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"I've produced a number of guides and support material to help you deal with situations that may come across including a cash crisis, staff letting you down and losing control. I aim to cover most business topics in a practical manner with tips and suggestions. The guides are structured under category headings that are colour coded to help you find what you might be looking for."

- Tony Groom

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Financial Restructuring & Cash Generation

This guide is aimed at helping you recover money that is due to you. It looks at the practice of debt collection and includes some templates that you might find useful.

This guide is aimed at helping you deal with Debt Collectors and Enforcement Agents when they are pursuing you for payment of outstanding amounts.

This guide is aimed at helping you deal with HMRC when they are pursuing you for payment of outstanding tax. It looks at their tactics and how you can deal with them.

To manage your bank manager, you first have to understand how they function and are managed by their employer, the bank.

Your bank manager is the intermediary between you and the organisation providing your business with finance so knowing how to manage this relationship can be critical to business survival.

The terms on which banks and other institutions are prepared to lend, and the level of risk they are prepared to accept, have changed dramatically since the credit crunch.

Businesses (generally) do not drop dead unexpectedly.

When a bank manager has confidence in your business it places you in a stronger financial position. Should you lose the confidence of your bank manager, the opposite will apply.

It is very important to build a good relationship with your intensive care manager who is usually highly experienced, reasonable, and wants to work with you.

Many businesses find their relationship with their bank stretched at the moment and, as a result, the perception may be that the bank is not being supportive and in some cases is moving, or has moved, into recovery mode.

Leadership & People Management

This guide is aimed at helping you become a better leader. It looks at the practice of leadership and focuses on the characteristics, qualities and behaviours that distinguish leaders with followers from the rest of us.

This is a companion guide to the Guide to Business Leadership. It is aimed at helping you avoid becoming a dangerous leader and also to help you avoid associating yourself with dangerous leaders.

This guide is aimed at helping you get the most out of people with view to improving how they feel about working with you. It focuses on what motivates people to perform to the best of their ability.

This guide is aimed at helping you understand stress and anxiety so you can manage staff without letting pressure spill over into negative stress and anxiety. It looks at the different types of stress and offers practical suggestions for managing it to optimise long-term productivity.

This guide is aimed at helping you develop rewards for your employees. Unlike my guides to leadership and motivation this guide focuses on ways to incentivise performance and recognise effort and loyalty.

Insolvency

This Guide has been prepared in order to assist you as a director or shareholder to find a solution for saving your Company when it is insolvent. We always recommend that you seek professional advice if your company is insolvent.

This guide is aimed at helping you deal with a winding-up petition. It considers your circumstances and options about what to do and understanding the process so you can achieve your desired outcome.

The aim of this guide is to help you understand your duties and responsibilities as the director of a company with particular emphasis on knowing if your company is insolvent and what to do if it is.

Compliance, Legal & Administration

Help for choosing between a Limited Company and a Limited Liability Partnership

Other Guides

This guide is designed to introduce you to the essential principles and key concepts of marketing and providing some practical solutions for marketing your business effectively in 2018 and beyond.

This guide is aimed at helping you to improve productivity. It focuses on the processes and systems with practical suggestions for initiatives that will result in better margins, improved cash flow and greater sustainability.

This guide is aimed at helping you look at all aspects of your business with a view to improving productivity. It focuses on the processes and systems with practical suggestions for initiatives that will result in better margins, improved cash flow and greater sustainability.