We received a lovely email recently from a small business owner who has read our book, The Scale Model, and used the framework to address some issues in their agency. They only started following the model in January this year but it’s already having an impact – the new approach is helping them to grow and has even led to them winning new business!
‘The Scale Model Checklist’ (SMC) allows a team to rapidly diagnose where the key bottleneck in their business is and, through The Scale Model book, link them to the exercise or tool they need to fix it.
Courage and Belief in Vision:
Confidence and Willpower
Self-Doubt and Experience
Fear and Complexity
Commitment to Rhythm and Kaizen
Patience and Persistence
If you want to take your coaching to the next level, then this article is for you. Coaching is a valuable skill that you will develop and refine with experience. My personal journey began with coaching people in prison, guiding
“Your meetings should be passionate, intense, exhausting, and never boring.” – Patrick Lencioni Below is a format and agenda that works. We suggest you ‘Hit refresh’, stop what you’re currently doing, and simply adopt this format. Agenda
Let’s talk about scale Not many business reach ‘scale’, however you define it. UK Government statistics show the range of company sizes in 2019: 5.9 million (total number of UK businesses in 2019) Even if you exclude sole traders from
Summary Growing the value of a business has the twin benefits of creating a business that allows you to sleep better at night, and increase the chance that the business will outlive you. This requires focus beyond just growth,
Once in a while an image comes along that blows my mind, that visually represents an idea or concepts and inspires as to what could be possible. In this case, the image fits into a story unfolding at one
I was recently with a Member company, and they were debating whether or not they should set a target for staff recruitment over the upcoming year. They wanted to grow as a business, and associated this with an increase in
I was with one of our Members teams recently, who were having an intense debate about strategy, but it was getting confused between descriptions of strategy and customer-facing taglines. I often hear such cross-purpose talk within member teams, so thought
Jim Collins, in his famous and recently-updated book ‘Beyond Entrepreneurship’, introduces a compelling model for what’s required to grow a business: A high-level, emotive Vision that will inspire the team. Clear Strategies, to map out a path to that Vision, and a competitive
The negative network effect It is an unavoidable law of growing organisations that linear growth of people leads to quadratic growth in complexity (‘quadratic’ means growing in line with the square of, it’s not exponential, but is considerably higher than
The Problem In 2019, Hubspot ran a survey to understand how and whether companies collect customer feedback. It’s noticeable that 42% of companies don’t track customer feedback at all. This corresponds with the data we’ve found at Scale Coach. We regularly run
If you run a privately held Small to Medium Enterprise (P-SME), you’ll know what a tough but rewarding experience it is. It affords you the opportunity to achieve 2 things in life: Change the world in your own special way
Building a complete remote working platform for your business using Scale and monday.com – as COVID19 accelerates a shift to remote working that technology had already started, ensuring your business is ready for the shift will ensure it’s success.
IT’S TIME TO START PLANNING AGAIN You’ve likely gotten through your initial response to COVID-19 – the team are working from home or furloughed, and you’ve worked out necessary cost-cutting measures. So now you need to figure out: where to
The sweetspot mindset – how to ensure you achieve your goals this year Join us at our next Sweetspot workshop (Sweetshop) where we will be going through the Sweetspot exercise to kick start your journey to living in your Sweetspot
One learning from running to all the NHS hospitals in my area My company is donating 1% of all revenues to NHS Charities Together from Jan – Jun 2021. Our staff and customers are all enthused to see this little
How to grow a furniture business in the new normal TIME OF CHANGE The global crisis has been disruptive for the furniture industry. Some businesses have had to scale up fast, driven by large spikes in demand –
Why you’re not achieving your News Year’s Resolutions each year Did you know – only 8% of everyone who creates a goal, or sets a new year’s resolution, will ever achieve it. Do you know why? TIME – it’s the
I’ve worked with, and listened to, a lot of business leaders over the past few months, since the coronavirus crisis started. One thing I’ve seen most of us have in common at the moment is the uncomfortable fact that none
Why it sucks to be coached A CEO I work with asked me the other day ‘how is [another CEO I work with] getting on?’ The uncomfortable answer was that I am no longer working with him. Why? Because it
We recently ran a research programme, to understand what the ‘new normal’ means for high-growth companies. We interviewed a dozen mid-sized company CEO’s asking them about how COVID-19 had impacted their businesses and markets. The most interesting insights were regarding
For some companies, COVID-19 means a sudden ramp up in demand and scale of operations. We have been working with several companies recently who have had to respond rapidly due to increased demand, driven by the pandemic. For example, The
Business owners around the world are asking themselves right now – ‘How should I respond to COVID-19?’ I spent 15 years in China, and have followed events very closely, to analyse and learn from winning strategies there. China was the
If you want to see what will happen next with Coronavirus, look East. China was the first country hit by the epidemic, and so have already experienced the stages of what happens as it plays out. I lived in China
I’m a 42 year-old with autism, and have been a reasonably successful entrepreneur for over 10 years now, growing and selling one multi-million £ business, and in the process of growing another. Things were going well for me, until coronavirus
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