Small Business Consulting
Small Business is the life blood of our communities.
If you own a small business, how do you measure your success?
If you'd like to own a small business, what are the values and purpose of your enterprise?
In the future (which is now!), businesses have integrity and intention. They act as stewards to the communities they operate in, and are conscientious of all of their stakeholder groups. These future-proof businesses will stand for something and will generate so much more than wealth in our communities. Let's get you future-proof!
Business Planning
Creating a business plan is a powerful experience if done right. Not only does a business plan allow financing agencies to analyze your business, it also gives you a chance to put genuine intention into your business. A good business plan should allow you to make clear cut value based decisions as you build your business.
What I can do for you:
Create a business plan in consultation with you
Help you design your own business plan
Review a business plan you have created
Prepare pro-forma (projected) financial information
I also teach a course called "The ultimate small business plan". Contact me for offerings and a description
Creating strategy
Future-proof businesses are always adapting, but it is important to remember the core values and objectives of your business. Throughout the life of your business you will make numerous decisions, both small and large.
Sometimes, the decisions are so important or so large, it's worth it to call in some extra analytical horse power!
What I can do for you:
Create costing and pricing strategies
Create budgets, and budgetary procedures in your organization
Design and review compensation packages
Analyze new product offerings or new markets
Help integrate timelines and cash flows
Analyze large investments in machinery or other operations.
Measuring success
As humanity enters a new world, focused on sustainability, equality and profound technological changes, it can be easy to lose track of the big picture.
All too often, we are shown a profit figure and expected to interpret this as THE metric of a business' success. But what does profit tell you? Does it tell you how well the employees are paid? Does it tell you whether the employee's children are in high quality child care? Does it tell you their environmental impact?
Future-proof companies measure success across multiple markers.
What I can do for you:
Help you develop your core business values
Create measurable indicators of success that relate to your core business values
Help design systems of reporting
Create year end special reports