Mark Van Rol

One of the businesses I work with has:

• Double their turnover
• Increase gross profit
• And the owner actually worked fewer hours than the year before

This is the combination I like to see.

When we started working together, like a lot of business owners, everything went through them.

The shift happened when they started letting go of control and built a team that could step up.

Another big change was creating a team ethos.

We spent time working on values, making sure the team understood them, shared them, and reflected them in how they worked together.

It stopped being one person carrying the business…
and became a collective effort.

Great momentum, and I know there is more of that in 2026.

As a leader in your business, some of the biggest questions you need to ask yourself is:

Who do I need to be, or become, for this business to get where I want it to go?

Most people answer that too quickly.
They write the first few things that come into their head and move on.

But this needs more thought than that.

TIP

Step back and identifying the 3 or 4 things that would make the biggest difference to you as a leader and to the business as a result.

When a business owner becomes clearer about who they need to be as a leader, a few powerful things start to happen.

1. Better decisions get made
2. The team steps up
3. You stop being the bottleneck
4. The business becomes easier to run
5. Growth becomes more predictable