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Imagine expanding your business into one of your dreams.

The purpose of our Business Acceleration course is to help create and manage accelerated growth. Learn from top experts in the field of business expansion and from other high-performance peers, as you go through the process together.

Who should attend.

Owners, managers, and directors of businesses that have potential to grow profitable and sustainable revenues of at least $1 million and more. Businesses with annual revenues of $500,000 to $20 million, and entrepreneurs with high growth potential businesses are given preference.

Course description.

This is a one year executive level course that includes a 10-class curriculum, then follow on training that happens once a month for 8 months. A total of 18 classes over 12 months, 54 hours of training, for one or two leaders from the same business.

Weekly Course Topics:

1. Business Acceleration Plan – Design your business to achieve $1M+ profitable and sustainable growth. What would your business look like with revenues of $5M, $25M or $100M in 2-5 years?

2. Business Ownership – The 30 best practices of high-performance owners that create sustainable profit and more owner compensation right away, and why your business to build equity of at least $3 million.

3. Business Management – Accelerated implementation of 57 best practices of high-performance management teams.

4. Marketing Part 1 – Efficient and effective best practices that enable and accelerate multimillion dollar growth.

5. Marketing Part 2 – 49 best practices that will help you outrun the competition and create sustainable market advantages.

6. Productivity – 40 best practices to accelerate, enhance profitability and cash flow without increasing costs.

7. Accounting & Finance 1 – The 44 best practices that make the difference between financial success and failure. These best practices often take 20 years of experience to learn the hard way and can save your business from disaster. How to make your business easier to grow and manage.

8. Accounting & Finance 2 – How to make your banker, CPA, and other resources love your business right now.

9. Risk Management – 54 best practices to prevent problems that can damage and kill a business.

10. Next Phase & Growth Management – How to build a highly competitive, multi-divisional business that creates an enduring legacy for owners and key employees. Here’s how to do it faster even though most businesses fail to reach this stage.

Guest Speakers- Classes include guest speakers that are experts on their topic as well as follow-up resources to grow your business, including Prestigious Inc. 500/5000, and other award-winning business owners.

CEO Roundtables – Classes include discussions with your peers to address specific challenges and opportunities for each team. The goal is to come away with ideas and techniques you can implement the very next day.

Instructors: Each instructor is an expert in in accelerating businesses success and most have worked with over 1,000 businesses. They are also award-winning business advisers and have focused their practices on training high-performance business teams. Their focus is on helping members to build business that can make it to prestigious “Fastest Growing” lists such as the Inc 500, the Entrepreneur Hot 100, the Business Journal Hot 100 and many other awards.

Round table topics

After the 10-week course the class will meet once a month for 8 months (except August). Topics include:

1. Hiring the right people
2. Process improvement
3. Innovation
4. Customer loyalty
5. Branding
6. Online marketing
7. Social media
8. Leadership

Online action plan

The course includes an online tool that assesses which best practices are needed to accelerate the development of your business and keep you on track.

Unique course book and material

Copy of the manual, Best Practices of High Performance Entrepreneurs: Transform Your Business from High Potential to High Performance, and presentation materials prepared specifically for this course.

Learn from exclusive peers

The best part is the opportunity to learn from the other successful business owners who are also taking the course.

Cost

$1,995 (2011) – tuition includes up to two people from the same business.

Location, time & dates

Ongoing throughout the Northwest.