Every Business Counts Lyn Man

Building Emotional Intelligence and Resilience helps us to optimise our performance and health.  In times of constant connection, uncertainty and change having the tools and awareness to help us do that will support us in delivering our own vision.  In this episode Daksha Patel shares her insights and tips on the benefit of increasing both your emotional intelligence and resilience and how to do so.
During the conversation we talk about:
·        What led Daksha to realise the importance of emotional intelligence and personal resilience.
·        The cost of stress to an organisation and driver of stress.
·        How to know if you are stressed and types of stress.
·        The importance of topping up your resilience battery.
·        How to use the acronym SMART and breathing to dissipate stress.
·        Why focus on building your own and your team’s resilience.
·        The experiences that influenced how Daksha looked at money and how emotional intelligence can help understand how these affect her life.
 
Bio
Daksha Patel is Founder of Your Mind At Work, a Coaching, Consultancy and Training company which helps clients to optimise performance by transforming stress, building resilience and driving changes in behaviour in line with their goals through using science, practical tools and technology that can bring about changes within days and weeks.
 
https://www.your-mind-at-work.com/
 
Mentioned in this episode:
Daniel Goldman
HeartMath  
 
Time Stamps
1:49   What led Daksha to realise the importance of emotional intelligence and personal resilience.
8:27   The cost of stress to an organisation and driver of stress.
14:22 How to know if you are stressed and types of stress.
25:57 The importance of topping up your resilience battery.
32:42 How to use the acronym SMART and breathing to dissipate stress.
36:34 Why focus on building your own and your team’s resilience.
45:12 The experiences that influenced how Daksha looked at money and how emotional intelligence can help understand how these affect her life.
 
 

Challenging times require different leaders and Mark Henderson believes businesses now need regenerative leaders to help them adapt to the changing times and regenerate the society and planet we live in.  During our conversation Mark and I talked about:
·        What Mark wished he had known when he founded Ecoliving – as well as what he was glad he did not know.
 ·        The changes do needed in business leaders of the future.
·        What make a sustainable and a regenerative leader.
·        How organisations benefit from being led by regenerative leaders.
·        How coaching support leaders and their teams.
·        How the messages received about money growing up still influence how he looks at it today.


 Bio
Mark is a Transformational Coach, trainer and Mentor of Sustainable Leaders.  He is passionate about supporting purpose led leaders and change makers to support the challenges our world if facing.  Mark has many years experience as an entrepreneur and Business leader and draws on these along with his deep connection with nature.
 https://balancedbynature.se/
https://www.spiritofman.se/about
 
Mentioned in this episode
Alisa Barcan (Every Business Counts episode 012)
 
Time Stamps:
2:09   What Mark wished he had known when he founded Ecoliving – as well as what he was glad he did not know.
8:03   The changes do needed in business leaders of the future.
18:34 What make a sustainable and a regenerative leader.
24:48 How organisations benefit from being led by regenerative leaders.
29.16How coaching support leaders and their teams.
36:25 How the messages received about money growing up still influence how he looks at it today.

Do you avoid difficult conversations hoping they resolve themselves?  This week I explore the cost of avoiding difficult conversations, the benefit from having them and how to prepare for them with my guest Nicole Posner.  During the conversation we look at:
·        What is classed as a difficult conversation & why we avoid them.
·        Where we, as business owners, encounter difficult conversations.
·        The cost to the business of not having difficult conversations.
·        The benefits from having these conversations.
·        How we can prepare ourselves for difficult conversations.
·        How difficult conversations impact our relationships around money.
 
Bio
Nicole Posner is a Workplace Mediator, Communication and Conflict Consultant and Coach, specialising in the Psychology of Conflict. She works with Leaders, Teams, Managers and individuals to prevent, manage and address conflict and to foster better communication in the workplace and beyond through coaching, mediation, workshops and webinars.
 
She writes articles for publications such as Thrive Global, HR Magazine, SME Magazine and COACH MAGAZINE.  Nicole was a shortlisted finalist as Workplace Mediator of the Year in The National Mediation Awards 2020. www.np-mediation.london
 
Time Stamps
2:26   What is classed as a difficult conversation & why we avoid them.
11:37 Where we, as business owners, encounter difficult conversations.
23:11 The cost to the business of not having difficult conversations.
27:50 The benefits from having these conversations.
29:58 How we can prepare ourselves for difficult conversations.
40:08 How difficult conversations impact our relationships around money.
 

Is how you work a hidden cost to your business?  A cost for which there is no monetary exchange, but there is a cost after all due to low productivity, motivation, poor health etc?  In this episode I share my experience of overworking and how I came to realise the importance of creating a sustainable business that works for you, your team and the business.
 
·        What I see as a hidden cost to business – how we work
·        My personal journey in work and how it led to the realisation of the cost of overwork.
·        What overwork, poor health and stress cost UK businesses
·        What we can do to change this
 
Time stamps
0:48       What I see as a hidden cost to business – how we work
1:56       My personal journey in work and how it led to the realisation of the cost of overwork.
10:49     What overwork, poor health and stress cost UK businesses
13:12     What we can do to change this
 
Mentioned in this episode:
Henry Ford
Kelloggs
Microsoft Japan

How do you move beyond green?  As we face a changing environment and look to move towards net Zero businesses are facing challenges. Today my guest Paul Adderley talks about how businesses can create a resilient business by looking beyond the financials.  
During the conversation we look at:
·        The inspiration behind Beyond Green.
·        How optimising resources supports businesses business.
·        Key ways businesses can optimise resources.
·        Risks that arise from not looking at the resources you are using and how you use them.
·        The importance of being aware of, and building on, your business values.
·        Two influences on how Paul looks at money.
 
Bio
Paul Adderley is the founder and Managing Director of Beyond Green, a sustainability consultancy which helps small and medium businesses to future proof their company, protect their profit margins and build a business around their values.
Paul has a background in Accountancy and Environmental Studies.
https://beyond-green.com/
 
Time Stamps
1:17   The inspiration behind Beyond Green.
3:42   How optimising resources supports businesses business.
9:39   Key ways businesses can optimise resources.
14:36 Risks that arise from not looking at the resources you are using and how you use them.
24:26 The importance of being aware of, and building on, your business values.
31:42 Two influences on how Paul looks at money.

Mentioned in this Episode
Sustainable Development Goals

Are you optimising your resources and are they moving you towards your purpose?

These are 2 things this episode asks you to think about. In doing this it looks at:
What are the resources of your business?What is the risk and potential impact of not managing these resources?The opportunities that exists from managing resources and looking at waste - both yours and other businesses.The opportunities of the circular economy.Mentioned in this episode:
Jo Salter and Where does it come from?
H&M
Zara
The Body Shop
Lush
Thread International
Timberland
Biobean
Toast
Jaw Brew
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation
The Circular Economy
Phillips
Ken Webster