Scaling Your Business to £5M+

Most businesses don’t struggle to grow. They struggle to scale.

Revenue increases, the team gets busier, and the owner works harder. From the outside, it looks like success. Inside, it often feels like more pressure for marginal gain.

This workshop is about breaking that pattern.

Scaling isn’t about doing more. It’s about building a business that can grow without everything becoming harder, slower, and more dependent on you.

Over two hours, we’ll look at what actually drives scale — from simplifying your model and building systems, to making better strategic decisions about where to focus.

We’ll also explore one of the most underused growth strategies: acquisition — a practical route to accelerate growth and move faster than organic growth alone allows.

You’ll work on:

• Understanding the difference between growth and scaling
• Identifying what’s holding your business back
• Simplifying your model to enable scale
• Building systems that make success repeatable
• Exploring growth through acquisition
• Turning ideas into a practical scaling plan

You’ll leave with a clearer understanding of what needs to change for your business to scale, where your current constraints are, and a practical direction for moving towards £5M+ revenue without simply increasing pressure, cost, or complexity.

Note: You’re welcome to bring your laptop/tablet to work on your plan.

Agenda

• 8:30 – 9:30 Arrival and coffee
• 9:30 Welcome + introduction
• 9:35 Scaling your business: from growth to scale
• 10:45 Break
• 11:00 Scaling and Growth through Acquisition
• 12:00 Lunch
• 13:00 Finish

Your Presenter

Rob Pickering of ActionCoach Reading & Wokingham will be presenting this event. With 15 years as a professional Business and Executive coach, he’s helped numerous businesses to scale significantly. Prior to coaching, he owned and ran a series of businesses within the IT sector and the Film & Video sectors.