How to build leadership skills — Master practical techniques and gain valuable insights for business growth. Guide on how to build leadership skills.
How to build leadership skills — Raphael Bender believes everyone deserves the opportunity to transform into a better version of themselves. His main strength as a teacher and movement professional is the ability to distill complex research findings into a simple, science-based approach to help people move fearlessly, thoughtlessly, and painlessly. He LOVES running, weights, cycling, and Contrology.
Raph holds a Master's degree in Clinical Exercise Physiology (Rehabilitation), a Bachelor's degree in Exercise and Sports Science, Diploma of Pilates Movement Therapy, and STOTT PILATES full certification.
What you'll learn in this episode is about how to build leadership skills:
- How Breathe Education has grown rapidly in just five years, and how Raph and his team plan to achieve their powerful two-year revenue goal of a staggering $50 million
- How Raph navigated a careful strategic pivot to adapt to the realities of the global pandemic, and how this has allowed them to outpace their less nimble competitors
- How to build leadership skills for successful business growth.
- How Raph learned key leadership skills at each stage of business growth, and he discusses which skills a leader needs to develop to push through their challenges
- Raph outlines an exercise where you measure your work as $10/hr., $100/hr., $1k/hr., $10k/hr., and $100k/hr. activities to help you identify priorities
- What Breathe Education looked like early on, and how intentionality and strategy over the last six years have helped the team enter the pandemic prepared for its challenges
- Why Raph sees marketing and sales as key leadership skills, and why he believes business owners should learn to "think like a marketer and salesperson"
- Why the skills and systems you developed in the "hustle and grind" of getting to $1 million in revenue aren't necessarily the same ones that will get you to $5 million
- Why it is important to show people how your business can help them by actually helping them, and how this can transform your business
- Why Raph believes that being generous with your knowledge can be a powerful way to attract new customers by becoming a trusted resource
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