Will Your Business Survive COVID-19?
Do you have the essential cashflow, planning and HR processes in place for the current environment?
MBP have fully funded business, planning, cashflow and human resource services available to help your business survive.
Our funding is partly through the regional business partner network. However, the majority of our funding has been provided by private business leaders and the generosity of the team at MBP donating their time to a worthy cause, the survival of small businesses across New Zealand.
Partner with MBP and Prioritise Success
At MBP, we’re not your normal business advisors and accountants. We’re proactive. We’re with you every stop of the journey. We’re here to help.
Our team have decades of experience in business across a range of industries. From tax and accounting to business planning and coaching, human resources, payroll and cashflow planning, our team are here to help and leverage their experience to help your business succeed.
Here to Help with the Essentials for Business Survival
We’re here to help your business survive and thrive by providing free, fully funded services to set you on a path to success. These services are the essentials that every business owner needs to have sorted in order to have a path forward for the year ahead.
All of these services are provided via video conferencing and remote work. As a cloud based business, we’ve been working remotely with clients across the country for years, so its nothing new for us.
We’ve modified a few of our services to respond to the specific impacts of COVID-19 on small business and these are funded by the government backed Regional Business Partner programme.
As the recovery from the lock-down is only just beginning, we have ensured that our free, funded services are available to proactively support small businesses across the country for the full year ahead. As we are committed to ongoing and not just short term support, most of our services are privately funded through the generous support from local business leaders who know the value in the support we offer.
Register for RBP Funding for our Services
CLICK HERE to register your business with the Regional Business Partner Network. Once you have registered and met with one of their advisors, you’ll be able to access their funding for our services.
CLICK HERE to view our services available for funding.
Need on-going support?
All of our monthly accounting + advisory packages are available with 50% funding for the full financial year from 1st April 2020 to 31st March 2021.
To access this support, please use the application at the bottom of this page.
Business Planning
Service One: One-Page Business Planning Workshop
Attend a four-hour (or two two-hour) planning session facilitated by an MBP Business Advisor.
The following key issues will be covered:
- Discussing and setting business goals for the next 12 months,
- Discussing and setting personal goals for the next 12 months (so your business works for you, not just you for the business),
- Discussing and agreeing on an action plan with the necessary strategies to support achievement of the identified goals,
- Identification of Gross Revenue Targets and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs),
- Identification of opportunities and vulnerabilities in your business that need to be managed,
- Establishment of a 90 day Action Plan to address immediate critical issues.
You’ll complete pre-work prior to the Business Planning Session to ensure you identify any issues that need to be discussed and can get the most from the planning session. Your MBP Business Advisor will review your pre-work and prepare any additional information or resources required to assist your planning prior to the session.
Your Business Planning session will:
- Give you a chance to review and set the direction of your business,
- Eliminate procrastination in decision making and action taking,
- Identify and prioritise your most important goals,
- Develop strategies for your to achieve your goals,
- Identify what resources, actions or processes you will need to achieve your goals. This could be a combination of marketing, training, performance management, financing, or cost cutting.
- Set timeframes for achieving your goals and therefore the accountability at the deadline,
- Divide your goals into short-term and long-term (the Quick Wins versus the Key Projects),
- Provide you with a template to review actual performance against targets,
- Supply you with a sound starting point to develop comprehensive financial forecasts,
- Give you a basis from which to set individual team member’s goals, targets or KPIs.
Normal Cost: 1,980.00 + gst
Free when fully funded by MBP thanks to our partners. Apply below.
Service Two: One-Page Business Planning Workshop with Quarterly Accountability Coaching
This includes the development of your plan as above is Service One, with the addition of quarterly coaching to keep you on track throughout the year.
This coaching programme consists of quarterly meetings with your MBP Business Advisor as well as phone and email support throughout the intervening months.
The purpose of each meeting is to:
- Review your actual results against those you’d planned,
- Clarify areas where you can improve your business performance,
- Set 90 day goals that will be the target for the next meeting,
- Identify strategies to achieve your 90 day goals,
As a result of each meeting you will develop a realistic 90 day action plan with timelines to keep you on track to achieve your annual business plan. You will have unlimited access to our expertise and resources to enable you to implement best business practice.
Normal Cost: 3,630.00 + gst
Free when fully funded by MBP thanks to our partners. Apply below.
This combination of services is also available as our ‘Business Essentials’ advisory package. Business who do not qualify for fully funded services may still access a 50% discount on all of our advisory packages.
Budgeting + Cashflow Forecasting
Most businesses that fail do so while they are making a profit. The nail in their coffin was poor cashflow management. Cashflow planning is best practice for any business and is critical to survival and sustainable growth. Forecasting and monitoring cash flow is one of the easiest steps to take to predict issues and respond to changes in your business.
Helping our clients to look ahead, plan and operate with confidence is core to what we do at MBP. Read more to see how our cashflow management coaching can help you and your business.
We have three cashflow services available to support you and your business:
Service One: A Cashflow Forecast
Preparation of a Cashflow Forecast and a one-hour forecast review session to discuss, fine-tune and finalise the forecast.
Normal Cost: 1,495.00 + gst
Free when fully funded by MBP thanks to our partners. Apply below.
Service Two: Cashflow Management Coaching
A three-hour Cashflow Management Coaching session to:
- Discuss, fine-tune and finalise the cash flow forecast,
- Identify your current Cash Conversion Cycle,
- Identify the likely causes of cash flow problems within your business,
- Set 12 month and 90 day cash flow improvement goals and actions.
Normal Cost: 1,080.00 + gst
Free when fully funded by MBP thanks to our partners. Apply below.
Free when funded by Regional Business Partners.
Service Three: Forecast + Cashflow Management Coaching
Preparation of a Cashflow Forecast along with a three-hour Cashflow Management Coaching session to:
- Discuss, fine-tune and finalise the cash flow forecast,
- Identify your current Cash Conversion Cycle,
- Identify the likely causes of cash flow problems within your business,
- Set 12 month and 90 day cash flow improvement goals and actions.
Normal Cost: 2,575.00 + gst
Free when fully funded by MBP thanks to our partners. Apply below.
Business Coaching, Mentoring + Accountability
Owning and operating a business is hard work. Our monthly coaching programme provides you with accountability and support to ensure you make the best decisions for you and your business.
We’ll work together to develop strategies to achieve your desired work outcomes and gain the lifestyle you want.
Whether your business needs guidance through a major change, or you simply wish to have regular contact with a trusted business development advisor, we’d love to help.
Your coaching programme consists of monthly 90 minute meetings with your MBP Business Partner. Your partner takes an engaged role as your coach and you have access to them whenever you need with ongoing phone and email support.
There is no set in stone schedule or time frame. The exact agenda and purpose of each meeting will change to meet current challenges as your actions and needs develop throughout the programme. In general, the purpose of each meeting is to:
- Review your actual results.
- Clarify areas where you can improve your business performance.
- Overcome obstacles to achievement.
- Set actions for the month ahead to achieve goals.
As a result of each meeting you will receive minutes and an updated action list to keep you on track to achieve your goals. You will have ongoing access to your coach and our collective expertise and resources. The entire MBP team is working with you to enable you to implement best business practice.
Normal Cost: 550.00 + gst per session
Free when fully funded by MBP thanks to our partners. Apply below.
Business Continuity Planning
Service One: Business Continuity Planning Workshop
These are unprecedented times for businesses and their people. Our facilitated business resilience service provides you with accurate and logical advice to help minimise the impacts that unexpected events can have on your business.
This training is designed to support you in developing a plan to keep your business running, even through the most unprecedented times. We work with you one-on-one to help you identify the actions to take to prepare for the impact of unexpected events and minimise the downstream impact of a downturn in business.
The approach to develop your business resilience skills and mindset is collaborative and involves pre-work, either one 4-hour or two 2-hour on-line facilitated sessions and developing a foundation of key considerations to implement whenever the unexpected happens.
The service is designed for business owners to ensure they build resilience, preserve profitability, cashflow and employment for their team and survive through difficult times so they can thrive tomorrow.
Normal Cost: 1,440.00 + gst
Free when fully funded by MBP thanks to our partners. Apply below.
Free when funded by Regional Business Partners.
Service Two: Business Continuity Plan Review
We understand that many business owners will want to develop their own plan in these unprecedented times. Likewise, they may have already had a Business Continuity Plan (BCP) in place but require some feedback and support on its relevance in these unprecedented times.
Our Business Continuity Plan Review allows business owners to use our comprehensive guide and templates to create or update their BCP and then meet with us online for 90 minutes to help them review and finalise it.
Our review service ensures clients are provided with accurate and logical advice to help minimise the impacts that the Covid-19 pandemic has on their business.
A Business Continuity Plan Review provides accountability and support to identify the actions to take to prepare for the impact of Covid-19; to maximise entitlements to Government initatives and other support and minimise the downstream impact of a downturn in business.
The approach to develop the plan is collaborative and involves pre-work, supplying a plan template and guide for the client to prepare their first draft plan or update an existing plan and then an on-line 90 minute meeting to help them finalise the plan in order to begin implementing it.
The service is designed for business owners to ensure they build resilience, preserve profitability, cashflow and employment for their team and survive through this difficult time.
Normal Cost: 420.00 + gst
Free when fully funded by MBP thanks to our partners. Apply below.
Free when funded by Regional Business Partners.
Fully Funded Services + Hardship Assistance
Fully Funded Services
Thanks to the support of our team the generous support of local business leaders, we are able to offer a range of our services free of charge.
These services are aimed at the most at-risk businesses in tourism, hospitality and retail but any business can apply. The applications will be reviewed by our team and we’ll get back to all applicants within two business days. The decision as to which businesses are accepted onto the fully funded programme is solely at the discretion of the management of MBP. Decisions will be made based on the needs of the applicant business, the support they require and the capacity for our team to provide timely help and support. Currently, this funding is available until 31st March 2021.
Some services may qualify for government funding through the Regional Business Partner programme. To see if you are able to claim funding for our services through this network, reach out to them directly. Currently, this funding is only available until the end of June 2020.
Hardship Assistance
In addition to all of the above, MBP can also provide Hardship Assistance to existing clients who have been impacted by COVID-19 and are unable to meet our normal payment terms as a result. This includes a range of varied payment solutions and offerings, tailored to your circumstances. Your invoice due dates can be delayed by up to 180 days. This gives you time to recover while still receiving the professional support you need when you most need it.
We are here to support all of the businesses we work with through this uncertain time. Contact us for advice, support and assistance. We’re here to help.
Our COVID-19 Resource Centre
We have developed a range of support articles and resources which you can locate here.
Completing our business plan with MBP has helped us to have accountable goals for the first time in 15 years of running the business. The ongoing support that has followed has held us accountable and driven us to exceed our goals wherever we can. I highly recommend this service to any business owner, regardless of how long you have been in business.
Stephen Roberts
I loved every moment of my business planning session with [MBP]. It was the first time I had ever really taken the time to think about my work and why I do it and what i want to get out of it. Before the workshop I had just gone with the flow and responded to things as they happened. Now that I have a real plan I feel so much more confident and excited about the future.
Heather Williams
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