Adam Harris is Frank and Fearless. As a leadership coach, consultant and facilitator, he applies this approach in all areas of his professional and personal life.

In this episode, he discusses why so many great companies miss out on their potential and shares the important questions all business owners must ask themselves. He stresses the importance of having difficult conversations - avoiding them is a disservice to everyone involved. Despite the discomfort, disagreement and uncertainty then creates opportunity.

His mission is to create the space to have the right conversations, at the right time, with the right people. Having worked with 25 businesses to implement EOS, he also tells us his favourite EOS tools and how they’ve transformed his clients.

Find out how leaning into being frank and fearless has taken him to incredible and challenging new heights, both figuratively and literally!

Adam's Top 3 Tips

1. Clarity creates confidence

Human nature dictates that we, our bodies and our minds will take the path of least resistance. We're fundamentally lazy. So if people, the business owner, the members of the organisation, the stakeholders - when people don't have clarity, their minds start wandering and they start going off into tangents, creating however many God knows different stories. So when you're able to give people clarity, it actually means that you put their mind at rest. So where are we heading as an organisation, where and what is it that I want right now, communicate it through. People then become self-assured. It goes back to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. I feel safe and if I feel safe, then I can do what's definitely needed.

2. Create an environment where you're being challenged

I believe that we all need to be challenged. It's actually about having our questions questioned, not necessarily our questions answered. The tool for that is going to be different for each individual. So some people may get that from listening to podcasts, reading or listening to books. Some people it may well be one-on-one coaching, it might be mentoring, mastermind groups or EOS. Where and what is it within your professional and personal life that you are being challenged? It may be the case that actually you outgrow the intervention that you've got. You need to be walking away thinking that's a really good question. So it's topping any of the challenge that you're doing from an internal perspective. When you get to that stage, you're now working on self-limiting beliefs, on self actualisation. You're in a different growth area to being in the comfort zone.

3. If it's not working in the boardroom, it's not working in the bedroom

Life is life. Anything that is impacting you from a personal perspective is naturally going to be impacting you from a professional perspective, and vice versa. Have the awareness of that and ensure that you are dealing with what you need to deal with. As a leader or business owner, you have to work out and decide what sort of leader you want to be, but there needs to be a level of humility in the fact that if somebody is not performing, what is going on in their life which is meaning that they're not performing? If you're a humble leader and you're building relationships and rapport, how you support people when they're going through the bad times will actually mean that you will have far greater times. So I think there's an aspect of humility - humanise to professionalise.

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Debra Chantry-Taylor

Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner

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