Raising finance depends on the type of business, how fast you need to go and whether or not you can grow itself. In this lesson, Guy Rigby explains the various forms of raising finance from family to venture capital – their benefits and shortcomings.
The autonomy of your people
Are your people enabled and empowered to make their own decisions? In this lesson, Brian MacNeice, an expert on driving improvements in performance focus and culture in high performing organisations, discusses creating the environment for staff to make smart decisions about what is the right thing to do at any point in time.
What are the keys to business financial management?
What are the core KPIs that the business leader should be thinking about?
In this lesson, Guy Rigby – a chartered accountant, entrepreneur, author, mentor and advisor to dynamic owner-managed businesses – explains that cash flow, not profit, is the Key Performance Indicator.
The performance gap
How do you create a culture whereby everybody needs to ‘up their game’ all the time? In this lesson, Brian MacNeice, discusses the gap between the best and worst performers.
Standards
How do you get an organization to achieve a standard whereby OK is not OK and it’s not just something they say? In this lesson, Brian MacNeice, an expert on driving improvements in performance focus and culture in high performing organisations discusses how these kind of organizations really live their beliefs.
How important is flexibility in a growing business?
In this lesson, Guy Rigby – a chartered accountant, entrepreneur, author, mentor and advisor to dynamic owner-managed businesses – warns of the challenges facing entrepreneurs who are guilty of ‘pushing water uphill’.
KPIs and the importance of measuring the right things
Brian MacNeice discusses why keeping people connected to the measures that really matter, are a really important element of any high performing organization.
How do you manage the pace of growth?
When building a business, people often think that they just need to make as much money as quickly as possible.
In this lesson, Guy Rigby – a chartered accountant, entrepreneur, author, mentor and advisor to dynamic owner-managed businesses – explains that it’s a bit more nuanced than that.
Purpose
In this lesson, Brian MacNeice, an expert on driving improvements in performance focus and culture in high performing organisations, discusses one of the elements that creates the condition for long-term performance advantage over your competitors.
What’s the difference between Business Vision, Strategy and Tactics?
In this lesson, Guy Rigby – chartered accountant, entrepreneur, author, mentor and advisor to dynamic owner-managed businesses – sets out the essentials to building and selling a business.