News & Views

The latest information regarding Steer Your Business activities as well as small business articles of interest.

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The Importance and Benefits of Resilient Leader Behaviours

russell@theresiliencecoach.co.uk   As a reminder, my definition of Resilience is “Springing Forward with Learning”.  To achieve this, we need to pause, re-energise and reflect. When Leaders are role modeling being a Resilient Leader, then some of their reflections will be about their behaviours.  Please remember that behaviours are observable actions… what we (or others) actually do […]

Lucy Kebbell

It’s never too early to think about sustainability in your business 

What is sustainability?  You will probably have heard the word used a lot, but what does it mean? Sustainability is defined as to maintain or support a process over time. However,  in 1987, the UN re-defined sustainability as “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own […]

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Selling to private equity 

Many people perceive a sale to PE, as a ruthless affair. However, selling out to private equity groups doesn’t have to mean a predatory transaction.  These sales may range from a minority buy-in to a majority buy-out, where the owner retains either a minority or majority stake. Or a complete transfer of ownership, maybe with […]

Chris Falby

The Death Valley Curve.

We’re going to open with the obvious: managing cash flow is a vital part of running a business, especially for start-up businesses. “The Death Valley Curve” is the period where an abundance of new businesses fail, typically, this occurs within the first 5 years of opening. It portrays the drop in finances where outgoings are […]

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Debt Collection, Debt Recovery, Debt Management, Credit Control or Collector Do You Know the Difference Between Them?

As a Credit Management and Debt Recovery specialist I often get asked if I do Debt Management or people think I do Debt Management and whilst I can help signpost you to the right place as an individual to get advice from the right people, I don’t do Debt Management. I can help businesses better […]

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Are You Using AI In Your Business?

I don’t know about you, but I’ve sort of ignored AI up until now but when I started to look at automation and productivity tools for business, AI sort of crept onto my radar whether I liked it or not. Automating a business by using productivity tools saves time and therefore money which is always […]