You’re brilliant at running your business day-to-day, but when did you last step back to examine whether your approach could be fundamentally better? When did you last invest focused time in developing the strategic thinking that separates good businesses from exceptional ones?
Business ownership can be isolating. While we work with hundreds of businesses and see what drives success across diverse industries, individual business owners often operate without exposure to best practices that could transform their operations. This isolation leads to strategic stagnation, missed growth opportunities, and profit leakage that professional insight could prevent.
Ready to break out of business isolation and accelerate your success? Contact UHY Haines Norton today to discuss how our Better Business Workshop Series provides the strategic development that transforms good businesses into great ones.
The three pillars of business excellence
Our Better Business Workshop Series addresses the three fundamental areas where strategic development creates competitive advantage and sustainable growth.
Better Business Strategy Workshop
Understanding Strategy Foundation
What strategy actually means beyond buzzwords and how it differs from operational planning and tactical responses to market conditions.
Strategic Building Blocks
The essential components that create a coherent strategy: market positioning, competitive advantage, resource allocation, and capability development.
Implementation Framework
How to translate strategic thinking into actionable plans that your team can execute effectively, whilst maintaining strategic coherence.
Performance Measurement
How to measure strategic progress rather than just operational metrics, ensuring your business moves toward strategic objectives rather than just achieving activity targets.
Better Business Growth Workshop
Performance Assessment Reality
Understanding how your business performs compared to its potential and identifying gaps between current achievement and realistic possibilities.
Growth Definition and Focus
What growth means specifically for your business context, industry, and resources, rather than generic expansion approaches that may not suit your situation.
Growth Lever Identification
The specific factors that drive growth in your business model, enabling focused effort on activities that generate disproportionate results.
Strategic Growth Planning
Developing growth plans that balance ambition with resources, ensuring sustainable expansion rather than unsupported overextension.
Implementation and Measurement
How to execute growth strategies systematically whilst measuring progress against realistic milestones that indicate sustainable development.
Better Business Process & Profit Improvement Workshop
Profit Driver Analysis
Identifying the specific factors that actually drive profitability in your business, rather than assuming generic cost-cutting or revenue-increasing approaches.
Impact Modelling
Understanding how changes to profit drivers create compound effects throughout your business enabling strategic improvement rather than random efficiency efforts.
Change Management Excellence
How to implement process improvements that stick rather than reverting to previous practices when attention moves elsewhere.
Target Setting and Measurement
Establishing realistic but ambitious targets that motivate improvement whilst providing accurate feedback about progress and results.
Team Engagement and Outcomes
How to involve your team in improvement processes that enhance both business performance and job satisfaction through meaningful participation.
Workshop participation requirements
You must attend these workshops personally—delegating to staff without your participation simply doesn’t work. Our experience demonstrates that meaningful change requires leadership commitment that staff can observe and follow.
Consider bringing one or two key staff members to enhance implementation capability and demonstrate your investment in their development. This combination of leadership participation and team involvement creates the foundation for successful change implementation.
Annual workshop schedule
The series runs annually between February and June, providing focused development during periods when most businesses can invest time in strategic thinking rather than crisis management.
We bring in expert presenters for specialised areas, ensuring you receive the most current thinking and proven methodologies rather than generic business advice.
Transformational business impact
External Insight Integration
Valuable insights from outside your business contribute directly to enhanced management capabilities, providing a perspective that internal analysis cannot generate, regardless of your experience and expertise.
Enhanced Team Engagement
Sharing workshop learnings appropriately increases team engagement levels, whilst bringing senior staff together demonstrates your investment in their development and creates shared commitment to improvement initiatives.
Practical Tool Implementation
Your business benefits immediately from proven tools and tested concepts that have delivered results across diverse business contexts rather than theoretical approaches with uncertain application.
Beyond individual business improvement
These workshops create peer learning opportunities with other business owners facing similar challenges whilst pursuing different solutions. This cross-pollination of ideas often generates insights that individual consultation cannot provide.
The combination of professional expertise, practical tools, and peer interaction creates comprehensive development that addresses both specific business needs and broader leadership capabilities.
Contact UHY Haines Norton to arrange a discussion about how our Better Business Workshop Series can provide the strategic development foundation for accelerated business success.
