Stage 2: Getting Ready for Growth:
A Teleseminar for Business Owners with 11 – 19 employees.

FlashPoint!’s teleseminar series on The 7 Stages of Growth is based on research-driven tips and tactics to help you manage the growth of your company – no matter whether you are building a ‘small giant’ or growing the next Inc. 5000 company – the information in these teleseminars will improve your ability to:

1) Understand and get ahead of the challenges of growing a business

2) Uncover some of the obstacles that are blocking your success

3) Provide you a language of growth to bring your key staff into understanding and embracing your company’s goals

Your goal as a leader is to think of your journey through these stages of growth as a continuum – the more you do to manage the growth in your current stage, the better prepared you will be for your next stage of growth.

Stage 2: Getting Ready for Growth.

You are now the proud owner of a Stage 2 company with between 11 – 19 employees. You just experienced a Flood Zone, one of two ‘chaos zones’ that companies move through as they grow. A Flood Zone requires you to bear up to an increase in the quantity of activity. Your first reaction to a Flood Zone is to add more people. Don’t.

Instead, as you Ramp Up in Stage 2, you need to be focused on Profit/Revenue, getting critical processes in place and avoid the trap of just ‘throwing people at your problems’.

This mistake alone has accounted for too many businesses imploding too soon. You probably haven’t spent time thinking about ‘managers’ or shifting the responsibility of managing your people – you are not only trying to keep them on target with projects, but you are still doing everything you’ve been doing since you started your business.

On this one-hour teleseminar, you’ll walk away with 3 Tips and 3 Tactics you can use the next day to help you manage the challenges of a Stage 2 leader. Each Tactic will be expanded to provide participants with concepts, exercises and tools they can use the next day.

Tip #1: Get clear on roles and responsibilities. You can’t allow people to simply ‘do what needs to be done’ as you did in Stage 1.

Tactic #1: Learn how to look around your company and start identifying key talent. Start identifying changes in your role and learn how to delegate tasks you need to let go of to these key people.

Tip #2: Fine tune and be very clear about what has worked for you regarding sales – don’t allow your enthusiasm and sheer passion be the only fuel that’s driving your sales at this stage of growth.

Tactic #2: Learn how to take what has worked for you regarding sales and how to hire someone to help you create a sales process that works for your company.

Tip: #3: Begin the discipline of team building.

Tactic #3: Understand the process for setting clear and agreed upon action team goals. Begin to allow your staff to author these goals and encourage their participation at all levels in order to deliver on your company’s value proposition.


Teleseminar Details

What: Stage 2: Getting Ready for Growth
When: Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Time: 4 – 5 p.m. PST, 5 – 6 p.m. MST, 6 – 7 p.m. CST, 7 – 8 p.m. EST
Cost: $55 per person

The bottom line in understanding the 7 Stages of Growth that all companies go through is that the complexity of an organization will always extract its due. If you as the leader can understand what is expected of you at each stage of growth, you improve your company’s chance of success. Sign up today to better understand the challenges a company with 11 – 19 employees faces and begin your journey of successfully navigating your own growth curve.


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