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EOS Worldwide, creators of the Entrepreneurial Operating System®, (EOS®), recently announced the launch of downloadable business coaching tools on the company’s website. Dedicated to helping entrepreneurs and business owners develop strong leadership from the ground up, the latest professional business coaching tools from EOS are now available for download for members of the EOS Community. Membership is free, and users can download the tools once they have signed up on the site.
As reported by EOS, there are over twenty different business coaching tools now available for download, including an introduction to the EOS Model™, a training module on the Five Leadership Abilities™, and the company’s popular tool, The Meeting Pulse™, designed to help make your meetings more efficient and more productive. The comprehensive Entrepreneurial Operating System was designed to help business owners and leadership teams effectively manage their employees while also monitoring day-to-day operations and long-term strategy through a handful of simple, practical tools.
According to Don Tinney, Certified EOS Implementer™, the business coaching tools from EOS are essential for entrepreneurs who want to see their companies grow, “Many business owners have a great idea but don’t necessarily have enough knowledge about leadership and management to help a team carry out their vision. EOS shows business owners how to become successful leaders, no matter what type of business they are in.“
In addition to free business coaching tools, EOS also offers free webinars, in-person consultations and resources for business owners who are interested in maximizing their efforts and building a strong team. Through a collaborative network of EOS Implementers™, the company provides intensive training on the EOS Toolbox™ and assists with facilitating its implementation in the workplace. Clients receive personalized coaching and guided lessons that will make them stronger leaders and that will strengthen their business for long-term success.
Headquartered in Livonia, Michigan, EOS Worldwide has been delivering management solutions to businesses for over ten years. Offering training, management resources and organizational assessments, EOS provides the tools business owners need to grow and manage their business in today’s dynamic business world. For more information, please visit http://eosworldwide.com.
EOS Worldwide, creators of the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®), recently announced the launch of the company’s innovative 3-Day Business Accelerator training for executive business coaches, consultants, trainers and entrepreneurs. The live events, designed to be the first step in becoming a certified EOS Implementer™, are held once each quarter from the EOS Worldwide headquarters in Livonia, Michigan, with the next scheduled workshops taking place November 15-17, 2011 and February 14-16, 2012.
The EOS training sessions are taught by EOS founder, Gino Wickman, and EOS Worldwide Integrator, Don Tinney. Attendees learn the science and psychology behind EOS, including how to incorporate the system into their own executive coaching, consulting or training businesses. The training sessions are delivered in a dynamic, small group format designed to teach professionals the keys to successfully implementing EOS in any small to mid-sized entrepreneurial organization.
The 3-Day Business Accelerator Training events are custom-tailored for successful executive business coaches, consultants, trainers and entrepreneurs, who are passionate about helping other entrepreneurs to get the most from their businesses. The training gets right into the “Secret Sauce” of the system. In addition, these exclusive workshops show executive business coaches, consultants, trainers and entrepreneurs how to jumpstart or accelerate their businesses, by giving them access to a proven business development process and a variety of business development resources that are only available from EOS Worldwide.
According the Gino Wickman, EOS Founder, the training sessions provide an exciting opportunity for executive business coaches, consultants, trainers and entrepreneurs to learn how to master the system. “In the EOS 3-Day Business Accelerator, we teach individuals how to successfully leverage EOS Worldwide resources to help build, grow and maximize their own EOS Implementer business. We give individuals the tools they need to succeed with personalized advice and professional support from our team.”
In order to provide personalized, quality instruction, the live training events from EOS are limited to 8 attendees. Interested executive business coaches, consultants, trainers and entrepreneurs can visit the EOS Worldwide site for more information on how to reserve your seat in one of the next sessions.
Headquartered in Livonia, Michigan, EOS Worldwide has been delivering management solutions to businesses for over ten years. Offering training, management resources and organizational assessments, EOS Worldwide provides the tools business owners need to grow and manage their business in today’s dynamic business world. For more information, please visit http://eosworldwide.com.
EOS Worldwide recently announced that client Detroit Radiator was awarded the 2011 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for Manufacturing in the Michigan/Northwest Ohio region. Selected from a record number of nominations for 2011, Detroit Radiator will soon participate in the National competition, taking place in November at Ernst & Young’s annual black tie awards gala in Palm Springs. The popular event for entrepreneurs throughout the world winds up the firm’s annual Strategic Growth Forum.
The Entrepreneur of the Year award for Detroit Radiator Corp. was award to the company’s owner, Mr. Randy Pruitt. EOS Worldwide congratulated Pruitt on the big win, announcing, “We are thrilled to congratulate Detroit Radiator and Randy Pruitt on their continued success and wish them nothing but the best as they continue to reach their business goals. Companies like Detroit Radiator are changing the face of business today – there are now more entrepreneurs in the field than ever before, and they have shown that being successful in any business requires strong leadership skills and an in-depth understanding of how to maintain a successful business model. We are proud to be working with companies like Detroit Radiator who are changing the way we view business.”
Celebrating 25 years of awarding the entrepreneurial spirit, Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year awards began in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1986 and were designed to celebrate the most influential and creative entrepreneurs in the region. Thanks to the recent uptick of new small businesses launching in today’s ever-evolving economy, the award has increasing in popularity and is now considered to be the world’s most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The program is currently found in more than 140 cities and 50 countries and has several thousand members.
Headquartered in Livonia, Michigan, EOS Worldwide has been delivering management solutions to businesses like Detroit Radiator for over ten years. Offering training, management resources and organizational assessments, EOS Worldwide provides the tools business owners need to grow and manage their business in today’s dynamic business world. For more information, please visit http://eosworldwide.com.
EOS Worldwide©, creators of the Entrepreneurial Operating System© (EOS), recently launched a new site that brings strategic management books, training and organizational assessments directly to business owners. Helping entrepreneurs develop strong leadership skills throughout every aspect of their business, the launch of the EOS site gives today’s business owners access to innovative strategic management tools, helping to bring them to the forefront of successful business management.
When it comes to launching a new business, many entrepreneurs have a great idea, but are lacking in their knowledge about strategic management concepts. While large corporations may have a department of employees dedicated to developing strong leadership and training employees, most small businesses are more focused on generating business and maintaining a solid bottom line. EOS Worldwide offers A to Z organizational assessments, including the latest offering – the People Analyzer©. Designed to provide an overall assessment of how teams are aligning with and demonstrating your company’s core values while also giving employees a chance to assess your leadership, the People Analyzer© is just one of the valuable tools offers by EOS Worldwide.
According to Don Tinney, President of EOS Worldwide, organizational assessments like the People Analyzer should be done at least once a quarter, as opposed to the traditional annual review, “To be successful, organizations must facilitate two-way feedback between leadership and team members. People need to hear how they are doing on a regular basis in order to improve throughout the year, while also having the ability to voice their concerns or questions in a less structured environment than an annual review.”
Headquartered in Livonia, Michigan, EOS Worldwide has been delivering management solutions to businesses for over ten years. Offering training, management resources and organizational assessments, EOS Worldwide provides the tools business owners need to grow and manage their business in today’s dynamic business world.
Summary: The Entrepreneurial Operating System from EOS Worldwide addresses the challenges that business owners face in today’s global marketplace. The system provides the tools entrepreneurs need to effectively manage and grow their ideas into a successful and thriving business.
Livonia, MI September 14, 2011 – In today’s challenging business world, it takes more than just a great idea to be successful. Many prospective business owners jump into new business ventures with nothing more than an innovative concept and an idea of what they want their business to look like. Unfortunately, it takes much more than just good intentions to successfully launch and manage any type of new business.
In order to help entrepreneurs build a strong foundation for their businesses, EOS Worldwide recently made the company’s Entrepreneurial Operating System® available to business owners through an online training platform. Through EOS®, business owners align their businesses with essential business principles and access the real-world tools needed to improve their company’s operations from the ground up – enhancing quality of service and profits. EOS® is now available to business owners throughout the globe, and includes A-Z organizational assessments, books, implementation guides and full training on how to use the system to develop and maintain a successful business. If you want hands-on support, EOS Worldwide will even connect you with a certified EOS Implementer™.
EOS Worldwide has professionally implemented this unique business management system with the leadership teams of over 340 companies. Many more companies are now self-implementing, supported by the company’s new online training platform at www.eosworldwide.com. Business owners utilize the system to effectively develop strong leadership teams relieving much of their pressure and load. The result is true work-life balance for the owner and everyone on the team. With strong leadership, business owners experience increased revenue and overall profits, and enjoy increased longevity for their company.
In today’s business world, it’s critical for business owners to understand the methodology behind effective leadership, no matter what type of business they are in. EOS Worldwide gives business owners everything they need to effectively manage their business for long-term success. The company provides full customer support for the system, and even lets interested business owners try it for free.
Headquartered in Livonia, Michigan, EOS Worldwide has been delivering management solutions to businesses for over ten years. Offering training, management resources and organizational assessments, EOS Worldwide provides the tools business owners need to manage human energy and make the company vision a reality.
Summary: EOS Worldwide announced the launch of the company’s new site, offering business owners access to essential tools proven to increase profit and revenue, while developing strong leadership from the ground up.
Livonia, MI — As an ever-growing list of entrepreneurs enter a challenging marketplace with unique business needs and varied levels of management experience, it has never been more important for the modern business owner to be in control of his or her business. With many business models now avoiding the traditional corporate structure in favor of more flexible management styles and offsite resources, business owners have to take it upon themselves to develop a strong leadership team – the cornerstone of any successful company. EOS Worldwide recently announced the global launch of the company’s Entrepreneurial Operating System, containing essential business principles and real-world tools designed to improve business operations from the ground up in a landscape that is always evolving.
With a proven history of success, EOS has been helping business owners tap into their own resources by developing strong leadership from the ground up. Through A to Z organizational assessments, books and presentation tools, the company provides full training on the keys to maintaining a strong business. EOS also offers full support to interested business owners and lets them try the system for free. Over the last ten years, they have successfully taught over 340 companies how to increase revenue and profit, while also maintaining a strong work-life balance – a winning combination that has proven successful again and again for EOS clients.
The launch of the new EOS site brings these tools directly to business owners anywhere in the world, with access to a proven, complete business management system that is both easy to learn and execute. The new site is an important resource for business owners and leadership teams, giving them easy, quick access to the entire system, including free live webinars, online training, organizational assessments and more. EOS now offers business owners instant access to the keys of managing a successful company.
Headquartered in Livonia, Michigan, EOS Worldwide has been delivering management solutions to companies for over ten years. Offering training, management resources and organizational assessments, EOS Worldwide provides the tools business owners need to grow and manage their business in today’s dynamic business world.
EOS Implementer puts focus on business growth
Livonia business coaching company will dissect a business, then refine its goals, values.
Karen Dybis
Special to The Detroit News
Gino Wickman is a businessman who thinks like a scientist. There is nothing this entrepreneur-turned-EOS Implementer enjoys more than dissecting a company to study its inner workings. It may be painful, but taking a business apart is sometimes the best way to revive and energize it, Wickman believes.
“I really love the world of business and entrepreneurs. I’ve been through that pain myself,” said Wickman, who helped facilitate the turnaround of his own family’s firm.
After that business’s successful sale, he thought about retiring. Instead, he created The Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), a Livonia-based group that helps companies refine their goals and values.
To share his principles with others, Wickman recently authored a book, “Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business.” His goal is to promote the book while continuing to grow EOS through its business coaching and workshop services.
Besides owning his own firm, Wickman is one of the original 10 members of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (then known as the Young Entrepreneurs Organization.) When working with his fellow members, Wickman found himself examining the key components of a well-run firm. It was this analysis that became the foundation of EOS.
“I have an absolute passion for helping people get what they want out of their business,” Wickman said. “I decided to pursue my passion because I knew there was a need.”
One client is Zoup! Fresh Soup Company, the Southfield-based chain of eateries. Founder Eric Ersher said Wickman’s insights give his management team the focus they need to handle the chain’s steady growth.
“It has been transformational for our business,” Ersher said. “The Entrepreneurial Operating System has made us more focused and helped us work toward common goals. We’re less distracted.”
Wickman has worked with nearly 100 Michigan firms since he launched EOS eight years ago. His ultimate goal—the 20-year plan as he calls it—is to have helped 10,000 firms and have them run on the EOS platform.
To reach that goal, Wickman wrote “Traction” and now has seven implementers working across the nation and internationally to spread his ideas. “I wanted to put it all in a book so they can self-implement or work with his team to achieve renewed focus,” he said.
“Most entrepreneurs unfortunately are frustrated. You start a business with this great vision in mind, but you get away from it because it just gets so crazy,” Wickman said. “This gets you back to the reason why you wanted to do it in the first place. And it helps you surround yourself with all the great people you need.”
Wickman mostly centers his attention in the book and in his day-long sessions with the leadership team. Once they start to strengthen his key components—vision, people, data, issues, process and traction—they often regain their passion and excitement for the jobs they do.
EOS generally works with companies of 10 to 250 people and with revenues of $2 million to $50 million, Wickman said.
Karen Dybis is a Metro Detroit freelance writer
SMALL BUSINESS MONTHLY
Do research before hiring a consultant
By Nancy Kaffer
Veronica Lujic and Nicole Rafaill’s State of the Art, a custom framing shop and gallery in Ferndale, had been open about a year when the pair decided it was time to get help.
Both are artists, Lujic said, but needed business operations expertise. So they hired a consultant.
“A lot of businesses fail in the first two years, and we didn’t want to be one of those businesses,” she said.
That was three years ago, and Lujic and Rafaill are still in business.
While there’s a host of free advice available for business owners and would-be owners, free resources may not meet all a business owner’s needs. So when is it time to hire a business coach or consultant? And how do you find the right person?
“My very strong opinion is go free first — there’s a lot of great free information out there, and with the Internet, the world is our oyster,” said Gino Wickman, a business coach, creator of the Entrepreneurial Operating System and author of the book Traction: Get a Grip On Your Business, a business strategy guide. “When it’s a good time to use a consultant is when you don’t have the answer and can’t find the answer.”
Finding the right consultant, said Ed King, director of small-business services in Wayne State University’s department of executive and professional development, is a matter of research, research, research.
Check with trade associations and on industry-specific Web sites to see who’s respected in the field, King said. Look for an adviser who’s served comparable businesses, and has delivered results.
Wickman advises business owners to be demanding when seeking a coach or consultant.
“Ask for their entire client list, not their best three, which is what they’ll want to give you,” he said. “And make sure they offer a guarantee — if I don’t deliver the value I promised, you don’t have to pay me.”
Don’t take a consultant’s claims of expertise at face value, King said.
“If you start talking to them and they don’t understand the buzzwords of the industry, that’s a bad sign,” he said.
Setting clear goals is important, Wickman said, for the consultant and the business owner.
Lujic and Rafaill met with a few consultants before they met someone who clicked.
The consultant led them though a retail planning process. They helped the owners identify business strengths and weaknesses, areas that were working and those that required improvement.
“A lot of that is numbers,” Lujic said. “You assess when people are coming in, what kind of people are coming in, all the statistics people usually talk about but you never really know “til you sit down and see it.”
Nancy Kaffer: (313) 446-0412, nkaffer@crain.com.
Does your organization have traction or are you just spinning your wheels?
My guest today will be Gino Wickman, author of the book Traction…Get A Grip on Your Business, an entrepreneur, and creator of EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System), a practical method for helping companies achieve greatness. The economic situation is creating confusion, isolation and a feeling of powerlessness. People are locking up when they shouldn’t be – it is scary. Now is the time for leaders to step-up and provide their organizations leadership, create security, and implement a system to keep organizations going and growing. Gino Wickman’s Entrepreneurial Operating System is the system that leaders can use to clarify, simplify, and get their people through the scary times. Call in with your questions or comments.
Executive Read: Weekly Book Reviews by Notable Twin Cities Leaders
Who: Matt Meents, CEO of Reside (Minneapolis, MN)
What: “Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business” by Gino Wickman
Why: “Of all the great business books I’ve read, none has had a more lasting impact on me and my business than ‘Traction.’ I used to be a frustrated entrepreneur turning out 300 ideas a day that rarely took root in a way that helped our business. So I worked harder and longer until I was burned out and ready to quit. The simple concepts and practical tools in ‘Traction’ have given me my life back and brought a new level of energy and focus to our entire team.”
“Traction’ introduces readers to the six key components of a truly great business: vision, people, data, issues, process and traction. The book makes it easy to assess your own company in those areas. It provides a full set of real-world tools and a proven system, EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System), that helps your team become its best by constantly working to strengthen each of those components.”
“All entrepreneurial businesses are fast moving. As a provider of Web services that help businesses grow, Reside is no exception. But my 300 ideas were a source of chaos that served to complicate our forward progress rather than accelerate it. Thanks to ‘Traction’ and EOS, we’re now focused on achieving our vision, delighting our clients and working together as a more cohesive team.”
“Based on my own experience, I think this book will be particularly beneficial to frustrated entrepreneurs who want to get their lives back and love their businesses again.”
