CEO Training on Leadership & Business

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Starnext is a training & support enterprise committed to unearthing and developing tomorrow’s leadership and business ‘STARS’!! In this brief video I share a little about Starnext, SuccessionLeadershipChange.com & why we do what we do.

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Heart Development Precedes Leadership Greatness

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Within your own heart lies a leader who time could honor. A leader who could change the world. The question is whether you will step aside to allow your heart to lead you? And in turn to help you lead others? Continue reading →

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Business Succession – Leadership Lessons From Nature

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Let us step back from the commercial world momentarily and take a look at succession from an Ecological perspective.

In Ecological science, succession is a fundamental concept that refers to the* “more or less predictable and orderly changes” that occur to the composition or structure of a community. These changes occur naturally and progressively, following the formation of a new habitat. Continue reading →

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Since You Asked: Stuart Hayes Talks Leadership From The Heart

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In response to those of you who reached out and asked me to share a little more about myself and why I have created SuccessionLeadershipChange.com to help leaders, here is a video message from my heart to yours…

To learn more about me or SuccessionLeadershipChange.com, please follow the links on this site.

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Starnext’s First Public Leadership Program “BRILLIANT”

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Starnext’s first public “Leadership+ Intensive” concluded at the Melbourne Convention Exhibition Centre  on Thursday night this week (19 April), 50 hours to the minute after it started!

Participants report the event was a huge success with several stating they achieved significant ground shifts in their leadership and the overall program was “Brilliant!”

Lead Trainer Stuart Hayes was thrilled with the outcome, “It is awesome the program has finally been delivered to the public after previously being limited to corporates – this was our intention since day one!”

“To have participants achieve the type of outcomes they have is very satisfying – indeed, its the whole point!!”

Learn more about “The Leadership+ Intensive“

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4 Steps to Lead Change

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Hello all

The purpose of this post was to provide the full text of an article I wrote that was published by My Business Magazine this week – unfortunately, LinkedIn caps the maximum posting size so I have abbreviated it!!

In any case, I invite you to read, digest and contribute based on what is here.

For those of you interested to read the full article, please visit http://starnext.com.au/ and subscribe. You will also receive further articles as they are published and other leadership resources. Continue reading →

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Leaders Facilitate Momentum By Celebrating

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A central theme of great leadership is facilitating a driving team to achieve the steps that will ultimately realize a change vision.

What makes these steps significant, particularly the early ones, is that they can create momentum that allows a whole organization to become aligned to a common goal. Celebrating the ‘success’ of these small steps is an essential ingredient in achieving this.

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3 Lessons Small Enterprise Can Teach a Corporate

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As we have explored recently, much has been written on the topic of why corporate execs and CEOs do not transition well to smaller enterprises… doesn’t it make you wonder then, what smaller enterprises could teach their larger cousins about how to do business!?!

In this video I explore 3 central themes Continue reading →

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The Impact of Poor Strategy

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The impact of following the wrong strategy can be dire - particularly when you are following the wrong strategy with enthusiasm.

I hope you enjoy this video. Its one of the best illustrations I have seen of the importance of CHECKING that the path you are on is the right one… sometimes it is too late to achieve a turnaround after all!

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The Business Owner Test – Are YOU Limiting Growth?

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Its often observed that business owners often get in the way of their own objectives - in this video I share a simple test that is a strong indicator of whether you do!

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Urgency – Why Corporate Leaders Often Fail in Smaller Companies

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The transition from a large enterprise to a smaller one has been blamed for many career and corporate failures - but what is it that seems to cause this?

In my experience with both management succession and also with turnaround, I have found that many big-end-of-town leaders do not fully appreciate the need for an urgency-based leadership style in smaller businesses.

I hope you enjoy my video on this topic, below.

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The Importance of ‘Why’

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I once had a business partner who used to recite frequently that “whilst 99% of people know how… there are only 1% know why.”

His reason for this was not rocket science, of course: a person who understands why they doing something (their objective),  is far better placed to work out how to do it in a more meaningful and efficient way than the person next to them who merely does what they were asked to do.

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Getting A Leader’s Perspective

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For both leaders and managers, the benefits of seeing the “bigger picture” are not debated: indeed, obtaining a bigger picture perspective is central!

Why is it then, that actually stepping away and achieving sufficient distance to ‘get’ a bigger picture is not something we do frequently?

The answer is simple – stepping away means stepping away from the cut and thrust of day-to-day activity. This is the part that most of us find challenging and also the reason why most of us don’t do it as often as we need to.

SO WHAT DO THE GREAT LEADERS DO?
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