Team Leader
Work in the business at the coal face with defined problems & outcomes
Glass Ceiling
The unseen struggles of first-time leadership
Principle: Build a strategy that empowers decision-making.
Glass Ceiling: Promoted as high performing technical expert, but struggle to step back from “doing the work”. Unable to translate personal skill into team performance.
Principle: Build a culture that epitomises the pursuit of excellence.
Glass Ceiling: Lack of training in delegation, facilitation, and feedback leaves you over-committed, juggling shifting priorities, and carrying the team instead of leading it.
Principle: Build operational structures that enable swift execution.
Glass Ceiling: Without the ability to prioritise or push back, tasks pile up, deadlines shift daily, outcomes remain out of reach and you resort to unsustainable hours to compensate.
These follow The Peter Principle, represented below: People are promoted based on their success in previous roles until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one role do not necessarily transfer to another.
If this sounds familiar, let’s explore how to break through. Start a conversation.
Kenny really helps you to focus on what you want to achieve. He helped me to think about my issue in a different way and get to the root of what I was trying to address. Insightful advice & questioning gave me confidence to face into my issue.”
Audrey Smith
Manager of Cash Management, Sales Audit & Expenses Payables, TJX Europe
Mission Ready
Clear priorities. Confident delegation. Consistent delivery.
Principle: Build a strategy that empowers decision-making.
Mission Ready: Each member of your team knows exactly what matters most each day. Priorities are agreed and realistic, and distractions are filtered out so time and energy go into the tasks that deliver real progress.
Principle: Build a culture that epitomises the pursuit of excellence.
Mission Ready: Your responsibilities are clear, work is shared fairly, and everyone is trusted to do their part. You guide your team through encouragement and timely feedback, while also setting healthy boundaries with your manager.
Principle: Build operational structures that enable swift execution.
Mission Ready: Simple routines keep your team focused and on track. Tasks are followed through to completion, progress is checked regularly, and lessons from setbacks are used to improve how the team works together.
These principles and their corresponding actions enable individuals, teams & organisations to access flow, the sense of effortless progress, everything working as it should when it should. Below is a simplified example of how leadership roles should interconnect:
“Kenny’s knowledge of business complexity combined with his ability to facilitate clarity of thought is a dynamic combination. He has highly developed skills in deep-listening and critical thinking. This not only makes him a compassionate support system to have, but means that you come out with practical steps to action.”
Loren Shapiro
Freelance Writer & Journalist
Identify your blindspots
What could you, your team, or organisation achieve if your invisible barriers just disappeared?
I work exclusively with highly motivated individuals and teams who’ve hit a glass ceiling, are aware they’ve hit a glass ceiling and unable to move forward. If this describes your situation then lets discuss your options.
“The world we created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. No problem can be solved with the same level of consciousness that created it”
Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist & Nobel Laureate
Team Leader
Work in the business at the coal face with defined problems & outcomes
Glass Ceiling
The unseen struggles of first-time leadership
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Principle: Build a strategy that empowers decision-making.
Glass Ceiling: Promoted as high performing technical expert, but struggle to step back from “doing the work”. Unable to translate personal skill into team performance.
-
Principle: Build a culture that epitomises the pursuit of excellence.
Glass Ceiling: Lack of training in delegation, facilitation, and feedback leaves you over-committed, juggling shifting priorities, and carrying the team instead of leading it.
-
Principle: Build operational structures that enable swift execution.
Glass Ceiling: Without the ability to prioritise or push back, tasks pile up, deadlines shift daily, outcomes remain out of reach and you resort to unsustainable hours to compensate.
These follow The Peter Principle, represented below: People are promoted based on their success in previous roles until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one role do not necessarily transfer to another.
If this sounds familiar, let’s explore how to break through. Start a conversation.
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in a different way to get to the root of what I was trying to address. Insightful advice alongside questioning really gave me confidence to face into the issue.”
Audrey Smith
Manager of Cash Management, Sales Audit & Expenses Payables, TJX Europe
Mission Ready
Clear priorities. Confident delegation. Consistent delivery.
-
Principle: Build a strategy that empowers decision-making.
Mission Ready: Each member of your team knows exactly what matters most each day. Priorities are agreed and realistic, and distractions are filtered out so time and energy go into the tasks that deliver real progress.
-
Principle: Build a culture that epitomises the pursuit of excellence.
Mission Ready: Your responsibilities are clear, work is shared fairly, and everyone is trusted to do their part. You guide your team through encouragement and timely feedback, while also setting healthy boundaries with your manager.
-
Principle: Build operational structures that enable swift execution.
Mission Ready: Simple routines keep your team focused and on track. Tasks are followed through to completion, progress is checked regularly, and lessons from setbacks are used to improve how the team works together.
These principles and their corresponding actions enable individuals, teams & organisations to access flow, the sense of effortless progress, everything working as it should when it should. Below is a simplified example of how leadership roles should interconnect:
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is a dynamic combination. He has highly developed skills in deep-listening and critical thinking. This not only makes him a compassionate support system to have, but means that you come out with practical steps to action.”
Loren Shapiro
Freelance Writer & Journalist
Identify blindpsots
Would you, your team or organisation benefit from an objective perspective to catch your blindspots?
I work exclusively with highly motivated individuals and teams who’ve hit a glass ceiling, are aware they’ve hit a glass ceiling and unable to move forward. If this describes your situation then lets discuss your options.
“The world we created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. No problem can be solved with the same level of consciousness that created it”
Albert Einstein
Theoretical Physicist & Nobel Laureate