Erin Patten is a successful business coach, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker. She and her team offer out-of-the-box solutions for modern problems in the workplace. They work with individuals and corporate teams to nurture inner healing, organizational health, and ongoing success. Patten’s unique blend of metaphysical training and corporate expertise stems from her time at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government.
Erin utilizes many different coaching tactics and training techniques in leadership development. Here are five areas she focuses on as part of her formula for holistic business success.
1. Fostering Innovation
Innovation is important for any business. Without a perpetual push for fresh, new ideas, businesses will eventually run out of steam. The struggle often comes from leaders looking for ways to spark creativity on an ongoing basis.
Consistent creativity isn’t a formula. Nor is it something that can be reduced to a predictable activity.
Instead, Erin and her team emphasize adopting a “creator’s mind” rather than a “victim mentality.” They insist on shifting the perspective of leaders and team members alike to embrace innovation.
One key way to do this is to shift the narrative on failure. Rather than seeing the act of failing as a negative, try to view so-called “losses” and mistakes as investments in learning. This can shift the narrative for your team and build a workplace culture that encourages confidence and empowers individuals to take chances that can benefit your organization.
2. Optimizing Operational Efficiency
Efficiency is another major factor that can either inhibit or enhance a company’s growth. For Erin and her team, the goal of operational efficiency isn’t just doing things faster. It’s doing them smarter.
To accomplish this, the metaphysical business master suggests slowing down and considering decisions with greater care. Ask more questions and use that empowered innovation (see previous tip) to come up with fresh ideas for how to conduct activities with greater efficiency.
Operational efficiency also happens on an individual level as well as a company-wide one. With that in mind, don’t be afraid to express curiosity about people’s contributions and come alongside them to examine how you can improve their performance.
3. Leveraging Leadership and Authenticity
Growth must be driven by leaders. This is the only way it can be turned into a sustainable pattern for a business.
For Erin, this leader-led growth starts with healthy leadership. Being a good leader is a critical part of creating a more effective and growth-oriented company culture. It inspires staff members and sets standards. Erin emphasizes that to do this, leaders must also be authentic in their leadership.
BambooHR adds that transparency in leadership requires a willingness to be honest and open. Rather than over-sharing, though, transparency should focus on what you want to accomplish, what you need to do to get there, and maintaining communication as you go along.
4. Tapping Into Talent Development
Leaders must consider how they are influencing their companies. However, employees, staff members, contractors, and other team members also have an impact. This is why talent development is also critical to maximizing company growth over time.
Once again, for Patten, this starts with a deep, introspective, and personal look inward. In a recent article in USA Today, she explained, “We are physical, emotional, and spiritual beings, and our energy connects us to our life force,” adding, “The frequency we emit attracts similar energies.”
Leaders must allow themselves opportunities to heal and align themselves on a personal basis if they want their team members to feel they can do the same. Once oriented inwardly, they can seek to encourage others around them to develop their skills and improve their complementary strengths in areas that will benefit a business’s growth over time.
5. Investing in Strategic Partnerships
Outside of internal leaders and teams, it’s also important to foster ongoing growth through the careful cultivation of strategic partnerships. Companies must seek to build robust networks of honest, strong partnerships with other individuals and brands that they can trust to go the distance with them as they evolve and grow.
Erin emphasizes the fact that professionals are only as good as the company that they keep. She adds that connections aren’t just opportunities to micromanage others or manipulate them as a means to an end. Every partnership should be treated as an important part of the network and support structure that will inspire and motivate you and your team to continue to move toward positive growth over time.
Metaphysical Business Advice for Ongoing and Unparalleled Success
Erin Patten’s extensive experience with both business and personal improvement has positioned her as a uniquely effective professional coach. Her holistic, spiritually-minded solutions address business health from a comprehensive and holistic perspective that starts with individual improvement and spreads from there to every corner of an organization. It is an innovative, effective, and synergistic way to address company growth and one that can propel any organization toward unparalleled success.
The question today is, how will you use the tips above to chart your company’s course and maximize its growth as you move forward together?
