too often, they forget to ask a more powerful question: Are we intentionally choosing our stakeholders, or just accepting whoever shows up?

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Are you carrying too much, whilst saying too little?

Vulnerability is one of those leadership topics on which everyone has their position, generally based on long-held beliefs that are difficult to shift. Some leaders believe that sharing a lot and often is the best way to connect with their team, while many leaders hold a contrasting point of view that works on the ‘share as little as possible with as few people as possible’ principle. Both are flawed, but both can work effectively in certain situations.

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