Five Key Ingredients to Growth:

Unleashing Your Firm's Hidden Potential Through Strategic Planning

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Who Should Attend:  Construction Execs including Presidents, CEO’s, CFO’s, Business Developers, Project Managers, Executive Vice Presidents, etc.

Daily Program: 8:00am to 3:30pm

Key concepts:

• A pragmatic, proven planning process validated by hundreds of companies your size.
• A mix of presentations and hands-on sessions with peers.
• Uses your company as your own case study utilizing anonymous input from your key executives to help you develop your draft strategic plan.
• Participants leave with a clear sense of what strategic planning is, how it can assist them in changing the status quo, and what they need to do next.

Agenda:

1. Understanding the big picture and the process
                   setting a winning environment with rules, roles, and fun
                   following a pragmatic model
                   understanding the profound difference between an event and a process.
2. Honest Assessment
                   tapping into the “wisdom of crowds”
                   use of the WOTS-up analysis
                   identifying challenges through weaknesses and threats
                   identifying opportunities and leveraging strengths.
3. Craft vision and mission to communicate your direction
                   establishing your north star with a vision
                   genetically engineering your organization for success with a quality mission.
4. Develop strategy
                   utilizing the analogy of assembling a giant jigsaw puzzle
                   capturing the power of everyone “seeing the cathedral”
5. Implementation goals and action plans
                   identifying the 5 key areas to change status quo – your strategic goals
                   setting specific, measurable, key result targets to hit within 12 months
                   aligning personal accountability with each result
                   the magic of 90 day action steps.

Committing to the next steps
                remember we are paid to implement, not to plan
                the role of the executive team, consultants, advisors

About the Speakers:  

Larry Silver is...

A National Expert in the Construction Industry specializing in Strategic Planning along with Marketing/Business Development Planning and Executive Search for contractors.  His energetic teaching style engages people in the learning process and imparts motivation to implement the powerful plans that will be crafted at this workshop. 

He is Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Business Development Journal, Founder and Executive Director of the Contractor Business Development Association (CBDA)- which launched in May 1999.  Larry is also the President of Contractor Marketing Inc., a National Marketing and Business Development Consulting firm which helps contractors plan and implement marketing strategies.  They are the only national firm who exclusively searches and recruits marketing, sales and business development executives. 

Larry is a sought-after speaker for various associations such as the Design-Build Institute of America (2003 National Press Award Winner), AGC, ABC, IEC, etc.

Guarantee: As always, we provide a 100% money-back guarantee.  The good part is that we have never had to use it.

Workshop testimonials:

"The first 30 minutes paid for all costs of the seminar."
Wes Hamilton, CPM, Indianapolis

"Presentations were well thought out and easy to follow. The most important aspect of the seminar is that it is specific to the construction industry."
Anthony Hernandez, Meridian Commercial Systems, Dallas TX

"The construction seminar is extremely relevant to any firm that wants to establish a formal marketing plan or tune up its current program. The information presented was practical, informative and readily applicable. The one-on-one consulting was great!" Bob DeGeorge, Robert F. DeGeorge Associates, Inc. Riverside MO

"As assistant to the President of the company, I learned a great deal about how I, as well as other employees, can help in the marketing area." Trish Slovaic, Vacala Construction, Libertyville, IL.

"Allowing group conversation and exchanging other marketing efforts among the group was interesting and beneficial." Tracey Armstrong, TCI Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Inc. LaCrosse, WI.

"Overall great experience!" Linda Brown, Scurto Cement Construction Ltd., Schaumburg, IL.

"A real life approach to make dreams into doable goals and lifetime achievements." Susan Sansale, Legacy Enterprises

"Good information - anxious to share with rest of my organization." Kevin Kennedy, Mizrahi Design Associates  

"Great session! Look forward to seeing where the company is in 5 years."  Rob Jamison, Marshall Elevator

"I plan to immediately begin using the tips for Strategic Planning meetings as early as next week - excellent seminar; really makes you analyze who you are and where you want to be as a business." Michele Peulsi, Philip Pelusi Company