"Starting a company is like eating glass and staring into the abyss" - Elon Musk
We can all ignore our psychology and the dynamics at play every day in every team. But what's at stake if we do?
65% of new businesses fail due to issues of and between the founding team. Whether the things holding back your business are resisting help, avoiding public speaking, or snapping at your team - with professional support the risks can be lessened.
85% of long term job success relies on people skills; 15% on technical skills (of Fortune 500 CEOs, Harvard) Invest in yours.
The top skills for 2023? Creativity, self-awareness, agilty, analytical thinking (World Economic Forum)
Who you are and how you lead matters. It makes a difference to your work and home life every day.
6 months, 6 tools
We've curated 6 key tools from our Transactional Analysis toolkit to give you the essentials of improving your mindset and relationships, in work and out.
Goals, Leadership & The 7 Steps to Success
Defining, blocking and creating success.
Cohesive teams
After one Circle Line session, a line manager described how it had transformed a relationship she had, because they now have a shared language and so understand how each other work and thrive.
Stress & Strokes
The unavoidable and the antidote. How you respond to stress and how to look after yourself through it.
Drivers & Blockers
We reveal how to spot the working styles and the 12 "injunctions" we receive as children that hold us back today.
Team Dynamics
Learning the Ok-Ok worldview to develop more respect, empowerment and cohesion.
Games & Conflict:
The Drama Triangle shows how tensions are created, our role and how to step out.
Defining success
Establishing your unique version of success, how to sustainably work towards it, and how to live it each day.
Our Expertise
Philippa Richardson
Founder & Transactional Analyst Psychotherapist
"I cope with being a founder thanks to Transactional Analysis ("TA") - psychology's best kept secret. I discovered this framework when still in my previous career as a marketer, and what I discovered changed both my life and my business.
TA is your own personal 360 review. A method of psychology that focuses on your relationships and internal dialogues. TA reveals your patterns of thinking & behaving that limit you and your career: your Script, the Games you play, your Drivers. They were certainly holding me back! Thankfully I'm aware of them now so they limit me, and our business, far less."
Will Daniel-Braham
Leadership Coach & Transactional Analysis Psychotherapist
"I have over 25 years of experience delivering training and developing leaders and CEO's from start-ups to large organisations. I’ve worked in the private, public and voluntary sectors with leaders from HSBC, Ernst & Young, Stella McCartney, Morgan Stanley to UNICEF and the Fire Brigade.
I also featured as a coach in Channel 4 documentary, 'Ballet Changed my Life' supporting the development of a group of marginalised young people to perform Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet, alongside Birmingham Royal Ballet.
I'm a go-getter, love technology and have been instrumental in the development of small start ups and larger SME’s through coaching, training and the development of staff, managers and leaders."
"It’s true that being a startup founder is incredibly stressful... The tumultuous experience of being an entrepreneur can lead to self-doubt, imposter syndrome, loneliness and good old-fashioned burnout." - Forbes.
"81% of founders don't feel they can be open about their stresses, fears and challenges."