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Working with businesses on the MidCoast of NSW, I bring a breadth of experience across many industries and challenges and partner with them to bring clarity to their work, enable confidence for future decisions and provide clear steps forward.

Many business owners are aware of what they want to do or the areas they want to address but they can lack the time, energy or focus to do so. Sometimes they just need that extra 10% from outside to help get them over the line.

SERVICES

Strategic Annual Planning
Strategic Projects
- Problem Solving
- Opportunity Maximisation
- Team Direction and Alignment
- Digital Transformation
Ongoing Strategic Partnership

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Strategists Enable you

To Bring in a third party who:

draws into your business a diversity of experience
provides an unbiased set of eyes on the business
enables fresh thinking to challenge assumptions
provides a resource solely focused on this project

To explore:

the vision and mission of your business
the growth strategy of the business
the culture of your business
how to refresh yourself and the team
how the business manages digital systems
what is needed to ensure each of your teams are firing
what the key areas are that need your focus
and much more ...

Summary of Services

The way I work is generally project based and specific to an outcome you need. I bring a customised and engaged approach, ensuring this suits you and your business at a point in time to deliver the best outcome for you.

Annual Planning

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Working with you to:

identify two to three key goals for the year;
design a plan for ensuring progress on the ideas; and
outline how we will measure success

Problem Solving

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Every business has challenges, the key is ensuring time doesn’t slip too long before they are addressed. Sometimes due to time and energy to address the challenge or due to the nature of the problem it can be helpful to bring in outside support.

The methodology here is to work with you:

to identify the ingredients and dig into the challenge at hand to ensure we have all the key aspects on the table and clearly articulated
to then facilitate discussions and workshops to drive towards clarity on agreed priorities and decisions that need to be made
design an actionable plan based on the decisions made to measure success

Digital Transformation

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Realising you need new digital technology is one thing, actually getting the right tools in place and being used is another.

Most people agonise over the tool they chose but in reality the internal management of expectations, budgets and user adoption is far more important. No tool will be a perfect fit, they all have limitations.

The work we do with clients is to help them:

clearly understand what problem the digital technology will solve, how it will solve the challenge and what the return on investment will be
ensure this is clearly articulated and owned internally, especially by the teams who will be expected to use any new technology
build a strategy for ensuring the future users of the technology are brought along for the digital transformation ride

Summary of Services

Whether you are starting out or have been in business for some time it immensely valuable to have a plan and to be strategic about it.

Working out your priorities, understanding what is possible, measuring the risk and truly understanding where you and your business are at are key for a good strategy.

You might be a small business that just needs a 3 month tick list to ensure progress on key elements or you may be an established business that will benefit from an annual planning cycle of review and action plans or you may be a growing business that needs to have a longer horizon viewpoint so that plans made now can benefit the businesses positioning for years into the future.

The methodology then involves a few key steps that scale according to the nature of the strategy

Methodology:

Business Foundation - Who are we as a business and where are we headed?

Business Review - What is the current status of the Business?

Idea Generation - What could be next?

Prioritisation - What should we do?

Actions - Develop and test the details of prioritised ideas

Strategy Articulation - put this together into a coherent, actionable and agreed plan

Every business has challenges and opportunities the key is ensuring time doesn’t pass by too quickly before you address them. It may be that you are time poor, overwhelmed or the nature of the problem is such that it can be helpful to bring in outside support.

Whether it is digital transformation, working on team dynamics, maximising and upcoming opportunity or dealing with a problem the foundational steps are the same.

Methodology:

Understand the Current Scenario

Identify the ingredients; the people, problems, opportunities, goals, desires, concerns and dig into them to ensure we have all the key aspects on the table and they are clearly articulated

Strategise

How the ingredients come together to create something new is key and identifying what ingredients are missing will open the ideas. It is this creative work that we do together that is the hardest and most rewarding.

Action Plans

Many strategies fall down because they do not design actionable plans based on the decisions made. They are a must in the process as it enables the strategies to tested early and to build clear measures of success.

An Ongoing Partnership can include both Strategic Planning and Strategic Projects as needed.

Either way it is designed to support you once you have a plan or a project that you are working on.

Methodology:

Accountability

Once plans are in place or actions agreed to it can be helpful to have someone outside the business holding you accountable to the agreed plan. Being able to ask the awkward questions, monitor progress and brainstorm changes.

Review

With clear strategic direction it can be helpful to have business progress, documents and activities reviewed in the light of the light direction agreed.

This review will provide you with recommendations and observations.

Project Support

This partnership can also provide hands on delivery on project components:

to add extra energy into projects at key moments to ensure the work is on track and completed to the level desired
to increase the pace of a project to make sure deadlines are hit or opportunities are not missed
to provide support to keep momentum so that you can stay focused in other areas.

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Annual Planning

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Problem Solving

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Digital Transformation

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