With business challenges on the rise and resources to solve them on the decline, you’re walking up hill both ways to work just like your grandfather did back in the day. When uncertainty is the only certainty, where do you begin to make the most improvement?
TAB membership provides the resources senior leaders need to overcome major business challenges. Whether you’re looking to boost sales and marketing, achieve the optimal work-life balance or solve all your business and personal issues for good, start with TAB – and end with victory.
More than anything, sales and marketing can make or break your business. Without sales and marketing goals in place and a plan to achieve them, you risk ending up being one of the thousands of businesses that fail each year not from a lack of effective management or a superior product – but from a simple lack of sales and marketing techniques.
A TAB membership can help you organize your goals and create a sales and marketing plan properly aligned with your vision for growth. No longer will you fall victim to “I don’t know what to do,” “I don’t have the money” or any of the other common cries of entrepreneurs and business owners.
Some of the most successful businesses are family-owned – Wal-Mart and Ford, to name a few. Interview the business owners and you’ll find the same strong personalities and wills that make family businesses successful also create conflict.
The Alternative Board membership can help you create a strategic approach to best tackle even the most complex family business issues. TAB will teach you to solve family business issues before they cause major strains on both your family and business.
Whoever said mixing business with family was a bad idea never sat down to a TAB board meeting.
Employee issues overall are the most commonly discussed topics in TAB Board meetings. And it’s easy to understand why. Whether you have one employee or thousands, you will have questions regarding how to hire, onboard, manage and – unfortunately – discipline your employees.
Your employees represent the human investment in your company – and like any investment decision, you want to make the right choice the first time. Furthermore, you need to make sure you effectively train and invest in your staff in order to make everyone’s time and money worth the effort.
Effective talent acquisition and retention is a complex process. You want to establish a quality team that exceeds your expectations. TAB membership can help you build a plan, solve complex employee issues, drive corporate performance and deliver the results your organization needs to compete and succeed.
Work life balance for business owners has long been a buzz topic. Some claim it’s a myth, while others tout that it is actually possible.
As a business owner, it’s easy to blur the lines between work and life. Your work is your life and your life is your work – and sometimes you lose track of what’s what. While there’s nothing wrong with passion, you never want to be so busy making a living you forget to make a life.
The Alternative Board truly believes in the possibly – and immense benefits – of work life balance for business owners. TAB membership can help you establish results-oriented methods of restructuring your business to promote a healthy, more satisfying work life balance without sacrificing business success.
Can you work fewer hours and still be successful? The answer is ‘Yes’, and TAB will help you balance your professional and personal life.
Ego, money, stress, monthly overhead and day-to-day expenses – business partnerships are a lot like marriages. And like half of all marriages, business partnerships too can fail in the face of these challenges.
Want to know how other small business owners are dealing with their business partner challenges?
TAB membership provides you access to other business owners who have worked through similar issues. From personal disputes to conflicting visions and goals for the company, TAB’s board introduces the tried and true strategies to create better alignment with your business partner.
In the business world, improvement is the name of the game. If you’re too busy with day-to-day operational issues to create and execute an obtainable action plan, you’re jeopardizing productivity and profitability.
Your TAB Board will work with you to establish a strategic action plan and use the collective wisdom from your board to execute key business objectives. By tackling the operational issues that all companies have in common, you will be able to effectively delegate the day-to-day tasks of running your business, leaving you free to focus on taking your business to the next level.
With eyes on the prize, TAB can help you ease off the throttle and steer your business in the right direction.
You came, you saw, you conquered. One day, the time will come to leave. And without a solid exit strategy, you’ll face some tough business decisions.
Will you sell or liquidate? Is there an heir to take over the business? Are there trademarks, copyrights, patents or trade names to consider? The Alternative Board membership can help you create a strategic approach to best tackle even the most complex issues.
The exit process can be the most lucrative business process during your company’s lifetime. TAB will help you sell the business without selling out or selling you short.
Unlike many membership organizations, TAB Membership is provided on a month-to-month basis. This means that every month, at every TAB Board meeting and private one-on-one or virtual coaching session, we strive to make sure you are receiving value from your TAB Membership.
We are confident your expectations will be met (or even exceeded) by your TAB Membership. That’s why the average length of TAB Membership is more than four years, with many of our Members exceeding 20 years or more! However, if you do decide to leave your seat on your TAB Board, all you need to do is let your Board Facilitator / Coach know.
In addition to not locking you into a lengthy membership contract, TAB also provides a Performance Guarantee for the first 90 days* of your TAB Membership. After working with your TAB Board and TAB Facilitator/Coach for 90 days, if for any reason you have not received any value from your TAB Membership, you may simply request a refund of your TAB Membership dues. See your TAB Facilitator/Coach for details.
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