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Stage 7: Go Ahead, Break It!:
A Teleseminar for Business Owners
with 161 - 500 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 7: Go Ahead, Break It!
The phrase “You can tame a wild duck but you
can’t make a tame duck wild”, speaks volumes about a
CEO’s challenges in Stage 7. Management’s efforts to
professionalize the company often crush the entrepreneurial spirit
that is so necessary in order not to be left behind by other, newer
entrepreneurial firms.
A company in Stage 7 will have an overwhelming tendency
to gravitate toward safety and equilibrium. It will start to act
like a large company – its decision making is slower, the
product innovation is slower, and the bureaucracy is formidable.
It’s harder to respond as quickly as a younger,
more agile organization. Your job as the leader in a company of
this size – along with sustaining and propagating the vision
of the company – is to create a degree of disequilibrium and
chaos within the enterprise.
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 7 leader. Each Tactic will be expanded
to provide participants with concepts, exercises and tools they
can use the next day.
Tip #1: Create a company culture
that supports entrepreneurial endeavors.
Tactic #1: Understand how to go
through your company lighting fires of inspiration and innovation.
Become relentless in allowing mistakes in the pursuit of new endeavors.
Tip #2: Challenge all assumptions
about the customer, the competition, the market and your company’s
offerings.
Tactic #2: Learn how to make this
a game. Challenge your managers to challenge their staff to outthink
their customers. Rethink what the competition looks like and find
ways to distinguish the company from everyone else. Discard anything
that isn’t adding value. Then recognize and reward that behavior.
Tip: #3: Refocus on how the company
drives profitability.
Tactic #3: Walk away with ideas
on how you can identify 3 – 5 areas in your overall profit
design and look for areas of improvement.
Teleseminar Details
What: Stage 7: Go Ahead, Break It!
When: Thursday, Sept. 25, 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
161 - 500 employees faces and begin your journey of successfully
navigating your own growth curve.
Save money when you bundle the Stage 7 Teleseminar with the Seven Stages of Enterprise Growth CD
Stage 7 Teleseminar/CD Bundle
Cost: $69.95
Save $7.00
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