Inspiring businesses to achieve their full potential
 

Optimising businesses for every stage of your journey

 
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Anticipating your team and business needs at every stage of your journey to create maximum value. We will help you through each transition and help you prepare for future growth.

 
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Business Foundation

Some businesses start with some of the below in place, very few start with all of it. As your business develops, it’s vital that the basics become more and more routine - a turn-key operation that allows you to easily manage and monitor your team and your business performance. Leaving you more time and headspace for creativity and innovation; more appetite to challenge and set a progressive direction.

  • Business mentoring

  • Target setting & establishing goals

  • Vision & brand values

  • Culture & employee engagement

  • HR planning & support

  • Staff performance management

  • Financial management tools

  • Business planning cycle & management meeting structure

  • Client account management processes

  • Marketing & new business development plans

 

Scaling Up

To create scale you need to ignite passion, create energy and build momentum. This requires greater levels of engagement, communication, autonomy and accountability. Business performance will need more coordination and better tracking.

  • Business structure review 

  • Establishing profit centres & business units

  • Leadership incentive plans (bonus vs share schemes)

  • Succession planning and HR strategy

  • Building second tier management responsibilities

  • Management team mentoring and motivation planning 

  • Business and growth strategy

  • KPI & industry benchmarking

  • Brand & marketing strategy (winning awards & achieving industry recognition)

  • Client engagement & retention

  • Driving organic growth

  • Business development strategy (products & pricing models)

  • Risk management 

 

Buying & Selling (M&A)

Building your legacy both personally and professionally requires a deeper understanding of what drives you and where the end game is for both you and your team. This holds true also for how to determine when to acquire or be acquired. We will help you create your end game, identify collaborations and partnerships that expand your reach. Identify sectors and skills to expand your offering. Put your business in the spotlight of the right potential acquiring partner.

  • Board structure review

  • Value creation

  • Succession planning

  • Brand and market positioning

  • Growth and funding strategy

  • Building strategic alignment

  • Identifying partners

  • Evaluating opportunities and risk (commercial audit)

  • Industry benchmarking

  • Networking and professional profile building

  • Financial modelling

  • Due diligence support & process

Building an acquisition strategy
This could be to create an acquisition strategy to help build scale and improve margins; expand your offering; and ultimately create a higher multiple value.

Identifying merger partners
By merging with other potential businesses with complementary services to then scale exponentially as a Group offering which ultimately creates more value to all partners.

Preparing a management buy-out
A management buy-out as a succession of current shareholders/founders to current leadership to take the business on the next stage of the journey.

Attracting investment
A partial exit with investment to help the next stage of growth to maximise value.

Exit / trade sale
A full exit and sale of the business at the most optimum time.

Due diligence
Leadership, support & guidance through the Commercial, Financial, Legal and Operational DD process.