I love the Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) environment, especially growing and improving profitability, by providing management skills including financial, general, people, marketing, strategic planning, mentoring, English business writing & editing. I am a retired (well sort of) financial director and business owner and love the small and medium enterprise (SME) space where I have spent most of
my working life. I the past few years, I have involved myself in such projects as:
- Teaching entrepreneurship in the townships for Junior Achievement
- Providing management training for supervisors and junior managers
for the Services SETA
- Lecturing in small business financial systems for Business Bridge
- Mentoring business students at UCT for the Allan Gray Foundation
I decided to get more directly involved in small organisations and am currently involved in
- Mentoring and training a small business group in Philippi with 6 shops but specifically their startup hardware store in Philippi which has reached break-even after 6 months
- a growing OT practice requiring total systems and management skill upgrade
- a recent food industry startup requiring a budget and cashflow forecasting model
My specific interest is in guiding these organisations through the critical stages of their organisational growth by providing a range of business and financial tools, hands on management training, coaching and mentoring. The interventions are practical, easy to implement and focused on organisational development, growth and profitability. My services offerings include:
- Reviewing startup business ideas and business plans
- Creating the essential budget and cash flow forecasting spreadsheets
needed to determine your sales, costs and funding requirements
- Small business accounting systems
- Procedure writing for badly needed systems
- Marketing & Sales Strategy Development
- Practical management & supervisor training
- Problem solving
- Mentoring & Coaching
- I am well versed in World Class Manufacturing and Lean Office
systems and their tools such as 5S, Visual Performance Management
and Continuous Improvement. I'd really like to hear about you and your business and how I could help you.
