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Brexit Planning: Talk to your EU Employees before Christmas
As part of your Brexit planning, it is important to keep the communication flowing between you and your EU employees. Your EU employees may be feeling very uncertain and uneasy about their future within the UK. Talk to your EU employees before their return home to their native country to ensure they return back to […]
Increasing business profitability with 4 simple steps
As a general rule, I find that people have a tendency to make things more complicated than necessary. This is especially true if the problem they are trying to solve seems to be difficult, or the objective they want to achieve is elusive. Under these circumstances I think we all quite naturally look for complicated […]
How Do I Scale My Business and Realize its Full Potential?
I have been lucky to have been a director for businesses that grew and scaled to its full potential, moving from a 9 to 5 operation to one that was effectively 24 by 7. Also I have worked with business owners who have stumbled into this growth scenario, and paid a very expensive price because […]
10 Common Mistakes Most Business Owners Make
Every owner manager has to find ways to improve how work is done and at the same time look for ways to improve the employee and customer experience but they often make the same common mistakes. Successful businesses understand that happy customers and employees have a direct impact on the bottom line. Since most owner […]
7 Deadly Sins that Stop Businesses Growing
I have worked with many businesses of different sizes and at different stages of their ‘life’, e.g. early stage start-ups to mature businesses handing over to the next generation or exiting via a trade sale and ‘growing their business sustainably’ is always on the agenda. All companies need to increase sales and improve their performance […]
Too busy operating your business to even think about growing your business?
Growing your business? When talking to owners of established small and medium sized businesses, I have found one issue to be remarkably common: Owner-managers having to focus on the day to day running of the business to such an extent that thinking about managing and growing your business is neglected. Why is this problem so prevalent? The recent economic […]
6 Signs You are Not in Control of your Sales Pipeline
The sales pipeline is a visual image to show you how much business you will attempt to close in a given week, month or year, i.e. it provides an overview of current sales opportunities. Sales pipeline management allows you to track open sales opportunities as they move through your sales process, and with proper management, […]