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.
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.