Grow A Small Business Podcast QFF 20+ years experience working with elite athletes, sporting teams, CEOs, founders, and entire organizations, now helping small-medium business owners manage energy and high-performing team. (Andrew May)
For this week's Quick Fire Friday episode, Michael interviews Andrew May, the Founder & CEO of Strive: Stronger based in Sydney, Australia. He's recognized as one of the world's leading human performance strategists and leadership coaches. A best-selling author. In-demand keynote speaker. Top-rating podcaster. Leadership and transformation specialist. And, mental skills coach for elite athletes and sporting teams, CEOs, Founders, and entire organizations. Seeing his life purpose as waking people up to a better way of living working and leading, Andrew is now helping small-medium business owners manage energy and high-performing team.
According to Andrew's research, many of their clients are struggling with work/life balance, which is affecting their productivity and morale. Employees are caught in a never-ending cycle of busyness and reactivity. Have felt exhaustion and showed signs of burnout. Felt disconnected, disengaged, and psychologically unstable. And this has been amplified due to the disruption caused by the pandemic, macroeconomic instabilities, geopolitical issues as well as shifts to the "new normal" of work. Andrew helps small-medium business owners and their employees by managing and improving the three big components of energy: first, physical energy, second, psychological and emotional energy, and lastly, social energy.
A key takeaway that small-medium business owners can learn from Andrew, is the emphasis on the subject that business owners should realize that healthy and sustainable well-being and productivity behaviors are essential to the success of any organization. Thus, effectively managing and improving the physical, psychological and emotional, and social energy which builds healthy and sustainable well-being, and productivity behaviors can ensure ripple effects throughout the organization.
This Cast Covers:
- The significance of managing and improving energy and high-performing team in an organization.
- The three components of energy and its ripple effects throughout the organization.
- Suggestions on how to manage energy amidst adversity.
- A widespread struggle with life/work balance that's affecting productivity and morale.
- Interconnectivity of the three components of energy.
- The "big factor" supplements the three components of energy.
- The importance of down-regulate in building more energy.
- Building a strong culture and safe environment inside the organization.
- Have a team where people learn grow, develop, and result.
- Developing meaningful relationships and solidarity inside the company.
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"You can train your body as well as your mental skills to get fitter, faster, and stronger, but not in a pressurized environment." —Andrew May
"Sustainable high-performing team has both a really strong culture and psychologically safe environment." —Andrew May
"Have a team where people learn, grow, develop, and result." —Andrew May
"If you're serious about running a small business, then start taking yourself with utmost care." —Andrew May
"The one big factor that gives you more energy to go on is aligning your work/life with your purpose." —Andrew May