New Class for Small Business Execs Starts August 1, 2010

Sunday, July 11, 2010

2011 is coming up FAST. Success Discoveries for 21st Century Businesses is a 6-Month Highly Tangible, Results-Oriented and High Value Leadership and Operational Achievement Program for Small Business Owners, COO and General Managers

Are you fully optimizing your organization’s human capital? Are you setting and achieving BIG HAIRY AUDACIOUS GOALS (bhags)?

Carl Nielson, Chief Discovery Officer for Success Discoveries, LLC and The Nielson Group, a management consulting firm specialing in creating breakthrough performance, is offering a new 6-month program for Small Business Managers and Leaders that COMBINES GROUP AND INDIVIDUAL COACHING TO GROW YOUR BUSINESS
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Executive Summary of the Program

We have created a program to engage you in a very worthwhile endeavor - to create and achieve business goals and become a better leader and manager so that you grow your business faster!

“Leaders of the future will need the traits and capabilities of leaders throughout history: an eye for change and a steadying hand to provide both vision and reassurance that change can be mastered, a voice that articulates the accountability of the group and shapes the group to constructive ends, and an ability to inspire by force of personality while making others feel empowered to increase and use their own abilities.” Rosabeth Moss Kanter, professor of management, Harvard Business School, excerpt from World Class: Thriving Locally in the Global Economy

Here is a snapshop of what you’ll accomplish:

• Goal setting and goal achievement - you’ll focus on articulating one BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), writing clear objectives and achieving those objectives. You’ll create a business scorecard that you’ll use to monitor your success in 5 key business metrics from month to month.
• Leadership Skill Development - Leadership skills starts with knowing yourself, your strengths and your weaknesses. You’ll recieve an 80+ Leadership Talent Assessment. More valid and insightful than any other type of “assessment” you’ve ever experienced. Printed, bound report that details your leadership behavioral style ("how" you do what you do), your motivators (what drives you), and your current level of leadership soft skills (that will pinpoint where you need to focus your own development). Another part of effective leadership is clearly understanding your key accountabilities. You’ll be co-creating 4 - 7 key accountabilities and benchmarking your job’s talent demands. You’ll receive a gap analysis that shows your talent compared to your role’s talent demands. We’ll then develop a professional development plan to hone your leadership skills and eliminate any critical gaps. You’ll receive access to your own Personal Skill Development E-Learning Library to make a sustained shift quickly. Check out a sample here.You’ll also learn how to manage and motivate your employees - at the individual level.
• Hiring “A” players - Experience goes so far. Matching a person to the job requires looking deeper. We’ll start by teaching you our techniques for hiring “A” players, discuss sourcing strategies and guide you throug the hiring tasks for the entire six months.
• Reading assignments There are many great books we could tackle as part of this program. You’ll get to choose from a list of “thought leadeing authors” for your own reading and discussion with your business coach. For the group calls, we will be discussing some of these thought leader lessons at our monthly calls (see below)
• Six Monthly Group Calls, all recorded in case you miss one, focused on leadership and management strategy and skill development, hiring best practices and interviewing skills, performance management, manager coaching skills, creating collaboration, business purpose, mission and culture, and business development strategy. We’ll integrate reading assignments into the discussion. Learning from Thought Leaders (authors of the books) will be discussed and integrated into your leadership competencies for tangible application.
• Private Online MasterMind Group for the Class to post questions, share business scorecards, test ideas, discuss common topics, get advice from each other in a confidential setting.