Business Growth Barrier 1: Your Business Depends Too Much on You

This workshop is part of "Breaking Through Barriers to Business Growth" series where each month tackles one of the most common obstacles preventing businesses from scaling, increasing profits, and building resilience.

Every growing business eventually encounters barriers that limit progress. Whether it's becoming too reliant on the owner, struggling with productivity, facing increasing competition, or lacking a clear growth strategy, these challenges can prevent businesses from reaching their full potential.

This practical workshop series is designed to help business owners identify the barriers holding them back and develop realistic, actionable solutions they can implement immediately. Each session focuses on a specific growth challenge, combining expert insight, practical tools, and an action-planning approach to help businesses move forward with confidence.

By attending, you'll gain practical strategies, proven frameworks, and a personalised action plan to help your business grow more effectively, profitably, and sustainably.

How to Make Your Business Less Reliant on You 

As businesses develop, owners can easily become the central point for decisions, customer relationships, problem-solving, and day-to-day operations. We’ll explore why this happens, how owner-dependency can restrict growth, and what you can practically do to reduce it.

Who It’s For
Business owners who want to grow, develop their team and create a business that can operate effectively without their constant involvement. Particularly useful for owners who feel they are still too involved in the day-to-day running of their business.

In this session, you’ll learn:
Where owner-dependency develops
Identify where decisions, knowledge, relationships and activities have become unnecessarily reliant upon you.
How to transfer capability into the business
Explore delegation, systemisation, role clarity, team development and decision-making authority.
How to start reducing your own operational involvement
Identify practical changes that can free your time while helping the business become stronger and more capable.

Key Takeaways
• Greater awareness of where your business currently depends upon you 
• Practical approaches for delegation, systemisation and developing others 
• Ideas for moving more of your time from working IN the business towards working ON it 
• A simple action plan for reducing specific areas of owner-dependency

About the speaker

Tim Rylatt is the managing director of UK Growth Coach, an award-winning coaching, mentoring and training company. With 18 years’ experience in helping the owners of more than 300 companies make meaningful progress, Tim brings both significant experience and fresh ideas.
He is the author of 4 business books and is a level 7 certified CMI leadership coach and mentor. He is also a director in 3 companies himself, so genuinely “gets” what being a business owner is like!

 Please see the other workshop topics below:

Business Growth Barrier 2: Improving Productivity: You, Your Team and Your Business

Business Growth Barrier 3: Handling Competition, Disruption and Market Shifts

For enquires, e-mail us on bgevents@bizgateway.org.uk

There will also be the opportunity to ask questions during the event.

Once you have registered, joining instructions will be sent separately.