Encourage Growth … get set to flourish

Remember that faint glimpse of sun the other day? It got me dreaming of summer days, sat in the garden with friends – aahhh, such lovely thoughts. That is, until I looked out at the garden and felt completely overwhelmed by the work that needs doing out there!

Despite my best intentions, I didn’t manage the Autumn clear up and so now that Spring is here, I’m faced with an even bigger problem and I don’t know where to start.

I know what I want it to look like but I’m not sure how to get there. Have I got the know-how, the time or even the tools?

It reminded me of how our clients feel when we start consultancy work with them. They know what they want to change in their business but often don’t know how to get there. It can seem like an impossible task.

My solution was to call a gardener. They know what they’re doing, they can clearly see what needs to be done and they have the tools and the time to do it. A small investment from me reaps huge rewards.

Your solution is to call us! It’s always so much easier to see things clearly when you are not involved in the day to day. We can come in and really get under the skin of the issues and challenges you are facing and support you to break it down into manageable pieces of work with clear outcomes and even support you to put it into practise.

Here’s some ideas of the areas that we can help you with and which we know are really important to help your business grow and flourish.

Creating the right culture – how does your culture support the growth and performance of your people and your business?  Do you know?  Do you have everything in place to create a great place to work where people are attracted to your business and people want to stay?  If you don’t know the answer to these questions, then we can help with an employee engagement programme to help you get underneath the skin of this.

Vision and Values – if you read Helen’s blog a couple of weeks ago you would have established just how important these are to recruiting the right people and setting the tone and culture – we work with lots of businesses to help them create, bring to life and embed these.

Induction – are you setting people up to succeed?  Again, last week Rob shared a blog with some great tips on what to ensure you build into your induction.  If you need help with this, you just have to ask.

Performance management framework and processes – does everyone know how well they are performing at work?  Do people know if they aren’t performing and what they need to improve.  Are people getting a bit cheesed off because other people seem to be getting away with underperforming?  Do you know what people’s aspirations are?  Does everyone have a great development plan to help improve their performance or achieve their aspirations?   If the answer to any of these is yes, then we can help build a framework and processes that is all about having the right conversations and capturing just key elements (not a whole paper trail that nobody ever looks at again)

Talent and Succession planning – do you have one?  Is the performance management process mentioned above feeding your talent and succession plans?  No?  Then, we can help facilitate sessions that will help you identify your risks, potential and opportunities along with key successors and how you are developing them.

Leadership frameworks – these are really helpful to support the leadership behaviours you want to see across the business.  And for us, this is not about a position but what everyone should be doing.  Do people know what it means to lead self?  And what about those who are leading others?  Are people clear what it means to lead strategically?  Again, we have done some great work with many organisations creating leadership frameworks and behaviours.

Easter is all about new starts. What needs updating, refreshing or changing in your business? What is it that you have been putting off? Don’t leave it too long because as my garden is testament to, the weeds will grow thick and fast and the task becomes a much bigger job!  Best of all you might even be able to access some funding to support if you are looking to do this in 2023.  Get in touch to find out more.