Governance
Align the right Governance with your Growth Strategy and Aspirations
- Inspire your Board to think more strategically and break through any barriers holding them, or your company back. Amanda can help your board think more strategically away from the day-to-day running of your business.
- Chose between Advisory Board versus Board of Directors and what is needed to support your growth agenda. Amanda can help you as founder or the CEO to understand the pros and cons, and then set up the right level of governance for success.
- Engage your Board with improved agendas, strategic topics and discussions so that they are looking forward and out. Amanda can facilitate and help you leverage your Board meetings to support sustained growth.
Facilitated workshops set the tone and give you headspace to start thinking constructively about strategy. Amanda’s workshops empower board members and create greater cooperation needed to grow. An experienced and engaging CEO, director, advisory board member, consultant and proven facilitator, Amanda can guide your board, and pave the way for your business journey.
CEO Mentoring
Supercharge your business growth through mentoring from an experienced CEO
Learn different ways that a business can accelerate their growth based on Amanda’s own real-life experiences, growing businesses in difficult circumstances. Amanda can mentor you and your leaders, around her learnings, success and failure and on those things she has found make the most difference to increased revenue and sustained growth.
- Strategy - From strategy planning, engaging a Board, motivating the team and developing strategy that is forward thinking, alive and relevant, Amanda has a lot of ways she can help you understand and drive the strategy.
- Culture - How to build a growth culture, create a dynamic and enviable team environment that focuses on the people and is resilient. Learn from Amanda how making small changes can significantly impact your ability to scale and grow.
- Leadership Team - Learn how to get the best from your team and to leverage them to support you as a leader but also the business. Create a cohesive team and manage the issues around accountability, planning and engagement.
- Sales - Amanda will share many years of sales and sales management expertise with you. Tactics around building a sales team or pipeline, how to be a better sales leader and managing the challenges of revenue growth, closing more sales, scale and motivation.
Growth Advisory
Accelerate your business growth by focusing on what makes growth sustainable
Learn different ways that a business can accelerate their growth based on Amanda’s own real-life experiences. Amanda can mentor you around her learnings, success and failures and on those things she has found make the most difference to increased revenue and sustained growth.
- Strategy - How strategy fundamentally works to unite you and your team and keep the focus on the long term.
- Culture - How culture is the most important factor and why the team behaviours are so key. Learn about the importance of behaviours and role of the leadership team in setting and living the culture.
- Leadership Team - How the leadership drives growth and creating a team really takes efforts but is vital to achive scale and acceleration. Learn ways Amanda has successfully addressed issues around accountability, planning and engagement within the leadership team.
- Sales Management - Tactics around building a sales team or pipeline, how to be a better sales leader and managing the challenges of revenue growth, closing more sales, scale, and motivation. It's about learning how to be a great sales leader, motivator, goal setter, and holding people accountable.
Amanda is an experienced director, board advisor and CEO mentor who has worked successfully with 100+ NZ business grappling with change. She has built a solid reputation for supporting Founders and CEO’s across many different industries, united behind the vision to grow. Unlike many others she provides her mentoring based on her real life experiences gained from four diverse CEO roles and as a successful sales leader of 20+ years.
StratAspire Business Growth Workshops
Each workshop is 2 hours long and highly interactive. They can be run 1:1 or with small groups of companies together. They are aimed at founders, CEOs and senior leaders. The order can be tailored.
1) Scaling up the business, staffing
In this interactive workshop we will discuss the decision to hire staff and factors that impact this when you are a small business. We will teach you how to assess the implications: financial, cultural, legal and how to understand the skills you will need to ensure the business remains sustainable. We will introduce creative ideas and confidence to do this as well as bringing clarity to the cost of not growing.
2) Scaling up the business, strategy
In this interactive workshop we will teach you about what strategy is and why it is critical to your business. We will explain what tools can help with strategic thinking but also get you thinking ahead on the right Governance and how to spend time working on the business instead of in it.
3) Scaling up the business, culture
We will explain the challenge between modern business concepts and the old hierarchical ones and how they co-exist. We want to prepare you for the culture you have today and what will help you grow both in terms of client attraction and staff attraction. We will also touch on accountability and the challenges of a changing workforce.
4) Scaling up the business, leadership
We know that your future leadership team is going to be critical to your success, but this may seem far away at this point. We will teach you about the leadership skills you need now and what you will be looking for in others as you grow. We will help you understand business planning and business cases as these will be critical now and for the future.
5) Scaling up the business, sales
Without sales there is no growth. We explain why sales has to be repeatable and work like a machine. We explain about the sales process, CRM tools, importance of qualification and the powershift. We also will teach you about the right sales methodology for your offering and the tips and tricks of hiring good salespeople.
6) Scaling up the business challenges
In this interactive workshop, Amanda will focus on individual scaling challenges you face and work through with you taking all the learnings from the previous scaling up the business workshops and work them through with you in these real-life scenarios.