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- How to review your business in just 10 minutes
- Planning your key activities for 2021
- 9 reasons why your business plan is your best friend
- What’s in a name?
- Donation or investment? Leveraging scarce funds for charity
- It’s not advice I want, it’s results!
- As a business owner, who do you trust?
- Try these two quick exercises to excel in the months ahead
- With lockdown came change – how will you build on the experience?
- Adding horsepower to your business
- Are you faced with some decision dilemmas?
- Is your team engaged with your company’s purpose?
- Five positive questions to ask yourself
- Trust your team, so you can let go and your business can grow
- The different rhythms of business life require different perspectives on time
- How to manage an unexpected approach to buy your business
- Collaboration is a sign of a growth mindset (a Dick ‘n’ Nick day)
- Businesses we helped in 2019 – and what they gained
- Charity support can be so much more than fundraising
- Does my team deserve a bonus?
- What ‘working on your business’ really means for creative and technical business owners
- 10 daily habits to help you be a better leader
- Real-life reflections on selling your business
- Sun, sea and success: Why taking time out is vital for business owners
- ‘Creative differences’ – five signs it might be time to sack your client
- A client has complained – can you make this a positive experience?
- Wish you could clone yourself? You need a business adviser
- Developing creative and technical teams
- What makes a good business adviser?
- Are these activities limiting your business growth?
- 4 not-so-obvious reasons you should delegate more
- Help! I’m not a natural leader
- Business is going well, so why do you need a business plan?
- What’s the difference between a mentor and a business adviser?
- Is there a gap in your management team?
- How to employ the 5 qualities of a good business adviser
- Summer is over, now what?
- Is your team engaged with the business’s purpose?
- Half-way through the year, is your business plan on track?
- The myth about ‘Working on your business’
- Change that sticks, not slips: creating the right environment for improved performance
- Business continuity: can you put your company into the recovery position?
- Feeling trapped in your business and just want to get out?
- Take a walk in your customers’ shoes. Do they fit?
- Unethical, but not illegal
- You can’t delegate leadership
- Investing in tomorrow: Developing the future managers of your business
- For how long do you need a business adviser?
- Work-life balance is rubbish
- Do you need a co-pilot in your business?
- Even billionaire CEOs have a business adviser – but why?
- Make way for your successor
- What makes a business attractive to buyers?
- 7 benefits of exit planning
- Why do I need an exit plan if I’m nowhere near ready to sell?
- Strictly business: partnering with another company to drive growth
- In it together: When your life partner is also your business partner
- 5 things to stop doing to accelerate growth
- How do you create, manage and deliver a high-performance culture?
- Business owners, how clear is your vision?
- 9 reasons why your business plan is your best friend
- Why your summer holiday is the ideal exit planning test
- 7 ways to make your business less dependent on you
- Time to sack your advisers?
- How a contingency plan will help your business survive without you
- Finding it hard to trust your team? Try these simple steps
- As a business owner, can you afford to take a holiday?
- 5 indicators you are using your emotional intelligence to manage your business
- Just pick up the phone!
- How to tell if you’re a manager or leader
- Rise of the RoboBoss: Could a computer run your business better than you?
- Fit for purpose? 5 questions to help you be a better business owner
- Does your business plan answer these 5 unobvious questions?
- Meeting of the ways
- Are you bright enough to run your business?
- Could your company be stranded on the hard shoulder?
- Bloody forecasts, they are always wrong
- It’s not advice I want, it’s results!
- Stop pestering me – I’m not ready to sell
- Are you fit to run your own business?
- How do you sell without a salesforce?
- Does your demise signal the end of your business?
- The questions you shouldn’t have to ask…
- What’s the point of an exit plan if you aren’t ready to sell?
- Someone wants to buy your business – good news, right?
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How to review your business in just 10 minutes
Over the Christmas and New Year period we are inundated with hints, suggestions and cajoling about this being ‘a great time to reflect on the year just gone and plan ahead’. And what a year it has been.
In practice, how many of us do an effective ‘review and plan’ and, most importantly, make any changes as a result?
Testimonials
We have talked to other business owners and they are taken aback that we forecast our revenues, costs and cash flow
Meret Maynard
Outspoken Projects
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We’ve written a number of guides on selected business subjects that will set you and your business in good stead for whatever future you may choose.
These are free for you to download and to make use of in your business, so please help yourself.