SCALING UP™ BUSINESS TRAINING: PHASE III

Inspiring Action, Results & Accountability

The Advanced Phase III course provides training on how to recruit and develop teams and leaders. It explores how to grow the company through intentional development of a company culture that embraces communication, effective processes, and thoughtful strategy. Each trainee will work with the customized executive coaching tools they need to inspire action, results, and accountability towards the company’s larger vision.

How Does Phase III Work?

Each course in Phase III is executed in 4 quarterly modules, or areas of focus, which requires 32 hours of instruction and training, whether its online or in-person. Working in 8-hour sessions or two 4-hour sessions, the Champion Performance Coaching Staff will instruct 1 of 4 training modules each quarter to build leadership knowledge, drive action toward quarterly goals, and facilitate individual check-ins with leadership.

Course: 3QA

Focuses on: Interpersonal Communication, Compelling Story Development, Time and Priority Management, Productivity Development

Course: 3QB

Focuses on: Recruiting, Hiring, Onboarding Best Practices, TopGrading™ Best Practices, Dashboarding, Acquisition Best Practices

Course: 3QC

Focuses on: Leadership Development (LQi), Accountability Systems and Processes, Coaching Best Practices, Leader Transitions and Build to Sell

In pursuit of your goals, we will first identify them clearly to develop and implement your One Page Strategic Plan. We will then help align your long-term business goals and the required short-term actions.

Who We've Worked With

We’ve been working with CEOs and Executives for 25 years and have delivered world class business coaching services to hundreds of businesses, including the following:

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Course: 3QA

This advanced Scaling Up™ course delves more deeply into the on four major business decisions involving people, strategy, execution, and cash. It builds on skills and concepts in Phases I and II training to further develop leadership skills using the world-class Scaling Up™ tools, skills, and best practices. We offer this service online and in-person.

Quarter 1: Interpersonal Communication

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Review and evaluate their Communication Rhythms
2. Learn about Opposite Strengths and complete an Opposite Strengths Inventory (OSi)
3. Learn the benefits and challenges of asynchronous communication and how to use it to improve teamwork

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Evaluate their current Communication Rhythms and consider changes, if needed?
2. Assess how their OSi can enhance interpersonal communications within teams?
3. Create a strategy to use asynchronous communication to improve productivity?

Quarter 2: Compelling Story Development

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Learn advanced marketing techniques and how to apply them
2. Learn why storytelling is a powerful marketing and leadership tool
3. Discover what are the compelling stories that connect to their customers

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Describe their marketing strategy and core customer?
2. Create the Compelling Story of their organization?

Quarter 3: Time and Priority Management

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Understand time and priority management can affect the efficiency of their projects and teams
2. Learn how processes, tools, and activities can improve time and priority management
3. Discover ways that they can assess their own time and priority management systems

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Assess and find potential ways to improve their current system of priority and time management?

Quarter 4: Productivity Development

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Learn how to expand the SWOT analysis to the TOWS Matrix.
2. Expand their understanding of leading and lagging indicators to measure their progress towards objectives and milestones.

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Complete a TOWS Matrix analysis?
2. Review leading and lagging indicators that measure progress towards specific objectives?

As we develop the One Page Strategic Plan, we will identify specific needs within your company related to People, Strategy, Execution, and Cash. All businesses run best when these “Four Decisions™” are made correctly.

Course: 3QB

During this phase of the advanced Phase III Scaling Up™ course, you and your leadership team will learn how to use TopGrading™ and other best practices to smoothly hire and transition new employee. Understand how to use data and dashboard tools to help your team reach organization objectives. Learn if acquisition is a viable option to grow your organization and how to prepare the organization during the transition after acquisition.

Quarter 1: Recruiting, Hiring, Onboarding Best Practices

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Learn tools and strategies to identify and recruit the right talent
2. Understand how “Fit Factors” help you to find the right people for your organization’s vision and values
3. Discover key elements for onboarding new hires and transitioning them into long term employees 4. Learn how to use coaching best practices to supplement onboarding processes for new hires

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Identify the “Fit Factors” for their organization?
2. Assess their onboarding process and identify its strengths and weaknesses?

Quarter 2: TopGrading™ Best Practices

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Understand what TopGrading™ is and how it can optimize your leadership team through recruitment or advancement
2. Learn how to incorporate TopGrading™ into your hiring practices.

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Demonstrate the TopGrading™ interview techniques?

Quarter 3: Dashboarding

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Learn how Big Data can be used in tools and processes to provide analysis about your organization and larger trends
2. Understand how dashboard tools can centralized and simplify reports and recording data and how this can be used to analysis organizational health and growth.

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Create a plan to build or improve organizational dashboards?

Quarter 4: Acquisition Best Practices

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Learn best practices for acquisition and how to assess if acquisition is a viable option for organizational growth
2. Understand how these best practices can prepare your organization for acquisition
3. Understand how systems and processes can be set up to prepare the organization better for transitions during and after acquisitions

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Assess if acquisition is a good fit for their organization?
2. Review if their systems and processes need to be changed to better prepare for an acquisition?

As opportunities for business growth arise, we will work together to transfer the necessary skills and knowledge to resolve the situation and maximize the opportunities. During this time, we will identify knowledge gaps and seek to fill them.

Course: 3QC

During this phase of the advanced Phase III Scaling Up™ course, you and your leadership team will assess and develop a strategy to develop organizational leaders. You will learn how to implement accountability systems and process to promote organizational growth.

Quarter 1: Leadership Development

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Learn how to review and refine their Organizational Chart to support and develop leaders
2. Learn about the Leadership Quality Index (LQi) and complete an assessment of their LQi
3. Understand how an intentional culture can make your organization attractive to potential new hires

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Complete and assess and gaps in their LQi?
2. Describe their organizational culture and how it aligns with their organizational vision and values?

Quarter 2: Accountability Systems and Processes

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Learn best practices for to manage accountability
2. Understand how to use tools such as Microsoft Team, IT Structure and other tools to implement accountability systems and processes
3. Discover the importance of embedding these systems and tools in all levels of the organization
4. Learn ways to roll out changes so all levels of the organization are willing and able to implement them.

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Assess their current accountability systems and processes and review potential improvements?
2. Draft an implementation plan for system and process change management?

Quarter 3: Coaching Best Practices

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Understand how coaching techniques can support management and leadership
2. Learn the best practices for coaching people in your team. and priority management systems

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Demonstrate basic coaching skills and and understanding of how to use them in the workplace?

Quarter 4: Leader Transitions and Build to Sell

OUTCOMES:
The team will...
1. Learn how to prepare an organization to make it attractive for sale or acquisition
2. Understand how systems and processes can be set up to prepare the organization better for transitions during and after sales
3. Understand how to prepare leadership to guide employees into and through sale while maintaining good communication and organizational culture?

ASSESSMENT:
Was the team able to...
1. Assess if the sale of the organization is a viable option?
2. Review if their systems and processes need to be changed to make the organization an attractive sale?

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Who We've Worked With

We’ve been working with CEOs and Executives for 25 years and have delivered world class business coaching services to hundreds of businesses, including the following: