For those of you new to 5S, it is simply five words beginning with “S” that help you to organise the space around you so that you always have what you need, where you need it and you always have it that way. Sounds great doesn’t it? When I was first introduced to the [...]
The Foundations Programme is a business transformation programme that improves the lives of small business owners by allowing them to free themselves from their business, helping them to maximise profits and to make their business run like clockwork. Attendees will be taken through 5 modules - delivered in monthly tutorials at our purpose-built training [...]
Research has shown that most of the people that could, or will, buy from your business aren’t in the market to buy from you right now. This figure has been estimated at 97%, meaning that only 3% of your whole potential customer base is looking to buy from you at this very moment. Despite [...]
Take a little bit of time thinking about how you do the standard day to day stuff? Are you efficient, stream-lined? Lean? If you run a business of a reasonable size, then there is a good possibility that there is waste somewhere in your business. In fact, there is often more than 90% of [...]
We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the first business owners to complete The Foundations Programme and start their journey towards growing a more profitable and sustainable business. Foundations is a business transformation programme which will improve the lives of small business owners by allowing them to free themselves from their business, [...]
We are all so busy in our lives. Our jobs seem to grow with us, and at some point, we all feel overwhelmed by the quantity of things that are to be done. We have so much going on in our heads that inevitably things slip or go wrong. There is no doubt that [...]
Imagine going to work every day and being miserable. Turning up and being instantly unhappy when you walk through the door. How productive would you be? Now imagine work was a joy and you looked forward to getting there and getting stuck in. The first scenario is bad enough when you are employed but [...]
I’m reading a great Sales book at the moment. Sales is not my area of expertise and I am always up for learning! There is a section in it called “Loving your customer”. That does sound rather strange, but I get it! When you start a relationship with a customer, you are telling them [...]
The Organised Business took me 3 years to write. It took so long because I was fitting it around a young family, a growing business and trying to have some sort of life in between. Nevertheless, I got up early and went to bed late for 3 years to pull together my years of [...]
As we close off 2017 and look forward to 2018 I wonder if you are planning on making any changes to your business? The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over and expecting the same results. Many business owners are unhappy with their businesses but don’t know what to do [...]
