Clear thinking. Strong decisions. Meaningful progress.
This is the Simplify & Scale Growth Programme. Staffordshire County Council has funded 20 places on it for businesses across the county, through their Build and Scale scheme and one of those places is yours.
I work with you as a thinking partner, not a consultant who simply hands you a plan. We start by getting really clear on where you want your business to be in twelve months, then we identify the things that will make the biggest difference in getting it there. There is usually more than one and we work through them across our time together. You leave each session with practical things to do, not a document you have to find time for.
The belief underneath it all is simple: you are already the expert in your business, with the experience and the instinct that got you here. What is hard, when you are this close to it, is seeing the thread that runs through it all. That is my work. I find the thread you cannot see for yourself, make the complexity you are sitting in simpler, and bring it together into something clear you can act on. Much of that only happens in conversation, in the room together, which is why this is personal and not a template.
Your core support is around eight hours of one to one time, usually over about three months, within the wider programme running until April 2027. The aim is for our work to flex around your business schedules.
Alongside your core support there may be optional sessions to come together with the others on the programme, a workshop or a get-together where there is something the group would find useful. These are an opportunity rather than something you have to do. While you are on the programme, you are also welcome to try anything new I am developing in my own work, if it is useful to you.
We agree the format for meeting that works for you, around how you work best. It is important that when we work together your time and physical space is protected from interruptions. If anything is done online, I can record the session and send you the recording afterwards, so it is yours to keep and come back to rather than relying on memory or notes.
Within sessions we will identify things that you require you to take action. A part of the pre-requisite for you joining the programme is that you have the authority to take decisions within and for your business. Sometimes between sessions I will share things for you to work through on your own, a short reflection, or something practical to put into action. They are yours to use as you see fit and this works best when it is self-guided, so I will encourage you and then leave it with you. No marking, no chasing. The honest position is simple, the work you do shapes our conversations and moves your business further.
Two places, plus your own work.
This page is your starting point and stays public. It is where the overview lives, so come back to it whenever you need.
The resource hub is the shared library for the whole group. It will hold general resources, masterclass and workshop materials and the optional get-together dates once they are set. It is password protected and fills up as the programme runs, so it will be quiet at first and build over the programme period. It only ever holds general material shared with everyone, never anything from your own sessions.
Find the Resource Hub here. The password was provided in the email the link to this page was sent.
Your own work is yours to keep. The tools, the things we create together and any session recordings are handed to you as we go, for you to hold and use. There is no system to log into and nothing to maintain.
Very little, on purpose. You do not need to prepare a plan or tidy anything up.
One useful thing is to decide where you will keep your notes and anything we create, a notebook or a folder on your laptop or iPad, whatever suits how you work, so it all stays in one place.
Come to your first session ready to talk openly about your business and where you want to take it. I am looking forward to getting started with you.
If you have any questions now or in the future, please do not hesitate to contact me via email via beth@simplifyandscale.co.uk
The joining details for your cohort will follow as the group comes together and I will share them with you directly.
Clarity. Focus. Impact.
Take 20 minutes to sort through the noise and work out the next step that fits this stage.
