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• How to Increase Revenue
  Link here to work out what area/s of your business require improvement to increase the Revenue: Sales and Marketing; saving costs; best pricing strategy; product range; customer retention; distribution systems; sales territory; growth – acquisition and innovation; industry-wide disruption; local competition.
• Productivity & Operating Costs
  Choose from the links below: manage Inventory; speed up production; optimise financials; reduce waste; motivate and increase productivity; operate efficiently and watch your Profits soar.
  • How to Improve Inventory Management Efficiency
    Be more Profitable with better Inventory management – increase Revenue and lower Costs.
  • Making Production More Efficient
    Link here for: Waste reduction (Muda); 80/20 Rule; Theory of Constraints; Productivity & Motivation; simulation dice games.
  • Gross Profit Margin Ratio Analysis
    Get the best out of your business with financial analysis: Gross Margin Analysis; Overhead Margin Analysis; Business benchmark resources; sample TrendBoard; labour efficiency; generation of ideas.
  • Reduce the 8 Types of Waste
    Learn about the different types of waste and how to reduce them. Applies to service industries, manufacturing and retail.
  • Staff Motivation and Productivity
    Link here for: Staff bonus plans; change management; Peter Principle; Parkinson’s Law
  • Monitoring Operational Efficiency
    Manage your business finances and performance.
  • Focus on the Most Important Issues
    Rapidly improve your business, prioritise the tasks that will have the greatest impact.
• Key Statistics to Optimise and Manage Overhead Costs
  Understand and use the Overheads Efficiency Ratio; monitor key statistics with TrendBoard; reduce and optimise your Overhead Costs.
• D4: Business Systems
  Increase efficiency of your business and reduce the amount of work.
  A great system can dramatically reduce mistakes.
• D5: Manage Staff & Other People
  • Human Resources:
    Your business sinks or swims depending on your staff and your management and leadership of them.
    Covers hiring, firing, remunerations, incentives, motivating and leading.
• D6: Manage Business Finances
  Managing the Cashflow, and other financial aspects, of your business is mission critical.
  • Money Management:
    Improve your cashflow and liquidity via these simple methods.
    Covers cashflow, having cash for bills when needed, accounting and budgeting

• D7: Problem Solving Decision Making Tools & Skills
  Problem solve and make decisions easily with these tools and skills
  • Planning
    What future do you see for your business.
    How do you start off in the right direction?
    Covers goal setting, budgets, feasibility studies, legal structures.
  • Problem Solving:
    It can be difficult to find the root cause of problems that pop up in your business.
    These well-tested tools will help make sense of what is causing problems.
  • Brainstorming Techniques:
    If you want more ideas, use the techniques here to generate literally a million ideas in under an hour.
    Discover other ways to get your idea-engine restarted.
  • Decision Making Solutions:
    On the other hand, if you have too many possibilities, visit here to find how to separate the wheat from the chaff.

• D8: Business Life, Time & Stress
  Learn the skills to increase your productivity giving you the time to spend with family and friends.
  • Never enough Time to Get Everything Done:
    Find out how to be 16 times more productive in the same amount of time.
    A host of other ways to make better use of your time.
    Covers time management, multitasking, focus on the vital few, outsourcing.

• D9: Business Planning & Execution
  Take control of the design and implementation of the planning process for your business.
  • D9.1: Business Plans – Creation:
    Design a complete plan for the future of your business.
  • D9.2: Execute a Business Plan:
    Once designed it is imperative that you understand how to implement the Plan.
    Guide your staff on the effective execution of the Plan.
  • D9.3: Businesses Lifecycle and Industry Type:
    Understand where your business fits into its lifecycle.
• D10: Performance Analytics
  • How to Monitor Business Health:
    Powerful indicators of your businesses health to alert you to unexpected downturns.

• D11: Business Workflow
  All businesses have a workflow, not just manufacturers of products.
  The efficiency of the workflow is a major determinant of the success of your business.

• D12: Leadership Skills
  As a business leader you may be technically skilled but not experienced with leading your staff.

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