015: Breaking Barriers to Growth - with Sam Lindley

On today's episode, we talk to business coaching expert Sam Lindley of Cloud9 Business Coaching. Sam’s experience is in SME businesses - coaching mindset and supporting business owners across a variety of industries. Sam works with individuals to overcome mindset problems and helps them to develop knowledge and skills required for successful entrepreneurship. Through Sam, we can learn how to break through barriers to growth and discover a community of supportive ideas about growing your business. LEARNING OBJECTIVES: The effect of the pandemic initially slowed business owners down in their approach to growing their businesses. Now that we’re settling into this new way of working, businesses are starting to bounce back and continue as they were. It takes 21 days to form a new habit and the lockdown has helped business owners to focus working on their business rather than in it. Mindset and motivation are the key things that are holding people and business owners back so focusing on one thing to do every day helps you to be disciplined. Every day you should tackle one thing that makes you feel positive. Positivity breeds productivity which in turn, breeds a positive mindset. As a leader, socialising and being able to keep up your team’s morale is incredibly important. Putting some form of bonding activities in place, even in lockdown, can help with the motivation of your team. Use this period to identify where the gaps in your business are. Make that a focus so that your business comes out of this pandemic stronger than it was before. BEST MOMENTS: ‘’We're far more used to and adapted now to this new working and we're ready [to buy]. We're ready to do business as usual. We're ready to crack on because we've realised this doesn't stop and if we do and we stop innovating and stop growing and developing, then we're not going to survive this pandemic and get through lockdown and come back into some sort of normality.’’ ‘’There are things outside of our control, which again, is really hard for control freaks such as myself to deal with. So just taking one thing each day and being able to tick that off is a success. That one thing, for me, has to be something that's really going to move my business forward.’’ ‘’…there's a massive amount of accountability, a huge amount of holding the mirror up for the right reasons and for genuine reasons. The support amongst the group [the mastermind] has just been incredible. Your support network is key to your own motivation, your own self-discipline, and it's certainly been a lifeline for me over the last six or seven weeks.’’ ‘’The beauty of the mastermind is that you've got people, other business owners who may know something you don't know and they share those learnings with you. The amount of technology that I have learned in 12 months from my mastermind peers has just been absolutely incredible. I could honestly say that my business is probably 70% more efficient because of the new platforms that I've been learning through others in the group.’’ ‘’Everybody is going to be looking at ways that this has improved the efficiency of their business and also in the way that we look after our planet. I know that’s made a huge impact on people who, for work, were driving for three hours, up and down the motorway to go to a meeting when it can be done from home very successfully.’’ ‘’Every single person is dealing with this their own personal way and brings their own personal fears, or anxieties or problems, so that your brain may not be working at its usual hundred percent capacity.’’ RESOURCES: Cloud9 Business Coaching Website: http://www.cloud9businesscoaching.co.uk/ 10 Point Business Check: https://s.bostontullis.co.uk/cloud9 ABOUT THE HOST Sarah Myerscough is the Sales and Marketing Director of Boston Tullis Group. The founder of The Insurance Brokers Podcast, she brings a wealth of marketing experience and a fresh perspective on marketing in the insurance sector. Boston Tullis works w