How it Works

Access a Comprehensive Program

Joining Mindshop gives you and your firm access to a comprehensive business advisory support program refined over the last 30 years with thousands of successful business advisors.

Access experienced coaching, pre-built advisory services, training, advisory technology and a global community to help you confidently achieve your desired level of success delivering business advisory services.

Each of the five components of the support program plays an important role to provide the capability, confidence and business advisory services required for lasting success.

Five Business Advisory Success Components

Mindshop is a complete support solution for independent advisors and accounting firms to achieve lasting business advisory success.

Whether you are seeking to double your revenue as an independent advisor or an accounting firm wanting to help clients with structured business advisory services beyond pure compliance Mindshop is a complete support system for your business.

The Mindshop Program

1. Resources

Prebuilt, proven Mindshop advisory service lines to brand as your own for strategic planning, health checks, coaching, workshops and more.

Over 20 workshops with marketing flyers, slide decks (inc. timings, handouts and presenter notes) on leadership, profit, culture, business value and more.

Hundreds of tools complete with videos and step-by-step instructions to guide structured problem solving of client issues.

2. Technology

Over 20 prebuilt online diagnostic tools to use with business health checks and workshops, with the ability to custom build your own.

Online coaching and training technology helps you support clients or
upskill team members.

3. Training

You and your team can access over 22 online training courses for on demand learning.

A wealth of step-by step guides help you grow and market a successful advisory business.

Regular face to face training in your region plus online webinars keep you at the leading edge with best practice intellectual property and insights from high quality peers.

4. Coaching

A dedicated, experienced support coach will guide your success

Kick start your journey with a one page plan and initial audit of your advisory business.

5. Community

Share, learn and collaborate with hundreds of advisors from over 12 countries.

Networking opportunities and discussion forums.

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Create Your Business Advisory Roadmap

With Mindshop’s Business Advisory Performance Diagnostics

Guide your advisory success for the years ahead. Create a detailed, tailored roadmap on how to achieve superior business advisory performance. Complete the independent advisor or professional service firm business advisory performance diagnostic to:

Reveal your strengths, weaknesses and key actions for success.
Get a heatmap of your current performance across success factors and foundational traits.
receive a detailed Mindshop Online Page Plan with four strategies & actions for you to focus on for success.
discover the five key barriers holding you back.

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How Mindshop Works in 10 Steps

1. Join Mindshop

We help you choose a support package to meet your desired advisory goals. Independent advisors join up themselves as ‘individual’ members, whereas accounting firms can select one or many internal champions to recieve Mindshop’s full support to drive change. More details about Mindshop support packages can be found here.
For firms, we have put together an article to help you select the best person (or people) for the role of internal champion. Read more here.
When you have selected the package and internal champions, simply fill in an application form (our Regional Directors can send you one) complete each of your advisors’ details, set a start date and send it back to us.

2. Initial advisory success audit and 8-week induction

Access is provided on your first day of joining to the Mindshop Online learning and development platform to access all the relevant resources, training, forums, advisory service lines, coaching and much more
Each advisor is provided an experienced support coach who will act as a guide through your development with Mindshop.
Undertake a success audit with your coach of your advisory business to identify your firm’s vision for business advisory, any capability gaps, challenges and opportunities. This will be discussed and debriefed through a series of calls with your coach.
Be taken on a tour of Mindshop’s platform and resources by our customer success team who will help you through out your Mindshop journey

3. Develop a one page plan to achieve business advisory success

A one page plan will be developed in your online coaching area with your coach that will be continually updated with your individual and wider firm strategies. Each strategy will be focused on achieving your desired growth goals.

4. Ongoing advisory coaching

Your experienced coach will setup regular calls to discuss progress on your training, strategies and be available to help on your advisory model, pricing, marketing and much more.

5. Build advisory capabilities through training

Build capability by completing online training courses to educate yourself in foundational advisory tools and processes. Over 22 courses cover foundational, advanced and specialist topics.
Register for and attend regular regional advisor training sessions in your local region (run face-to-face or online via webinar). A great opportunity to learn from experienced presenters on key advisory topics and network with other firms.
If you are in an accounting firm, use Mindshop’s complimentary advisory fundamentals course to upskill your team in problem solving skills for use with clients.

6. Build business advisory services

Draw on a wealth of prebuilt advisory service lines and other ‘how to’ resources to tailor your own business advisory model. Draw on pricing insights, integration tips and much more.
Add online diagnostic tools into your website.
Integrate services such as strategic planning, business health checks, coaching, client workshops and problem solve for clients using hundreds of tools.

7. Market, sell and grow

Draw on sales and marketing tips, videos and resources to help you effectively sell your business advisory services.
Setup your own lead generation diagnostics.

8. Continuous Improvement

Through regular coaching, training and networking with global Mindshop firms you will continuously improve your capabilities, services and approach. Achieving high performance year on year.

9. Scale

Leverage Mindshop’s innovative technology to provide clients with online training and coaching under your own brand.
Offer Mindshop’s Growth Hub for one-to-many client training sessions.

10. Continued Success

Each year, Mindshop will continue to ensure you achieve your desired advisory goals through its comprehensive support program. Your success is our success.

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