Lamont Pridmore
Accountants and business advisors

Lamont Pridmore

Tel: 0800 234 6978
Email

Kendal Office
136 Highgate
Kendal
Cumbria
LA9 4HW
Tel: 01539 732377

Keswick Office
8 Stanger Street
Keswick
Cumbria
CA12 5JU
Tel: 01768 772182

Workington Office
Milburn House
3 Oxford Street
Workington
Cumbria
CA14 2AL
Tel: 01900 65955

Barrow Office
Waterside House
Bridge Approach
Barrow-in-Furness
Cumbria
LA14 2HE
Tel: 0800 234 6978

Carlisle Office
Bourne House
Milbourne Street
Carlisle
Cumbria
CA2 5XF
Tel: 01228 401400

The 9 Steps to Success
The 9 Steps to Success help accountancy practices and business advisors identify opportunities, develop products and processes, train product champions and create packaged products for delivery to expectant clients.

For more information on the programme, or to receive a free Winning Practice checklist, to request a free Winning Practice review, or to receive a free reading list to change your life, please telephone Graham Lamont on 0800 234 6978 or email info@lamontpridmore.co.uk

STEP 1: CREATING A SHARED VISION
  • Overview of the market

  • Profit drivers

  • Growth areas

  • 2005 report: How to be successful

  • What other firms are doing

  • Establish your primary aims

  • Establish the firm's primary aims

  • Establish shared values

  • The barriers to change

  • The changes we need to make

  • The resources we need

  • My personal plan

  • Our practice plan

  • How to apply it to your firm: Agreed action plan and
    milestones


    STEP 2: DEVELOPING A COMPREHENSIVE RANGE OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICE WITH MENU AND VALUE PRICING
  • Growth areas

  • Success factors

  • List of potential services

  • The most interesting services

  • The services with most growth potential

  • The services with most profit potential

  • A decision making model to help develop the most profitable services

  • A menu of services

  • Value pricing

  • Financial Services

  • Computer Services

  • How to apply it to your firm: Agreed action plan and milestones



  • STEP 3: CREATE AND IMPLEMENT A CLIENT CARE PROGRAMME
  • What do clients want?

  • How do people buy?

  • Results from client research

  • Results from client forum

  • 25 Key drivers

  • The Lamont Pridmore TLC programme

  • How to apply it to your firm: Agreed action plan and milestones



  • STEP 4: HOW TO DEVELOP EFFICIENT BUSINESS PROCESSES
  • There are only 4 ways to grow a business

  • The winning company research

  • The business excellence model

  • The value chain

  • Raw material

  • Business processes

  • Quality of our people

  • Our fee

  • Our clients

  • Range of products and services we offer

  • Us

  • 35 things we do to prepare a set of financial accounts

  • The Lamont Pridmore accounts preparation manual (extracts)

  • How to apply it to your firm: Agreed action plan and milestones



  • STEP 5: A PEOPLE STRATEGY THAT WILL UNLOCK YOUR FULL POTENTIAL
  • How to create a winning practice

  • Winning company questionnaires (completed)

  • Case study: Lamont Pridmore

  • Unlock potential

  • Develop a recruitment strategy

  • Create the right staff structure

  • Key worker scheme and Investors in People

  • The Lamont Pridmore training plan

  • The Lamont Pridmore staff appraisal and development scheme

  • How to apply it to your firm: Action plans and milestones



  • STEP 6: CLIENT PROFILING AND ANALYSIS: HOW TO TURN D CLIENTS INTO A CLIENTS
  • What do clients want?

  • Client analysis: The Pareto principle

  • The Lamont Pridmore TLC programme

  • What does a bad client look like?

  • The process of change

  • Discussion

  • How to apply it to your firm: Action plan and milestones



  • STEP 7: HOW TO IMPROVE PRACTICE PROFITABILITY BY AT LEAST £50,000: REDUCING THE BLACK HOLE
  • Improving the effectiveness of people and processes

  • The black hole and how to calculate it

  • How to close it

  • Lamont Pridmore performance related pay

  • How to create a trust culture: Empowerment

  • How to apply it to your firm: Action plans and milestones



  • STEP 8: ADDED VALUE SERVICES: HOW TO GET STARTED
  • The 5 success factors

  • Client case studies

  • Using the business questionnaire

  • How to get started

  • Agendas

  • Value for money studies

  • Benchmarking reports

  • Competitor analysis and pricing strategy

  • Profit improvement studies

  • How to apply it to your firm: Action plan and agreed milestones



  • STEP 9: MILESTONES AND THE WAY AHEAD
  • Prepare detailed action plans for the practice: What to do, by whom, at what cost, by when

  • How do we involve the team

  • Arrange coaching and support systems

  • Agree date of next workshop



  • The 9 Steps to Success help accountancy practices and business advisors identify opportunities, develop products and processes, train product champions and create packaged products for delivery to expectant clients. For more information on the programme, or to receive a free Winning Practice checklist, or to request a free Winning Practice review, or to receive a free reading list to change your life, please telephone Graham Lamont on 0800 234 6978 or email info@lamontpridmore.co.uk


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