***COMPLIMENTARY EVENT***

How to Professionally Manage Your Business Using Metrics and Best Practices

All company founders start as entrepreneurs. As their businesses grow and mature, the question arises -- do they advance professionally at the same pace?  Do they know how to get to the next level?

I want you to envision something for a second . . . Visualize that you're in a rented car on a big business trip to Chicago. Your cell phone GPS lost it's signal, you're running late . . . and you've found that you are totally lost.

And by gone astray I don't mean "I can’t make out that landmark or tall building over there" lost.  I'm suggesting "Holy Smokes, I think that highway sign over there just said 'Welcome to Canada' lost. The kind of lost that puts you into total trepidation.  So, you pull over and ask for help at a local convenience store and the attendant hands you a city map.

Yes, a map. Red highway lines, green roads, white space and blue river designations crisscrossing through Chicago with exact and specific detail. You review the map, find where you are and where you want to go, get back on the highway and meet with your client -- hopefully only 20 minutes late.

This CEO workshop is exactly that -- a map.

To grow your business from an entrepreneurial approach to a professional approach, you need a map. A program that is more specific and detailed with action steps you can take to help you get down the road.

Here is what you will learn from our map:

• Why managing your firm as an entrepreneurial business instead of as a professional business (even when you are making money) is limiting your success
• The number one business variable that separates entrepreneurial management from professional management
• How to evaluate your performance as a CEO from a non-ego, non-emotional point of view in one easy step
• The top ten action steps you need to take to become a professional CEO
• 7 management motivational tactics you can use to increase your employee productivity without giving a raise
• A CEO blueprint of how to set up and manage your company’s business financials to increase corporate profits
• The top 5 mistakes entrepreneurs make on a regular basis and how to avoid them
• How to hire the right management team to help you maximize your team’s success (they don’t teach this in MBA school)
• How to leverage your business to reduce operating costs, increase sales, and increase revenue per employee