How it all works

We connect you with successful leaders who have all run and grown businesses. Using their knowledge and experience, they work with you to develop your skills and confidence, improve your management team’s effectiveness, create clear business strategies and ultimately grow your business.

We help you to ensure your team is aligned with the key elements outlined above, that you regularly review your performance against your goals, and that you continue to work ‘on’ the business.

This covers areas such as medium-term planning, the opportunities technology presents, and developing your product or service to meet your customers’ evolving needs.

From our experience, an effective business strategy focuses on a few key elements, some of which are:

Where are we now?

What is our customer proposition?
Do we meet our customers’ needs?
Is our sales strategy effective?

Where do we want to be?

Define the key business targets for your growth and succession, too
Develop products or services that meet the needs of our customers
Ensuring we have an effective sales process that focuses on customer retention, customer acquisition and maintaining business profitability

How do we get there?

Understanding the gap between where we are now and where we want to be
Building a step plan to bridge the gap. This may include new products, services, routes to markets, additional training, and new employees/team members

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Our approach

We’ve helped businesses overcome a wide variety of challenges.

Delivering Sales Growth

Develop a strategy to build your sales pipeline and deliver growth for your business. What are your customers' behaviours, the lifecycle profitability and your sales conversion rate?

We define the key stages of the sales process and identify opportunities to increase conversion.

Building Successful Managers

Building your management team is fundamental, and we help businesses to achieve this. We believe that time invested in assessing your team's strengths and any gaps will pay dividends in the long term.

We focus on the skills and mindset required for where the business is now and where it wants to be in the future. Developing a team structure that focuses on having the right people in the right roles and who share a passion for growth.

Developing an Effective Strategy

An effective business strategy shapes both the key objectives and the everyday activities and behavious of the business.

We start with your vision for the business and identify your long-term goals. This is then transferred into a business plan, with key objectives and a realistic plan factoring in time and resources.

Managing Succession

Our practical approach has helped many businesses navigate through this stage of their development.

We work with you to build the succession plan. Every business is unique, so we focus on where we are now, where we want to be, and the time period.

We support implementation through one-to-one mentoring and facilitate knowledge-transfer workshops and practical advice.

The Impact of ESG

Companies with a robust Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Strategy are more successful at attracting and retaining great people and customers.

In addition, they attract higher valuations. Embedding ESG into every day operations helps organisations to mitigate risk, access funds and benefit from commercial opportunities.

Because doing good, is good for business.

Navigating Tech

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, technology is a key driver in strategic business development. But for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), knowing the right time and the best way to invest in technology can be a daunting task.

Whether your goal is to build value, accelerate growth, enhance operational efficiency, or leverage data to inform decisions, our tech team is here to help you navigate this complex journey.

Our products

Overview

We believe every business challenge is unique, and that is why our experienced team offers bespoke solutions to our clients.

In addition to this service, we also offer products that support the growth of SMEs, developing both their skillset and management teams.

Click along to the right to view our products, specifically designed for owner-managed businesses.

Next Generation NEDs two-day development programme

If you are an aspiring, newly appointed, or even an established Non-Executive Director (NED) or Chair interested in the latest thinking and best practice about the role and gaining expert insight and shared practical experience, we are running a programme just for you.

If you would like more information, download a copy of the brochure or contact us through the form below.

Business Leadership Academy

Our four-day programme turns Managers into Leaders, and is designed specifically for SMEs, covering:
- Business structure and governance
- Planning and strategy
- Leadership and management
- Getting the best from people

If you want to learn more about the Academy, contact us on the form below.

Information and Technology Consulting

Our Information & Technology Consultancy is essentially an experienced IT executive who works on a flexible basis with businesses, providing strategic technology leadership without the cost of hiring a full-time Director.

This approach is especially valuable for small and medium-sized enterprises that may not have the resources or consistent need for a dedicated, full-time IT Director. The consultant will work with you to define a technology strategy through a short-term engagement and, if required, provide fractional support in its delivery.

With an expert handling IT strategy and delivery, business owners and managers can focus on their core competencies without worrying about IT complexities.

Business Mentoring

Many business owners and leaders struggle to step over the gap between intentions and results. Successful people overcome this because they appreciate the power of sharing, the clarity of thought that comes through working with others who can share experiences, and working with people whose knowledge can benefit them.

Working on a regular basis with a business mentor can start to bridge that important gap between what we want to do with our business and what we actually do with our business.

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Business Leadership Accelerator

Bespoke, in company programme, across four half days.

Every programme is bespoke to your requirements, but broadly focuses on:
- Leadership - Opportunities and challenges in your business - Improving management performance and effectiveness - Engaging your employees and recruitment

If you would like to know more, contact us via the form below.

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