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How to Build Leadership Skills, with Raphael Bender

Published: June 30, 2021, 8 a.m.

How to build leadership skills \u2014\xa0Master practical techniques and gain valuable insights for business growth. Guide on\xa0how to build leadership skills.

How to build leadership skills\xa0\u2014 Raphael Bender believes everyone deserves the opportunity to transform into a better version of themselves. His main strength as a teacher and movement professional is the ability to distill complex research findings into a simple, science-based approach to help people move fearlessly, thoughtlessly, and painlessly. He LOVES running, weights, cycling, and Contrology.

Raph holds a Master\u2019s degree in Clinical Exercise Physiology (Rehabilitation), a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Exercise and Sports Science, Diploma of Pilates Movement Therapy, and STOTT PILATES full certification.

What you\u2019ll learn in this episode is about\xa0how to build leadership skills:\xa0
  • How Breathe Education has grown rapidly in just five years, and how Raph and his team plan to achieve their powerful two-year revenue goal of a staggering $50 million
  • How Raph navigated a careful strategic pivot to adapt to the realities of the global pandemic, and how this has allowed them to outpace their less nimble competitors
  • How to build leadership skills\xa0for successful business growth.
  • How Raph learned key leadership skills at each stage of business growth, and he discusses which skills a leader needs to develop to push through their challenges
  • Raph outlines an exercise where you measure your work as $10/hr., $100/hr., $1k/hr., $10k/hr., and $100k/hr. activities to help you identify priorities
  • What Breathe Education looked like early on, and how intentionality and strategy over the last six years have helped the team enter the pandemic prepared for its challenges
  • Why Raph sees marketing and sales as key leadership skills, and why he believes business owners should learn to \u201cthink like a marketer and salesperson\u201d
  • Why the skills and systems you developed in the \u201chustle and grind\u201d of getting to $1 million in revenue aren\u2019t necessarily the same ones that will get you to $5 million
  • Why it is important to show people how your business can help them by actually helping them, and how this can transform your business
  • Why Raph believes that being generous with your knowledge can be a powerful way to attract new customers by becoming a trusted resource
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