When Growth Feels Possible But Uncertain
Expanding your business brings different challenges than running one. This service provides ongoing support as you work through what growth means for your situation and how to prepare sensibly.
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Growth Guidance provides six months of support as you navigate business expansion. Rather than pushing a particular growth model or timeline, we help you think through what growth means for your specific circumstances, what preparation would be sensible, and how to move forward at a pace that suits your situation.
What You'll Gain
- ✓ Clarity about whether growth is right for you at this time
- ✓ Understanding of what preparation growth would require
- ✓ Framework for thinking through opportunities and risks
- ✓ Ongoing support as you work through growth decisions
How You'll Feel
- ✓ More confident about growth decisions and timing
- ✓ Less anxious about the challenges expansion brings
- ✓ Supported rather than isolated as you navigate changes
- ✓ Able to pursue growth at your own considered pace
Why Growth Decisions Feel Complex
Many business owners reach a point where growth becomes possible—perhaps demand is increasing, or opportunities are appearing that would require expansion. Yet moving from running a stable business to growing one involves different challenges, and working out whether now is the right time, or how to prepare properly, isn't straightforward.
Growth can mean taking on staff, which changes the nature of the business considerably. It might involve entering new markets or locations, requiring different approaches than your current operations. Perhaps it means investing in systems or premises before you see returns, which carries financial risk. Or maybe it requires developing capabilities you don't currently have, and you're uncertain how to build them sensibly.
The particular challenge of growth: It's one thing to know you want to grow, quite another to work out whether you're ready, what preparation would be sensible, and how to move forward without taking on more risk than is prudent. These aren't simple questions with obvious answers.
Additionally, growth advice tends to be either overly cautious or unrealistically optimistic. What you actually need is someone to help you think through your specific situation—your resources, your market, your appetite for change—and work out an approach that makes sense for your circumstances rather than following someone else's growth story.
How Growth Guidance Works
Our approach centres on helping you think clearly about your specific growth considerations rather than applying generic growth formulas. We work alongside you over six months, providing structure for your thinking and support as you work through the decisions that expansion involves.
Readiness Assessment
We begin by examining whether growth makes sense for you now—looking at your current operations, resources, market position, and personal circumstances.
Opportunity Analysis
We help you evaluate the opportunities you're considering—what they would require, what returns they might offer, and what risks they carry.
Ongoing Support
Through quarterly check-ins, we help you work through challenges as they arise, adjust plans as circumstances change, and maintain clarity amidst growth.
The pace and direction remain entirely in your hands. Our role is to provide perspective, ask useful questions, and support your thinking as you navigate expansion. If you decide growth isn't right for you at this time, that's a perfectly valid conclusion—better reached thoughtfully than discovered through difficulty.
What the Six-Month Programme Involves
Growth Guidance is structured to provide consistent support whilst respecting that you're running a business and can't dedicate excessive time to planning. The programme balances thorough analysis with practical implementation.
Programme Structure
Month One: Assessment and Analysis
We conduct a comprehensive growth readiness assessment, examining your current operations, resources, and market position. We also analyse the specific opportunities you're considering, evaluating their feasibility and potential returns.
Months Two to Six: Quarterly Check-Ins
Every six to eight weeks, we meet to discuss your progress, work through challenges that have emerged, and adjust plans as needed. Between check-ins, you implement at your own pace whilst having access to guidance when needed.
Throughout: Resource Planning Support
We help you think through resource requirements—financial, staffing, systems, premises—and develop realistic plans for securing what growth would need. This happens iteratively as your thinking develops.
Throughout: Risk Consideration
We maintain ongoing discussion about risks—helping you identify them, evaluate their likelihood and impact, and develop approaches to mitigate those you can while accepting those you cannot.
The quarterly structure provides enough regularity to maintain momentum whilst allowing time between sessions for you to implement, reflect, and identify what you need to discuss next. Many participants find this rhythm suits the realities of running a business whilst navigating growth.
Investment and What's Included
Growth Guidance is structured as a six-month programme with a single upfront fee. This provides certainty about costs and ensures ongoing support remains available throughout the period regardless of how frequently you need it.
Six-Month Growth Guidance Programme
Programme Includes:
- • Comprehensive growth readiness assessment examining your current position
- • Detailed market opportunity analysis for growth options you're considering
- • Resource planning discussions covering financial, staffing, and operational needs
- • Risk consideration framework helping you evaluate and manage growth risks
- • Four quarterly check-in calls throughout the six-month period
- • Written summaries after each session documenting conclusions and actions
- • Email support between check-ins for questions or guidance as needed
About payment terms: The fee is payable at programme commencement. If your circumstances change significantly and you need to pause the programme, we can discuss arrangements that work for your situation. We're interested in providing genuine support, not rigid contractual obligations.
What Success Looks Like
The measure of successful Growth Guidance isn't necessarily that you grow rapidly—it's that you make thoughtful decisions about growth and feel supported through the process, whatever direction you ultimately take.
What You'll Achieve
By programme completion, most participants have:
- • Clear understanding of whether and how to pursue growth
- • Realistic assessment of what growth would require from them
- • Framework for thinking through growth decisions independently
- • Either begun implementing growth plans or concluded it wasn't right for them—both valuable outcomes
Expected Timeline
Growth considerations develop across the programme:
- • Month 1-2: Clarity emerges about readiness and opportunities
- • Month 3-4: Plans develop and early implementation begins
- • Month 5-6: Adjustments happen based on early results and learning
- • Beyond: You continue implementing with frameworks developed during the programme
About growth expectations: Not everyone who completes Growth Guidance pursues rapid expansion. Some decide to grow more gradually than initially considered. Others conclude that consolidating current operations makes more sense than expanding. These are all successful outcomes when they result from thoughtful consideration rather than uncertainty or fear.
Our Commitment to You
Committing to a six-month programme requires trust, particularly when growth outcomes are inherently uncertain. We take that seriously and structure our approach to ensure you receive genuine value.
No Pressure Approach
We never push you towards growth that doesn't make sense for your circumstances. If we think you should wait, consolidate, or pursue a different direction, we'll tell you.
Flexible Engagement
If circumstances change and you need to adjust the programme structure, we work with you to find an arrangement that serves your situation rather than insisting on rigid adherence to initial plans.
Value Assurance
If at any point you feel the programme isn't providing value, we discuss what's not working and adjust our approach. If we can't resolve the issue, we refund the remaining programme fee.
How to Begin
If you're considering growth and would value support through the process, starting is straightforward. We begin with a conversation to understand your situation and determine whether this programme would be helpful.
Get in Touch
Send us a message describing your business, what growth you're considering, and what's making the decision feel complex. This helps us understand whether we can genuinely help.
Initial Conversation
We arrange a detailed discussion about your situation. This takes about an hour and helps us both assess whether Growth Guidance would be valuable for your circumstances.
Programme Agreement
If we both believe the programme would help, we arrange the starting date and provide you with programme documentation. Many participants prefer to start within two weeks of initial conversation.
Begin Assessment
We commence with the growth readiness assessment, setting the foundation for the six months of support ahead.
Timing considerations? Growth guidance works best when you're genuinely considering expansion but haven't committed irreversibly to a particular path. If you're already well into implementation, different support might be more suitable. If you're merely curious about growth without serious consideration, it's probably too early.
Ready to Think Through Growth Properly?
If you're considering business expansion and would value ongoing support as you work through what that means, Growth Guidance might provide the structure and perspective you need. The starting point is simply a conversation.
Begin the DiscussionOr telephone us on +44 20 7256 4891
Explore Our Other Services
Perhaps Growth Guidance isn't quite what your situation requires at present. We offer other services that might be more appropriate for where you are now.
Strategic Planning Sessions
When you need dedicated time to think clearly about your business direction, these facilitated sessions provide structure and skilled questioning to help clarify your path forward.
Operational Review
When day-to-day operations feel harder than they should, we examine how your business currently works and identify where improvements would make the most difference.