The Growth Company offers a comprehensive range of business services including:

• Coaching: Achieve your goals with focused, professional advice
• HR On-call: Expert HR help when you need it most
• Management Coaching and Strategy: Manage smarter
• Strategic Planning: Gain maximum performance
• Team-building: Unify and move forward
• Employee Training: Skills and Results
• Facilitation and Mediation: Negotiate before you litigate
• Hiring & Interviewing: Hire the best
• Investigations: Investigate before you litigate
• Customized Consulting: Solutions that work

Coaching
Are you:

• Struggling to make changes in your work life?
• Dissatisfied with your career or your career prospects?
• Full of plans and ideas, but unsure how to take them forward?

Do you want to:

• Reach more of your potential?
• Get the job you want?
• Improve or change aspects of your job?

As your coach, we will:

• Encourage you to set goals you truly want.
• Ask you to do more than you may have done on your own.
• Help you to focus better in order to produce results more quickly.
• Provide you with the tools, support and structure to accomplish more.

Call today for a free consultation and find out if Coaching is right for you.

HR On-call
Which describes your situation?

• You want more productivity from your payroll dollars
• You have an employee mess on your hands
• Your supervisors need help in handling problem employees
• Your personnel policies are out of date
• You need to investigate a trouble situation

Here's how it works:
Call us when you want to start. You can then use our staff to:

• Mediate employee/employee and employee/manager conflicts
• Hire, fire, document and appraise employees
• Rewrite your personnel policies and employee handbooks
• Conduct workplace investigations or
• Provide team-building, supervisory, conflict resolution and other training and consulting to prevent or reduce employee problems

Management Coaching and Strategy

We work with three types of managers:

• Those who have worked in management for 5 to 25 years and know a lot, including that they don’t know everything they need to know to handle some of the hardest challenges coming their way
• Those new to management who need a solid foundation in management training
• Those with a clearly defined management training need

We also conduct managerial assessments on new and/or senior managers sent us by organizations. We meet with these managers and/or managerial candidates to conduct an in-depth managerial assessment that outlines the individual's strengths and a “game plan” for professional development.

Strategic Planning
RESULTS: Strategic Planning for Maximum Performance

Through strategic planning, organizations increase and gain:

• The results they achieve;
• An alignment between the organization's Board of Directors and internal management and/or between the company’s management and employees and
• Clarity for the future and a yardstick by which to monitor progress and measure success.

At The Growth Company, we’ve developed a unique strategic planning format titled RESULTS. We’ve spent twenty years fine-tuning results. It’s full of the most effective, powerful, proven strategic planning and strategic marketing tools available.

To date, we’ve assisted more than two thousand groups to gain results from their strategic planning sessions. We can give you a no-cost consultation.

Building A Great Team . . . Taking a Great Team to a Higher Level

Does your organization depend on employees and/or departments working together as one team?

If you answered “yes” and want to kick-start or enhance the level of “team” now present, we can provide you a customized team-building session that:

• Builds team members team skills
• Helps interdepartmental teams resolve conflict
• Allows an employee team to celebrate successes and/or individual differences
• Helps a team self-assess their strengths and weaknesses
• Builds team member interpersonal relationships through open, honest dialogue
• Increases employee motivation
• Develops team (and individual team player) “buy-in” and trust

Employee Training

You, your employees and managers all gain when you improve employee and manager skills and strategies.

What makes our training sessions stand out?

We customize every session to your specific needs and group;

Our sessions focus on real-world, practical, immediately grasped and useable skills;

Our trainers have years of experience, enabling them to tackle complex problems and issues not often found on standard seminar agendas;

Our company specializes in training that can be evaluated in terms of measurable, bottom-line results;

We use interactive, hands-on methods that help participants learn quickly and retain what they learn for the long-term.

Facilitation and Mediation
The Results You Need

You know you need facilitation when your employee group, management team, committee or organization needs to sit down together and

• Discuss a controversial topic and come to an agreement;
• Quickly plow through a lengthy agenda without bogging down;
• Enable every member or constituency group to feel heard, without allowing any individual or group to dominate the meeting;
• Attain a lot of results from a diverse group of people in a short time.

You know you need mediation when two individuals or groups that you work with refuse to see eye to eye or you and another individual or group find yourselves unable to reach a resolution you can live with.

What makes The Growth Company, Inc. facilitators different?

• We are pragmatic and results-oriented;
• We have years of experience that give us the skills necessary to smoothly handle problematic situations and to design the right agenda or meeting process;
• We create fast-moving sessions that lead our clients to say “we got three times as much done in this meeting as we thought we would.”

Hiring and Interviewing
Hiring the right person

If you’ve ever hired an employee you later regretted hiring, you know how expensive hiring the wrong person can be.

Our “new employee hire” team can provide you as much or as little help as you desire. We do the work most employers hate and lack the time to do.

Getting you the best applicants:

• Writing classified ads that get results;
• Posting your position on web sites;
• Conducting search calls and emails to locate great candidates who aren’t currently looking for a new job but who might be right.

Screening applicants to find the best choice:

• Screening resumes
• Conducting short phone interviews to select the best
• Conducting follow-up in person interviews, using the right questions to get a real view of the top applicants
• Conducting detailed reference (and/or background) checks.

Investigations

Since 1978, TGC has provided workplace investigations for law firms and employers.

• Allegations of sexual or racial harassment
• Allegations of hostile work environment
• Allegations of workplace misconduct
• Something is wrong and you don’t know what

We can help. Whether you’re in need of an immediate, properly conducted investigation or simply want to be proactive in your approach to a troubled situation, TGC had the skills, staff and experience to help you navigate this potential minefield.

Why hire TGC?

• Neutral investigators experienced in conducing investigations
• Cost-effective reporting of information while preserving your company’s resources
• A proven results-oriented track record.

Customized Consulting

• Client Surveys
• Employee Surveys
• Wage and Salary Surveys
• You’re not sure

Client Surveys

• Have you ever wondered what your clients really think?
• Why you win (or lose out) in bid situations?
• Wanted to make sure your company holds on to your best clients and customers?

In a client survey, we call a sampling of your clients to give you the answers you need. According to our clients, these surveys are affordable, surprising in the information uncovered and “worth every penny and more.”

Employee Surveys

• What could you do to keep and increase productivity and morale?
• What isn’t working? Where are the trouble spots? What’s working well?

We help our clients conduct confidential, on-target employee surveys that shed light for managers on issues key to employees

Wage and Salary Surveys

• Are you paying your employees too much or too little?

If so, you’re either losing money (or spending it in the wrong places) or at risk for losing employees. Through an effective, streamlined wage and salary survey, we can give you the answers to your pay questions.

You’re Not Sure

If you’re not 100% or even 50% sure what “consulting” you need, don’t worry about it. At least half the clients who call us or walk through the door say, “I’m not sure quite what I need, I just have the sense I should give you a call.”

If that’s your situation, just call. There’s no charge. And, when we start the appointment if it doesn’t feel right, there’s no charge. So here’s the number, 276-4769 and ask for Lynne or Katie.

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