Strategic Advantage

ASKING DIFFICULT QUESTIONS about the nature of your business is the first step. But making the right decision is problematic and can be daunting in isolation.

Strategic Advantage has created a special and innovative programme to help you develop your thinking in a fresh way with a group of six like-minded people. This innovative method and approach will help you to:

• Develop new ideas
• Gain the competitive edge
• Breakthrough to the next level
• Grow your profits

90% of executives are tactical thinkers, 9% are strategic thinkers. 1% of highly talented individuals can think on both the strategic and tactical level.

Develop a high level of strategic thinking and outshine your competition.

is bringing together 3 learning styles that when delivered create results.

1. Strategic Master classes                              
2. Boardroom Mentoring sessions                    
3. Strategic 1 to 1 Mentoring sessions       

With full guidance and support this method allows you to learn, reflect, think and implement your strategy effectively.

On completion of the program you will have learned how to employ the following essential tools:

• Strategic Business Plan
• Strategic Marketing Plan
• New network with your other five group members that is highly likely to lead to strong relationships built on trust and credibility.

• Developing a single page business plan that will give you clarity, direction and focus. This is the first step to success.
• Strategic Marketing - the process – “You can’t go deer hunting if you don’t know what a deer looks like”
• Delivery of your objectives – Learn the most powerful method and approach to ensure your objectives are completed in a way that drives your business forward.

• The strategic marketing process in detail. Learn how to go deer hunting, but the deer are your target audience. How do they think?
• Differentiation and positioning. Learn how to set your business apart from your competition and how to position it, ensuring you maximise profitability.
• Look and feel. We will prove to you how important this is for getting this aspect of your business right. We can help you take your business from good to great.

• Systems in business. If you wish to scale up your business, system thinking is paramount. Learn comprehensive methods that enable you to problem-solve, to develop workable systems, and importantly, how to ensure implementation.
• Communication skills - making systems work through gaining buy-in from the team.
• Learn how multimillion turnover businesses continue to deliver growth in excess of 10% year on year. 
• Monitor and measure efficiency for continuous improvement. Develop a plan to win strategy.

I came away realising we are all in the same boat and all have the same issues’ ‘It has given me a completely new direction in life. It has had a dramatic impact, even though at the start of the process I admit I was slightly cynical about what it could do. The results have been truly life changing and I’m very excited to be starting a new company’. Colin Carthers Seguro H&S

We find that many of the owner-managers that we work with often feel isolated running their own businesses. Our boardroom mentoring sessions are based on action learning and are designed to overcome this isolation.

An Action Learning Set is a small group of 6-7 peers who meet to discuss real business issues in a confidential and trusting environment.

Listening and questioning techniques are used to share experiences, learn from each other and establish positive actions to be taken to resolve the issues.

Our one to one mentoring sessions include solution focused coaching as well as helping you to implement your strategies.

Change and learning occur when individuals are willing to adopt a new approach and to do something differently. The solutions focused coaching approach is designed to achieve this by changing how participants focus on, and work with people both inside and outside their organisation.

Solution Focus centres on the actions that will resolve current issues and considers how the future will be impacted. The past is for reference, not residence. In doing this, the resultant actions are more positive and better accepted by the teams making the change.

Participants will work with an experienced coach to jointly find a tailor-made solution to a problem/issue that they are having within their business.

The price for three months of strategic business and marketing mentoring, includes:

• 3 Master classes
• 3 Boardroom strategy sessions
• 3 1 to 1 mentoring sessions

If you are eligible we can offer you a government leadership and development grant of £1000, reducing your cost to

Your commitment is two half days per month and a one hour or two half hour telephone mentoring sessions with your coach. There is one Master Class followed in two weeks by a Boardroom strategy mentoring session per month for three months.

Clearly investing in yourself is the most powerful investment you can make. Strategic thinking is the smart way to work. Join us today. What you will learn will last a lifetime and you can share with others - another good reason to invest in yourself.