Business Solutions

Below is a list of our most common business transformation programs. The best way to determine the fitness for use for your organization is to schedule a no-obligation cosultation. We will explore such questions as, “What do you want your business to look like three years from today?” and “I would like more ______________  for my business.”

Use the connections page or schedule an appointment now to establish a time for your free consultation.

Focus Group Facilitation
Now more than ever, companies are trying to maximize their marketing research dollars and understand what drives customer satisfaction – looking to get information quickly and cost effectively.

Using a focus group means conducting a group interview that uses the synergy of the group to provide data in response to a particular topic. Focus groups are useful in discovering what people think and how they feel about something.

In this turnkey program we will work with you to fully understand your study. We will design, facilitate and analyze your focus group providing you with date that will drive your continuous improvement programs.

Creating the Future
All success or failure in life is based largely on habit. In order to make improvements in our lives it is essential to start by establishing and reinforcing successful habits. Creating the Future delivers a system by which you can gradually replace your unsuccessful habits with successful ones.

Coaching is about small incremental changes in habit made consistently over a 12 month period – the sum total of which is to create enormous change.  Successful business owners rarely have the opportunity to gather together in a non-judgmental and non-competitive environment. Business owners tend to exist in a very lonely environment, and Creating the Future introduces them to a community of like-minded people with a common objective.

Through a combination of quarterly workshops (attended by yourself and senior staff), plus a monthly telephone conference call, plus unlimited phone and email coaching between sessions, this year-long program works with senior leadership to fully integrate the 8 Key Strategies into the way you do business.

Are you moving around in a fog of detail? Can you sense a vision of your future which you are unable to reach? Do you have some of the best opportunities you have ever had in your life, but are frustrated by an inability to progress? Are you bouncing off an income ceiling?

Creating the Future will enable you to capture all the knowledge that you have, all the skills and abilities that you have developed, plus all your best opportunities. We will extract these from the complexity that exists in your life at the moment and put you back to a simpler state from which you can start all over again – but smarter this time.

Value Pricing Program Integration
Transitioning from the billable hour to a value orientation is not for the timid…or for the uneducated. Once you are exposed to the promise and the potential of value pricing, we consult with you to reorient your business practices, either a step at a time, or all at once.

In this process you will be exposed to all models, forms and practices of the value pricing system. We coach and consult with you as you integrate them into your practice.

Your customers will love the way you do business. You will spend less time chasing prospects and more time grading “worthy” customers. For too long, our prices have been set by competitors – those who base the value of the work they do merely by the time they spend on the project. Isn’t it time to receive what your customers already believe you are worth???

Project Launch
Projects don’t fail at the end, they fail at the beginning. Team collaboration around just a few key documents establishes a solid foundation on which the rest of the project can unfold.

In Project Launch, your team will receive the upfront training that they need to understand how to think and plan the project at hand. Together we will work to complete essential documentation to effectively scope and plan your project. The entire team will be involved in the effort as you complete these key documents. (Your brain is the last place you want these plans to be.) The project team will then be powerfully and uniquely positioned to launch and control the project to completion. We will continue to check in monthly for support purposes as the project will encounter natural forces that impede its progress and success.

Flying by the seat of your pants is a recipe for pain. Don’t make the mistake of just doing the next thing that needs to be done. Engage the team in Project Launch – you won’t believe the cycle time and cost savings. Projects don’t fail at the end, they fail at the beginning.

Project Collaboration
Hope is not a strategy! There are a number of organizational forces that inhibit project success. In the Project Collaboration Program, your organization can bring up to four projects and project teams to the program. Each team will receive the upfront training it needs to be successful. Monthly checkpoints and unlimited phone and email coaching to each team will assure that projects sustain momentum and reinforce the original training. We will uncover the organizational forces and barriers that naturally get in the way of project success, and confront or dissolve them.

One of the greatest challenges to training alone is retention. Sooner or later, the learning fades – particularly when it’s not put into immediate practice. Project Collaboration assures your project teams receive the requisite training, and is supplemented by on-going reinforcements that augment project success and challenge in-built organizational barriers.

Hope is not a strategy! Project Collaboration provides the necessary methods and tools to empower project teams, followed by additional support for your teams to confidently see project through to wild success while integrating and retaining the learning.

Saving a Troubled Project
Bad news doesn’t get better with age. Before you scrap the project, it may be savable. Let us have a look at where you are in the project, and give us your impressions regarding the barriers to success. Working together to communicate, plan, collaborate with stakeholders, and in all likelihood re-plan, there’s a good chance we can bring this project back from the brink.

Call before you kill it. If it was worth doing in the first place, there’s a high probability we can restore the time and money you’ve already put into the project. But don’t wait – bad news doesn’t get better with age.

Business Coaching
Contact Stein’s Way to set up a complimentary business coaching session for anyone in your organization.

Clients who work with an experienced, professional business coach report many benefits.   A study conducted by the International Coach Federation reported the following on why people work with coaches and what some of the benefits were:

Role of Coach
By far, most coaching clients pay their coach to be a sounding board – to really listen to them and give honest feedback. Clients, who could select as many choices as were applicable, characterized the role of their coach as the following:

• Sounding board: 84.8%
• Motivator: 78.1%
• Friend: 56.7%
• Mentor: 50.5%
• Business consultant: 46.7%
• Teacher: 41.0%
• Taskmaster: 30.5%
• Spiritual guide: 29.5%
• Other: 13.3%

Over 500% ROI
In another study conducted by Metrix Global, LLC, the Return on Investment of coaching was calculated to exceed 500%.  A summary of that study concluded:

The Bottom Line:  Coaching produced a 529% return on investment and significant intangible benefits to the business.  Including the financial benefits from employee retention boosted the overall ROI to 788%.  The study provided powerful new insights into how to maximize the business impact from executive coaching.

Contact us to set up a complimentary business coaching session for anyone in your organization.