If your answer is yes, I can provide you with a powerful program that will increase your business income by up to $200,000 in 12 months.

Dear Potential Growth Curve Specialist:

I’m Laurie Taylor, President of FlashPoint! For years I’ve been working with an incredible business growth methodology that helps CEOs, with fewer than 500 employees, understand and manage the dynamics of growth.

Now the growth concept that has helped hundreds of CEOs effectively manage the growth of their businesses is available to you.

My Growth Curve Specialist Training Program is designed for business consultants, executive coaches and peer advisory facilitators who already work with CEOs and who understand the challenges a CEO faces in growing their business.

I’m not saying this lightly: Once you become a certified Growth Curve Specialist and understand the concepts behind these two revenue-producing programs, you will have the ability to increase your business income by up to $200,000 in 12 months.

In the Growth Curve Specialist Training Program, you’ll be trained in how to deliver two revenue-producing programs that will provide you a Return On Your Investment within 90 days of taking this powerful program.

Through an alliance with a company out of California, HR Systematics, I have been able to add to the depth of my offerings. HR Systematics offers the first on-line leadership assessment tool that utilizes the Stages of Growth to help leaders understand how to adjust their leadership abilities to take their company to the next level.

Called Leadership Advantage, this program helps a leader look forward to the leadership styles and competencies that will be required of them as they step up to the next level of personal and business growth.

Time and time again I found that the leadership skills that got a leader to where their company is today are not necessarily the skills that will help them take their company to the next stage of growth.

The potential of strengths to become liabilities is one of the most common reasons for top executive derailment and business failure. How often is a leader, how at one point, is described as decisive and setting high standards, later seen as autocratic and dictatorial?

How often is a leader, who at one point,
is described as decisive and setting
high standards, is later seen as autocratic and dictatorial?

The Leadership Advantage Assessment program gives a leader a ‘heads up’ on what they need to do to change in order to help take their company to that next level of growth.

Training on this incredibly effective tool is part of the 3-day Growth Curve Specialist Training Program. You will be trained in applying the thinking that will help bridge the leadership gap between the skills a leader has acquired today and the skills they need to move their company forward. You will also have use of various charts and graphs that ascertain the strengths of a leader and will be able to utilize this tool to help you create a ‘gap analysis’ on each leader.

You will be able to help a leader understand the depth and breadth of their skills and competencies they have today and provide an on-going coaching program to help them obtain the skills and competencies they need going forward.

The Leadership Advantage Assessment Program will help you add income to your bottom line.

As a certified Growth Curve Specialist, you’ll also have the Stages of Growth X-Ray tool at your fingertips. Once you have the power of the Stages of Growth working for you in your own business, you will be surprised at how quickly you will be able to generate credibility, longer term relationships and referrals.

The Stages of Growth X-Ray takes a CEO and their leadership team through a series of key assessments. These assessments help the entire team evaluate where they feel the company is in its current growth stage and identify key initiatives to help them take the company forward.

The Stages of Growth X-Ray is designed to work through issues such as:

	How the company tracks key indicators
	How the company sets priorities and clearly communicates them to the staff
	How to set up clear performance expectations with every employee
	How to regularly gather and give feedback in regular one-on-one meetings
	How and when to implement an in-depth company-wide organizational survey
	How to create a tactical plan to integrate with the company’s budget
	How to establish staff training as part of an overall company philosophy

Working through specific issues that are clearly identified for each stage of growth allows a facilitator of this process to help a company and their leadership team bubble up issues that may have been creating obstacles to the company’s growth for years.

By the end of this powerful 2-day Stages of Growth X-Ray program, a CEO will have gained a much greater insight into how their leadership team thinks. The entire team will have gained a much greater understanding of their current and future challenges. A language of growth will have been established along with an intentional communications plan that will assure that the knowledge gained by these key employees will be shared throughout the company in the following months.

By becoming a Certified Growth Curve Specialist, you will have the ability to offer your clients a new and research-proven methodology designed to specifically address their core challenges.

I’ve been using the 7 Stages of Growth material for over 7 years and the feedback I continually get from CEOs and consultants who work with CEOs says it all:

 

Now I’ve taken the knowledge of
the 7 Stages of Growth and packaged it into
a 3-day training program designed to:

 

	Identify the obstacles that have been preventing a company from realizing its potential.
	Provide you with a model that explains to you what is going on in that business owner’s world to begin with.
	Provide you with a methodology to address the current obstacles that the company is facing.
	Give you the insight and tools to help a CEO understand that what got them here may not get them there.
	Provide those CEOs with a Gap Analysis assessment tool that outlines an effective leadership development program.
	Provide the business owner with a process of uncovering the next set of obstacles and addressing them as they show up.

Powerful results for your clients
and lucrative results for you.

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Let me ask you this question:

If you were able to help your clients predict how growth was going to impact their business --- wouldn’t that knowledge set you apart from the crowded world of business consultants and executive coaches?

You bet it would!

But let’s get back to how I’m going to increase your ability to make more money.

I have developed a comprehensive program that provides you with a step-by-step approach that utilizes the 7 Stages of Growth enterprise development model.

For instance, by providing you with the knowledge on how to effectively utilize the stages of growth material, when talking with existing or new clients, you will engage them at a level that immediately identifies their growth trauma.

You will be able to speak to their pain and show them how, by understanding what stage of growth they are in, they can proactively begin to manage their growth, improve productivity and increase profitability.

Most business pundits are able to evaluate a business based on past financials – they look at how well a company’s profits have grown each year, they identify new potential markets, and they spend hours dissecting a company’s strategic plan in order to shore up areas of deficiency.

And in the search for improvement, many times the obstacles that have caused the company to languish are not properly identified or those obstacles are completely ignored in order to address new areas of focus.

Once you understand this incredible growth model and can speak to the fact that the challenges a company faces with 30 employees are different than the challenges they face with 150 employees ….. a CEO starts listening.

When you actually start telling them what their current challenges are, based on how many employees they have, they become engaged.

And they want to know more.

I know this because for seven years I’ve been working with CEOs and watching it happen. My ability to engage CEOs at a level that immediately grabs their attention happens within 30 minutes of my presentation.

 

The ‘sale’ occurs once I explain the benefits of being proactive about the growth of their company in order to sustain profitability, improve productivity and increase performance.

Many business owners simply end up making the same mistakes once the coach or consultant has left because what hasn’t changed is the business owner’s ability to address current obstacles or identify new obstacles as they become embedded into the company’s culture.

A research study of over 650 CEOs is highlighted in a book by James Fischer called “Navigating the Growth Curve: 9 Fundamentals that Build a Profit-Driven, People-Centered, Growth-Smart Company”.

Navigating the Growth Curve by James Fischer

This research led Fischer to develop
an enterprise development model
that helps business owners:

	Accurately predict 6-18 months into a company’s future,
	Address obstacles that may be impacting a company’s ability to build sustainable profit,
	Focus a company’s resources and energy on the right things at the right time and
	Adapt a CEOs abilities and skills to the unique needs of their company in its current stage of growth.

The research-based study identifies a level of complexity that increases as a company grows.

For years, business experts have tried to align a company’s growth curve based on revenues or profits. While revenues and profits can certainly show growth, they aren’t predictors of growth.

In attempting to understand and decipher the patterns, the behavior and the characteristics of growth, Fischer’s research uncovered a level of complexity that was driven by one critical factor.

That critical factor was the human being.

People. Staff. Employees.

As a company grows and increases the number of employees, the dynamics of a company change.

I took a company from 2 employees to over 100 employees. As that company grew, my partner and I struggled with managing the growth of that enterprise.

I remember distinctly the day when we experienced a staff revolution. We had 22 employees. One day we were running along pretty smoothly – capturing exciting new clients, adding talented new employees – and the next day everything just sorta blew up!

Our ability to manage projects profitably started eroding, we weren’t able to keep up with systems fast enough, our client management became much more difficult. And then our staff revolted.

Seems my partner and I were micromanaging. We weren’t allowing these very talented people to do what we hired them to do. We’d pass out responsibility but forgot to hand out authority. We didn’t explain our growth plan. We kept adding new clients faster than we added staff, creating long hours and weekend work that became standard.

Our staff let us know in no uncertain terms that things needed to change. Our staff complained about losing the closeness that had made coming to work fun. People were tripping all over each other because we hadn’t defined roles and responsibilities.

What I would have given to know then what I know now. In fact, if I had of been aware of what I’m going to share with you about understanding the stages of growth that all companies move through, that $12 million business would have been a $50 million business.

This simple yet revolutionary understanding that James Fischer uncovered in his research, known as the 7 Stages of Growth, fundamentally changes how business owners manage the growth challenges of their company.

And it’s this model that I want to share with you.

I want to provide you with an enterprise development model so powerful that your clients will experience extraordinary results from recognizing their own stage of growth and how to manage their growth today and into the future.

I applied this model to that $12 million company I was in charge of right after the dotcom blow up of 2000. By understanding the unique challenges of our current stage of growth and the stage of growth we downsized to after laying off 30 people, we were able to keep our company from the brink of bankruptcy.

I’ve been applying that same model to my consulting clients for over 7 years with amazing results.

Identified in Fischer’s research were hidden agents that impacted a company’s ability to manage growth and improve the company’s chances of success.

In the
Growth Curve Specialist Training Program
you will help your clients:

	remove the hidden barriers to their company’s health and financial performance;
	reduce the uncertainty that is inherent to growing and managing a company;
	reduce the chaos that scatters a company’s focus and its ability to drive to its goals;
	and reduce the barriers blocking growth that are being created by the methods and practices that don’t work anymore.

The Growth Curve Specialist Training Program is every executive coach and business consultant’s answer to unlocking a proven method for successfully managing a company’s growth.

In his book, ‘Navigating the Growth Curve’, James Fischer talks about how growing companies walk an imaginary line that tenuously forces a company to balance through the chaos and the equilibrium that are associated with the 7 Stages of Growth.

The 7 Stages of Growth play a critical role in allowing CEOs to understand what challenges they face in their current stage of growth and also look ahead and begin to address new challenges specific to the next stage of growth.

I worked with James Fischer for five years and am a qualified growth specialist in the stages of growth concepts, tools and application.

My focus with FlashPoint! is to provide training for executive coaches, business consultants and peer advisory facilitators on the stages of growth to help them add the knowledge of the stages of growth to their own business practice.

I believe that understanding what stage of growth a company is in, where it came from and where it is going, will allow consultants and coaches the ability to better address their business clients’ needs.

Consultants and Coaches who already work with small business owners understand the challenges faced. Their ability to add the 7 Stages of Growth concepts to their own business model will help to supercharge a company’s immune system and improve the CEOs ability to:

	Recognize and address the subtle causes of organizational trauma before they take hold in a company;
	Develop proactive leaders by confidently preparing the leadership of the organization to focus on the right issues at the right time;
	Improve executive decision making by revealing the faulty assumptions that many business executives have about enterprise behavior.

Many business owners simply don’t have the time required to look deeper into the causes underneath the tidal wave of issues confronting them everyday.

Constantly putting out fires distracts CEOs from identifying the hidden forces that create many of a company's problems.

Consultants and coaches who already understand and address the myriad of issues faced by business owners now have another tool to add to their toolkit. And this tool has already proved its ability to allow fundamental changes to occur in businesses with fewer than 500 employees.

 

By understanding what stage of growth a company is in, it’s possible to PREDICT when the level of unaddressed complexity will become problematic.

In companies that ignore these complexity issues, you will start to see revenues and margins erode, productivity fall and customer service issues crop up seemingly overnight.

By understanding the
complexity level of a company,
you can help your CEO client to FOCUS on:

1	the right people issues,
2	the right revenue and profit initiatives and
3	the right business processes that are critical to a company’s health in its current stage of growth.

And when the consultant and the executive coach understands the critical balance that exists in the psyche of every company that hinges on how much confidence or how much caution exists inside a company, they will discover the hidden secrets of how to help the leadership of a company ADAPT their unique skills to maximize and leverage a positive impact on the enterprise.

Not only have I been a student of the stages of growth for the past seven years, I bring 25 years of business building experience to my training programs. I have dealt with tight cash flow, struggled to get products to market, managed employees through good times and bad – I’ve been burnt out and frustrated with all the challenges that come with running a small business.

I appreciate and identify with the challenges a business owner faces in running a business. I’ve not only worked with other CEOs and their businesses but have also grown my own successful multimillion dollar enterprise.

In applying the stages of growth to my own clients, I have watched revenues climb, customer satisfaction grow and I’ve witnessed the times when they reaped the profits that allowed them to achieve their goals and live the lifestyle they aspired to.

As a stages of growth consultant, I have made my small business owners sit up and think...

By applying the 7 Stages of Growth
enterprise development model to
your existing consultant and coaching business model,
you will be able to help CEOs and Executive Leaders:

	Discover what their top five challenges are for where they are today
	Determine what the 5 non-negotiable rules of the road are as their company moves from one stage of growth to another
	Uncover the confidence/caution ratio that exists in their company and how it may be affecting their ability to grow
	Understand which leadership style will be most effective in leading their team today and into the future
	Create a ‘language of growth’ guaranteed to help every person in their company better deal with growth trauma

 

This program is designed for business consultants and executive coaches who work with business owners with fewer than 500 employees.

After all, if you are trying to expand your own business by bringing effective programs to your clients, wouldn’t you rather have a proven model to follow?

 

The Growth Curve Specialist
Training Program will teach you to:

	Immediately identify a company’s stage of growth and determine how many managers they should have – a ratio of managers to employees that will help keep overhead in line and productivity high.
	Immediately recognize how many ‘builders’ exist in a company – people who create new ideas, take on new initiatives, find ways to expand profitability – builders love to take risks and are highly supportive of growth. Builders grow companies.
	Immediately recognize how many ‘protectors’ exist in a company – protectors are people who are cautious and prefer to slow down the pace of change – they are risk adverse and highly suspicious of growth. Protectors are necessary to ‘protect’ the assets of a company.
	Immediately recognize the critical aspects of each stage of growth – whether it’s knowing when a company moves from CEO-centric to enterprise-centric or knowing when to hire professional managers – you begin to help business owners recognize what they don’t know.

Not sure if this program is for you? Contact Laurie Taylor at info@growthcurvespecialists.com. I’d love to see if this program will work for you and if it does, eager to get you signed up for our training program that will be May 19, 20 and 21st, 2008 in beautiful Southern California.