BUILD & GROW VALUE
Building value for the long-term requires a clear vision, scalable processes, and an engaged leadership team who find personal value in growing a business. We work with owners and their teams in honing focus and confidently laying the foundation for a business with robust value.
GROW & SCALE
Growth Management Systems
Every company has a Growth Management System (GMS), or system of operation, whether they realize it or not. The trick is to make your approach to growth as intentional and focused as possible — and no single GMS on the market is a perfect fit for every business. After listening intently to your challenges and goals, we identify the tools and strategies that will be most practical and actionable for you, and work with your team to implement them with a view to measurable change.
THREE COMPONENTS OF A SUCCESSFUL GMS
ORGANIZATIONAL
STRUCTURE
An organization can’t be effective if it doesn’t have a way to verify that the right people are in the right seats. Our assessment tools will help ensure that your team’s roles align with their skills and your growth goals.
SHARED
VISION
You can have the best staff in the world, but if they aren’t aligned with your vision, you won’t realize your growth goals. We work with you to articulate a short- and long-term vision, and map out the business’s future from tomorrow to 10 years out.
ACCOUNTABLE &
ENGAGED LEADERS
Your leadership team needs to recognize that if they don’t get it done, no one will. We accomplish this by empowering leaders to work ON the business, not just IN the business. Together, we develop strategies to ensure that this work is held sacred, and implement tools that facilitate confident decision making..
Blue Print Strategy Session
This course provides training and education to those looking to build value and develop strategic and management frameworks for their business’s long-term growth. Eligible small- and mid-size companies may receive a grant to cover 50% of the course fee from the Massachusetts Workforce Training Fund.
PART ONE
- Compare your business against industry trends
- Create a list of your organization’s issues and opportunities
- Identify core focus and values — and whether your company lives them out in the day-to-day
- Break your vision into 3-, 5-, and 10-year goals
- Develop an actionable 1-year plan
PART TWO
- Review your company’s organizational chart
- Modify chart to bring roles and responsibilities in line with your vision
- Develop a scorecard to measure future success with quarterly goals
- Learn issue-resolution process to stay on track for the long term
Predictable Success
Scalable growth requires a clear understanding of where your business is at in its life cycle, and where it may be headed without renewed focus. The Predictable Success program educates nonprofit and for-profit organizations alike to navigate the challenges of growth and demystify their future trajectory. The Vann Group offers several Predictable Success courses, tailored to organizations at different stages of growth and need. Eligible companies may receive a grant to cover 50% of the course fee from the Massachusetts Workforce Training Fund.
As businesses grow, they hit foreseeable — but often painful — inflection points: Decision making gets more complex; the “fun” of growing a business turns into a grind; you’re working harder to achieve revenue or profitability that used to come more easily. Here’s the good news: once we know where you’re at in your life cycle, we can start to chart the path to sustainability, scalability, and growth.
As businesses grow, they hit foreseeable — but often painful — inflection points: Decision making gets more complex; the “fun” of growing a business turns into a grind; you’re working harder to achieve revenue or profitability that used to come more easily. Here’s the good news: once we know where you’re at in your life cycle, we can start to chart the path to sustainability, scalability, and growth.
WE HAVE QUESTIONS. YOU HAVE ANSWERS.
What’s holding you back from the growth you’d like to achieve? How effectively are you showing up as a leader to your team? The big questions surrounding your business might seem unknowable, but with the Predictable Success diagnostic tools, you’ll get answers regarding where your business stands — and where it should be headed — in less than ten minutes. Take one or both of the quizzes below and get your results immediately.
WHERE IS MY BUSINESS AT IN IT’S LIFECYCLE?
> TAKE THE QUIZ
WHAT IS MY LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STYLE?
> TAKE THE QUIZ
DIAGNOSTIC
WORKSHOP
Discover where you are on the Predictable Success Life Cycle, where you want to be, and how to get there. This one-day training program will equip you to deliver long-term, scalable growth. You’ll leave the course with an actionable plan that will align your team around organization-wide growth goals.
PEAK PERFORMANCE
PROGRAM
Designed for organizations looking to improve team interactions and personal productivity, this two-day program will help you develop the skill set needed to be a valuable contributor in complex environments. The curriculum is designed to help leaders assess the strengths and weaknesses of their leadership style, understand and navigate common conflicts, and learn to guide a team to high-quality decision making.
ACCELERATION
PROGRAM
This program will take you through the Predictable Success model step-by-step, learning how its principles and tools apply to your organization. The course begins with the Diagnostic Workshop and continues through three separate imperative courses, selected by your team based on your diagnostic findings.
“THE VANN’S HELP US STRETCH OUR BRAINS. THEY ARE OPEN, HONEST, AND ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS. WE ARE A PASSIONATE GROUP OF ENTREPRENEURS WITH A UNIQUE OWNERSHIP TEAM AND STYLE. THEY DEAL EFFECTIVELY WITH ALL OF US AND HELP CUT THROUGH THE FOG.”
JIM FRITZ, THE SNELL GROUP
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
PeerSpective Forums
PeerSpective Forums gives you a seat at an executive roundtable, comprised of 8-12 non-competing leaders who confidentially share their experiences and challenges with each other and an experienced and licensed facilitator. The forums cover a wide range of organizational issues with dispassionate, peer-to-peer feedback following protocols formulated by the Edward Lowe Foundation. Roundtables are separated into groups of emerging leaders and owners/CEOs, and meet respectively in half-day sessions, nine times a year. Eligible companies may receive a grant to cover 50% of the course fee from the Massachusetts Workforce Training Fund.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
PeerSpective Forums
PeerSpective Forums gives you a seat at an executive roundtable, comprised of 8-12 non-competing leaders who confidentially share their experiences and challenges with each other and an experienced and licensed facilitator. The forums cover a wide range of organizational issues with dispassionate, peer-to-peer feedback following protocols formulated by the Edward Lowe Foundation. Roundtables are separated into groups of emerging leaders and owners/CEOs, and meet respectively in half-day sessions, nine times a year. Eligible companies may receive a grant to cover 50% of the course fee from the Massachusetts Workforce Training Fund.
WHO WOULD BENEFIT?
OWNERS AND CEOS WHO:
- Lead a second-stage company (10-99 employees; $1-50 million revenue)
- Want a 30,000-foot view of their organizations
- Require a significant return on time invested
- Need unvarnished feedback they can’t get from employees, family, or friends
- Want better results from their decisions
EMERGING LEADERS WHO:
- Work in a second-stage company (10-99 employees; $1-50 million revenue)
- Have decision-making responsibilities, but aren’t the final decision maker
- Need unvarnished feedback they can’t get from the owners or fellow employees
- Want to expand their peer network
- Are willing to share their own experiences confidentially
WHAT WILL WE COVER?
- Company culture
- Managing up and down
- Personnel decisions
- Customers
- Direction of the organization
- Marketing
- Product development
- Finances
- Leadership
- Best practices