Fix your friction, at a fixed price

Turning frustration and friction into delivering, growing, earning & enjoying

I help business leaders who are trying to get stuff done, but feeling frustrated that they are being held back by friction, inertia & breakages in their businesses. I work with them and their teams to unlock the actions that deliver their visions.

Fixed-price consulting packages make projects clear & accessible

I’ve created a set of pre-packaged, fixed-price process improvement projects, aimed at small and medium businesses. After a career spent doing high-level consulting across the UK and Europe, I wanted to bring my 25+ years of curiosity, exploration, problem-solving & productivity work to all sizes of businesses (especially local ones). I want to help business owners and leaders to reduce friction, frustrating admin & rework and do more creating, selling, delivering, earning, growing & enjoying.

My packaged offerings bring together the absolutely core tools and exercises I’ve used with my key clients. They are the indispensable tools that reliably create the most value in the least time. Whether you want to involve 1 person or 12, we run fast, interactive workshops to create and share vision, problems, opportunities, ideas & fixes. You know how much time and money you’ll be spending – none of the “open cheque book” feeling you sometimes get with consultancies.

Get priorities, clarity, insight and actions

Through the set workshops, we:

  • Look at the focus areas for your business to help you prioritise your time on the biggest pains/opportunities
  • Clarify roles and communications inside and outside your business to find the “friction functions”
  • Break functions down into tasks & decisions to find where time goes & why things go wrong
  • Gather root causes and fixes in one place, driven by priority, to manage, track and deliver improvements

The workshops are worthwhile in themselves, as they build shared understanding and get people communicating around improvements. That’s not all though. At the end of the project, you’ll get a document that contains all of the findings we uncover and the actions we create, so that you have a real-world, practical plan to make the improvements that you prioritise.

The packages in detail, for all sizes of business or team

Package Micro Standard Extra
For 1-2 people 2-4 people 2-12 people
Ideal for Getting yourself focused on your vision, the biggest priorities for making immediate improvements, and getting on top of your time planning Making space and time to create or tune your shared vision, agree key priorities and share the most important tasks to deliver improvements Creating and sharing a strong vision of what needs to be done, and getting ideas and buy-in from across the team for how we move things forward by prioritising and sharing action
Your time commitment Half-day workshop Half-day workshop
plus
Full-day workshop
Full-day “top team” workshop
plus
2 full-day or 4 half-day workshops with the team
Outputs: We will take notes in the workshops, and prepare for you a full document containing:
Focus & priority areas Priorities of the 6 standard business areas Priorities of the 6 standard business areas List and priorities of your specific 4-10 business areas
Friction functions Friction functions and roles in the top 1 or 2 areas (time-boxed) Friction functions and roles in the top 3 or 4 areas (time-boxed) Friction functions and roles in the business areas (prioritised & time-boxed)
Task & decision maps Top priority task & decision map Top 2 or 3 task & decision maps 4-10 task & decision maps, based on group splits, priorities and time
Action breakdown List of root causes and fixes, with owners and dates as set List of root causes and fixes, with owners and dates as set, by business area List of root causes and fixes, with owners and dates as set, by business area
Job description outline n/a n/a Outline job role to function list for the 4-10 business areas and roles
Price £595 + VAT
for prep, workshop facilitation and documentation
£1999 + VAT
for prep, workshop facilitation and documentation
£3299 + VAT
for prep, workshop facilitation and documentation
Facilities needed You book and provide a meeting room with internet connectivity, and (ideally) projector/large monitor You book and provide meeting rooms with internet connectivity, projector + screen and facilities as needed by your team for each workshop You book and provide meeting rooms with internet connectivity, projector + screen and facilities as needed by your team for each workshop

Travel and expenses included for PE and CB postcodes – please contact us for projects further afield – we can cover the whole of the UK.

Further options are available, including: