How to run a thriving business: your pillars for successful growth.
Running a thriving business doesn't happen by chance: the most successful companies have a clear view of where they're going and exactly what systems and steps are required to get there.
If you're planning to start a business, or if you've been running yours for a while and are unsure how to move forward, you're in the right place.
Read on to discover how to get started on creating your own growth pillars to help you grow your business with confidence and focus.
You've set up a business: what's next?
Many founders and leaders face the same challenges cropping up time and again - do any of these sound familiar?
● You've experienced some growth but it's created new challenges.
● You struggle attracting and retaining the best people (and face the fallout of hiring the wrong people).
● You worry about a dip in performance, customer service and profit, as you grow.
● You can't adapt quickly enough to changing markets.
What if there was a way to grow your business without compromising on your values and enjoyment of running it? How would you like to achieve your business goals whilst feeling positive, inspired and confident in the process? What if you could start this off for yourself?
Well, we’ve created something to help you do just that.
Introducing The Business Growth Scorecard, designed to help business entrepreneurs and leaders on their path to sustainable growth.
Our experience suggests that the reason many leaders struggle to grow their business is because they don’t have a business-wide infrastructure in place that’s cohesive and values-based.
The Business Growth Scorecard is the first step to minimising your growth challenges as a business owner.
Designed and tested with business owners over 20 years, it focuses on what’s in place and what’s missing, giving you a headstart on creating the right foundations for your business, from the inside out.
What are the key pillars of success for a business?
There are many factors to growing businesses successfully.
When leaders approach us for support, the most common problem we see is that they're solving problems at face value, rather than the root cause.
For example, they’ll invest in sales training for their teams, when the underlying issue is often a lack of clarity over fundamental expectations across their customer experience.
So, training fails to address the real issue, which continues to impact their success.
At Absolutely Business, we take a completely different approach: rather than attempting to cover everything at once, or only addressing the surface-level issues, we break it down into three tried and tested pillars that have the greatest impact on your growth:
1. Vision & values.
2. Customer experience & standards.
3. Talent & culture.
By answering questions on these growth pillars of your business, we give you a personalised business growth scorecard which highlights your high, medium and low strengths in each pillar.
It also highlights top-line insights and actionable suggestions that you can implement straight away.
This gives you a fantastic starting point to begin building a sustainable and successful business.
And the best part? It’s absolutely free of charge – our gift to you.
Let’s delve into why those pillars matter - and why this approach is so powerful - in more detail.
Vision & values.
A clear, shared purpose empowers everyone to work towards a common, meaningful goal.
You may have a list of values and a broad vision, but digging deep into these concepts and translating them into a practical, strategic business plan to inspire everyone to unite to achieve the growth you want is a different story altogether.
Customer experience & standards.
This is all about your promise to customers relating to service levels and quality, and it should align with your values.
By setting the bar and ensuring every member of your team knows what good looks like, and what's expected of them, they are inspired to meet - and even exceed - targets at each stage of the customer journey.
Talent & culture.
Company culture plays a huge part in your employer brand - how you're perceived internally and externally - and impacts your success as a business.
To attract and retain the best talent, a positive and authentic culture is paramount.
Getting the right foundations in place - in a positive way - prevents common issues from recurring, so that you avoid lengthy distractions and focus on your goals.
Take 10 minutes out of your day to get started on your path to business success.
I'm Denise Walker, founder of Absolutely Business. After a successful career as founder and leader in recruitment and business growth sectors, I'm now on a mission to make it easier for SME (small-medium enterprise) leaders to grow better businesses.
I’ve designed the Business Growth Scorecard to bottle my decades of experience so you can embark on your own journey to run your business more effectively and grow it.
It’s a starter version of my 3 Growth Pillars model that grew out of the success of my consultancy services for ambitious entrepreneurs and leaders.
The Scorecard is my initial taster and a gift to you. Try it today – for free - and receive your personalised Growth Scorecard, with actionable steps that you can implement immediately.
It will be the most effective ten minutes you spend on (rather than in!) your business this week – that’s a promise.
Take the Business Growth Scorecard now and please do drop me a message to let me know how it worked for you – you can contact me directly right here.