Specific Services to Assist
Your Small Business

		A challenge to review this list of basic business areas and principles, and not admit that your small business falls short in more than half of these areas, while others have benefited and profited by using CMI.

Change management, reengineering, restructuring, or any other name you wish to attach to the implementation of specific and necessary positive improvements to move your company forward in a more profitable and structured manner.

Learning and implementing proactive management techniques, and decreasing reactive, after the fact, cost-ineffective actions.

Management and leadership development, cost-effective delegation approaches, how to prioritize your time and your managers, management style adjustments, training, and goal-setting.

Empowerment, and then accountability that only works with it.

Employee morale issues, employee motivation, employee retention, turnover reduction, and organizational and infrastructure enhancement.

Staying close to your employees, eliminating issues before they become problems, continually enhancing team-building, and information sharing to increase the bottom line, for now, and for the future.

How to deal with the current supply and demand difficulty of finding quality employees at all levels. An employee's market. A whole new mentality. Paying what the market dictates rather than adhering to prior company policies, and making it work for you. How not to compromise and settle for mediocrity.

The critical early training period for newly positioned and/or internally promoted employees and new hires to assure success. Why you must do it early or lose.

Limiting or eliminating ineffective meetings, setting new rules on meeting effectiveness, and actually taking actions on issues discussed (a new concept for many).

Building a well rounded, balanced team that plays to existing team strengths, and adjusts for and compensates for and closes all other weak areas.

Effective internal and external communications focused on attaining the most positive and most timely results for your small business.

Employee recruitment, executive searches, and integration of all into your corporate culture, consistent with the specific personality of the ownership and personality of your existing company team (Hiring a team member, not a resume).

How employee longevity has nothing to do with productivity, at either extreme.

Business planning, strategic planning, capital expenditure prioritizing and benchmarking, goal-setting, business plan benchmarking and mid-course alterations.

Effective, timely, and simplified information flow and interpretation that puts critical information in every need-to-know employees' hand before problems arise.

Maximization of computerized information output, decreased meaningless reports that confuse more than help (and often lend themselves to dramatic misintpretation), and increased utilization and simplification of information you already work hard to accumulate (and have and/or are paying for). You run your business, not the people who happened to write the generic software that you probably use.

Providing every employee with the tools necessary for them to provide back to the company the highest return possible for its investment in them. Removing impediments and excuses and clearing the path to success.

Establishing clear and understood accountability at all levels, and how to measure it for maximized effectiveness.

Performance measurement, pay for performance rewards, and timing,

Effective spending (including capital), asset (hard, soft, tangible, and intangible) utilization maximization, and profit maximization from the best combination and utilization of these investments.

The amazing amount of money left on the table in vendor/supplier relationships. How to put it in your pocket. Weaknesses in purchasing techniques. How to keep your eyes and hands on your money, while delegating the purchasing function. How to assure that you pay what you negotiated. Effective monitoring of purchasing even when you can not afford a professional Purchasing Agent.

Exercising the same logic in customer price negotiations.

Meaningful and timely financial presentations, analysis, and simplified interpretation for in-house use to positively impact profits immediately.

Business valuations and critical long-term preparations for future potential sales and price maximization. The 3 year "dress-up" plan to dramatically increase sale probability and sale price within your timetable.

Acquisition and divestiture strategies and timing, and early prevention of making the wrong decision in either, based on emotions, no information, misinformation, or limited or tainted information, rather than reality.

Bank presentations and representations for small business owners.

Crisis management and turnaround management.

Interim Management.

Family business and closely held corporate issues, including succession planning and implementation. How to get past those sensitive family issues that really need to be addressed now, before they drain more assets.

Quality of life improvements for you and your employees (a more normal and basic approach to business).

Owner and management team mentoring and coaching to enhance team-building, promote effective leadership, and improve quality of life for all.