Research shows that businesses that use professional external advice are more likely to improve their turnover and profitability.
A variety of sources consistently report that up to 75% of new businesses fail within three years of starting up, and they are more likely to do so where they have failed to seek training, advice and support.
Business Advice – Whether you are a start up business or well established and looking to grow, having someone to provide support and answers to your questions can be reassuring. If you are fed up trawling the vast array of information out there but still don’t have an answer to your problem please don’t hesitate to call us. Our expertise in the business arena means we can save you precious time searching for the answers.
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Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring
Coaching is an essential development tool for driving organisational performance. It helps individuals to unlock their potential to maximise their own performance and is fundamentally about changing people in a way that is beneficial for themselves, their team and their organisation.
In a world of rapid and ever-increasing pace of change, effective leadership is crucial to driving organisational success, and Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring are essential developmental tools that can be used to equip leaders and managers to do this. Coaching is used to help people ‘do things right’ by addressing short-term specific issues, whereas Mentoring is a long-term relationship where the mentor uses their knowledge and experience to give people the skills and confidence to ‘do the right things’. Both are about unlocking potential and maximising performance
Organisations report the following benefits from coaching :-
· More confident staff
· Happier individuals and teams
· Staff feel valued
· Changed attitudes and improved relationships
· Lower staff turnover
· Increases in performance
· Increased profitability
· Organisational culture shift
All our management and leadership coaches have achieved ILM Level 7 in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring as well as having vast experience in either running their own businesses or in providing support to business leaders, so you can feel confident knowing that they have the skills, knowledge and experience to perform effectively.
The clients we have worked with, although all business leaders, have a diverse range of personalities, characters, value systems, skills and experience. These include, charismatic leaders, autocratic leaders, visionaries, leaders with little or no experience to those with vast experience in leading.
Coaching is an essential development tool for driving organisational performance. It helps individuals to unlock their potential to maximise their own performance and is fundamentally about changing people in a way that is beneficial for themselves, their team and their organisation.
In a world of rapid and ever-increasing pace of change, effective leadership is crucial to driving organisational success, and Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring are essential developmental tools that can be used to equip leaders and managers to do this. Coaching is used to help people ‘do things right’ by addressing short-term specific issues, whereas Mentoring is a long-term relationship where the mentor uses their knowledge and experience to give people the skills and confidence to ‘do the right things’. Both are about unlocking potential and maximising performance
Organisations report the following benefits from coaching :-
· More confident staff
· Happier individuals and teams
· Staff feel valued
· Changed attitudes and improved relationships
· Lower staff turnover
· Increases in performance
· Increased profitability
· Organisational culture shift
All our management and leadership coaches have achieved ILM Level 7 in Executive Coaching and Leadership Mentoring as well as having vast experience in either running their own businesses or in providing support to business leaders, so you can feel confident knowing that they have the skills, knowledge and experience to perform effectively.
The clients we have worked with, although all business leaders, have a diverse range of personalities, characters, value systems, skills and experience. These include, charismatic leaders, autocratic leaders, visionaries, leaders with little or no experience to those with vast experience in leading.
Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning is an organisation's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.
In order to determine where it is going, an organisation needs to know exactly where it stands now, then determine where it wants to go and how it will get there. The resulting document is called the "strategic plan."
At Success for Business Ltd we work with you to establish the vison for your business. We then undertake an in depth diagnostic of the business to assist you to identify ‘where you are now’. We will then work together to produce a strategic plan that will take you to where you want to be.
Strategic Planning is an organisation's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people.
In order to determine where it is going, an organisation needs to know exactly where it stands now, then determine where it wants to go and how it will get there. The resulting document is called the "strategic plan."
At Success for Business Ltd we work with you to establish the vison for your business. We then undertake an in depth diagnostic of the business to assist you to identify ‘where you are now’. We will then work together to produce a strategic plan that will take you to where you want to be.
Business Planning
You have heard of the adage "He who fails to plan, plans to fail". Business Planning is an essential business discipline which provides focus and direction for the business enabling you to meet your business goals. It provides a route map for the business and enables you to assess commercial viability of your business idea and subsequently predict future scenarios and the effect these will have on your business. As well as being an important document for business owners and stakeholders it is a document that will be requested by a lender to assess your future potential and convince them to lend financial support to your business.
Please call us if you need help writing or appraising your business plan.
You have heard of the adage "He who fails to plan, plans to fail". Business Planning is an essential business discipline which provides focus and direction for the business enabling you to meet your business goals. It provides a route map for the business and enables you to assess commercial viability of your business idea and subsequently predict future scenarios and the effect these will have on your business. As well as being an important document for business owners and stakeholders it is a document that will be requested by a lender to assess your future potential and convince them to lend financial support to your business.
Please call us if you need help writing or appraising your business plan.
Food and Drink Sector Specialist
Louise has advised over 175 Lancashire based food and drink businesses over the last 5 years. Areas of support include:-
Business Planning, Access to Finance, Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Employee Engagement, Packaging, Labelling, Branding, Routes to Market, Product Costing, Cost Reduction, Coaching and Mentoring, Product Sourcing, Trend Identification.
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Louise has advised over 175 Lancashire based food and drink businesses over the last 5 years. Areas of support include:-
Business Planning, Access to Finance, Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Employee Engagement, Packaging, Labelling, Branding, Routes to Market, Product Costing, Cost Reduction, Coaching and Mentoring, Product Sourcing, Trend Identification.
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Building Customer Relationships
Without customers a business fails to exist. If customers feel they are not looked after and made to feel special they are more likely to migrate to your competitors.
Sixty nine percent of customers leave because of an attitude of indifference towards them.
It costs six times as much to attract a new sale than to sell to an existing customer.
Success for Business Ltd will help you design a customer care programme that puts the customer at the centre of your business which will lead to an increase in retention rates.
Without customers a business fails to exist. If customers feel they are not looked after and made to feel special they are more likely to migrate to your competitors.
Sixty nine percent of customers leave because of an attitude of indifference towards them.
It costs six times as much to attract a new sale than to sell to an existing customer.
Success for Business Ltd will help you design a customer care programme that puts the customer at the centre of your business which will lead to an increase in retention rates.
Business and Financial Analysis
Many business owners are so busy looking after their day to day business operation that they find they don’t have time to stand back and look at the business from afar. They spend too much time working in rather than on the business.
Our clients have found it useful to have an independent review of the business as a starting point to working together to help them achieve their business goals.
Success for Business Ltd can undertake an in depth holistic review of your business. The review will cover all business areas including Finance, Sales and Marketing, HR, IT and Operations.
As a result of the review, we are able to :-
· Work with clients to identify their personal and business objectives
• Inspire clients to achieve their growth ambitions
• Empower clients to prioritise their goals and develop a practical action plan
• Encourage and empower clients to implement change to meet their business needs
• Work with businesses to identify key performance indicators
· Advise businesses on resourcing, including financing, marketing, support for business development and assessing return on investment
· Assist clients develop innovative ideas, proposals and solutions
Many business owners are so busy looking after their day to day business operation that they find they don’t have time to stand back and look at the business from afar. They spend too much time working in rather than on the business.
Our clients have found it useful to have an independent review of the business as a starting point to working together to help them achieve their business goals.
Success for Business Ltd can undertake an in depth holistic review of your business. The review will cover all business areas including Finance, Sales and Marketing, HR, IT and Operations.
As a result of the review, we are able to :-
· Work with clients to identify their personal and business objectives
• Inspire clients to achieve their growth ambitions
• Empower clients to prioritise their goals and develop a practical action plan
• Encourage and empower clients to implement change to meet their business needs
• Work with businesses to identify key performance indicators
· Advise businesses on resourcing, including financing, marketing, support for business development and assessing return on investment
· Assist clients develop innovative ideas, proposals and solutions
Sales and Marketing The relationships between sales and marketing differ greatly, but have the same goal. Marketing improves the selling environment and plays a very important role in sales.
Marketing is vital tool instrumental to the future success and growth of your business
A marketing strategy involves choosing realistic, measurable and ambitious marketing goals. A marketing plan will detail what you will need to do to make the strategy happen.
Success for Business Ltd will review your current marketing strategy, analyse your selling techniques and help you to identify, explore, win and retain more customers.
Marketing is vital tool instrumental to the future success and growth of your business
A marketing strategy involves choosing realistic, measurable and ambitious marketing goals. A marketing plan will detail what you will need to do to make the strategy happen.
Success for Business Ltd will review your current marketing strategy, analyse your selling techniques and help you to identify, explore, win and retain more customers.
Employee Engagement
Employers want employees who will do their best work or ‘go the extra mile’. Employees want jobs that are worthwhile and that inspire them. More and more organisations are looking for a win-win solution that meets their needs and those of their employees. What they increasingly say they are looking for is an engaged workforce.
Employers want engaged employees because they deliver improved business performance.
The average cost of replacing a staff member is £30,614 (Source: Oxford Economics 2014)
An anonymous survey is the first step to greater staff retention.
Know what your staff really think about your business through an anonymous survey.
Why you should do one.Benefits will lead to:-
Happier staff
Greater staff retention as staff feel valued
Increased profitability
Increased productivity
Satisfied customers
Better team working
generation of new ideas
improved business performance
Contact us for a no obligation 30 minute meeting to find out more
Employers want employees who will do their best work or ‘go the extra mile’. Employees want jobs that are worthwhile and that inspire them. More and more organisations are looking for a win-win solution that meets their needs and those of their employees. What they increasingly say they are looking for is an engaged workforce.
Employers want engaged employees because they deliver improved business performance.
The average cost of replacing a staff member is £30,614 (Source: Oxford Economics 2014)
An anonymous survey is the first step to greater staff retention.
Know what your staff really think about your business through an anonymous survey.
Why you should do one.Benefits will lead to:-
Happier staff
Greater staff retention as staff feel valued
Increased profitability
Increased productivity
Satisfied customers
Better team working
generation of new ideas
improved business performance
Contact us for a no obligation 30 minute meeting to find out more