Surviving and thriving in a downturn - seminar

 A Gisby Harrison and O’Byrne and Kennedy Seminar for business owners   

“Inside every averagely performing business there is a better business trying to get out!”   

In the good times most people can run a reasonable business and many do, but when times get tough business owners need to take a more focused approach if they are to avoid being one of the casualties of the downturn.  Indeed, for some businesses it’s the lessons they learn in the lean times that allow them to go on to be a great success when the good times return.  A downturn is therefore an opportunity to re-think a business - the way it should be designed and run.   

As businesses grow and develop over time they incrementally adopt practices that are less than optimal.  People become more expensive without improving performance.  Some people are promoted to a job they do less well, and well meaning over tolerant management allows cost to build surreptitiously.  Processes that are innovated incrementally become unnecessarily complex and complexity is a huge driver of cost in a business. These can all be accommodated in good times but in tougher times businesses need to reinvent themselves.  Every so often, and especially now, businesses need to take a fresh look at what they are doing – a clean sheet approach.   

Gisby Harrison and O’Byrne and Kennedy present a morning seminar to help business owners survive and thrive in a recession.   

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