The Business Owner’s Toolkit

Time Management – 3 tools

There are four key skills involved in time managment, or maybe more precisely self-management:

• analysis – how do you currently spend your time?
• planning – how should you be spending your time and what should you delegate?
• delegation – ensuring others can take on some of your activities and complete them just as well as you can
• self-discipline – ensuring you do today what you should do as dictated by quarterly and weekly plans

The three tools include a time audit, a skills matrix to identify opportunities to delegate, and a default diary.

Design your default diary to ensure you include IMPORTANT and URGENT activities at the right levels and your functional responsibilities are appropriately balanced across your role, including marketing, sales, operations, finance and team management.

Money Management – Cashflow Forecasting tool

Cashflow problems are the biggest killers in business.

It’s an old and commonly known phrase, for good reason – sales are vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king.

Download this simple tool to capture cashflow in and out. The tool automatically calculates exactly what is going to be in your bank account over the next three months.

How ready are you to exit your business? Introducing the PREScore questionnaire

Most owners fail to consider the practical and emotional factors that can lead to disappointment after an exit. The questions that make up the PREScore are designed to help you evaluate your preparedness to exit your business and ensure you leave your company with no regrets.

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Complete the questionnaire at the link here

Once you complete your questionnaire, Ceri will be in touch with the report and Exit Checklist

How much is your business worth?

Introducing the Value Builder Assessment tool

The Value Builder System is a statistically proven method for increasing the value of your business.

For your company to be valuable, even sellable one day, there’s a lot more to consider than just the bottom line.

• Will customers continue buying from you?
• Are you too dependant on a key team member or a key customer?
• Could your company survive if you were away for a week?

Whether you intent to keep growing your business, sell it or pass it onto others, it’s important to understand what drives up or undermines your companies value. That’s where the value builder score comes in. It’s a system designed to show you how business is really going and can identify areas which can be silently dragging down your companies value. The algorithm is formulated using quantitative research gathered from successful business owners and the mergers and acquisitions professionals which represent them.

Take 13 minutes to fill out the Value Builder Score questionnaire, you will instantly receive your score out of 100.

Once completed, we will create a custom report detailing your score. This is based on the 8 factors that drive the value of your company, along with some suggestions for improving your score.

Then, we will set up a 1 on 1 consultation with you to discuss the steps needed to increase your companies value. It’s confidential, designed to help businesses of all kinds and at all stages. We discovered that those with a Value Builder score of over 80 received offers over 71% higher than the average business. Working alongside an Ceri as your certified Value Builder adviser and using the Value Builder methodology we will help you improve the value of your business, whether that is to take it to a sale, or just to know that you can.

So, fill out the value builder score questionnaire now and find out how your business is performing!