Advisory boards provide unbiased, third-party insights and recommendations on various strategic issues. However, to fully leverage these valuable resources and ensure they offer the expected strategic value, businesses must have a mechanism to evaluate their performance systematically.
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You need expert advice but can’t justify the cost of a full-time board member. Enter the world of fractional board members. These are highly skilled professionals who offer their expertise to multiple companies, often on a part-time basis.
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An advisory board is a group of external experts and professionals who provide guidance, advice, and support to a company’s leadership team. These boards can drive strategic direction, offer insights into industry trends, and ensure sound corporate governance.
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Dr. Sandi Webster is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, and mentor who helps business owners select handpicked experts for their personal and business advisory boards. She focuses on sharing the knowledge accumulated from her experiences with entrepreneurs and corporate executives through her online courses and speaking with the outcome that they will operationalize their companies to get stuff off their plates.
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I’ve sat on for-profit and non-profit advisory boards over the years. Some ran like clockwork, while others did not. Typically, the ones not running correctly have one thing in common – they are failing. I’ve deduced that one of the reasons for failure is if the advisory board lacks a clear understanding of its purpose and goals, it may be challenging to provide practical advice to the organization.
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Whether you are a large corporation or a small two-person shop, businesses develop a culture that is usually their own or stolen from someone in the industry – and, yes, industries have culture too!
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What exactly is a goal, and who sets them? Why do we have them? Can personal goals complement business goals? January is a big goal-setting month for companies because it’s the start of the year. I like to do goal-setting in December, so my goals are already finalized when the New Year starts! Let’s investigate what goals mean to us:
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Unless you are a lifestyle business, you want to scale – a little or exponentially. Many business owners do not know they need to put systems in place to have repetitive sales, retention of employees and tracking their billing. Why do you need to have a system, and not just any system, but a process-driven one? A step-by-step system allows
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What the company does? Sandi Webster LLC coaches small business owners to form advisory boards that help scale their businesses with a focus on increasing EBITDA towards a successful exit. Business owners learn the difference between a board of directors and an advisory board through an online course or one-on-one coaching. The Current Landscape In the current pandemic business landscape,
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In 2009, my business partner and I wrote our book because we were on the speaking circuit as successful business owners. We got asked the same questions all the time, and frankly, it became boring as our responses became canned. It was an Uh Ah moment for us. Many business owners were becoming authors for this reason – it’s a