My Offer
Projects: I have spent most of my working life designing, delivering and launching projects with a small number of team-members, taking ideas and converting them into reality. I am always interested in being involved in new projects, especially those where the outcome is something which looks to resolve a current problem, which challenges the status quo and the long-term goal of which is to establish something which is good for the planet.
Mentoring: I’m not a Business Consultant as such; more a business mentor. I’ve been around the SME/charity sector for most of my working life and seen that there often isn’t much in the way of assistance that is affordable. I’m here to assist. Areas where I can help might include:
- Wording: drafting, editing, re-focussing business plans, strategy docs, financial summaries
- Planning: Company Secretary skills, policies, organisation, establishing systems
- Analysis: cutting to the chase, identifying aims, summarising reports & research
- Legals: understanding legalese, dealing with professionals, clarifying rights and obligations, including intellectual property
- Strategy: identifying direction of travel, routes, timings, people to achieve what’s required
- Risks & Opportunities: identifying risks and opportunities; dealing with business threats; assessing competitors and markets
- Funding: identifying & engaging potential sources; creating attractive funding proposals; presenting funding plans
Grant-making: I have specific experience in the private and public grant-making sector including the simplification of processes, strategies for encouraging more applications and active involvement, emphasising desired and actual outcomes, interpreting data-sets, assessing impact and advocating an organisation’s capabilities. If these are areas you would like worked on, please feel free to contact me.
Perhaps you have other challenges in your business or maybe you’re looking to develop in a certain way but don’t know what to do next. Perhaps you don’t have any of these issues but need to get more active response from your board or business partners or find a new way of presenting data to them. Why not try an initial No Obligation chat?
My details are on the Contact page. I am happy to provide support and advice on an ad hoc basis or I could become a short-term or longer-term advisor or mentor. Or, in certain circumstances, a non-executive director. Let’s see how it goes.
Let’s make something together.
James Millar 