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 5: Don’t Mess With These Rules.

As a Stage 5 company, you have 58 – 95 employees. The company is beginning to align itself – sales and marketing understands and is involved with product development. Customer service is tied into every aspect of your operation. As the CEO, you are operating in a proactive, systematic approach instead of a reactive, scattered approach. You have trained and/or hired qualified managers and their divisions are operating on solid ground.

There’s a subtle difference now that you have ‘breached the 50’ – while managing this dynamic organization is your number one priority, you have to shift ever so slightly into a more visionary role. No longer invisible to the outside world, your competition is heating up because you are now playing in a larger fishbowl.

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 5 leader. Each Tactic will be expanded to provide participants with concepts, exercises and tools they can use the next day.

Tip #1: Challenge all assumptions regarding Vision, Mission, Values and strategies of the company.

Tactic #1: As the complexity of your organization changes, check in with your key staff on all the things you hold sacred. Make sure you are still in alignment before more challenges surface.

Tip #2: If your training budget is non-existent, fix it now to avoid major staff turnover problems later.

Tactic #2: Start slow. Remember those monthly meetings? Add an educational component and talk about how the company started, why it started and what it means to you, the leader. Allow people to share in your dream.

Tip: #3: Develop department budgets to engage managers at a deeper level of the company.

Tactic #3: With your guidance, move from an overall ‘company’ budget planning process to where your managers commit to their own division objectives and are held to meeting those objectives.

Teleseminar Details

What: Stage 5: Don’t Mess With These Rules
When: Thursday, July 17, 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 58 - 95 employees faces and begin your journey of successfully navigating your own growth curve.

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