Ignition Tools
Practical Resources to Accelerate Your Business Growth
The journey from insight to action is where results happen. Ignition Tools is your online companion to Lighting the Blue Touch Paper, providing practical, interactive resources designed to help your senior leadership team align, focus, and spur momentum.
Step beyond the pages of Lighting the Blue Touch Paper with Ignition Tools that include practical assessments, scorecards, and diagnostics. Measure strategy, senior team health, and leadership presence. Work individually or as a team to uncover what’s holding growth back and light the spark that accelerates performance and drives real results.
1. SLT Health Assessment
A facilitated assessment designed to take the pulse of your senior leadership team. Measure across 28 dimensions that include alignment, trust, accountability, conflict resolution, and leadership behaviours. Identify hidden friction, strengthen collaboration, and create a shared baseline for improving team effectiveness and driving business performance.
2. Leadership Presence Diagnostic
A self and peer-assessment tool that measures 10 intangible qualities that make leaders impactful. Evaluate gravitas, communication, authenticity, relational intelligence, and vision-casting. Identify strengths, uncover gaps, and create a visual profile to focus development efforts, build influence, and enhance leadership impact across your team and organisation.
3. Business Strategy Scorecard
A rapid, 5-minute assessment to reveal the hidden obstacles limiting growth. Evaluate leadership alignment, strategy execution, customer acquisition, and operational efficiency and receive instant, actionable insights to unlock your business’s full potential.
Get rapid, personalised insights revealing hidden obstacles and your clearest path forward.
4. Reflective Questions for Senior Leadership Teams
These reflective questions are designed to help senior leaders step back from day-to-day pressures and think more deeply about how their team and organisation really function. They spark insight, surface hidden obstacles, and create space for more honest dialogue and better decisions. Use them individually or as a team to challenge assumptions, reset focus, and unlock performance.
5. 119 Ways to Inject Growth into Your Business
A practical compendium of ideas and levers to kick-start growth, identify opportunities, and remove the barriers holding your business back. Use it to prioritise high-impact actions, spark new possibilities, and pinpoint the quickest routes to sustainable growth.
How to Use
- Use each of the ignition tools individually or collaboratively with colleagues
- Engage the support of an independent facilitator to help guide discussion as a team
- Compare insights across team members to highlight gaps and opportunities
- Turn the results into strategic priorities and action plans
Ignition Tools are not just about measuring. It’s about lighting the spark which turns insight into action that accelerates your team’s performance and your business growth.
Testimonials
“Les is fantastic and impeccably organised. He is a really wise coach who shares his experience, and points of view, in ways which are extremely helpful to how my business and personal life are developing”
Victoria Sylvester - Managing Director
“Les’s pace, listening skills, clarity of communications, and attention to detail are all impressive and come dressed in high quality dry humour. Les demonstrated high integrity, empathetic style, great insights and gravitas. His work with our team to manage a challenging programme was excellent and exceeded expectations”
Todd Navin - General Manager Finance & Administration
“Les has been a source of wisdom for me as we work our way forward building a new team, restructuring operations, and build for the future. He has an assured manner which combines support and challenge as a good critical friend should. In my 1-2-1s with Les I have been struck by his knowledge and insight, sharp and perceptive questioning, as well as his appetite for holding my feet to the fire!”
Stephen Nickson - Owner & Managing Director
“Les worked with us during a very difficult and challenging time for the dentistry profession. He provided an invaluable sounding board as a strategic advisor “thinking ahead” across a number of different projects.
I value his advice on major decisions. An indispensable member of the team.”
Prof Paul Tipton
“Les gave us a fun filled day and it was only obvious he had worked us hard when we stood back and looked at all the output we had achieved as a team. He got the best from every person in the room with his direct and engaging style that blends sharp wit with very serious subject matter. Absolutely brilliant. An exceptional day”
Nick Taylor - Chief Executive
“A 1-2-1 with Les is the equivalent of an excellent non-executive director who, with an understanding of the business, can “stand back” and give informed, impartial, and very practical advice”
Michael Jefferies - Managing Director
“Les works at pace, professionally, and with minimum fuss to quickly deliver results. He exudes a natural authority and earns respect from those he comes into contact with his sharp mind and warm heart”
Mark Papworth - Group CEO
“Les exhibits a willingness to lead teams on a “new adventure” with good humour, clear thinking, and that all important ingredient – humility. Pure magic”
Lyn Rees - Group CEO
“Les runs a fantastic workshop. Engaging, fun, great stories, practical insights and all delivered in a way which drives engagement and gets the creative juices flowing. Les is the go to guy for making the complex simple, the difficult easy, and putting a smile on people’s faces – exceptional”
Kelvin Coyle - Managing Director
“Our engagement with Les was incredibly fruitful. He engaged with the team, exploring and challenging patterns of work to identify improvement opportunities which we are now implementing that will result in a significantly more effective organisation in future”
Gavin Huxtable - Steam Business Development Director
“The 1-2-1s with Les are very open as well as being very detailed. Les always follows through on each point and goes the extra mile to assist and help. His experience in business and life really resonate with me and have helped me in many areas in business as well as personally”
Dale Heathcote - Managing Director
“The growth workshop with senior management was excellent. Les provided thought provoking challenges with good humour in a well structured day. Highly guaranteed to provide the spark for a breakthrough and fresh thinking“
Anthony Attard - Group CEO
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