6 Reasons Why Successful Companies Use Outside Business Advisers May 6, 2011
Posted by dennissommer in Leadership.Tags: Business Adviser, Business Coach, Dennis Sommer, Executive Business Advisers, Leadership
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Have you ever wondered why successful companies use outside business advisers, consultants and coaches ?
Successfully building a profitable business, year after year, has been compared to balancing an egg on your head, while standing barefoot on sharp knives. It’s not easy to do and a wrong decision can be a disaster.
Regardless of whether a business is privately held, family run, large or small, business owners need a truly independent third-party adviser who can coach and guide them through the appropriate decisions they need to make in all business areas to exceed their personal and professional goals.
Often, business owners rely on their own circle of influence for professional guidance using employees, investors, business associates, family and friends to help them strategically decide and tactically implement business objectives. However, this circle of influence approach for business guidance frequently creates decisions that impede business improvement and growth.
For the best business improvement results, business owners need an outsiders perspective to help them make tough decisions and integrate the 6 key areas of business improvement (strategy, sales, marketing, finance, operations and staff) to dramatically improve business performance and growth.
Having worked with hundreds of successful companies, we have identified six reasons why successful companies use outside business advisers to help them reach and exceed their business goals.
6 Reasons why successful companies use outside business advisers:
Reason 1 – Outside business advisers are not emotionally attached to your business like you and your staff are.
Reason 2 – Outside business advisers are not financially attached to your business decisions like your family, employees and investors are.
Reason 3 – Outside business advisers bring industry best practices based on a broad range of experience and thought leadership.
Reason 4 – Outside business advisers provide senior management a high return on investment compared to internal staff.
Reason 5 – Outside business advisers help you find the gaps in your business model even when your company is growing because money and success can hide mistakes.
Reason 6 – Outside business advisers help companies keep focused on the big picture and action steps required to exceed corporate goals without being distracted by day to day operations and issues.
Successful world class companies and athletes use outside business advisers.
Why don’t you ?
Think Big and Take Action !
Dennis Sommer
Dennis Sommer is the CEO of Executive Business Advisers . Dennis is a highly sought after sales, marketing and business growth expert. His specialty is helping CEO’s and executive teams improve their business performance and growth.
If improving business growth, sale or marketing performance is a priority of yours this year, contact us today to see how Executive Business Advisers can help. Call 800-627-6512 or email us at sales@ebaac.com
And #7: Because of the availability of highly successful businesspeople like Dennis Sommer to help you!
A good argumentation for the fact that every company needs a devil’s advocate with the right skills and knowledge from time to time. Outside business advisers are also there to help management evaluate the need for change.