Archive for month: March, 2022

And there they were, gone!

At times in business you find that due to illness holidays or other reasons, your team can be down as much as 40%, such is our lot for the next 10 days.

Am i worried about workload, no I am not!

If your business is set up correctly and you have the right processes in place, which every team member understands and takes responsibility for, then it easy to adjust for short periods and make sure nothing goes awry.

If you build your nbusiness like a big one, from day one, then plain sailing even when circumstances transpire to make live difficult should be no problem,. so you can #justkeepgoing

A good week in prospect helping property owners, consultants, sustainability entrereneurs, solicitors and sporting charities, to name but a few.

Have a great week everyone

An uncertain world!

The world is not an easy place to be at the moment and planning for your business is never easy, especially if it involves a large team, complex arrangements and even international considerations.

Insurance is not the answer to all those problems, good planning for a range of contingencies is essential in any business, #becauseaccidentshappen, but insurance can provide the financial backstop behind some of the more serious events that might occur, such as serious physical damage, injury and death to name a few.

So how do we convince an insurer that the risk that our business presents is one which deserves the very best terms and the lowest price?

It’s all about uncertainty!

All insurance is based on either an uncertainty about whether a particular event will occur or about the frequency with which it might occur, or its severity should it occur. When accepting a business insurance, every underwriter is staking their professional reputation on the process they have followed, the terms they will apply and the premium to be charged

The way to get the best terms is to remove as much uncertainty as possible from the mind of the underwriter, so that he/she is comfortable with the risk to be taken by their company and is willing to produce advantageous terms and the lowest price.

We do this with a full and detailed fact find and a quality presentation, answering every question the underwriter might have in their mind.

So next time you are asked to provide information to your broker, remember INFORMATION IS POWER!

You have it and if you give it to us in an #openhonesttransparent manner, the better the terms we can get you and lower the premium is likely to be.

Have a great week

Maybe I’m not the only one in business who thinks this way?

I have a lovely and extremely clever wife, Karen. We are co-directors in three different businesses and what makes this possible is that we trust each other completely and we KNOW with absolute certainty that we have each other’s back, every minute, of every day.

Karen will tell you I have lots of wives. Running wives, London wives, Ex-military wives, you get the idea. The truth is I have always found the company of women far more interesting than men. They have a better sense of humour than most men and are far more fun socially.

In business they just get on and do stuff, without grandstanding or whingeing about it, which means they often cover much more ground. They are generally more organised than men and invest more time in relationships to make them work. They are also very tenacious, which means opportunities seldom slip by, ask any married man!

So, I find it unnerving and slightly uncomfortable when I hear and see news and posts on various social media, including LinkedIn that relate to bias against women in the workplace.

I immediately feel defensive, as if they are aimed at me. That’s the decent bloke psyche kicking in of course, immediate gender related guilt for nothing I have done, but it’s there, nonetheless. It’s probably a good trait, in a modern business environment.

We are currently looking at another opportunity and the candidate is female, if she is right for the role, that’s all that matters. I simply don’t understand why men would act against women in that way. It’s not decent behaviour and certainly not good business.

Supporting women in the workplace and developing their careers is a no brainer, to ensure they become the very best person in that role. Stifling success is plain stupidity. If that means they eventually move on to larger opportunities, I won’t feel aggrieved about that success, we will celebrate it and the value they brought to our business.

I’d like to think that we create a working space with a balance of life and work, that works for everyone. As far as I’m concerned, the best person for the job, will always be, the best person for the job, gender doesn’t come into it.

It’s not difficult, to create a supportive space for women in business, just make it a supportive environment for everyone, oh and have some fun at the same time.

Have a great day

Business women make a huge contribution to the economy