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Scale Up

High Performance Teamwork for Scale-Up - Re-emerging From The Pandemic

Understanding the alchemy of business growth, especially small business growth, has been a focus of research for over 50 years. The motivation is s...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Scale Up

3 min read

How to Develop a Scale-Up Strategy

Let us introduce you to a 5-step process to help you scope the strategic direction of your business: Start with the “big picture” of what you want ...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Wellbeing

2 min read

Webinar: Introduction to the 5 Practices of Wellbeing, from the Science of Wellbeing, for High Performance

The most admired and highest performing companies have consistently invested to become great places to work and create environments where staff fee...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Scale Up

2 min read

Are you scaling-up or do you aspire to scale-up your business?

If you’re scaling-up your business or aspire to, make sure you consider these 3 characteristics and 3 challenges. The OECD definition of scale-up ...

Jim Rathbone

Profitability

6 min read

Increase your Profits by Pricing

A guide to increasing profits by pricing at the right level and how to find that level Whether you are selling a service, a product or a combinatio...

José Lehmani

Leadership

2 min read

Leadership Purpose and Resilience - Persist or Desist

I recently came across the story of a remarkable man. He first went into business, but his venture flopped. He switched to politics, but also flop...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Strategy

3 min read

Exit Strategy: A buzz word for “What comes next!”

Entrepreneurs have many reasons for creating a business – ranging from ‘funding a lifestyle’ to ‘industry domination’. Whatever the initial opportu...

José Lehmani

In Times Of Uncertainty, Strengthen Business Fundamentals – Profit and Cash Flow

Profitability

2 min read

In Times Of Uncertainty, Strengthen Business Fundamentals – Profit and Cash Flow

Clients asked through this COVID period: How can we increase profits – especially when facing decreasing sales due to COVID lockdowns? How can w...

Jim Rathbone

How To Measure Your Service Business To Increase Growth, Quality and Efficiency

Recurring Income

1 min read

How To Measure Your Service Business To Increase Growth, Quality and Efficiency

Measuring your service business is a cornerstone of growing your service business. Every service business is full of detail. The most important sho...

Jim Rathbone

Technological Innovations During Lockdown

Strategy

4 min read

Technological Innovations During Lockdown

Consider three purpose-centred buckets of COVID necessitated technological innovations: For working together to get the work done Through this peri...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Growing the business Part 2: Developing new markets and Retaining existing ones

Marketing

2 min read

Growing the business Part 2: Developing new markets and Retaining existing ones

Clients asked through this COVID period: Help us grow our business – to existing and new clients. Our answer: Take a fresh look at your markets, p...

Jim Rathbone

Growing The Business Part 1: Clarifying Your Value Proposition

Marketing

2 min read

Growing The Business Part 1: Clarifying Your Value Proposition

Why are you in business? The pain-points you address and value you add to customers and markets – existing and new What do you do for customers in ...

Jim Rathbone

Strategy

2 min read

Six Reasons to Develop Your Business Strategy Now for 2021 and Beyond

How clear in your mind is your business strategy? Is it documented, to help you and others communicate it concisely with clarity, consistency and c...

Jim Rathbone

Returning to Work – Part 3: Challenge, Drivers and Learnings

People

3 min read

Returning to Work – Part 3: Challenge, Drivers and Learnings

In this final article of our 3-part Returning to Work series, we visit the challenges some of our clients face in returning staff to the workplace;...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Learning from Mistakes in a COVID Context

Mindset

1 min read

Learning from Mistakes in a COVID Context

High performing teams engage in continuous learning. Yet learning from mistakes is one of the greatest skill gaps in leadership teams – according t...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Returning to Work – Part 2: Your Return to Work Mindset

People

3 min read

Returning to Work – Part 2: Your Return to Work Mindset

In our 3-part series about what the new workplace looks like, we have spoken with a number of clients across the UK and EU to understand what compa...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Taking Responsibility, Being Accountable: A Question of Competence and Reliability

Leadership

1 min read

Taking Responsibility, Being Accountable: A Question of Competence and Reliability

Taking responsibility – currently identified as one of the biggest skill gaps - is about courage to be accountable and the conditions that need to ...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Returning to Work – Part 1: What Does ‘Returning To The Office’ Mean To Your Staff?

People

2 min read

Returning to Work – Part 1: What Does ‘Returning To The Office’ Mean To Your Staff?

In our 3-part series about what the new workplace looks like, we have spoken with a number of clients across the UK and EU to understand what compa...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Leadership

3 min read

Making and Executing on Decisions

One of five characteristics of high performing teams is trusted decision-making. The ability to make and execute decisions has also been named as l...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Pricing

4 min read

Increase Profit Through Pricing on Service Sales

There are three primary ways to increase the profitability of your company. You can sell more, reduce costs and/or price higher. So how can profita...

Jim Rathbone

Generate More Leads and Increase New Business Service Sales

Lead Generation

3 min read

Generate More Leads and Increase New Business Service Sales

In this article on growing your service business, we are looking at 3 key ways of generating more leads and increase new business service sales: 1...

Jim Rathbone

Teamwork

2 min read

4 Lessons on Teamwork From Lockdown

What has COVID-19 taught us about teamwork? First lesson: Teamwork Matters. Judging by internet traffic and the doubling of Zoom’s market cap,...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Strategy

2 min read

Strategic Innovations from Lockdown

A mantra calls back as we emerge from lockdown: “Never let a serious crisis go to waste; … it's an opportunity to do things you didn’t think you co...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

Wellbeing

3 min read

12 Ways to Improve Wellbeing in Organisations

Great organisations have long known the value of creating great places to work. In the war for talent and the quest to constantly improve productiv...

Cora Lynn Heimer Rathbone

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