Small Business Leadership

As an entrepreneurial leader, you will deal with a leadership crisis or problem at multiple points on your entrepreneurial journey. This series is called “Small-Business Leadership” and not just “Leadership” because there is a stark difference between personal, small business and big business leadership. At the heart of the series is how entrepreneurs have to change the way they lead as they evolve from a startup to a corporation.
This podcast series offers practical tools and insights on how to constantly evolve and adapt your leadership style as your business grows.

Monthly English South Africa Business · How To Presented by Allon Raiz Hosted by Gareth Armstrong

6 Episodes

Leading Leaders

As the CEO of an organisation, you will at some point need to hand over some of the reigns to other leaders within your business. Sharing the load can be scary, but it is a necessary step in scaling your business. These leaders come with their own personality, own ideas,…

8 Feb 2022 18 min

Leading Others

Congratulations! Your business is doing well and you’re growing every day. You’ve decided to employ more people to fill in competency gaps, but . . . are you about to hit the ‘valley of death’? Every growing business hits three tripwires as it begins to scale – three points when…

25 Jan 2022 21 min

Leading strategy

As a small business leader do you know your why, your purpose for existence? Do you have a vision? Do you have a distinct strategy to reach that vision? Many entrepreneurs start out with grand visions for their business but as time goes on this vision gets lost as the…

11 Jan 2022 14 min

Self-leadership

In episode 3, Allon discusses the importance of self-leadership as a successful entrepreneurial leader. He details four focus areas that one needs to understand before trying to lead others. One – Self-awareness: understand your own biases and what clouds your judgement. Understand your strengths and weaknesses and surround yourself with…

21 Dec 2021 23 min

Leadership vs Management...in a small business

In this episode, Allon discusses the difference between leadership and management and what each of the two roles entails. He explains why, as an entrepreneur, you should always be leading and managing simultaneously. Allon offers practical examples to illustrate how to differentiate between the two, and discusses the other side…

6 Dec 2021 15 min

Intro Episode: Who is this for?

As your business grows and faces more and more challenges, you should grow and learn with it. In this introductory episode of the Small Business Leadership podcast series, Allon Raiz offers context around leadership in a small business and sets the stages for the episodes to follow.

10 Oct 2021 15 min