Practical tools

Good questions. Useful conversations.

Working checklists to help you reflect on your business, organise a team discussion and identify where a closer look may be useful. Use them on screen, download the questions or print a copy.

Working checklists

Succession planning · Checklist

Succession and sale-readiness checklist

Twelve questions for advice-firm owners preparing to step back, develop a successor or explore a future sale.

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Business operations · Checklist

Where is work getting stuck?

Nine questions to help your team identify unclear handovers, repeated work and opportunities to improve capacity.

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Investment proposition · Checklist

Does every investment option have a clear purpose?

Nine questions to help you examine the structure, delivery and oversight of your firm's investment proposition.

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Integration planning · Checklist

Are you clear about the work after an acquisition?

Nine questions to help an acquiring firm identify integration decisions, dependencies and responsibilities before delivery begins.

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How to use these tools

A starting point for your thinking.

Mark each question as you consider it. Completion records your progress through the questions; it does not rate your business or confirm readiness. The checklists are available to use without registration.

Each checklist includes a branded worksheet with space for evidence, notes and next actions. Print it or save it as a PDF from your browser. Your online selections stay in the current page and are cleared when you reload it.

Your next step

Let’s start with what matters to your firm.

A specific decision, a challenge that keeps coming back, or simply a sense that something needs to change. Start with a conversation.

Discuss your priorities