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  • Business Mentor

    Having a Business Mentor can validate, check and challenge your decisions. This will either de-risk or ensure you have considered all probabilities and eventualities and the risks are acceptable.
    Management Governance

  • Consultancy

    Consultancy provides expertise when you need it. The right consultant will save your business £000's in operational delivery and business solutions as a expert.
    Management Governance

Kingscavil Associates

Most businesses, especially the small and medium enterprise work extremely hard at taking a product or service to market but often do not stay on top of the management and governance required in business.  Making decisions for the business are often made based on the current circumstances of that particular day.  The next day maybe a different decision or a lot of time backing out the previous change. Governance, Mentoring and Historical Data providing Evidence Based decisions that improve operational and business efficiencies in the long term. 

In the last 20-years, having worked with many businesses across different sectors the most successful ones are those that "plan for review".  What is meant by this is that governance dictates that you review and modify you company focus based on prompts and data but also the analysis is designed to highlight areas where the owner, board or senior staff should focus.

Our services fit in to two main categories, Management, and, Governance.

Kingscavil Associates, was founded in 2004, and have helped and advised businesses to deliver efficiencies that impact both Turnover and Profit.

Our Services

We work with you at every stage of an engagement to ensure the deliverable is fit for purpose, i.e. it is not "one size fits all".

Obviously some areas are not applicable to certain businesses, e.g. if you do not work with children you might not need a "Child Protection Policy". Equally if you are a business without a full set of policies and your success in responding to a tender is subject to the measures and controls you have in looking after vulnerable people then not having a policy could have significant consequences.

Equally it is important that each business should consider certifications and registrations which will confirm professional standing. These can be both time consuming and complex especially for a businesses that are doing the paperwork for the first time.

All our services are transferable across sector but below gives a flavour of popular services in particular sectors.

Service Terminology

  • Coaching in business is no different to that of a Sports Coach. It involves strategy and operational instruction including demonstrating different approaches to delivery and improving collective performance.
  • Mentoring is very similar to Coaching although it is often delivered through discussions one to one and improving the individual performance imparting knowledge. A mentor is someone who can be used as a sounding board or challenge to a new business idea.
  • Consultancy is more "doing" actions agreed, i.e. where a task is identified and assigned to Kingscavil Associates to complete. This is typically based on skills and experience.
  • Organisational Development is the wider upskilling and managing the staff in terms of collective delivery. Better skills and training leading to less failures and improved delivery.

Skills Matrix

One of the significant challanges most companies face is staffing and ensuring the skills are right for the business. We work with our analysis tool to identify gaps and recommend areas to consider training or recruitment, or, use to indicate the corporate risk review. We provide a modified tool for continued use tailored to your business and not generic across all or a particular sector.

SKILLS MATRIX

Risk Management

Risk management is important to focus the mind on ensuring that areas of the business where a failure could have a catastrophic impact are analysed and countermeasures successfully implemented.  Our approach is to analayse and formulate an action plan for measures and assist in assessing and scoring the risks. It would be our recommendation Corporate risks are reviewed quarterly.

MANAGE RISK

Policies

When you manage a business it is important that you have clear policies whether it is for your staff or clients and these documents are reviewed, updated and made availalable on request. The number of policies you have will be dependent on the industry sector. We can develop policies tailored and providing governance approaches for your business. Written policies once are integral documents.

POLICIES

Accreditations

Accreditations are important in differentiating businesses and also validating your services are fit for purpose.  If you provide a regulated service your policies, business practices, procedures and processes are fundamental. They demonstrate checks, balances, controls and measures are in place to mitigate risks of working together, professionalism and credibility.

ACCREDITATIONS

Information Audit

With GDPR your information management and controls, for both electronic and printed data, need to be up to date, meticulously managed and actions logged so as not to expose the organisation to legal challenge.

GDPR AUDIT

Skills and Training Matrix

It is important that Workforce Planning has a place in the company that you can at any point in time assess a need and how you can deliver. Understanding all staff Training, Skills and Experience will enable the Company to assess but also strategic planning.

Skills Matrix

Management Controls

In business it is important to not only have checks and balances it is equally important that these are demonstrated. Controls cover Financial, Personnel and Strategic decisions. A business change should be appraised thus improving success. 

CONTROLS

Corporate and Business Risks

Risks are everyday business considerations and your decisions and changes may have a direct on an identified risk resulting in an issue materialising or vice versa. It is highly recommended that risks are identified and the management team review and update on a regular basis. 

Risks

Accreditations

Accreditations are a way of demonstrating the governance, controls and practices of the business giving customers confidence before the buy. Typically they are a quality mark that your services are independently assessed.

Accreditation

Company Policies

Policies serve an important part of any business by interpreting legislation and how it effects or aligns to your business. Policies should be available to staff and customers defining how you work and deliver a service with reference to specific legislation or regulatory controls.

Company Policies

Charity Sector

  • OSCR Compliance
  • Charity Regulator Compliance
  • Director and Trustee - Fit for Purpose
  • Controls and Measures
  • Business Training
  • Policies
  • Accreditations

Care Sector

  • Policies
  • Quality Evaluation Audits
  • CQC Registration
  • OFSTED Registration
  • Management Training
  • Business Processes
  • Controls and Risk Management
  • Tendering

Trades

  • Accreditations
  • Management Training
  • Policies
  • Tendering
  • Business Support
  • Business Consultancy
  • Processes
  • Logistics
  • Mentoring

Commercial

  • Business Support
  • Business Consultancy
  • Management Training
  • Tendering
  • Skills Development
  • Customer Service
  • Sales Presence
  • Operations
  • Logistics

Kingscavil Associates

Most businesses, especially the small and medium enterprise work extremely hard at taking a product or service to market but often do not stay on top of the management and governance required in business.  Making decisions for the business are often made based on the current circumstances of that particular day.  The next day maybe a different decision or a lot of time backing out the previous change. Governance, Mentoring and Historical Data providing Evidence Based decisions that improve operational and business efficiencies in the long term. 

In the last 20-years, having worked with many businesses across different sectors the most successful ones are those that "plan for review".  What is meant by this is that governance dictates that you review and modify you company focus based on prompts and data but also the analysis is designed to highlight areas where the owner, board or senior staff should focus.

Our services fit in to two main categories, Management, and, Governance.

Kingscavil Associates, was founded in 2004, and have helped and advised businesses to deliver efficiencies that impact both Turnover and Profit.