Flair Business Growth Consultancy

Running a business coaching programme that endeavours to bring entrepreneurial flair to the corporate world. Each programme covers a range of business, life and work/life balance topics gradually building up a unique base of new skills and approaches.

Flair should be the last personal development programme you ever need to attend!

Founder and Scalability Consultant and Coach

Crimson Ltd

Crimson offer permanent and contract IT recruitment services with a heavy bias placed upon building and maintaining relationships. Almost all of our growth originates from referrals from satisfied clients and candidates.

 It is enormously useful still being in business and being a business development coach at the same time. My experience is fresh and I share many of the same challenges as the people who attend the programmes.

My role is to support the 2 main directors and act as a business development coach to any employees who need support.

Director and Business Development Consultant and Coach

Software Knowledge

A recruitment and professional services company based in Henley in Arden. Sold to Modis International in 1998.

I was responsible for new business development and managing the business development team. This included assembling the team and leading them on a day-to-day basis. It is also where I first tried my hand at being a fledgling Business Development Coach with some of the junior sales people.

Managing Director and Business Development Coach

Systems Resources

A privately held recruitment and professional services company based in Coventry. I was a junior sales person working for the late great Mike Sparkes. We both left after I had been there for six months to start our own business: Software Knowledge.

Recruitment Consultant

Various Companies

Various roles as a programmer, analyst, business analyst and data analyst.

Freelance Information Technology Consultant

GEC Computer Services

Programmer

Do you own an SME recruitment firm and feel mildly dissatisfied because you seem to work hard for your business rather than your business working hard for you? If so, it’s probably down to these 3 reasons.

You aren’t earning what you want, you’re not leading the lifestyle you and your family would like you to lead or, most of all, you’re no closer to financial security now than when you started.

What we at Flair do is work with people just like you to put a tick in each of those boxes.

★★PROOF I KNOW MY STUFF

I’ve grown and sold two multi-million-pound recruitment companies from scratch. The first sold for a headline price of £24m and the second for £15m. Only a handful of people can make that claim.

You can find more proof on my video testimonial page: https://www.flair.co.uk/testimonials/ and  my LinkedIn recommendations below.

★★PROOF WE ADD VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE

We run free webinars and publish regular podcasts and blog posts. We also have an ever-changing selection of free resources you can find here: https://www.flair.co.uk/online-growth-club/ 

★★HOW WE HELP OUR CLIENTS

Once we understand what income, lifestyle, legacy and financial security you want we can model what your business would need to look like to deliver them.

Then, we create a realistic plan to build that company.

Finally, we work together to make that plan a reality.

We have several ways we can work together depending upon your budget and priorities starting with a completely free option! 

All our work carries a 100% money-back guarantee, so you’ll always get value for money.

So why not call me on 01564 627 050 or email me at mike.ames@flair.co.uk to arrange an informal and completely confidential chat.

★★ON A PERSONAL FRONT

Married since 1983 (to the same person) ★ 3 grown up children and 4 grand kids ★ 2 Pekingese dogs ★ a bolt-hole in Wales ★ Wolves fan (I can say that now) ★ mad on impressionist art ★ aspirational golfer ★ ‘experimental’ cook ★ love train journey's.

Something happened at the gym yesterday that triggered a long-lost memory. It was like a punch to the stomach for me.
 
I discovered that the sole was coming away from my left training shoe. So what, you may say.
 
Well, back in the early Sevs we were going thru a period of family austerity that was real bad. We had zero money.
 
One day, I noticed the sole was coming off one of my school shoes (my only pair of shoes).
 
I told my mom and asked for the money for a new pair, “sorry Michael I won’t have any money until the end of the month” she replied.
 
The next day I went to school in my trainers. The head of year pulled me up and told me that was a non-starter. He didn’t care about our situation.
 
So, every night I had to glue the sole on with contact glue but by the end of the day, it was flapping again.
 
In the end I had to tape it up with plumbers’ tape.
 
It was a time of shame an embarrassment for me, but it was also a turning point.
 
✅ I developed a heavy work ethic: two paper rounds and later, casual labouring.
 
✅ I started saving in my post office account – I wanted the security of a war chest.
 
✅ I made the decision that when I was older, I was NOT going to be poor.
 
My question is, did you have a shaping moment in your youth?

Mike Ames

I help owners of Solo and SME recruitment firms build a secure, high profit business that doesn’t need them to work in it all the time and will one day make them wealthy without selling up.

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