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READY2GROW

Ready2Grow is a company of associates that help business leaders and their teams to successfully meet the challenges and minimize the risks involved with high growth and success. R2G does this by helping business leaders evaluate their business processes and learn new skills that will help them successfully navigate the high-growth situation.

There are two key types of learning and growth that need to take place.

The first involves evaluating the business itself. What is the company’s vision and mission? What is currently working or not working? How well-equipped are people to do their jobs? Is the right person in the right job? How well are teams functioning? What changes need to take place in business processes to get a better result? What learning needs to take place to facilitate these results?

The second type of growth involves developing the individual leader or team of leaders. What are the unique strengths of the business Owner, President, or CEO? How can s/he build on these strengths in order to benefit the company? What “hats” does the leader need to offload on to someone else in order to be better able to use his or her strengths? What management (task) and leadership (people) skills need to be learned? What processes need to be in place to recruit, select, or promote new leaders? What improvements need to be made in the way leaders manage their time? All of these questions, and many more, are asked during needs assessment and coaching processes.

Businesses frequently make the mistake of spending thousands of dollars bringing in new software or training programs at this point. We find that the solution is not usually programs, but processes. Understanding how the business is currently being run, where issues tend to crop up, and facilitating the development of new relationships, conversations, methods, and processes is what will drive the business forward to its next level.

HOW DO WE ACHIEVE RESULTS?

1. NEEDS ASSESSMENT
• we partner with you to correctly identify business problems and opportunities, using research, questionnaires, and interviews with staff.
2. LEADERSHIP COACHING
• we partner with you to correctly identify business problems and opportunities, using research, questionnaires, and interviews with staff.
• we support and follow up to ensure success
3. INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM ASSESSMENTS
• we identify individual strengths and potential team synergies through informal and standardized
  assessments, including Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, DISC, and Platinum Rule Behavioural Styles
4. TEAM-BUILDING
• we optimize individual strengths and team synergies through our:
• customized coaching, training, and facilitation solutions
• seminars and workshops
5. FACILITATION
• we facilitate brainstorming and problem-solving sessions to generate useful solutions to business and
  team challenges
6. MEASUREMENT
• we measure the ROI of our team-building, facilitation, and coaching efforts

Articles of Interest

The following articles originally appeared in The Record business section. They are provided here in Adobe PDF format. If needed, download the latest version of Acrobat PDF Reader by clicking here.

• Manage your Small Business Contacts
• The 3 R's of a High Performing Team
• The 3 R's of Resolution
• The 3 R's of Responsiveness
• 7 Ways to Keep Your Talent
• Learning Groups Create Motivation
• Taming the Toddlers
• Your Team: Ferrari or Pinto

owner

LOIS RAATS MEd CCC Bus.CoachCert.

Over the last 20 years, Lois has helped over 2500 individuals and organizations to achieve results by leveraging their strengths and abilities, using a solution-focused and collaborative approach. She is an expert at helping managers, executives, and professionals name and correctly interpret the invisible processes that drive individual and team agendas. As an employee assistance counselor and coach, Lois has worked with people from virtually every size of company and every market sector, including insurance, banking and financial services, high tech, government and non-profit, manufacturing, and retail.

Lois’s areas of effectiveness include: clarifying vision and mission; performance improvement; dealing with difficult people; effective communication; individual self-awareness and transformation; career development and life transition; leveraging individual differences in personality / behavioural / learning styles; organizational learning; team process dynamics; coaching and mentoring skills; resolving conflict; motivation and encouragement.

Lois calls on a wide variety of associates, including coaches, trainers/facilitators, and consultants, to complete specific training and organization development projects.

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If you are interested in evaluating and improving your leadership and business processes in order to grow your business to its next level, Ready2Grow can help you to accomplish your goals. Contact us today for a free consultation.