How We Help

We’ll help you to better understand your business, to better analyse the challenges that face you, and to get as close as you can to optimising everything you do, and everything your team does. 

We’ll also help you to trust yourself.  Business is tough, sometimes you’ll feel like you aren’t good enough, like you’re making a  mess of it, like you are incapable.  None of that is true.  You’re dealing with massive challenges, and everybody needs a little help sometimes.

The process starts with you talking, and us listening.  We need to understand what the issues are, and how we can help.  There isn’t a ‘one size fits all’, an out of the box solution.  The solution will be tailored to you.  However, there are some issues that we know commonly come up.

We’ll help ensure that you understand your cash flow, and how the finances of your business actually work.  We’ll help you to ensure that you have the management information to hand that you need to make intelligent decisions.

Understanding your cash flow is probably the single most important thing you can do, but there is no embarrassment in not being on top of it – very many businesses are not.

Sometimes borrowing is necessary, and it can be the greatest thing for a business.  It can also be a deadly millstone.  We can help you think through the implications, and not least, the implications of the directors’ guarantees that almost inevitably go with borrowing. 

If existing guarantees are a problem we’ll help you work out what to do next.

So often, we’ve come across organisations with great people from whom they simply aren’t getting the best.  We’ll help you work out how to arrange your team, how to play to people’s strengths, even how to turn ‘problem’ people into assets.  It’s all about working empathetically, yet with clear management guidelines, to have the right people, doing the right job, in the right way.

We’ll help you plan strategically.  Every organisation needs ambition, direction, goals to reach.  We’ll help quantify where you are at, and where you can go, setting realistic, achievable goals.

Let’s say something about the dreaded word, fees.  We don’t work for free, but we recognise that you may not be in a position top pay a great deal, just now.  We’ve developed consultancy models that really don’t have to cost much, and payment models that can make us affordable, whatever your circumstances.

All of this starts with a simple chat, where we can work out if we can help you, and you can work out if we’re the kind of people you want to work with.