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Clients say:

"I found working with Charles Kingsmill invaluable. He has an uncanny ability to understand your issues and persuade you to ask yourself just the right questions.”

John Kearon
CEO of Brainjuicer and Entrepreneur of the Year

Are you searching for a more convincing way to grow your business?

Growing a business isn’t easy, for many reasons: The whole market may be static or declining. Your existing competitors may be leaner than ever before, or new niche businesses may be nimbler. Your customers may be changing in front of you - faster than you can react. Innovation may be expensive, or time-consuming, or highly risky - or all three.

Planning itself is frustrating. Meetings go round in circles. Colleagues trot out their hobby horses. People wrestle with the difference between visions and missions, objectives and goals. Any formal planning process becomes an end in itself, draining energy and creativity from the organisation.

Even if you have a plan you’re happy with, profitable growth is not a given. Implementation is tough - people can be too overwhelmed with day-to-day matters to put their energy behind the “strategy”.

...And of course, your competitors don’t just lie down and give in. So you miss your growth targets, the marketplace gets tougher, the plan becomes remote and irrelevant, and disillusionment begins to set in. No wonder so few businesses generate consistent profitable growth...

I help teams to create and implement really compelling growth plans.

Just imagine having a business plan where:

• The purpose of the business is clear and convincing
• You know exactly which competitors you’ll take share from - and how
• The building blocks of future growth are real and robust
• Everyone across the business ‘gets’ the plan and knows how to contribute
• You can track both implementation and results constantly

If this were true in your business, how would this affect your top and bottom lines? And how much more would your people give?

Add bite to your business plans, and turn up the heat on your competitors

You don’t need hordes of consultants doing man-years of analysis. With a small band of enthusiastic people from around your business, you can bring about a dramatic difference.

Whatever business you’re in, missing your growth targets leads to a gulf between the organisation and its people. If you want things to be different, have a look through this website to find out more, and contact me to learn more about Strategy Action Teams or Competitor Wargames.

First, click on Is This For You? to find out more about whether my services are right for your company.