Clifford-Style

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If you face challenges in your business, so does everyone else.
You're in good company.

Get in touch - no commitment, but plenty of potential.

ABOUTWelcome to Clifford Style – a bespoke consultancy for SMEs.

Do you lead a SME in the UK? If so, you face a diverse set of risks and uncertainties but also a great many opportunities. There are two options: grab those opportunities or be drowned by the risks. Clifford Style offers focused help founded on experience; our aim is to help you win in this environment.

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Nick-Clifford

WHO WE ARENick Clifford

Nick trained as a business manager at Oxford Brookes and subsequently worked in Harrods. After studying Planning at Westminster University, he worked as a policy analyst in London. In Manchester he worked on organisational change and development around the emerging sustainability agenda. He later studied for an MBA at Cambridge Judge Business School and then concentrated on corporate change in local government management. Recognising the need for more executive education for business leaders and managers he began an academic career at Alliance Manchester Business School. As a programme director and business development manager he directed, designed and delivered programmes to executives and managers in businesses of different size and scale. His PhD research was in the challenges of achieving successful organisational change.

WHO WE ARECharles Style

Charles Style commanded five Naval ships on operations, including the Navy’s flagship aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious; later he became the Commander of the UK Maritime Force. In the Ministry of Defence, he gained extensive experience in defence planning and change, equipment procurement in concert with industry, and direction of UK military operations as the head of the Defence Crisis Management Organisation. He then led and substantially reformed the UK’s senior defence leadership school in London with Fellows from over 60 nations. Later a security consultant and maritime editor, he remains actively engaged in leadership development including at the Alliance Manchester Business School where he is an Executive-in-Residence. He is also a charity trustee.

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What do hard-pressed organisations most often overlook?Simple: that tomorrow's opportunies lie
buried in today's details

So our watchwords are

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WHAT WE DOServices

The wake of Brexit poses unprecedented uncertainty wherever the British Economy goes.

With unpredictable changes like this, fortune favours those who see around corners, spot opportunities and summon up the sustained energy to act decisively. Not so easy. So, how do we carve out the bandwidth to think right and act right?

We're here to help you:

  • Deliver excellence in leadership, strategy and business design through our decades of experience
  • Take stock—rapidly—by means of a bespoke review
  • Identify quick wins and opportunities in your organisation
  • Build an effective strategy that will propel your business

Read more of our thoughts and advice on our blog

Insight support – a collaborative approach to future business

Clifford Style and Project 1000 have joined together to take a new approach to business advice and support. Traditionally those with more experience and knowledge...
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Very difficult times – caught in the headlights – what next?

Exceptional business challenges have in recent times included uncertainties around the eventual shape of our post-Brexit trading position, the challenges of the environmental/social/governance (ESG) agendas,...
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Who pays the “cBILS”?

Rishi Sunak, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced last Thursday, 2nd April, that he was revising the financial support scheme to help small and medium...
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