ORGANISATION & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

We love to see businesses thrive and functioning at their full potential. Jon is a strategic thinker; his goal is to fix your pain, or find the sticking point that is stopping you reach the next level. Jon will create a bespoke plan to improve the effectiveness of your business. Aligning strategy, people and processes to bring sustainable change and growth. This will increase your business’ productivity and performance and give you the competitive advantage.

We partner with services that are at the cutting edge of business to ensure you get the best service to put you ahead of your competitors. We work with you to implement the business plan and assist you on the journey.

STRATEGIC PLANNING

Do you need an external voice to help implement change and establish agreement?

We look at systems and structures within all areas of your business, assessing where energy and resources are being directed. We strengthen operations and ensure that everyone is working towards the same goal. This ensures that communication avenues are strong and, if required, we can then provide training for new systems and structures. It can be difficult to implement change and maintain unity. We have found that bringing in a third party can make this process more attainable. Meaning change is accepted more quickly, feels less personal and creates less disruption.

We ensure that your staff are a part of the consultation process to change and listen to their pain as well as yours. Often both can be addressed and worked through effectively and quickly. From there, we can assess the progress of the business and provide ongoing support until all changes implemented are embedded in and functioning as predicted.

Contact us for a one hour, no fee, meeting and we will discuss how we can take your business to the next level.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Do you have a deadline to meet but not the internal skills to reach it?

We often take on short-term, time pressured projects for clients where there is a need for expertise that does not exist within the business. This is a very cost-effective way of achieving a short-term goal.

BUSINESS ARCHITECTS

Do you need help to develop and maintain your businesses capabilities and enterprise?

We can help you identify and manage change in your business through the development of a bespoke business plan. We can implement change and transformation; ensuring that everyone is working towards, and in alignment of, the strategic objectives.

This will include your business strategy and plans, with a time-sensitive action plan; ensuring a capability model, reviewing internal and external recourses and insuring sustainable change; implementing and maintaining any transformation and change. The architect of your business can accelerate growth provided the systems and structures are implemented with sustainability and growth in mind. A tweak here and there may be all you need to push your business up to the next level.

Contact us for a one hour, no fee, meeting and we will discuss how we can take your business to the next level.

Our focus is making your business successful. Our aim is to see your business grow in productivity, effectively, performance and profit. We will only work with you if we believe that we can make a positive change in your business.

ORGANISATIONAL CULTURAL CHANGE

What is the culture within your business like? Are you influencing it?

The culture within an organisation can make a huge difference to productivity and effectiveness. This can be influenced by a number of things; but should mainly be influenced by the leadership.

If you are unhappy with the culture within your business we can help you to build a more positive, healthy, productive working environment. When employees are happy, healthy and esteemed they are much more productive. Although the success and profitability of your business will not depend on culture alone, we have found, through our work, that it provides the foundation for effective growth.

Contact us for a one hour, no fee, meeting and we will discuss how we can take your business to the next level.

UNDERSTANDING THE MICRO AND MACRO

Our approach is to understand the journey you are embarking upon. Whilst understanding big issues and big events is really important, we also spend time to understand the microscopic things in your journey; the fears, lack of confidence, family situation and, ultimately, what life out of the business looks like too.

Spending time with you and your team is key to any work we do. Understanding your vision, preferred way of working and business structure is vital. We will spend time with your work force; assessing the team makeup and dynamics, communication, systems and structure. Every company has its own flavour, heartbeat and USP (Unique Selling Point). It is important that our work complements this and doesn’t crush it.

Once we have a full understanding of you and your business, we work on developing plans to help you achieve those goals and can look at budgets and planning. This will give you a step by step guide of what you need to do to take your business to the next level.

Contact us for a one hour, no fee, meeting and we will discuss how we can take your business to the next level.

BUSINESS CONSULTANCY

For us to help you overcome your challenges we need to get to know you and your business. We take the time to do this because this allows us to use our skills in ways that suit you and your business, so together we can develop an approach that overcomes your challenges and brings results.

WE FOCUS ON MAKING YOUR BUSINESS SUCCESSFUL

We do this by identifying your objectives and aspirations, bringing leadership, vision and focus to your business. Forging a way forward through the creation of a co-designed business development plan; we support you in growing your business and taking it to the next level.

We can help design a bespoke action plan, including time sensitive and measurable targets. We can have board room discussions; providing a bouncing board for creative thinking. We also bring an outside perspective and form professional partnerships where appropriate and will only work with you if we believe we can make a positive difference to your business. We aim for excellence in all we do and will always go the extra mile to achieve this.

We specialise in assisting SME (Small and medium size enterprises) in reaching the next level. It is often invaluable for these businesses to have another pair of eyes and ears, providing another professional to bounce ideas with. When the buck stops with you and your head is in the business, it can sometimes be difficult to see a clear way forward for growth.

This is where we come in, adding real value to your business. We can bridge the gap between the hectic everyday and the aspirations for growth – with the aim of seeing your businesses grow in productivity, effectivity, performance and profit.

MOUNTAIN EXPERIENCE DAYS

Strategic planning for you and your business

Your Mountain experience Day will include 3 One to One sessions with Jon Johnson our Business Consultant and a bespoke business action plan.

Strategy meeting

Time to get to know each other and understand you and your business before we start working with you.

The Mountain Day – ‘Climb the beast!’

You simply need to rock up ready to walk and enjoy a day away from the normal daily routine. Jon will plan the rest and ensure you have a productive, insightful, enjoyable day.

Action plan

This is often the most powerful part of the journey. Your ideas and thoughts put into order by someone else. This can help you look at pain points from a new angle and find resolution to reoccurring problems you never even new your business had.

Follow up

A one hour Skype or face to face meeting depending on business location to find out how you have progressed so far, celebrate the achievements and talk about the future.

Mountain Experience – Strategic planning for you and your business

Cost £1500

OUR MODEL

Many of our clients have embarked on a walk up a mountain with us as part of our initial consultation and have experienced great rewards. Being out of the office, in relaxed clothes, walking in the great outdoors, creates an opportunity for open, honest and insightful conversation.

It is during these times we often hear stories of where the business began, the highs and the lows, the successes and the struggles. The true heartbeat and flavour of the business and its creator. There is evidence that suggests that the physical motion of walking releases a mental movement forward for the individual. This stimulates a mental exhilaration; often bringing resolve to tricky business decisions and releasing a fresh way of thinking, renewed vision and personal release.

Being out in nature, away from the busy work environment, brings a sense of calm and relaxation, enabling a clearer thought pattern. There is nothing better than the perspective from the top of a mountain to put the daily struggles back in order. Going up a mountain is not essential to us working with you, for some this is logistically impossible and for others it just isn’t their thing! What is vital to us is understanding the heartbeat of your business, before setting goals or targets and implementing change. In essence, this can be done wherever it most suits you.

RUNNING A BUSINESS IS MUCH LIKE CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN

The excitement and anticipation as you plan, gather equipment and supplies for your new adventure. The team gathers, ready and raring to go, as this is new and exciting. As you start off on the journey, it’s all feeling good; all your plans are working and the journey is fun and easy.

Inevitably you hit some turbulence and wonder if you are on the right track. You might think about changing tact and re-gigging a few things. This is where you need some encouragement and some resources, but you push on and dig in. Then there’s that point when you really question “Can we do this? Will we make it? Will we still be in one piece when we reach the top?” Unless you dig deep and keep going you will never know; so, you dig in keep going and then you reach the end goal.

The view from the top, is your Mountain Perspective. The toughest bit of the climb is always just before you reach the top. These are the toughest points in business; when you have to dig deep is always just before the next success. There is always another mountain to climb.

We are here to help you to climb your next business mountain.

Contact us for a one hour, no fee, meeting and we will discuss how we can take your business to the next level.

Elwyn Roberts, Managing Director, Durabase (Hereford)

Objectives: Creation of a business plan that would create sustainable growth as part of the overarching succession pathway.

Before meeting Jon, I was struggling to see the wood for the trees. However, having met with him on several occasions he understood me and my business quickly, which allowed us to create a clear business path promoting on my key objectives of growth in order to strengthen the business.

Over the past two years, Jon has helped me develop stronger managerial structures whilst working with the sales and marketing teams to instil a new vision and strategy. Alongside this, Jon secured EU funding which supported a big re-branding exercise in early 2017, project managing everything from the creation, setup and event support for The Fit Show through to the production of marketing collateral and a brand new website. He introduced us to third parties who have inspired the team, aiding growth through marketing and IT systems.

On a personal level, Jon helped me gain a fresh perspective which has opened new business avenues not explored previously. He’s a very down to earth person, who rises to any task we ask of him.

His knack for identifying problems by breaking them down, exploring the options and then presenting me with the advice of how to proceed has made things much clearer. Quite simply, working with Jon has made my business life easier and as a result the company has a brighter future.

Business owner of SME (retail)

Objectives: Organisational and business development. Creating new business strategy and business plan.

Climbing the mountain was a chance to step out of the day to day business/family life and see over it all; look at what I/we want as a family business in the long term and think over with the help of Jon where our business and life is headed and re-steer it to a path that we want to head where other day to day issues have made it head in a different direction.

It has been great to have a wise head to throw our situation, dreams and frustrations at; to discuss, make sense of and plan a way forward.

It is really valuable to take the time away from the coalface to re-evaluate all parts of our business, from the foundations upwards.

Head teacher, Primary School

Objectives: Organisational cultural change. Bringing clear vision and communication to their management team.

I have found working with Jon supportive and inspirational; guiding me through a difficult period and helping me to make clear decisions that have had a positive effect in my work life. My personal life has been strengthened and I have gained tools that will live with me forever.

Jon allows the opportunity for me to think and clarify what is important, what actions need to be taken and what direction to take in the future. He provides strategies and empowers decisions. He cares for the individual and recognises that my own health and wellbeing is so important to the running and managing of my business.

I would recommend the service as a critical stepping stone to evaluating personal and professional goals and aspirations. Jon is there, not only to advise, but give clear strategy if required. He goes the extra mile to make a difference.

I have become more robust and resilient to situations and have applied strategies successfully when decision making and looking to the future. I have also followed through on personal CPD that was suggested.