Skillsgap

<div class=""> <h6><strong><label class="detail-label" for="programDetails-presentation">Program Description</label></strong><img class="wp-image-6108 alignright" src="https://massmep.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Catalyst-Logo.jpg" alt="" width="202" height="106" /></h6> <p class=""><span class="">According to a compilation of several studies by Moya Mason, an estimated 100 Million companies are started each year worldwide (11.000 each hour).</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">About that same amount also fail each year. One of the major causes of failure or stagnation in business is growth. There are myriad reasons for this such as poor hiring, financial mismanagement, poor strategy, growing too fast that all can be traced back to mismanaged growth. It is easy to fall into this trap over time which is why most businesses fail in less than a decade.</span></p> <div></div> <div></div> <div class=""><span class="">There is a proven way to avoid this trap.</span></div> <p class=""><span class="">Companies that endure, that last decades, generations and centuries typically make a handful of decisions right. For instance, when Alan Mulally helped to turn around Ford in the middle of the worst financial crisis of our lifetime, he focused on these four things:</span></p> <ol> <li><span class="">Aggressively restructure to operate profitably at the current demand and changing model mix. <strong>(EXECUTION)</strong></span></li> <li>Accelerate development of new products our customers want and value. <strong>(STRATEGY)</strong></li> <li>Finance our plan and improve our balance sheet. <strong>(CASH)</strong></li> <li>Work together effectively as one team. <strong>(PEOPLE)</strong></li> </ol> <div class=""><span class="">In this highly interactive, simple, practical and actionable session, Bill will share how any company can build a healthy and thriving culture and business by developing a systematic Leadership Operating System focusing on four key decisions <strong>(People, Strategy, Execution and Cash). </strong></span></div> <div></div> <div class=""><strong><span class="">Over three hours, we will cover the following:</span></strong></div> <ol> <li><span class="">How growth can become a silent killer of business</span></li> <li><span class="">How to build a systematic decision framework for your business like Alan Mulally</span><span class="">Practice, Practice, Practice - </span></li> <li><span class="">Bill will lead us through at least 2 simple, practical and actionable exercises</span></li> </ol> </div> <div class=""> <strong><label class="detail-label" for="programDetails-valueToMembers">Value to members</label></strong> <p class=""><span class="">The audience will come away with a real sense of why and how growth if managed improperly can stealthily stall and/or kill their businesses. </span><span class="">They will also be led through practical exercises that they can act upon as soon as they get back to the office.</span></p> </div> <div class=""><label class="detail-label" for="programDetails-biography"></label><img class="wp-image-10113 alignleft" src="https://massmep.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/bill-gc.jpg" alt="" width="84" height="101" /></div> <div class=""><strong><label class="detail-label" for="programDetails-biography">Speaker Biography</label></strong></div> <div><span class="">Bill Flynn has devoted the latter half of his career to giving back to his fellow entrepreneurs by helping them to turn great ideas and businesses into exceptional ones and great people into exceptional leaders and teams. </span><span class="">Before that, he has spent 3 decades helping to start up and growing business in different roles and industries. Bill has spent 9+ years as a business advisor/coach. He is also an 8-time startup VP, Sales, and 2-time CMO. In those 30 years, Bill has worked for or advised over 30 companies including 20+ startups (10 operationally with 6 successful outcomes) many starting at ground level with few customers growing up to thousands in a few years. He has been involved in 2 IPOs and 7 acquisitions. As a GM, he led a successful division turnaround for a $100MM+ IT services company where he also was Corporate CMO helping to set up the company to be acquired by Best Buy. </span><span class="">Bill</span><span class="">’</span><span class="">s global experience includes opening/managing satellite offices in Europe and the Asia Pacific.</span></div> <div class=""> <p class=""><span class="">Over the past several years, he has become a Certified <a class="" href="http://gicoaches.com/">Gazelles</a> coach and Predictive Index Practitioner. He travels the country each year speaking to hundreds of CEOs as a Vistage Resource Speaker. He also keeps his hands in the startup world as a Mass Challenge Mentor and volunteer for NFTE (Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship). </span></p> </div> [mep_register url="https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07egrx2wmu9da2cdd9&oseq=&c=&ch="]