Welcome to Advance Programmes!
A unique, solutions-based fractional support system to help get your business in shape to allow you do your day job.
It's so easy to get bogged down in the day-to-day functions and not see the blockages that can hold us back from running our businesses efficiently resulting in less profit. This is where we come in - to make it easier. With 30 years' commercial experience, we're helping companies with our solutions focused approach, to make simple tweaks in strategy to take big strides forward equalling more happiness and profit. We do this by doing the heavy lifting of crucial tasks that might otherwise not be done.
• Unlock your organisation’s potential with having the right people in the right jobs.
• Driving you to help make decisions that will drive the business forward
• Adding extra support in terms of ‘another pair of eyes and ears’, a sounding board and any admin or operational support such as organising events, steering Management etc
Here we take a look at the way you are doing things and suggest, where necessary, more efficient ways of operating, that are easy to adopt, through the use of technology or resource that frees you up to be more efficient.
We sit around a table with you to assess what you’re currently doing and give you guidance to progress by focusing on reviewing:
• Your target market
• Your network
• Social media – individual and company branding, website, increase following and lead gen
• Open days / hackathons / afternoons
• Your website
• Your employees
• Linkedin tips
• How to get seen on Linkedin and get leads
• Individual and company branding, website, increase following and lead gen
Mindset is everything. We show you how to see the possibilities not limitations -
guiding you through our simple yet poignant, 10 question strategy questionnaire that will challenge you to think deeper about the success of your business, encouraging you to make big strides forward. Pennies drop and lightbulbs light up during these sessions that enable you to see a real path to meet if not exceed your goals. This sometimes includes personal goals that have been hidden and may become unearthed.
We encourage regular monthly strategy sessions to keep you on track. These are done online. We offer complete flexibility an open channel of communication when you have questions or need help.
Not only help in hiring the right people, in budget and to your timescales, but more importantly, retaining the valuable employees that you have through:
• Evaluating and adapting your secondary benefits
• Regular salary benchmarking
• Keeping up to date with market trends for hiring/firing/growth/decline
• Retention ideas – employees engagement, motivation checks, culture
How Advance Programmes will help you
You will have more time
We get to understand your business quickly so we can do the heavy lifting on tasks that are bogging you down.
Discover the clarity needed to progress
With a solutions focus, we discover what's holding you back? How do we move forward?
Maximize your productivity in minimal time
Focus on what you excel at and enjoy
"Shelli quickly helped us work out where our strengths were as two business owner who were doing the same tasks, some of which we didn't like. We quickly realised how much we could achieve by being more structured and what else we needed in the business to grow. We had a couple more sessions with Shelli and then we carried on with the new structure ourselves, with a stronger, more positive mindset and more customers!" - Co-owner, Mortgage company, Hertfordshire
The Advance 'bundles' are available individually or you can combine them depending on your needs.
Bronze: Kick-start programme
1 bundle from the above 5
1-3 hours per month of our time focused on a bundle of your choice
Silver: Kick start and Maintain
2-3 bundles from the 5
4-6 hours per month of of our time focused on a bundles of your choice that you need support with.
Gold: Kick start and Grow
Need support in all of most of these areas? This is where we come in and take over these tasks so you can fully focus on your day job.
All of the bundles (apart from actively hiring for you as this is bespoke)
This could be 8-10 hours per month that we would do for you.
We offer a great deal of flexibility so talking through options is the best way of finding the package that works best for you.
POSSIBILITIES NOT LIMITATIONS
.Q.. Who is your typical customer?
A. Independent companies who are overloaded or want to, and have the power to change things who may not have internal infrastructure to support their growth.
Q. How much time will I need to invest myself?
A. Ideally no more than 15-30 minutes a week to keep on top of developments.
Q. How does it work?
A. We can operate an employee, such as be added to slack, WhatsApp for quick, efficient communication, as well as scheduling a regular, short catch up at your convenience.
Q. What are the solutions on offer?
A. See our bundles page for the specific options.
We can offer short term solutions, mid term or longer term where more support is needed.
Q. Where do we start?
A.. We start off with a discovery call to see where you most need support, and what kind, as well as your budget.
Q. What results can I/ we expect to see and how quickly?
A. Just by taking time out of their day to review this, customers are able to see possibilities. They also experience:
Curious to hear how we can help you think ahead and advance your business?
Contact us. We're only happy to help.
CASE STUDIES
Don't just take our word for it. Here is how we've helped our customers to advance...
IoT Product company, The Randstad
The Problem: The company was losing employees and needed to hire new ones
Our solution: Together with the CEO, advised and re-wrote their secondary benefits offering, to be more attractive thus retaining employees and attracting great candidates. We also put a payment plan in place so they could effectively hire.
IoT solutions company, The Randstad
The problem: The company was 2 employees (technical) who had never experienced recruitment before. They were getting busier and were finding that they were losing revenue as they had to turn work away.
Our solution: We wrote a job spec from minimal information, checked budget for salary and recruitment fee
Guided them on salary and secondary benefits offerings
Hired someone directly from our network
Data and Analytics company, The Randstad
The problem: They were doing amazing things as a business but not being seen on Linkedin. They were also unsure of which strategy was best for growth so we went through the strategy document together and they took their own actions.
Our solution: Engaged on a couple of relevant Linkedin posts that resulted in 25 % more followers
Strategy coaching to help them advance their mindsets thus winning more business
DevOps consultancy – The Randstad
The problem: They were not able to attract any good candidates from the job profile they had.
Our solution: We analyzed the job spec, had a conversation with one of the developers to fully understand the impact the role makes, and completely re-wrote the job spec to attract the right candidates quicker.
We also advised on the salary and secondary benefits to align with the market.
The problem: One co-owner was overloaded and couldn't work out why.
Our solution: We held a strategy session with him. After 10 minutes, he worked out that he didn’t like the account management side, so he asked me to find an account manager.
He asked me to write the job spec, publish and hire the right person. After another 30 minute teams call, we had a full job spec and 3 candidates earmarked.
Cloud consultancy – The Randstad
The problem: The recruitment process wasn't resulting in hires
Our solution: Re-organised their recruitment process to maintain momentum and hire the right candidates fast and within budget.
Small mortgage advisory company, Hertfordshire
The problem: The two co-owners were both doing the same tasks and not communicating with each other enough. They were doing tasks they didn't enjoy.
Our solution: Introducing structure and synergy in order for the partners to define their roles and thus strengths and weaknesses.
This made a big impact as they felt empowered and stopped wasting time on the wrong tasks and more on the right ones, thus driving their business forward.
We also put goals in place and then they had things to aim for that made their minds clearer. I also helped them celebrate wins which helped with their motivation.
Email: impact@advanceinit.io
WhatsApp: +44 7508 745503
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UK Mobile: +44 7508 745503
Company registration number:
07810913
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