What Impact Does Your Behaviour Have on Your Business?

What Kind of Leader Are You?

And more importantly… how does your leadership impact your business?

Leaders who are serious about growth ask themselves these questions regularly, because the way a business is led has a direct effect on its performance.


Leadership Is Human

Leaders are human.

That means they are influenced by life’s ups and downs. A poor night’s sleep, a stressful morning, or a difficult conversation can all affect mood, and that mood can quickly ripple through a team.

The result?
Productivity, communication, and decision-making can all be impacted.

So the question becomes:

How do you manage your behaviour to protect performance?


Understanding Leadership Behaviour: ELM & TFK

This is where Entrepreneur · Leader · Manager (ELM) and Think · Feel · Know (TFK) come in.

Both tools are designed specifically for business leaders:

  • ELM focuses on how you lead within a business context
  • TFK focuses on how you communicate, in business and beyond

Unlike many traditional profiles, these are behavioural tools. They focus on how you show up, not who you are, meaning you can adapt and improve.


What ELM Reveals

ELM helps uncover your core leadership strengths.

It provides clarity on where you naturally operate best across:

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Leadership
  • Management

It also highlights any blind spots or challenges that may be limiting your effectiveness, giving you the awareness to adjust your focus and improve your impact.


What TFK Reveals

TFK focuses on communication.

It helps you understand:

  • How you come across to others
  • How different people interpret your communication
  • Where misunderstandings may occur

With this insight, you can adapt your style, becoming more flexible, more effective, and more impactful in every interaction.


Why It Matters

When leaders understand their behaviour, everything improves:

  • Communication becomes clearer
  • Decisions become more effective
  • Teams become more aligned
  • Performance improves

Learn More

If you’d like to explore how Compass can support your personal development, your team, or your wider business, visit Training by Shirlaws.

I would recommend Think Feel Know to any company that wants a fast and simple way to first understand and then improve communication across the business.
Sara Daw, The FD Centre
Compass is incredibly practical, easy to grasp and actionable.
Kate Anderson, morph b2b
Entrepreneur Leader Manager is a powerful tool which unlocks partnership dynamics and supports understanding of differences.
Roddy Cameron, UK
Entrepreneur Leader Manager proved to be a powerful predictive tool for the strategic focal points that emerged from our planning session and helped set the tone for open, constructive dialogue and fast, aligned decision-making amongst the partnership.
Chris Cook, Canada
ELM has really good cut through into why a business might not be functioning as well as it could be and not achieving what it should.
Alastair Kight, Juma Investments
We have been using Compass Pace Indicators with our clients for many years now and find them extremely beneficial and complimentary to our programs. Their online systems are well designed and user friendly and they always provide prompt and professional support.
Karen Finucane, Captain of Logistics, Next Evolution Performance
The Risk indicator was truly eye opening. It revealed how each of us makes decisions and enabled us to address some underlying frustrations in our team.
Kathy Ryan, Chair & Founder, RoseRyan
Now I know my Risk profile and my team’s Risk profile, I know we have the right team to implement our strategic plan. I think it’s an incredibly powerful exercise to do.
Belinda Vesey-Brown, MD, Brio Group