Daily Agenda:
Day 1
Opening Remarks & Agenda Review- By Gary Elekes
Growing a business – challenges and opportunities
The development of a plan to grow
- Company benchmarking exercise
Defining Effective Leadership in a Small Business Enterprise
- Skills of effective leaders – mapping exercise
- Styles of leadership and how they affect employees
- Social styles – examining how to change adapt leadership style to support growth
Leadership Evaluation – Examining your leadership capability
What impact does your leadership aura create in the company
Example Leadership Exercises
- Mapping Change
- Exercise – Mapping a Process Driven Company
- The White Rhino – What are Models of Success – By Gary Elekes
- Establishing a Vision for Your Company
- Working Exercise to create a Vision
- Working Exercise to Create Company Core Values & Culture
- Mapping Specific Behaviors – Culture Development
- Discussion – How does culture get influenced by leaders and company processes
- Working Exercise to Define Company Goals for Plan
- Working Exercise for Prioritization & benchmark of company against model company data
- Letter of expectations
- Cultural Document
- Values, Beliefs, Behaviors
- Employee Leadership expectations
- Role Description – defining the work required and inter-relationships
- Key measurements of Success
- Rewards - Compensation systems
Day 2
Leadership & Forming a Company Operating Plan – By Gary Elekes
Core Vales & Operating Philosophies
Establishing Company Goals for the year and the coming 3 years
Key Company Benchmarks – Discussion –
Prioritizing Goals/Actions, & Strategies, and Implementation Steps for Marketing, Human Resources, and Operational Production Planning
Defining & Completing Company Action Plans for Key Company Performance Goals
Revenues/Margins/Growth Rate/Profits/S.G.A. Costs/Key Changes
Day 3
Leadership Implementation and Execution – By Gary Elekes
Establishing a model for execution
Identifying talent and developing employees
Hiring processes – improving the leaders model for identifying new employees
Improving communication in a small business
Working with managers to accomplish initiatives
Developing other leaders within the organization
The evolving role of the owner – changing the work required dynamic through leadership






