{"id":7307,"date":"2020-02-24T12:59:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T12:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/?p=7307"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:18:08","slug":"build-a-sustainable-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/build-a-sustainable-team\/","title":{"rendered":"How to build a sustainable team and grow your business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Want to achieve your business goals? If you build a sustainable team, you can go a long way to succeeding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through my job, I have the privilege of working with a wide variety of small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) founders and management teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sheer volume of energetic entrepreneurs, visionary owners and hardworking managers that are able to identify new opportunities and build them into success stories never ceases to amaze me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More often than not, business owners are driven by a real passion to change or do things better and therefore the majority of organisations this size target growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a positive trait for a number of reasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3 ways growth can help your business<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

1. Reach more people<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, it\u2019s about ensuring your mission reaches as many people as possible. What\u2019s your \u2018raison d’\u00eatre\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You might be a modest independent coffee shop with a single site; your customers love your blend as well as the culture of your business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turning a profit at one site can quickly fuel the desire to serve the same great coffee with the same environmentally supportive ethos to many more people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or you might be a healthcare provider with a small but highly motivated team all passionate about the quality of care that patients should receive \u2013 it\u2019s in your DNA to want to provide that service to as many patients as you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. Improve your finances<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, it can bring financial prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ambition can range from achieving the stability to sustain salaries and benefits for a team and reinvest in the business, right through to scaling a high-value asset that shareholders can leverage in future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And in the early stages of growth, maintaining a positive cash flow<\/a> is critical for sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Create opportunities<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Thirdly, it ensures that opportunities are constantly developing for people in the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With growth comes the ability to train, to promote, to recruit, and to build a sense of personal achievement and career progression into the working life of all your staff, from a graduate trainee or part-time assistant through to director level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For a thriving small business<\/a>, the headache isn\u2019t necessarily in winning new contracts but in quickly and smoothly scaling up<\/a> to deliver that work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a business has developed a strong proposition for a clear market need, large contracts can often land suddenly and it\u2019s imperative you have the people power to deliver on them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Securing these projects can be the result of months, or even years, of tenacity and you don\u2019t want a lack of proper resourcing to let you down once they\u2019re secured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

Dealing with barriers to business growth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I often speak with SMEs about how they can remove the barriers to business growth<\/a> from a staffing perspective and grow their teams in a sustainable way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To take that from idea to reality, there are a number of key challenges business owners and managers need to be aware of and plan for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, whatever your industry, the main ones will likely be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n