“The Business Gym created a breakthrough for me and our company. We thought we were doing well, and by most financial indications we were, but they helped me realize that I really didn’t know who we were as a firm or how we were different from our competitors.”- K.M., CEO, Financial Services Firm
The Business Gym takes leaders and their teams through a journey of exploration and transformation in pursuit of personal and business effectiveness.
Who Can Benefit From Our Services?
- Private equity firms seeking collaboration and partnership with an expert management team
- Ownership transition, diversification or development of the business into the next stage
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Recovery / turnaround
- Corporate restructuring
- Management buy-outs / buy-ins
- Recapitalizations
For Leaders
Leadership transformation
- Executive career development
- How to get promoted within the organization, supporting your core gifts and attributes
- Shift mindset from M-level management to C-level executive leadership
- Succession planning
- How to create a transition plan that will manifest your ideal successor
- Intuitive leadership
- How to integrate intuitive choices with analytical decision making, actively accessing both left/right brain
Custom 360 assessments
- Self-assessments
- Performance evaluations
New role transitions
- Build a 100-day plan to set up successful career path in new position
- Identify the leadership team, organize meeting structures and the ‘battle rhythm’ of operations
Time management
- Model calendar for work/life integration and balance
- Focus on aligning time with highest impact ROI
Business proposals & presentations
- How to create a compelling story for a value proposition to yield larger budget allocations or client buy-in
- Generate powerful proposals and presentations for internal/external audiences
Goal setting – short and long term
- For leadership team and subordinates
- Create powerful and measurable outcomes that matter
Communicating and translating strategy
- Bridge the gap between C-level strategy to M-level execution
- Convey a sense of purpose that motivates the entire organization into actionable plans
“My awareness of my impact on people really grew and I learned how to stay away and avoid situations that might play to my weaknesses.” – K.D., Director of National Systems, Military
For Teams & Organizations
Team development
- Assemble new teams whose impact is far greater than the sum of its parts
- Turn around troubled teams, creating an environment of respect and inclusion
Accountability audits
- Cross-functional assessments (operations, finance, marketing, systems)
- Recognize and reward promises kept and continuous improvement
Peer-to-peer relationship building
- Enhance team performance, collaboration, organization
- Overcome team dysfunctions with positive relationship development
Cross-culture communications
- Communicate clearly and prolifically at one-on-one and group levels
- Set expectations directly, openly and effectively
Facilitation for critical team/client relationships
- Develop the skill of having difficult conversations that transform into powerful results
- Resolve conflicts respectfully within internal departments and outside groups
Speaking engagements
- Workshops
- Keynote addresses