Growth accelerator with Clive Bonny SMP

Business Focus – Ambition, Opportunity, Capability

• High Growth Businesses capable of 20%+ annual growth

• Result orientated – increased turnover, profit & employees

• Not limited to specific target sectors or post code

• Focused on Coaching, Development and Building Growth communities

• Aimed at SMEs with the potential, desire & capability to grow

Goal = £2bn Growth & 70,000 Jobs

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Eligibility Criteria

Can you answer yes to all these questions?

• Registered and trading?

• Based in England?

• Fewer than 250 staff?

• Turnover less than approximately £40m?

Business Development Coaching (BDC)

Access to Finance (A2F)

Help to Innovate (H2I)

The capacity and ambition to grow but need to find sources of finance to make it

happen.

Equity/debt/mix

Develop and commercialise

innovation; Create and build a culture of innovation

Create and develop a high growth game

plan;

Implementation

BDC: integrated service delivery

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Delivery Value

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Access to Finance

• Focused bespoke support through the finance raising process

• Access to additional resource in the form of a professional experienced specialist finance coach

• Assistance with funding options including debt and/or equity funding products and providers

• Introductions to appropriate funders

• Access to GrowthAccelerator's Investor Relations team

• Complimented by a series of up to 4 full day Finance specific Master Classes - Understanding Finance, Preparing for finance, Closing the deal: legals & valuation, Post Financing, expansion and exit

Micro and start-up businesses - £600(up to 4 employees)

Small businesses - £1,500(5 to 49 employees)

Medium-sized companies - £3,000(50 to 249 employees)

Leadership & Management Training – Match Funding

• Training for business leaders to improve skills knowledge and expertise

• Up to £2k per individual business manager/leader

• No limit on the number of individuals per business

• Match funding – business contribute 50% towards the costs

• Company can select the training provider

• Statutory training not eligible – leadership & management development

• Funding only accessible as a Growth Accelerator client

The Customer Journey

Eligibility and suitability assessment by a Growth Manager

Leadership team invited to complete GROWTHmapper®

Growth Manager meets with Directors to assess and identify priorities to help achieve growth

Scope of Support agreed and used to identify the most suitable coach and also identify Leadership & Management training needs

Proposals signed, coach introduced, work commences

Relationship retained by the Growth Manager

• 10 business growth themes

• 10 questions on each

• 15 minutes to complete

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An INSIGHT report that gets under the skin of the business and illuminates the coaching process

GrowthMapper

GrowthMapper – Report example

The Experts

• Experienced knowledgeable professionals - proven

• Many on Boards as Non-Executive Directors

• Blended skills – mix of consultancy, mentoring, coaching

• Flexing knowledge transfer, insight, challenge, direction, coaching

• Proactive

• Well networked

• Broad base of industry/sector experience

Client Benefits

• An impartial diagnosis of the business

• Additional resource supporting the management team/directors

• A driver to keep directors "on track" through the growth phase

• A coach can work alongside existing professional advisors.

• Access to knowledge and peer learning through Master Classes and workshops

• Help to increase the chance of successfully raising finance

• Support to become more innovative and competitive

• Up-skilled management team through the process

• Access to Leadership and Management grant funding

Scope Of Support

Work Package 1: Business Strategy and Planning (40%)

• Use the Orbit tool and the Single-Page Plan to develop the company's Growth Plan for the next 1-3-5 years including: vision, strategy, positioning, clear differentiation, key areas, and priorities.

• Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), milestones that can drive actions across the business.

• Financial and operations management in place to support this growth

Work Package 2: Sales & Marketing Strategy and Action Plan (30%)

• Outline marketing strategy and action plan, options, approach, timelines , value propositions

• Sales Plan in place to clearly define where and how the revenue will be generated and how to integrate to achieve a proactive sales culture with good practical implementation tools.

Work Package 3: Resources Management and Development (30%)• Developing a clear strategy for maximising the resources the company has, processes and

identifying skills required and a training plan, including people management and L&M training for the Directors.

Clive Bonny

Tel: uk 44 1273 308865

Email: clive@consult-smp.com