Stop Working So Hard & Not Getting the Results You Desire!


Instead, we invite you and your team to get enthusiastic again about your vision and goals. Working more strategically will help put your business goals within arm's reach and keep you from feeling bogged down with the day-to-day tactics that are preventing you from achieving long-term success.

Strategies for Success is Najera Consulting Group's premier service. We work closely with you in a one-on-one partnership to develop, clarify and implement high objective strategies that will allow your business to out-perform its competitors, achieve an advantage in the midst of a rapidly changing competitive environment, and create long-term shareholder value.

If you're like most business leaders, you want to quickly discover and work on the root causes of the problems your business is facing and plan out long-term goals for success, but you're too strapped for time. You may not even know the right questions to be asking. Indeed, you're likely faced with the following challenges that the Strategies for Success program is designed to address:

The Three Most Persistent Problems Plaguing Leaders in Mid-Sized Businesses Today


1. You're working far too hard and only achieving minimal results, at best

Whereas large, well-organized businesses can usually afford both good line management and specialist staff, you are often isolated dealing with policy, administration and operational problems simultaneously. You find that high productivity is often difficult to achieve.

2. You're too strapped for time to think about the important details of your business and are bogged down with the day-to-day

More often than not, problems are center-stage; they grab your attention. You find yourself missing opportunities because there is no time to plan for them. You are pre-occupied with the ongoing operational problems to be able to think clearly about the future of your business.

3. Your business is too financially strapped to encourage new opportunities and growth

Because of limited capital, you find yourself particularly vulnerable to economic downturns. You may find that your business is limited to a single or small product or service range, which makes it difficult to diversify in times of trouble. In addition, professional investors and bankers are seldom attracted to small to medium sized businesses because of their limitations in raising capital.

What You Really Want Instead

If you're like most business leaders, you desire increased profitability, the pride and accomplishment of working together with your team, the ability to overcome challenges and the potential to reach your goals.

In Other Words, You Want To:

• Stop feeling overwhelmed and start feeling a sense of clarity about where your business is headed. Quickly define your businesses' internal and external strategic issues. Gain a sense of purpose; direction and a clear strategic plan for your entire team
• Gain a better understand of what is working and not working within your business. Don't waste time, energy and resources by working on the wrong issues. Get a sense of what's working and not from a business and strategic perspective.
• Stop operating in a hand-to-mouth financial existence. Create and develop a solid business plan and results oriented strategies that will grow the business and attract customers, new investors and bankers
• Have a solid foundation in place to seize new opportunities. Strengthen your businesses' ability to change and adapt when opportunities arise
• Achieve positive results that are long lasting. Create customer value and align your business model to your vision and goals

These objectives are not only possible, they are within arm's reach!

Our Strategies for Success Program gives business leaders the confidence in knowing that their business is running at optimal potential. We work with you in a one-on-one partnership to develop and implement strategies that bring about transformational change and produce successful results. We use a holistic conceptual model for thinking about effective ways to help you achieve the results you desire. We are your partners and confidants throughout the process, and our job is to see your business succeed. Whereas other consultants just tell you what to do and leave you with a big report to decipher at the end of the process, we work with you in a collaborative partnership that dramatically increases your success rate.

We intimately work with you and your team to increase self-management and personal accountability of all involved in the process through practical, easy-to-administer tools that develop leadership growth and increased profitability. We coach and train you and your team to develop strategies that are easy to implement and action plans to become self-sufficient and competitive in your industry.

Key Approaches of The Strategies for Success Program

• Visioning - Develop vision & mission statements for your business
• Internal Assessments - Clarify your strengths, weaknesses & financial trends
• External Assessments - Understand your business sector's size, sector trends, competitive situation, regulatory environment, external threats & opportunities
• Strategy Definition - Identify major strategic issues, components and barriers to implement strategy; assess organization's potential to influence external factors; conduct risk analysis and develop a balanced scorecard
• Strategy Implementation - Develop business plan; ensure total ownership/buy in of the plan; design and configure the structure to implement the plan; assign accountabilities; obtain/reallocate resources; communicate the process to all levels of the organization, implement plans; measure implementation and manage the transition process
• Culture/Capabilities Assessment - Conduct research, benchmark best in class and brainstorm with you to identify capabilities required to execute strategy; one on one interviews with key staff (if desired); written survey of key staff
• Gap Analysis - Identify critical organizational gaps; develop recommendations to close gaps

We work closely with you to set the strategy and planning for meeting the above stated approaches. We serve as consultants, coaches and advisors, on-call as needed. We jointly establish the project timeline and implementation plan. We begin with a planning meeting and meet formally at least once a week. We will confer with you several times a week (daily, if needed) by phone and e-mail.

The Strategies for Success program has 3 different phases. Depending on the size and complexity of your business, each phase may last anywhere from 1 to 4 months.

Najera Consulting Group stays with you and your team after completion of the Strategies for Success program on a complimentary basis for up to 3 months to ensure the successful implementation of your business plan.

Other benefits of the Strategies for Success program

• Work smarter and with direction. Focus on what really matters and not on internally perceived "threats," and consequent productivity loss. You can focus on strategic issues and not have to micro-manage.
• Gain insight from experts in the field. We hold over 150 years of combined corporate experience.
• Have a trusted confidant and partner by your side. We pride ourselves on our focused and intimate client relationships and the flexibility to adapt to your changing needs.

Is the Strategies for Success Program a good fit for You & Your Business?

Najera Consulting Group is a full-service, national management consulting firm that works with Presidents, CEOs, Owners, and Governing Boards of businesses. The Strategies for Success program is highly effective for leaders in their field who are serious about taking their organization to the next level. They understand that the challenges they face cannot be solved within the organization itself and seek a partner and trusted confidant to guide them to a more successful way of working towards their desired goals.

The Strategies for Success program is valuable for leaders who are open to a collaborative partnership and engaging in honest dialogues throughout the process. We have worked with a variety of small to medium sized businesses including: financial, printing, restaurant, manufacturing, distribution, theatre, retail, academic, service, transportation, engineering, agriculture and many more.

If you've gotten this far, you might be interested in taking the next step. If so, we invite you to contact us for a complimentary Strategy Session where we will explore what challenges your organization is facing, what kind of results you would like to see instead, and if the Strategies for Success program may be of help to you or not. Whatever the outcome, you'll leave the conversation clear about the issues you are facing with your business and enthusiastic about what's possible.

The conversation will take about an hour and can be done in person or by phone. Click here to book a Free Strategy Session, and we will also send you our free article entitled, "The Top Four Reasons Strategies Fail." We'd love to speak with you!

Warm Regards,

The Najera Consulting Group Team

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