Strategic Business Consulting

Make good business decisions

How are you making decisions?

Your business will always be vulnerable to events it can’t control.

Strategic decisions means focusing on what you can control to continue growing your business.

What do you do, why do you do it and how do you do it? Running a business is performance art in multi-tasking and fast decision making. Call on an external point of view to help review your assumptions and plot your decisions within your business strategy.

Pricing

Ongoing: $220 an hour

Monthly or Quarterly Retainer, including Progress Review and Questions Answered

$220 for one hour
$1000 up to five hours

What my clients are saying...

Working with Rebecca has given me the insights to grow my business. Her approach makes it easy to see what needs to be done and she has the knowledge to back it up.

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What I'm thinking about business Consulting...

Strategy Simplified: What It Really Means for Your Business. (The Worksheet)

What is strategy, anyway? Many people equate strategy with having a plan or thinking deeply about an issue. However, strategy has a specific definition and plays a crucial role in driving success within your organization. Let’s look at the most recent evolution of the definition. What strategy was In the past, strategy was often simplistically…

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Meetings, Not Monologues: A Collaborative Approach. (The Worksheet)

You know whenever you call a meeting at work, all your employees jump up for joy and yell, “Yay! A meeting! I can’t wait!” Well, no, this probably doesn’t happen. Meetings are rarely met with this exuberance. Memes about how awful meetings are get shared every single day. But it doesn’t have to be this…

Redefining “The Right Fit” For The Business And For The Job. (The Worksheet)

Every job in your business is different. You will need different people to fill them. People with a range of capabilities that will bring value to your business. Using last week’s worksheet, you defined the right values and behaviors for your business. Don’t stop there: find the right values and behaviors for each job in…

Hire People Not Skills: Hiring with Company Values. (The Worksheet)

Hiring new employees. You have outlined the job, listed necessary skills, and conducted thorough interviews. And still, it can go wrong. Who are you hiring Part of the problem is that you are not hiring a skill. You are not hiring a machine, which is programmed to do one thing over and over and be…

Happy Employees, Loyal Customers, Big Goals: The 3 Pillars of Business Success

How would you define success for your business? How do you keep it up year after year? Each business will have a different answer to the first question. All businesses have the same answer to the second question: continued success comes from having Pillars of success These are the 3 pillars on which all my…

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Build a Better Business: Understanding Your Organizational Chart. (The Worksheet)

In the last ten years, how many things have you heard are “dead”? Email, landlines, offices, retail stores. And yet all of these things still exist. They evolved. The same is true for the organizational chart, which people have been declaring as “dead” for almost ten years. But the org chart is not dead: the…

Start With The End Goal: Is Change Worth It for Your Small Business? (The Worksheet)

Should you update your Mission Statement? “Yeah. Why?” Should you create a new role in your business? “Yeah. Why?” Should you develop a new product? “Yeah. Why?” I must thank my niece for introducing me to a favorite fictional character and unaware business guru: Olaf from Frozen. (Yes: he is a snowman. And a cartoon). …

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Beyond Instructions: Delegating Responsibilities, Not Just Tasks. (The Worksheet)

When you need a diced bell pepper, what matters is that you have a diced bell pepper, not how it was chopped. Getting things done in your business is not that different. What matters in your business is getting results while respecting your principles. Those are the boundaries. Within those boundaries, there is space to…

Delegate, Automate, Outsource: Choosing the Best Path for Your Workload. (The Worksheet)

Here is an example of how not to delegate work: Delegate somewhere, somehow You completed an exercise last week to get comfortable with delegating. Now, it is time to choose what gets delegated. And automated. And outsourced. Delegate more, do less Because those are your options when you decide to delegate. You can delegate: hand…

Why Client-Focused Goals Drive Success. (The Worksheet)

Every business needs clients. But what is something that is even better than clients? Loyal clients. What makes clients want to come back again and again? The value of current clients Keeping existing clients costs less than finding new ones, so repeat business is a profit driver. But it is more than just that. Loyal…

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