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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.
Save money when you bundle the Stage 2 Teleseminar with the 7 Stages of Enterprise Growth CD
Stage 2 Teleseminar/CD Bundle
Cost: $69.95
Save $7.00
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