• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Shuriken Consulting

beyond the numbers

  • Pay your Bill
  • Tax Calculator
  • Contact Us
  • About
    • Privacy
  • Webinars
    • ATO Targets Cash Business
  • Services
    • Setup
    • Company Setup
    • Education
    • Finance
    • Insurance
    • Compliance
    • Bookkeeping
    • Tax and Accounting
    • Cloud Accounting
    • SMSF
    • Growth
    • Advice
    • Business Structure
    • Business Valuations
    • Wealth Team
  • Digital
  • International
  • Locations
    • Sydney CBD
    • Hornsby
    • Dural
    • Manly

Andrew Jeffers CEO / February 11, 2020

Fundamental Three To Successfully Scale Up Your Business

There are three fundamentals to successfully scale up your business: having a clear organisation structure, having comprehensive systems, and developing great leadership.

Heard the quote, “What got you here won’t get you there”? These are wise words (and the title of a book you should read!) are from Marshall Goldsmith. Choosing to scale your business does not come without risk!

Many leaders focus on their systems and teams when looking to scale, which is important, but they must also focus on scaling themselves.

Fundamental three: developing great leadership

Most reasons why businesses fail, directly and indirectly, point to leadership failure.

From poor planning to poor hiring, poor communication to poor process, poor capacity to poor execution – most things can be fixed with great leadership.

Scaling the business will make new demands on a leader’s time and attention and it’s critical that these are both focused on the right things:

1. Planning.
Setting a clear vision and relevant business goals, regularly reviewing progress, and resetting goals to drive performance improvement.

2. Inspiring.
Motivating others to achieve more than before; showing them their potential to make an impact.

3. Empowering.
Enabling your team to find their own solutions by guiding them with your support, trust and encouragement.

4. Culture.
Demonstrating allegiance to the team and standing for the business’s core values.

5. Innovating.
Continuous improvement in people, product, and process.

6. Personal growth.
Developing and supporting your future leaders with mentoring and guidance.

Great leadership is about influencing others in the direction of a common goal.

While there can only be one leader of a business, there are seven operational departments that need individual leaders. People can lead multiple departments initially but, as the business grows, should look to empower others and delegate the leadership of some departments to ‘leaders in training’.

On a scale from 1 to 10, how well do you rate your performance on the above six categories? Where can you scale your leadership? Need help? Get in touch.

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader

contact-shuriken-today

Filed Under: Business, Business Planning Tagged With: Andrew Jeffers, Business, marketing, marketing goals, shuriken, shurikenconsulting

Primary Sidebar

Recent Posts

  • August 2021 Tax And Accounting News: All You Need To Know
  • Exclusive Probians Offer
  • Tax & Accounting Questions Answered Free for Probians
  • Government support for your business
  • Succession Planning for Small Businesses

B1G1

“Imagine if every time you made a step forward in your business, it had an unimaginable impact on the lives of others…”

Footer

Services

  • Company Setup
  • Education
  • Finance
  • Insurance
  • Bookkeeping
  • Tax and Accounting
  • Cloud Accounting
  • SMSF
  • Advice
  • Business Structure
  • Wealth Management
  • Business Valuations
  • Digital Marketing
  • Shuriken International
  • Events

About

Shuriken is at the forefront of accountancy, providing clients with a broad range of services, coaching and mentoring.

Contact Shuriken if you want to launch or grow a business or if you want to get a clear action plan on how to achieve your financial goals. We can help with benchmarking, cashflow forecasting, payroll and much more.

Learn More

NSW Business Chamber Member

Contact Us

Sydney CBD

T: 1300 886 066 or (02) 9114 8544

Hornsby

T: (02) 9485 3400

Dural

T: (02) 9651 2288

Endorsal

  • News
  • Events
  • FAQs
  • Contact Us
Terms of Use Privacy Policy Disclaimer