Accessible, affordable and achievable. These three words are the inspiration behind a project I’ve been working on for most of this year. The project is to create online versions of our Exceptional development programmes.

As your small business grows, you need to be capable of leading the people you recruit. This includes enabling them, not only to perform for clients, but to lead others in a way that maintains your organisation’s reputation.

The ability to continuously look, listen and absorb what’s happening around you, and adapt your actions, behaviours and decision making in response, is one of the qualities that makes a leader exceptional.

Great leaders have the most transformative powers. One of the traits of exceptional leadership is the ability to see potential in your team and harness this to enable growth.

What words come to mind when you look at these two leaders? What characteristics do they have that make them stand out to you as a great leader? What kind of legacy do you think will leave behind?

Looking back at collective and personal achievements and highlights can help identify areas for improvement and feed into objective and goal setting. How often do you do this for yourself?