OUR METHODOLOGY

SEE, SOLVE, SUCCEED

Why Isn’t My Business Working the Way I Want It To?

It’s our experience that businesses are never “broken,” at least permanently, but they do have bad organizational behaviors and habits that need to be stopped in order to achieve better performance. Whether your organization is in trouble, not performing as you wish, or you just want it to stay out of trouble; working with our business performance consultants can help you SEE with a new set of eyes to stay ahead of the curve.

How will we do it? Our 3-step SEE, SOLVE and SUCCEED (3S) business solution process includes analytics and performance solutions that will cause your company to run stronger and better.

SEE

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Where Are You Now?

If you’re like most small businesses, the health and well being of your company has had peaks and valleys. But where are you now in relationship to where you want to be?

Whether your organization is faced with sluggish sales, low team productivity, diminishing profits, out of control overhead or low client tenure, significant improvement can occur.

The first step in our “Behavioral Based Business Consulting”©, is to SEE. This step involves assessments of your current business operations and patterns or “behaviors”, evaluating the natural strengths of the organization, and discovering where you want the business to go.

Our in-depth performance assessments gauge actual performance against internal objectives and industry standards to improve your business model so you can run better and stronger than ever before.

Step 1 - The 3S Performance Assessment

Our confidential business systems and organizational function assessment will pinpoint your company’s “hot spots” and vulnerabilities to answer how well you’re meeting your business objectives. And will discover if you are accomplishing them in the most efficient way?

Next, we’ll generate a comprehensive report and 3S performance enhancement master plan that is designed to improve organizational habits, efficiencies, and product and service delivery so your company runs stronger and better in these key areas:

· Product/Service Differentiation

· Product/Service Delivery

· Human Resources and Recruiting

· Financial

· Marketing

· Sales

A Sample (but abbreviated) assessment

Six Questions That Could Save Your Business

1. Do you have a unique one sentence value proposition?

2. Could you leave the business for 30 days?

3. Do you have at least 3 potential replacement candidates for every position in your company?

4. Do your employees have job descriptions or performance results metrics?

5. Are you adding 10% more customers than you lose each year?

6. Is your current ratio above 1.5?

Use your answers as a snapshot of danger zones and improvement opportunities to start a conversation that can change the way you see and do business for long-term success.

SOLVE

Performance Enhancement

Step 2 - The 3S Performance Action Plan

Now that we know where your company is, how are we going to get it to where it should be? With the 3S performance assessment results as our launching pad, we’ll set specific corporate and individual goals for each assessed area to move you to the next level.

Succeed

Performance coaching

Step 3- The 3S Tracking and Accountability System

Pate Consulting Group offers one-on-one 3S performance coaching, team sessions and onsite workshops that can help you build leadership, interpersonal, analytical and other key skills to run your business better and stronger than ever before.

Pate Consulting Group will help you stay on track and accountable for the goals and action plan you have adopted with regularly scheduled coaching sessions. We will jointly make sure you maintain and sustain momentum until you’ve reached or exceeded your targets. This is our service promise.

Has Your Business Reached Its Potential?

Realizing your business’s true potential is an on-going process and comes with realizing and expanding your own potential. With SEE, SOLVE and SUCCEED (3S) Performance Coaching you can grow and uncover solutions that can help you and your company move to the next level. Anticipating obstacles before you encounter them and coaxing out capabilities you may not know you have are just a few of the benefits of ongoing 3S business performance coaching.

" In a world that promotes the latest chart, graph or digital technology, the most beneficial success strategy might just be in our own hard-wiring."

3D PERFORMANCE COACHING CAN OCCUR IN A VARIETY OF WAYS

CEO & Senior Management

With little time and a need for a “cut to the chase” approach, Pate Consulting Group does just that. A no non-sense, objective discussion is facilitated to strengthen entrepreneurial skills, streamline business processes, and enhance profitability.

For Teams

Putting together teams to achieve superior performance can be challenging. Knowing an individual's naturals strengths, and then combining them with others whose different and complimentary skill are necessary is critical. It all starts with knowing the teams “business” DNA.

Performance Workshops

Workshops based on specific initiatives that clearly outline performance objectives, time frames, and the necessary team skill sets can be a very powerful tool for success. In this setting, specifically designed for groups of 5-20, a specific problem or opportunity is brought forth, a group of solutions are discovered and critical thinking applied to arrive at a solutions that fits.

Begin enhancing your business performance immediately with 3S business performance coaching and gain access to our business brain trust and SWAT team of operational, human resources, marketing, sales and financial experts.