Welcome to the web blog of Celtar, a management consultancy company based in Dublin, Ireland .The MD, Billy Linehan, is a business adviser and professional business mentor. How we meet your needsProjects• Assisted company “in recovery” from recent years of poor sales, new focus on strategy – and how to implement it• Chair and act as secretary of monthly management meetings• Introduce staff centred performance management systems, train managers • Advise MD on board matters, and communicating with shareholders• Train management team on “High Performance”
Generally enterprises are growing across all sectors and industries, and businesses are adapting to changes in technology and the competitive environment. Strains arising from family relationships gone sour, from business transfer decisions and subsequent disentanglements from the business, and from the lack of detailed succession [...]
Billy What emotions face the owner of a small business when a key member of staff tells them they are leaving?Mixed emotions!Many business owners, MDs and directors of companies have said to me “If only we could have done something to prevent that decision”? In a smaller business the chances are that little preparation or succession [...]
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January, a busy month for directors, owner managers and managers of all types of organisations Without giving too much detail away, we are assisting in a) Writing a business plan for one client – appears late I know but better to have short plan in January than no plan at all. Many SMEs use their budget as a basic planning [...]
Billy Nearly two thirds (62%) of UK SME owners often make difficult business decisions on their own with 9% having nobody to turn to for advice
Billy There are c. 200,000 family owned businesses in Ireland. Recently I was contacted with a query on support for family businesses, and it led me to think about the many family owned companies we work with in Celtar. The high proportion of our family business clients is not surprising.Family owned and managed businesses have their [...]
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