Strategic Business Consulting

Make good business decisions

How are you making decisions?

Your business will always be vulnerable to events it can’t control.

Strategic decisions means focusing on what you can control to continue growing your business.

What do you do, why do you do it and how do you do it? Running a business is performance art in multi-tasking and fast decision making. Call on an external point of view to help review your assumptions and plot your decisions within your business strategy.

Pricing

Ongoing: $220 an hour

Monthly or Quarterly Retainer, including Progress Review and Questions Answered

  • $220 for one hour
  • $1000 up to five hours

What my clients are saying...

Working with Rebecca has given me the insights to grow my business. Her approach makes it easy to see what needs to be done and she has the knowledge to back it up.

- Jason Wade, SiteTrustee

What I'm thinking about business Consulting...

A Vision Is Not a Plan: From “We Should” To Getting It Done

You have an idea that will improve your business: a new service, a better customer experience, a more consistent process, a stronger team, or a system that finally removes you from a recurring problem. You talk about it in meetings. Your team agrees it is important. Everyone leaves with good intentions. And nothing changes. The…

What Should Remain When the Owner Leaves: Standards That Outlast Leaders.

“It will be faster if I just do it myself”.  A common sentiment, but not a good approach to leadership.  One day, you may want to exit the business and have those employees step in to lead it. If you have never given them the opportunity to do the work, make decisions, and learn what…

How To Make Decisions Easy: Stop Treating Every Decision Like a New Problem

Have you ever stood in a grocery store staring at nearly identical items? Same price. Same ingredients. Slightly different labels. You pick one, then second-guess yourself halfway to the checkout. Decisions are hard. Too many options, not enough clarity, and a nagging sense that you might get it wrong. The challenge Business leaders tend to…

Don’t Punish Your Top Performers with Too Much Work

As the second half of the year begins, you may be looking at what your business has accomplished so far and what still needs attention. A few important new initiatives or needs may now be on your list. Who should handle them? The challenge Your first instinct may be to give the work to your…

Halfway There: The Honest Mid-Year Business Review

You start the year with plans and goals; don’t wait until December to see how it all turned out.  Along the way, you need to check in, see what’s working, and decide what needs to change.  June is the perfect time to do that.  The challenge What you examine can be improved or fixed.  What…

The Way Visionary Thinking Forgets About Operational Action

It is easy to think big in business.  Setting a big goal is exciting and energising. Until reality sets in.  Because the hard part isn’t thinking big: it’s acting small, every single day. The challenge Setting goals is easy. Achieving them is hard.  Not because we lack dedication or effort, but because too often we…

The Most Important Question Your Business Should Always Ask

The most important question a business can ask itself is: What should we do next? In any workflow, not just end-of-year reviews and lessons learned analyses. From failure to focus There is a challenge to working on lessons learned.  That challenge is negativity.  When all you talk about is problems and mistakes, you end up…

How to Turn This Year’s Lessons Into Next Year’s Success

Every year a business writes its own story—full of wins, surprises, and lessons.  The secret to a stronger sequel?  Knowing exactly what worked well and what to improve. Lessons Learned This is the time to capture the lessons that will set you up for a stronger new year.  Perform an after action review on the…

Why Small Businesses Must Embrace The Art Of Lessons Learned Analysis

It’s November! And that means… spending the whole month not believing it’s November.  That, and starting to review your business year.  It’s time to look at what happened in your business and what it means for next year. This important exercise is a Lessons Learned analysis.  What is “Lessons Learned” The lesson learned concept is…

Dream Big, Act Real: How Bold Goals Need Solid Ground

Goals are not a wish list.  They must push boundaries.  While starting from where you are now.  Goals start with reality A goal does not sprout fully formed from a blank page. It develops out of your current situation. Such as your recent: Goals build on foundations To ensure consistency of purpose, you must also…

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