Employees can be a business owner’s biggest heroes - learn to skills to unlock their profit potential
Are people getting in the way of your business success?
Business owners may find that employees end up taking up more time than planned and instead of leveraging your valuable time, they become one of your biggest headaches and frustrations.
New Employees?
Just trained new employees but they leave? Are you challenged by assimilating and protecting your culture?
Unproductive People
Frustrated with employees who don’t do the job they are paid to do? Do you have transparency or measurement tools to manage their performance and outputs?
Customer Service
Employees not switched on as to how important customer service is, or they bring their old job habits into your workplace?
Bad Teammates
Long term staff are or have become bored or burnt out, and they just seem to go through the motions?
More time with family
Achieve harmony between the journey towards professional success and cherished family moments.
Less Stress
Lead with clarity, enhance decision-making, and embrace a more fulfilling personal life.
Building a successful leadership team is challenging but key to unlocking profit growth
Businesses of all shapes and sizes often face challenges when it comes to their employees. We hire them to help grow the business and to free up your time so you can do the tasks that will ensure your business remains competitive and viable. However, business owners can find that employees end up taking up more time than planned and instead of leveraging your time, they become one of the biggest headaches and frustrations.
Building a team to help you run the business has its challenges. My coaching programs focus on performance as a team, and how they interrelate.
Using DISC profiling, I help team awareness of different management styles, and the impact of team dynamics on shared projects. Education is key for team dynamics; accountability, commitment, trust, conflict and then outcomes (results) are all functions that need to gel for a team to be successful.
Why leadership coaching unlocks future profit growth
Create Accountability
Accountability is a mindset that sits along side ownership and responsibility; together they are powerful drivers of success.
Track Performance
Your critical numbers create accountability, which also means there is a process to monitor performance and provide feedback.
Set Benchmarks
Allow you to set strategies and goals to improve outcomes, to set benchmarks that employees can strive for.
Creating higher profits means team building - learn the secrets through a profit driven outcome coaching journey with David Lockwood
“David initially presented a team workshop for my business so I could leverage my staff to grow my business. Subsequently, David become my business coach and business mentor.
I can’t tell you of how much of a difference it has made to my business; revenues up over 30% in 12 months and a consistency of profits that I had never had before. David helped me gain clarity on the value of my role as a leader rather than always focusing on doing the work myself”
— Darren Sanicki
Meet David Lockwood, your profit driven people productivity coach
As a business owner, I love it when I have a staff member who I can totally rely upon. Someone who knows how hard I work and yet is prepared to go above and beyond the call of duty when asked. But unfortunately, these days it is getting harder and harder to find these types of employees. In the short term, we may work longer hours ourselves, but after a while we may start to resent the fact that no else is stepping up.
When your business gets really busy, do you have employees who you can rely on to do all those extra things? Staff who use their initiative and are happy to provide leadership? Or is your team filled with people who don’t want to take on the responsibility and go home at the exact time for the end of the shift.
Unlocking team productivity to accelerate profits with My Business Brain™
My Business Brain TM is the framework I have created using my years in business. The framework is central to every successful business story.
- Uncover the 'Secret Sauce'My Business Brain TM helps businesses uncover their “secret sauce” and how you can generate value where others don’t, how positioning your business within the competitive landscape is such a powerful tool, and why systems and processes are the only way to leverage a business that wants to grow.
- Fostering CultureStrong company culture is the bedrock of success. Through our leadership coaching, we'll help you create an environment where collaboration, ownership, and growth thrive. By instilling values that prioritize employee well-being and continuous development, you'll cultivate a culture that not only attracts top talent but also propels your business toward sustainable excellence.
- ProductivityWe rely more and more on staff to do more of the work. We rely on them to look after our customers, to meet production or output targets, and deliver work on budget and on time. But as we grow, as business owners, you have less time available to show your team what is the required standard, you trust them to meet the benchmark.
- Building Your Team of WarriorsWhen your business gets really busy, do you have employees who you can rely on to do all those extra things? Staff who use their initiative and are happy to provide leadership? Or is your team filled with people who don’t want to take on the responsibility and go home at the exact time for the end of the shift.
- New EmployeesHow often do we get a new employee on board and they just don’t seem to get the basics about our business, or they are not switched on as to how important customer service is, or they bring their old job habits into your workplace?See Case Studies
Leveraging people the right way
My goal is to work with you to create a work culture that binds us all as a team but we need to do more than just lead employees by example i.e. as business owners working harder.
Culture
Ensure your workforce thrives, with a strong sense of unity and purpose.
Team Alignment
Create a work culture that has clarity on what needs to be done and committed to a common objective.
Initiative
Equip your employees with the skills to take ownership and initiative, producing remarkable outcomes.
Systems
Leverage effective strategies to align employee expectations with your business goals.
My Business Brain™ System
Trusted by business owners & entrepreneurs in Australia to generate higher profits
Aspirational Business Owner Wanting to Rapidly Accelerate Sales
One of my business coaching success stories. Growing a business revenues by $5.3 million in 3 years though strategic planning, understanding inherent value to customers and having clear organizational values and KPI’s.
151%
Growth in Sales Within 3-Years
$1.8M
Net Profit per Annum
David has been instrumental towards my businesses success, I've doubled my profit in the last year alone. As a young entrepreneur, it was important that I had wisdom and experience behind my back to support me through roadblocks that impacted growth. With David, I've been able to narrow down my "ideal client", revise my pricing structure and improve my work life balance. David is a coach and advisor for many businesses, and has a wealth of experience. I was able to draw knowledge from his past endeavours. More importantly, even though David is much older than me, he is super relatable, easy to get along with and has a young heart and mind :D. Paul Dykman11 July 2023 I have been working with David for almost 2 years now and in that time I have gone from an engineer learning to become a CEO to a CEO of a fast growing company with both our earnings and revenue up around 200% since we started working together. David's expertise and experience have been invaluable to me in my journey to become a better CEO as he has taught me to keep my head at a higher level and the power of thinking big. Matt Long15 August 2022 During 2021 I engaged David for some one on one coaching and advisory services. He is a true professional, he listened, understood my issues and helped me plan a way forward. This resulted in achievable initiatives that added significant value to our business and how we provide professional services to our customers. No matter how skilled anyone is we all need support at some stage. I know this as I run a very successful Business Consulting services delivering strategies, business unit service reviews and the sourcing of corporate business systems. The advice we deliver has a huge impact on organisations and the services they deliver. For the duration of the engagement with david it was great to be on the customer side for a change. Mark10 December 2021 David has been our Business Coach since 2019. His services have been invaluable as he navigated us through many issues. He really "gets it" and was on the same page at all times adding value to my business. Lately he assisted me in negotiating the sale of my business achieving a very satisfactory result. I would highly recommend David as a Coach as he not only has excellent accounting skills but his past experience in business will be an asset to any business. Jeff Slabe3 September 2021 Since we started with David at Unlocking Your Future 6 months ago, he has been instrumental in providing myself and my leadership team with sound strategic advice, assisting us to make informed business decisions. We are on track to increase revenue by 30% in the next FY and we are on target to reach our 12 month business goals. On a personal level, as the business owner, David has inspired and helped me to understand my customer, be goals orientated and know my numbers. David provides me with peace on mind and I am so grateful for his support. I can highly recommend David, as a 'real deal' business coach and mentor. Jeremy Djurovich19 July 2021 MVA Bennett an Accounting Practice with 7 partners has been working with David Lockwood of Unlocking Your Future for approximately 5 years. David has a very inquisitive approach to coaching businesses and the leadership team, he is engaged in the journey of his clients and focused on achieving their objectives. On a personal note David is a trusted mentor who I call regularly to get a true independent perspective on more challenging decisions. I would have no hesitation in referring business and those leading business or wanting to be a leader in engaging with David. Andrew Ellem18 July 2020 We have worked with avid for a couple of years now and he has become an integral part of our business. Before starting with David we had previous experiences with consultants and quite mixed feelings and results. We're a complex business and finding someone who could understand our product and industry well enough to provide value advice had proven hard. David has been a vital sounding board and advisor to Optimising and will continue to be. If you are looking for someone to help you take the next steps, I could not recommend David enough. James Richardson11 May 2020 I would just like to say how much help and assistance David has been to me within my business over the last 4 years and most importantly, through this period of COVID crisis. He is very experienced and has a calm head. I can share my business problems with David and he provides a commercial and yet experienced answer to deal with complex business issues. David has great strategic insights and understands how to create win win situations for both me and my business. Whilst I am worrying about day to day operational issues, David is thinking for me about positioning my business so it can perform to its best potential. David is a great sounding board for my ideas and provides valuable feedback to me. I would highly recommend David as a business mentor and as a business coach. Helen Ni14 April 2020 David initially presented a team workshop for my business so I could leverage my staff to grow my business. Subsequently, David become my business coach and business mentor. I can’t tell you of how much of a difference it has made to my business; revenues up over 30% in 12 months and a consistency of profits that I had never had before. David helped me gain clarity on the value of my role as a leader rather than always focusing on doing the work myself. I can’t recommend David highly enough as a business coach and business mentor. Darren Darren Sanicki12 February 2020 My review is based on a 4 year relationship meeting David inside a business to business networking group in 2015 where I found him to be honest and someoneone who I could work with with and that's saying something.. I have now been working with David for 2.5 years as my Business Coach and haven't looked back. David is someone who I rely on heavily, he is a sounding board with an understanding temprement who listens to what I'm saying provides sound and considered advice. As my business is growing I needed someone to help with the roadblocks and provide clarity, I now have that. We work through the issues that come up on a day to day basis sometimes or weekly, whatever is required normally. We are now planning months in advance, we know where we are at the touch of a button. David rovides support acquiring new staff and ongoing support with our team, sitting in on team meetings etc. Business to business has also changed as we work with suppliers and clients commercially. I am a better business person and a better family man for having David in my life. I now have my time back which is one of the most important changes in my life as a small business owner. As a family man I can spend more time with my wife & children. I'm lucky to have you as my coach David and I appreciate evrything you do. Sincerely Andrew Cain. Andrew Cain21 December 2019
How we can work together
Unlike a lot of business coaches, I work with businesses across a range of industries such as financial services, online marketing, real estate, engineering, accounting, legal, health, wholesale businesses servicing the construction & infrastructure segments, and retail.
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