Creative Companies
What’s important to you?
Topics are modular and can be combined to meet your specific goals. Join our monthly membership program to learn more about each of these and other topics.
Increasing Sales
- How can you make your principals or your salespeople great at finding more opportunities and closing every sale?
- How do you get more repeat business out of each client?
Time Management
- How do you balance the achievement of your craft with the running of your business?
- How do you find the time to develop your skills while growing your business?
Creating Strategic Alliances
- How do you pinpoint the right partners?
- How do you ensure that each project is a win-win for everyone?
Staff and Freelancer Management
How do you keep your best people? It’s documented that most people leave their positions because of their managers. That includes freelancers who work for you by choice. Let’s make sure your managers know what they’re doing. No matter what your leadership role in the firm, you can benefit by understanding motivation, team leadership, communication strategies, decision-making, time management, intergenerational issues and how to handle negative behavior.
It’s not easy being the firm’s principal. How do you keep all those egos in check, the firm moving forward, the staff feeling empowered and productive? Executive coaching can help.
All staff benefit from becoming self-leaders and honing their time management skills. Employees who have the chance to experience development programs feel the firm is invested in them and feel more engaged and committed.
Communication is enhanced by each person knowing himself better and knowing the personality styles of teammates and managers through individual assessments and team debriefs of how we can all work together better. Organizational assessments show your management team just what each person in the organization feels about working there and what you might want to change.
Book discussion groups are great for lunch-and-learns. We pass out a summary of the book so participants don’t even have to read the book first. We discuss how the book’s concepts apply to your organization. Many times employees then go on to read the book themselves. It stimulates the ‘learning organization.’
Long-Term Planning
- How do you eliminate the highs and lows of cash flow?
- How do you plan for continuous marketing and a stable level of ongoing projects?
Do you know your exit strategy? Will you sell your firm to a larger corporation? Sell it to your offspring or the employees? What will they find there of value if the firm is all about you and your passion? Strategic planning will build in other kinds of value over the years so that when you’re ready, you get something for your financial and sweat equity.
Learning from Owners of Other Creative Firms
Facilitated Peer Advisory Growth Groups are made up of owners and partners of Creative firms of similar sizes. Members learn best practices and benchmarks from each other.
Contact us for a free, initial consultation.
