Cumbria Business Growth Consultant For SME & Enterprise

If you lead or own a business, from those early infancy days to the present day, obtaining continual business growth is key. This is true whether you operate a micro, small, or medium sized business, or a large enterprise.

Increasing revenue, managing costs and improving margins ultimately allows you as a business owner to invest in your business and build for the future. So, whether you stick to, follow and implement your original business growth strategy or learn and adapt on the hoof, I believe you can only get so far in leading your business, solely driving it forward on your own.

As the business grows so will demands on your time. Typically, a full-on business owner will be juggling a lot of balls; along with spinning many plates. Therefore, a key success factor for successful business growth is building a team around you.  Once you have established a team, investing time to develop these individuals and your team to work towards a collective goal becomes crucial.

To start, you’ll need to set aside time to create a business structure and map out the key roles and responsibilities. You will then need to go out and recruit new employees and outsource non-core jobs to sub-contractors and associates. But with being busy with the day to day, this task often gets left to the last minute or rushed through necessity.

By initially spending time developing the hierarchical structure and building your team around you, with the added support from an experienced business consultant, will ensure you can spread and share the load as your business expands. However, as a business owner to meet your growth ambitions you will also need to spend time being strategic too, and working “On” the business. Therefore, it’s good practice to have a trusted network of advisors to support whereby you can tap into seperate expertise as and when required along your business growth journey.

Ideally for your long-term business growth plans, you want the on-going support from an experienced business professional who will intrinsically become part of your business senior team. Their role is to support you personally, the business leader, through the good, tough and mediocre times for many years to come.

Before spending money on advice and consultancy, always question whether your time and hard-earned cash would be better invested in a long-term business relationship. It’s about weighing up the advantage of obtaining input and insight from a trusted business consultant with the ability to understand you, the culture of your team and your specific market sector. Do you really just want someone to support you, who is brought in to offer just a state of the nation report, an idea or quick fix? Determine what you think will be most beneficial, long term to you, the business owner and to support your team.

Investing in a business growth consultant is not just a financial decision. It's much more about trust, sharing and taking the time to get down to the nub, the real root cause of the underlying business issues and challenges.