Entrepreneur Reflection Tool
For founders and entrepreneurs who want to step outside the business, challenge their assumptions and see it through the eyes of a potential buyer, so they can shape its future more deliberately.
'CEO's rarely create the time and space for reflection but as Rob points out, we operate in a very dynamic world where this is more necessary than ever. This is a very engaging and thought provoking way to help you along the journey. Rob has packaged his experience and research into a well thought out framework, delivered in an entertaining and easy to consume way.'
- Lynn Murphy, Chief Executive Officer At Plugable Technologies
The pace and complexity of running an organisation makes it genuinely difficult to see it clearly and holistically. CEOs know they need thinking time and space but find it elusive.
Demands never stop, decisions keep arriving and stakeholders keep pulling in different directions. The relentless pace of keeping the organisation moving forward crowds out the process of thinking clearly about the whole picture.
This programme creates the space for you. A structured, rigorous and fast paced journey of guided reflection and thought provocation that helps you quickly see your business, your leadership and the environment you have created for your people with greater clarity than the day to day will ever allow.
You will benefit from this programme if any of the following feel true:
> You want to feel more confident and clear-headed in the execution of your role.
> You are running hard and delivering results but have a sense that something is not quite working as it should be.
> The strategy is clear in your head but not landing consistently with the people who need to execute it.
> The culture that exists is not quite the one you intended.
> You find board and investor communications more demanding than you would like.
> You sense the business is more dependent on you personally than is ideal for its long term resilience and value.
> You want to identify more clearly where your highest value attention should be focused.
> You have never had a structured opportunity to step back and examine your own leadership objectively.
> You want to communicate with more clarity and confidence to investors, the board and your team.
A thought provoking journey
A complete self-contained experience designed to be finished in a single sitting or broken into manageable chunks on mobile.
Short Focused Videos
Stories with a point, guided reflection and honest questions. Each video under five minutes, most under three. Around 3 hours total. Mobile enabled. Every video provokes, challenges or helps you organise your thinking.
Live Online Forum With Rob
A group session led directly by Rob Evans where you bring your questions, your specific situation, your challenges. Direct access to someone who has worked operationally inside 150+ businesses worldwide and understands the specific pressures of senior leadership from the inside.
Practical Ways Of Thinking For Ongoing Use
PPMCleadership™️ and The Natural Cycle of Team Success™️ as practical lenses for examining what you have built around you. Practical techniques and aide memoires for strategic planning, stakeholder communication and conscious leadership. All designed to be simple enough to remember and immediately applicable.
A journey of rigorous structured reflection
Where You Begin
Orientation & Context
The programme begins by establishing ways of thinking about your business and your role that reframes what follows. You will reflect on the imperatives shaped by context driving your responsibilities and the ways you equip yourself to meet the challenges you face. You'll consider your impact as a leader and how bought in your colleagues are to your collective success. You'll also reflect on the demands of the future that lie ahead.
The Middle
Stories, Observations & Objective Questions
The heart of the programme moves in detail through the environment you have in place for colleagues through a series of short focused videos, each one a story with a point, an observation from the real world or a practical technique drawn from more than thirty five years of operational experience across 150+ businesses. Each video ends with one or more questions directed at you and your specific situation. Some will be comfortable, some won't.
The Leadership Environment
PPMCleadership™️ & The Natural Cycle of Team Success™️
You'll be introduced to two proprietary approaches for thinking clearly about the environment you have created for your people and where your team is in its development cycle. PPMCleadership™️ covers People, Principles, Mechanics and Culture and is the core structure around which the bulk of this experience is centred. You'll cover each of the four constituent areas in depth. The Natural Cycle of Team Success™️ is an opportunity to reflect on the management style that best serves the phase your team is currently in. Together they give you a useful practical lens for continually examining and improving what you have built around you.
Where You Arrive
Clarity, Challenge & Next Steps
The programme doesn't end with a summary, it ends with a challenge. What have you concluded? What are you going to do differently?
Before seeing your situation differently, this programme helps you see it honestly
Many business and leadership books tell you what to do. This programme asks you to think. Before introducing any ideas or techniques it helps you see your current reality clearly, your business, your team, your culture, your own leadership. Honest clarity is the foundation of positive change.
Real perspectives from real operational experience
This programme was not built by a coach who studied senior leadership or a consultant who observed it. It was built by someone who has held C-suite roles across finance, operations and general management, been involved in over 50 acquisitions and worked inside 150+ businesses worldwide. The perspectives are genuine and grounded.
Designed to fit into your work
Short sharp videos. Around 3 hours total. Mobile enabled and consumable in fifteen minute chunks. A format that respects the reality that senior leaders have very little spare time.
Direct Access To Rob
A live online forum where you bring your specific questions and situations to someone who has been inside more businesses, in more countries, facing more varied challenges than most development providers have encountered directly.
'I found this course both useful and interesting. I now have a clearer understanding of the big picture and will be looking to focus on the most critical areas that will make the most significant difference to the business.'
- Chris Griffiths, Travel A La Carte
'I've learnt a great deal from it. Much of this course made me think about about past roles and more on the mistakes than successes. It's experience I wish I'd have had access to back then. If you have a passion for the team as well as the business direction, I strongly believe you will benefit from these courses.'
- Mark Graham, The Counselling Foundation
'I can hand on my heart say that this is the only self-reflection content / engagement I have encountered.'
- Mevin Anenden, Logicalis
Programme Author: Rob Evans
Highly Experienced, C-suite, Practical, Operational Depth
Rob Evans has spent more than 35 years working operationally inside 150+ businesses worldwide, with C-suite and project roles spanning operations, finance and general management, involvement in over 50 acquisitions and a nomination for CFO Of The Year in South Africa while serving as CFO of a $6.5bn revenue group.
Everything in this programme is drawn from direct experience across a breadth of businesses, sectors and cultures which most development providers cannot match.
Based on 35+ years working inside 150+ businesses worldwide, its not theory. It's what Rob observed working and where he saw folks come unstuck.
'When I needed career advice at a major career junction, I turned to Rob for help and he quickly jumped on a call with me despite the time zone difference. I left that call with clarity and focus. I left that call feeling empowered, supported and super-sensible! I left that call knowing that I just needed to make my plan and execute it. It's all substance and no fluff drawn from his extensive and multifaceted career in the corporate world.'
- Yvonne Chin Irving, CET
'Rob has very strong strategic and operational credentials having worked extensively around the world and held a wide range of financial, operational and M&A roles'
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'I would thoroughly recommend Rob's courses. He is a very successful and astute business leader with a wealth of experience to share.'
- Mark Graham, The Counselling Foundation
For senior leaders who want to see their business and their leadership more clearly
This programme is for those who are ready to think rigorously and honestly about their situation and act on what they find.
> CEOs who want structured space to think honestly about their business, their leadership and the environment they have created for their people.
> Senior leaders who sense a gap between the organisation they intended to build and the one that actually exists.
> Business leaders who want to communicate more clearly and with more confidence to investors, the board and the wider organisation.
> Senior leaders who have never had a structured opportunity to examine their own leadership honestly and want one.
> Any senior leader who wants to lead with more intention.
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What can I expect from the programme?
You'll find the programme guiding you through an objective examination of your organisation, your operational context and your leadership through considered and candid reflection. Rob shares lessons from his experiences illustrated with personal stories, examples and real-world observations. Carefully crafted questions at the end of each video help you relate the material to your specific situation. The goal is to provoke thought, help you analyse your situation and equip you with practical ways of thinking you can apply throughout your career.
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Can I go at my own pace?
Yes. The material is available immediately on purchase and you proceed at whatever pace suits you. Many questions are posed for reflection and you take whatever time feels right for each one. Your value comes from engaging with the programme in the way that best suits how you think and work.
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When can I access the material?
All material is immediately available on purchase. We find that participants who engage quickly get most from the programme and the forum access is structured to support this. We encourage you to begin as soon as practicable after purchase.
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When can I attend the forum?
Every month a live invite-only online forum is held directly by Rob Evans. You will be invited to three monthly sessions following purchase. We vary the times and days to give you the best opportunity to attend at least one. This is a live session, not a recording, where you bring your specific questions and situations directly to Rob.
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Is this relevant if I work in a not-for-profit or public sector organisation?
Yes. Every organisation operates in a business context. Each has investors, customers, employees, suppliers and stakeholders. Each must deliver value to those it serves and generate a return, financial or otherwise, to those who fund it. The approaches and thinking in this programme apply across all organisational types.
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What practical approaches and techniques does the programme include?
The programme includes PPMCleadership™️, The Natural Cycle of Team Success™️, The Three Levels Of Endeavour™️, The Five Cornerstone Principles Of Planning™️, The CulturalVEST™️ and a range of other practical aide memoires for leadership, communication, decision making and relationship building. All are designed to be simple enough to remember and are immediately applicable in your role.
Programme Contents
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Introduction
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Our Imperatives
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Our Biggest Assets
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Our Impact
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Our Growth
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Our Today Our Future
About This Programme
- £1,100.00
- 3 hours of video content
- Price Includes Online Forum
One-time payment
Everything included. We find participants who engage quickly get the most from the programme and the forum access is structured to support this.
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Around 3 hours of short focused video lessons
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Mobile enabled, watch in chunks of 15 minutes
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Reflective questions throughout
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Practical ways of thinking you can use immediately
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PPMCleadership™️ and The Natural Cycle of Team Success™️
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Action oriented - 30 days to complete videos before forum
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Live online forum session led directly by Rob Evans
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Direct answers to your specific questions and situation