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Successful SMEs require a finance and risk capability

Liam Wall

Jan 11
4 min

Successful SMEs require a finance and risk capability

There are two skill sets that are essential at the top of any organisation; the risk taker and the risk manager.

10 Myths in running a successful business

Liam Wall

Nov 12, 2020
7 min

10 Myths in running a successful business

10 practices that could hold back the potential of your business, if they're not eradicated as quickly as possible.

Liam Wall

Oct 14, 2020
4 min

Financing beyond day to day survival

An understanding of how to finance your business is as important as selling your product or service. Here are 4 financing success factors.

How to significantly increase your chances of getting finance

Liam Wall

Sep 15, 2020
4 min

How to significantly increase your chances of getting finance

Gaining finance is one of the biggest challenges facing SME business owners. Here are 5 steps to make a compelling case for your finance.

Liam Wall

Aug 4, 2020
7 min

How to innovate to survive

Are you an innovative leader? Discover 6 innovative leadership techniques to create a truly innovative business and create business success.

Liam Wall

Jul 2, 2020
5 min

8 steps to create an effective team

Even the best plan will be consigned to the scrap heap if you do not have an effective team that can deliver the plan for you.

Create an effective Business Plan in 1 hour

Liam Wall

Jun 2, 2020
5 min

Create an effective Business Plan in 1 hour

As we emerge from lockdown revisit your business plan to move with the new times and capitalise on the opportunities that change brings.

Governance for Small & Medium Sized Businesses

Liam Wall

May 5, 2020
5 min

Governance for Small & Medium Sized Businesses

Good governance is one of the most important skills the management team can master if the business is to remain innovative and sustainable.

Board Directors should do nothing at all!

Liam Wall

Apr 27, 2020
2 min

Board Directors should do nothing at all!

Directors should never be engaged in actually delivering the 'widget' and Board time should not be taken up with operational delivery issues

Liam Wall

Mar 19, 2020
1 min

Business Leaders don’t work - they lead

If you are hands-on running your business, we respectfully put it to you that you are headed in the wrong direction

Are you a Business Leader or your own Employee?

Liam Wall

Feb 18, 2020
1 min

Are you a Business Leader or your own Employee?

Are you wearing so many business hats that you're more like an employee than a leader driving the vision for the business?

Liam Wall

Jan 27, 2020
2 min

Learning from your competitors

Your competitors could provide the answers to the challenges your business faces.

Liam Wall

Dec 6, 2019
2 min

Unlimited funding available

Here's an interesting alternative to high street banks or other lenders, which offers almost unlimited amount of funding available.

Is your organisation like a person or a machine?

Liam Wall

Nov 7, 2019
2 min

Is your organisation like a person or a machine?

Building scale requires a company to work like a machine and not rely on leaders to be continually making operational decisions.

Think Big – Aiming for the Moon or Mars?

Liam Wall

Oct 3, 2019
2 min

Think Big – Aiming for the Moon or Mars?

Thinking big helps to concentrate on what is important in the medium term rather than be distracted by today's seemingly important crisis.

Liam Wall

Sep 19, 2019
2 min

Stick to your Ticket Harry!

When you know why organisations deviate from their business plans, you can avoid making the same mistakes.

Liam Wall

Aug 22, 2019
2 min

Are we at Tetbury Hill yet?

If your management team was asked where your plan will get the business they'll probably have differing answers only partially aligned.

The greatest asset of an entrepreneurial business is flexibility and agility. Right? Well......

Liam Wall

Apr 9, 2019
1 min

The greatest asset of an entrepreneurial business is flexibility and agility. Right? Well......

Entrepreneurs in growing businesses have a greater ability to flex their operation to market needs than a super tanker sized conglomerate....

Liam Wall

Apr 9, 2019
1 min

A new iPhone would be very cool!

As Board members with responsibilities for Finance & Risk one questions we are often asked by the organisation is “Can we...

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