As a small business success expert, business owners and management understand their business and market. Sometimes they need a different perspective. I have been hire by many different types of businesses for a variety of different reasons. Some of the reasons include:

• Asking the smart questions.
• Asking the dumb questions – allowing you to get back to the basics.
• Discovering what used to work in your company in the past.
• Challenging beliefs (premises).
• Disrupting habits that are not working.
• Helping to do something differently.
• Acting as a sounding board.
• Providing objectivity – truth telling.
• Getting you or your company to focus.
• Creating a sense of urgency.
• Providing accountability.
• Providing trusted contacts.
• Providing fresh eyes to give a fresh look at a specific problem

Business Technology Coaching & Consulting - This service allows you to determine how far and how far you want to go in improving your business. AKRIS can work with you three ways:

• Business & Technology Coaching - We spent over 20 years doing consulting with Fortune 1000 companies. This consulting took place in health care, banking, insurance, manufacturing, government, technology, and outsourced services.

We use this experience and a proven methodology(developed by AKRIS) based on the book Celebrating Success! Fourteen Ways to a Successful Company! In the book AKRIS researched nearly 50 companies with revenues of less than $50M dollars and distilled their success down to fourteen attributes. AKRIS works with you to determine what changes you want to make in your business, helps you build a strategy and plan to make the necessary changes and works with you until the plan is implemented. This is where we teach you how to do it.

• Business & Technology Consulting - The second approach can build off the coaching model. If you decide that you want AKRIS to implement the necessary changes in your organization and you do not have the time of the resources to do it yourself, AKRIS can step in as full service consultant. Our experience level is both wide and deep. AKRIS differs in that we can teach you to do it or we can do it for you. It all depends on what you want to accomplish.

• Business Technology Knowledge Sharing - The third approach it what I call "pick my brain". AKRIS will spend whatever time is required for flat fee. You receive more than your money's worth. Nothing is held back and we keep going until you run out of questions. The only requirement is that it not exceed more than one day.

and finally a SWOT analysis

• SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats - not only those of your competition, but those within your own organization. Strengths and weaknesses are internal factors that either enhance or hinder your company's performance and success. They include management style, personnel, staff competence, training and professional development. Opportunities and threats are external factors of the environment in which your company operates and they have the potential to help or hinder your company.  These factors can include your competition, customers, suppliers, politics, and the economy.

Call Ron at 330-990-0788 (info@yourbusinesscoach.net) to see if how we can help you solve your toughest problems.