Crafting Agility: The Consultant's Blueprint for SME Success (Post 2 of 3)
In the face of geopolitical shifts, UK SMEs must transform potential threats into opportunities for growth.
Achieving true business agility requires a strategic foundation, one that extends beyond quick reflexes to that of a comprehensive approach, tailored to thrive in today’s complex global economy.
Independent, objective change and organisational consultants are key to crafting this foundation.
These professionals provide SMEs with a customised blueprint for agility that incorporates the latest in strategic planning, risk analysis, and operational flexibility.
This dynamic collaboration between consultants and SMEs doesn’t just prepare businesses to adapt to immediate changes; it sets them on a path toward long-term innovation, competitiveness, and sustainability.
A consultant’s compensation model, which ties their fees to the value of their strategies to their client, ensures a partnership focused on generating real-world and positive outcomes.
A consultant will be as keen as you are to ensure that there is a mutual fit, and the starting point is to pick up the phone and start the conversation.
Frequently, there will be no charge for this phase of the relationship.
Once both parties are happy to proceed, they will do so on the basis of building and sustaining mutual trust.
In the next post we’ll explore the practical steps consultants can take to build agile and adaptive cultures within SMEs, leveraging decades of proven change and transformation principles and methodologies.
Barry Eustance CMgr MCMI
Kotter Change Leader Certified
Principal Consultant – The Sixsess Consultancy
Empowering Clients to Seize Opportunity from Change
https://sixsess.org
