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We can provide a comprehensive analysis of your business through our standard business review or the Business Excellence Model reviews which has been designed to:

Give you new insight into your business
Provide constructive feedback
Highlight areas for improvement

Our standard business review looks at each function within your company and provides a strategic overview of your business. More detailed analysis is available for the following functions: human resources, marketing, ICT and finance.

Our Business Excellence Model (BEM) review is based on the European Foundation for Quality Management. It involves a cross-functional team looking at the processes that drives your business. It also provides you the opportunity to benchmark your company's performance against the competition.

We can offer you a detailed appraisal of your business growth and expansion options. Our experienced business advisors can also help you to improve your operations efficiency. This service focuses on six areas:

Assisting you to identify alternative growth strategy
Helping you to raise the money or funding you need to grow your business
Assisting in securing equity, assets, investment and development finance
Helping you to manage your business more effectively and efficiently
Identifying different forms of borrowing for your business
Find a partner or an investor (business angels) who will fund your business

We can analyse the viability of your business idea before you commit any money to it. If you are not too sure about your idea, few hours spent with our experienced business advisor could help to clarify your thoughts. Our start-up service provides support on how you can plan, write a viable business plan, and kick start your business. This service focuses on six areas:

Helping you to generate a viable business idea
Assisting in researching the needs for your proposed business venture
Helping you with operations plan, sales and marketing strategy,
Helping you with cashflow forecast, and human resource planning
Search for the most appropriate source of funding for the business
Supporting you through the first critical stages in business

"Candles loses nothing by lighting another candles”.

Mentors are experienced professional managers, successful entrepreneurs with proven records of accomplishment, who typically operates in the industries of interest to mentees. Our mentors are committed individuals, philanthropists, role models, trusted counsellors, and advisors who are willing to give up their precious time to help aspiring entrepreneurs to grow the confidence and skills required to start-up or grow their enterprise. Mentoring is a value investment with potential returns for both the mentors and mentees. Mentors are required to

attend 2 hours mentoring briefing session before taking on clients
spend a minimum of 40 hours with a mentee over a six months period
provide three mentee evaluation report during the six months mentoring period
assist mentees to improve their personal development, entrepreneurial skills, goal setting, business etiquette, negotiating skills, interpersonal skills and networking skills

Benefits to Mentors

Opportunity to be role models for future business leaders
Opportunity to make a difference by providing an enabling environment, which allows mentee's to display their skills and brilliance by actualising their business dreams
Personal gratification and improving your social capital
Opportunity to become a catalyst for wealth creation and impact mentee's life experiences
Provides links and networks to the younger generation
potential financial gains

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Benefits to the Mentee

Opportunity to develop personal relationship with experience entrepreneur
Opportunity to develop new insights and knowledge
Opportunity to interaction with industry experts and develop network of contacts