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Embracing Imposter Syndrome: A Key to Business Growth

As a business leader, you’re often expected to have every answer at your fingertips. Whether leading a senior team strategy session, onboarding new suppliers, or fielding questions from customers, the expectation is clear: you should know it all. However, this expectation is neither practical nor sustainable, and many leaders grapple with imposter syndrome as a result.

Understanding Imposter Syndrome in Leadership

Imposter syndrome for business leaders tends to surface during periods of growth, particularly at a point often called the “ceiling of complexity.” This is the stage where tried-and-true strategies no longer yield growth, and you’re tasked with guiding the organization to the next level. It’s natural to feel as though you don’t have all the answers. In fact, the habits, practices, and mindsets that carried you to this point can often become limiting.

Why Imposter Syndrome Isn’t a Weakness

Imposter syndrome might feel like a weakness, but it’s actually a sign that you’ve reached the limits of your current mindset and practices. The feeling of inadequacy often arises because much of a leader’s methods have become second nature and are, therefore, difficult to analyze or change. Embracing these doubts can be the first step toward identifying new paths for growth.

Overcoming the Imposter Mindset by Seeking New Perspectives

To overcome imposter syndrome, it’s essential to recognize that your limitations aren’t a reflection of your worth but simply the natural boundaries of your current skill set. Being open to feedback and new ideas, both within your team and from outside mentors or industry networks, can illuminate new paths forward. Engaging openly with others without fear of judgment allows you to remain a capable leader while exploring new strategies to lead confidently.

Embracing Vulnerability for Growth

The path to overcoming imposter syndrome is through vulnerability. Ask yourself and others, “What needs to change to reach the next level?” By allowing vulnerability, you foster an environment where learning and growth become priorities, not just for you but for your entire team. Opening up to these questions enables growth and can keep the journey exciting and filled with fresh learning opportunities.

Imposter Syndrome as a Growth Catalyst

Ultimately, imposter syndrome isn’t a roadblock; it’s a signal. It’s an indication that you’re ready to step beyond your current limits. As you expand your skills and adapt to new challenges, your business will naturally grow alongside you.

Imposter syndrome, rather than being an obstacle, can be an invitation to grow and evolve as a leader, pushing your business to new heights. Embrace it and use it as a springboard for continuous improvement, both personally and professionally.

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Aurik business blueprint Joburg 5th November 2024

Join us for 55 minutes on 3rd November to understand  how we would work with you and your team to achieve your business goals and ambitions. 


Your CEO business blueprint to scale, grow and dominate your industry!

Fully booked

Date: 5th November 2024 
Time: 7am for 7.30 start to 12noon
Venue: African Pride Melrose Arch

Gain perspectives, insights, actions and connections with growth-minded business owners while you build an actionable CEO business blueprint to scale, grow and secure the value of your business as you walk out of the door.

For 16 years, Aurik has partnered with over 3 500 businesses to deliver average annual growth rates of 28.9% and average EBIDTA growth of 32.4%

Join us on 5th November 2024  to meet, greet, engage and emerge with insights, strategies, tactics and approaches to tackling the biggest impediments to business growth and value.

Facilitated by Pavlo Phitidis, he will challenge you on your business, and inspire you with real stories of business owners like yourself, who are getting it right.

Walk out with: 

  • A single strategy that will deliver growth despite the business environment
  • Your CEO blueprint to scale, grow & dominate your industry
  • Your business’s value – the number now, the number you want and a plan on how to achieve it
  • Insights, perspectives and inspiration from, as well as relationships with, established, growth-minded business owners

Presenter

Pavlo Phitidis

As an entrepreneur and investor, Pavlo offers over 25 years of direct experience in conceptualising and building businesses across three continents. He has developed and brought to market business assets in excess of $450m through a combination of business start-ups, turnarounds, sales and acquisitions. Using his hands-on experience, business capabilities and relationship networks, he continues to support the growth of business owners through Aurik , a venture capital business growth service.

Pavlo is a regular media commentator, an international speaker on business growth and author of the best-selling, Sweat Scale $ell as well as his newest title: Reset Rebuild Reignite.

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Aurik business blueprint UK Midlands 20 November 2024

Join us for 55 minutes on 3rd November to understand  how we would work with you and your team to achieve your business goals and ambitions. 


Your CEO business blueprint to scale, grow and secure value in your business

Fully booked

Date: 20th November 2024 
Time: 8am for 8.30 start to 1pm including a light breakfast and networking
Venue: Farmers Fayre, National Agricultural Exhibition Centre, Avenue M, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire, CV8 2LZ

Gain perspectives, insights, actions and connections with growth-minded business owners while you build an actionable CEO business blueprint to scale, grow and secure the value of your business as you walk out of the door.

For 16 years, Aurik has partnered with over 3 500 businesses to deliver average annual growth rates of 28.9% and average EBIDTA growth of 32.4%

Join us on 20th November 2024  to meet, greet, engage and emerge with insights, strategies, tactics and approaches to tackling the biggest impediments to business growth and value.

Facilitated by Pavlo Phitidis, he will challenge you on your business, and inspire you with real stories of business owners like yourself, who are getting it right.

Walk out with: 

  • A single strategy that will deliver growth despite the business environment
  • Your CEO blueprint to scale, grow & dominate your industry
  • Your business’s value – the number now, the number you want and a plan on how to achieve it
  • Insights, perspectives and inspiration from, as well as relationships with, established, growth-minded business owners

Presenter

Pavlo

Pavlo Phitidis

As an entrepreneur and investor, Pavlo offers over 25 years of direct experience in conceptualising and building businesses across three continents. He has developed and brought to market business assets in excess of $450m through a combination of business start-ups, turnarounds, sales and acquisitions. Using his hands-on experience, business capabilities and relationship networks, he continues to support the growth of business owners through Aurik , a venture capital business growth service.

Pavlo is a regular media commentator, an international speaker on business growth and author of the best-selling, Sweat Scale $ell as well as his newest title: Reset Rebuild Reignite.

Host

Gary

Gary Baker

After 10 years in the legal profession Gary changed direction to spend 17 years running and growing CD (UK) Ltd. Initially working with his father, Gary managed the transition to take over leading the business at the same time as finding a way to release value for his father. Gary recently sold CDUK through an MBO process to the company’s Managing Director.

Having also gone through the ups and downs of founding an internet start-up business, Gary is embarking on his journey with Aurik, bringing a unique set of experiences to help business owners scale and grow towards an exit or to succeed the business to the next generation.

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26 November 2024 business breakfast Aurik Hill Dickinson

Morning workshop with Hill Dickinson & Aurik

Hill Dickinson

Key takeouts:

Practical, actionable strategies to help you:

  • Hire more effectively to secure your business’s long-term growth
  • Enable new team members to contribute immediately and meaningfully
  • Build a motivated, purposeful team that drives your vision forward
  • Master the art of delegation to unlock efficiency and capacity

Workshop Agenda:

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Arrive, meet-greet-connect

10:00 AM – 11:00 AM |  Maximising people potential, presentations, questions & discussion

11.00 AM – 11.30 AM | Networking and further questions

Who should attend?

This workshop is for established companies that employ more than 20 permanent staff and generate annual revenues above £3m.

·        CEOs and Managing Directors

·        Senior Leadership Teams

Join us for this insightful and highly practical workshop to unlock the full potential of your people and drive sustainable business growth. Walk away with actionable strategies and tools that you can implement immediately.

Hosts & Presenters:

Pavlo Phitidis 

Pavlo

As an entrepreneur, Pavlo Phitidis cut his teeth in turnaround companies. He then spent a few years in M&A, which allowed him to conclude 68 transactions before answering a call of duty in a family business, which enabled his parents’ retirement.

Pavlo co-founded Aurik by directly starting, growing and exiting 12 businesses to develop a business growth system, which has worked with upwards of 3,500 established companies in 4 countries.

Pavlo is a passionate advocate for business as a force for good and has brought this to life through more than 1,200 radio segments, two books, Sweat, Scale $ell and Reset, Rebuild, Reignite and hundreds of articles for columns across business and lifestyle titles.

Daily, he works with private business owners, personally and through his company, to resolve growth and value challenges.

Caroline Prosser

Glenn

Caroline specialises in Employment law with clients in numerous sectors including transport, retail, hotel, IT & technology, property, energy, entertainment, and charities.

She has a particular expertise in education employment and work with numerous schools and multi academy trusts as well as Further and Higher Education institutes.

Caroline works in partnership with clients assisting strategically as well as advising on an operational day to day level and defending claims. Her advice covers all employment areas including dismissals, TUPE, restructures/ redundancies, union issues and discrimination.



Date: 26 November 2024 
Time: 9.30am arrival for 10am start to 11am followed by questions and networking  
Venue: Hill Dickinson, No.1, 1 St Paul’s Square, Liverpool L3 9SJ, United Kingdom

Without people, a business isn’t viable. Your team members are your greatest assets—and sometimes your biggest liabilities.

The recent budget and proposed changes to employment law have raised the stakes even further, adding risk to the decisions you make about recruiting, onboarding, and managing your people.

In light of these changes, taking a new approach to building and nurturing your team is essential for turning risk into reward and aligning your investment in people with the returns your business needs. 

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The Power of Purpose: Why Every Business Needs It

The Power of Purpose: Why Every Business Needs It

The Power of Purpose: Why Every Business Needs It

In today’s ever-changing business landscape, purpose has become a buzzword—so much so that it has lost much of its meaning. But if you strip away the trendy jargon, what remains is a simple yet profound question every business must answer: Why does your business exist? And more importantly, what right does it have to exist?

For many entrepreneurs, the initial reasons behind starting a business vary. Some may say they began their venture to create financial security for themselves, while others might boast about having exceptional products or deep loyalty to their employees, particularly in family-run businesses. Yet, when faced with the hard question of why their business truly exists, these answers often fall short.

Why Purpose Matters

At its core, purpose is more than a personal goal or a well-designed product. Purpose is about solving a problem for your customers and creating a meaningful experience for them in the process. This is the key reason any business exists—because customers are seeking solutions to their problems. Whether they’re buying a high-performance sports car or employing a cleaning service, they are ultimately paying for a solution, not just a product.

Take, for instance, a business that sells luxury cars like Maserati’s and Ferraris. On the surface, it may seem like their customers are simply indulging in a “fancy.” However, upon closer inspection, these cars are often seen as alternative assets that appreciate over time—thus solving the problem of finding valuable investments. The purchase is less about luxury and more about smart financial planning.

The Experience Factor

Besides solving a problem, the other key factor driving a business’s existence is the experience it offers. A great customer experience can turn a one-time buyer into a loyal client. This applies across industries, from the sale of sports cars to more mundane services like cleaning companies or real estate agencies.

Consider a disaster recovery cleaning business. Initially, their purpose was clear: they helped companies recover from floods, fires, and chemical spills. But after reaching a certain level of growth, they found themselves stuck, struggling to differentiate from other cleaning companies offering similar services. What they discovered was that their true purpose lay in providing an exceptional experience for their clients—particularly those in the food industry, where contamination prevention is critical. By narrowing their focus and creating an impactful experience, they reinvigorated their growth.

How to Use Purpose

Once you’ve identified your business’s purpose, the next step is knowing how to use it. Purpose should be at the heart of every communication you send out. It informs your marketing, your team’s motivation, and how you engage with customers. When people understand that you are solving a specific problem and creating an experience around that solution, they will see your business as purposeful, not just another company trying to make a sale.

Purpose also resonates at a human level. When your employees understand the broader impact of their work, they feel more motivated and aligned with the company’s goals. For example, the disaster recovery company that shifted its focus to preventing contaminated food in laboratories saw a remarkable change in employee engagement. Workers understood that their efforts went beyond cleaning—they were actively protecting public health. This sense of purpose helped the company grow and unify its team.

Aurik business blueprint workshops

Join us for 55 minutes on 3rd November to understand  how we would work with you and your team to achieve your business goals and ambitions. 


Invest your time and attention to work ON your business not IN it

Fully booked

Register to be notified of upcoming workshops in your region

Gain perspectives, insights, actions and connections with growth-minded business owners while you build an actionable CEO business blueprint to scale, grow and secure the value of your business as you walk out of the door.

Create your customised blueprint to achieve your ambitions, whether that be to:

  • Scale and grow
  • Scale to exit
  • Succession to the next generation

Facilitated by Pavlo Phitidis, he will challenge you on your business, and inspire you with real stories of business owners like yourself, who are getting it right.

“A great workshop. Good to be given a structure to apply various thoughts and action that were previously scattered everywhere.”

Invest your time & attention and walk out armed with a blueprint to lead both as an operator and an investor in your business 

As an operator, an actionable blueprint that will deliver: 

  • A distinct brand position
  • A reliable and predictable customer fulfilment experience
  • A motivated, effective team
  • A shift from operating to leading your business
  • 4 growth strategies across your business lifecycle
  • A value-lock to increase valuations

As an investor, understand the 5 levers of company value: 

  • How they work
  • How to craft them
  • How to embed them
  • How to use them

Presenter

Pavlo Phitidis

As an entrepreneur, Pavlo Phitidis cut his teeth in turnaround companies. He then spent a few years in M&A, which allowed him to conclude 68 transactions before answering a call of duty in a family business, which enabled his parents’ retirement.

Pavlo co-founded Aurik by directly starting, growing and exiting 12 businesses to develop a business growth system, which has worked with upwards of 3,500 established companies in 4 countries.

Pavlo is a passionate advocate for business as a force for good and has brought this to life through more than 1,200 radio segments, two books, Sweat, Scale $ell and Reset, Rebuild, Reignite and hundreds of articles for columns across business and lifestyle titles.

Daily, he works with private business owners, personally and through his company, to resolve growth and value challenges.



Register here



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