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being a new leader is like being thrown into the hunger games
When you look at the journey of leadership it isn’t surprising that more than 40% of first time leaders fail.
82% have had no training. Often they are high performers. They know their field, but that doesn’t mean they know the people side of leadership.
They walk into a completely new role without a map to guide them.
It’s sink or swim. At least 40% sink. Those that survive often pick up bad habits that hold them back as the challenges they undertake get bigger.
Leadership is a lifelong journey.
It’s not something you can train someone for. You can’t understand the challenges until you live through them. You grow through the challenges we face.
Yet, we can help new leaders as they go through the challenges.
Katniss has Haymitch to guide her. Just as Luke Skywalker had Yoda. And Harry Potter had Dumbledore.
The problem for leaders is that the key to leading people are relationship skills.
And we aren’t good in general with relationships. 50% of our most committed relationships (marriage) end in divorce. And the same challenges show up in business partnerships and organisations.
Hi, I’m Rob, and I can help you unify your team
I’m not a leader and I’ve never wanted to be one.
But I have spent 30 years as a Therapist, Relationship Coach and Mediator.
I’ve been the one people pour their heart out to about the partner who doesn’t understand them. Or the Boss they hate.
I’ve been the one couples come to, to save their relationship.
I’ve been the Mediator in the middle of conflicts.
Through this I’ve seen the patterns to make sense of relationships, conflict and what people need.
I can teach you to be a Unifier.
Unifiers Are The Glue That Knit A Team Together
Once upon a time we could employ foremen to crack the whip and work got done.
Today’s world is very different. We have to inspire and motivate people to do great work. And research shows most bosses don’t know how.
Unifiers develop mastery in:
- Building Trusting Relationships
- Keeping Communication Flowing
- Bonding Teams In Shared Purpose
- Deep Foundations of Self Awareness
UNIFIER'S Master Three Key Skills
They Build Trusting Relationships
When we trust and feel safe, we share more and perform better.
They Keep Communication Flowing
When communication flows, we can build momentum and success.
They Inspire Unified Action
The enemy of the team is division. Unifiers align their team around a shared purpose
A tale of two teams
On the 8th May 2013 Sir Alex Ferguson retired as Manchester United won their 20th league title.
The richest and most successful club had the best squad in England. They also had money and the appeal to buy the biggest stars. Over the next 9 years they attracted the best managers and players available.
They spent a net transfer outlay of £1.197 billion on players alone.
Yet, since then they have finished 5th to 8th position in the league on 8 occasions. They have underperformed chronically as a team.
Klopp: The Master Unifier
As Ferguson was leaving United as Champions, just down the road, Liverpool FC were struggling.
It’d been 30 years since they won the Premier League. They had fallen behind many other clubs and couldn’t compete in the transfer market. They couldn’t afford the stars United were buying every year.
Yet, Jurgen Klopp transformed the club.
Nine years later he left them as one of the leading teams in the world. They won every trophy possible. And they did it while spending with a net transfer spend of £395.3m.
About 1/3 of United’s.
The trophy haul doesn’t show that they competed for almost every prize every year. And they did it while spending a fraction of the budget their competition spent.
Klopp’s strategy was to unify the team, club, fans and city as one unified team. Klopp was a Master Unifier. And proof that it is the ultimate competitive advantage.
You can unify your team too by using The Unifier Strategy.
Three Steps To Becoming A Unifier
Step 1: Book Your Free Consultation
Let's talk about your goals, challenges and situation and see if Unifier's Academy is right for you.
Step 2: Join Unifier's Academy
Learn the processes and behaviours to unify your team. Get support along your journey.
Step 3: Watch Your Team Perform
You'll leave with a heightened self awareness and maps for where to find solutions.
What Clients Say
Will Unifier Work for you?
Unifier won’t always work.
It will work with most groups, but some people aren’t looking for answers as much as their way.
Unified relies on three core principles…
- Truth Seeking
- Integrity
- Acceptance
Here’s what it looks like in a unified and divided team…
The Unified Team
The team is genuinely looking to get things right.
The team are honest and genuinely trying to bring value to each other and to their Clients. They aren’t trying to hide anything from each other or Clients.
They accept each other as they are and so it’s safe for people to open up.
They accept the reality of their situation and are open to continual learning.
Einstein famously said that every solution had to come from a higher level of thinking than that which caused the problem.
When we face a problem the answer is always in raising our thinking.
The divided team
Everyone on the team is looking to impose their ideas on each other and on their Clients.
The team are not genuinely trying to bring value to each other and to their Clients.
Because of this, they are threatened by being transparent.
They judge according to their own agendas, rather than accept each other as they are, and so it is unsafe for them to be open and honest.
They are not open to learning how things are, but more interested in making them fit their unstated goals.
A natural human reaction to a problem is to blame others.
However that leads us to alienate our team mates and doesn’t move us forward. With growth we can transcend our thinking beyond the problem.
