Align Your Organization With Your Compass

Are you part of an organization that is dedicated to making a difference, yet lack the clarity of purpose and shared mission, vision and values that actively inspire everyone?

Learn how to precisely describe your mission, vision and core values as a group, and then apply them to transform your culture for maximum alignment, efficiency and impact.

This customizable program is designed for your organization if any of the following are true:

• You have a mission to make a significant contribution to your industry yet need greater clarity, alignment and momentum in achieving that mission
• Your current mission and vision statements feel like they miss the mark because they ignore the bigger “why” behind your business
• You have not established the guiding principles of core values that light everyone up, or perhaps your “business as usual” does not match them
• Teams within the organization don’t feel part of a cohesive whole, causing duplicated effort and a silo mentality

Depending on the components that you choose, by the end of this program you will have:

• Survey results and detailed analysis describing the values trends in your organization, including personal values held by individuals, perceived organizational values, and desired organizational values
• Analysis of the gaps between the observed organizational values and those most desired by the group
• Analysis of your organizational “entropy” or wasted energy, reflecting the percentage of observed values that are potentially limiting such as long hours and short-term priorities
• A collaboratively derived set of core values, mission, vision and best practices to align with those guiding principles
• Whole system culture change initiatives that bring these fundamental principles into every aspects of your business where desired, such as operations, marketing language and/or client relations

Mission Vision Values Alignment Program

There are three phases to this program, each one customized according to the objectives and size of your organization:

1. Assessment: Gather information and analyze trends.
2. Application: Establish core values, associated behaviors, mission, vision and a culture development plan. Train and coach leaders in preparation to lead their teams through the pending cultural transformation.
3. Alignment: Cascade and sustain the transformation for the entire organization over time.

Phase 1: Assessment

We’ll start with an initial meeting of 1-2 hours to orient your project sponsor or leadership team, clarify which assessment surveys will best serve your needs, and identify any survey customization to meet your objectives. The survey we provide will then take approximately 15 minutes for each participant to fill out.

Following the survey completion and interpretation, we’ll have have a 2-hour leadership debrief meeting to review the values analysis and discuss the significance of the trends. We’ll also plan a strategy to share the results with the entire organization. Typical examples include a half-day workshop or 2-hour teleconference, where we’ll identify potential strategic core values and associated behaviors in preparation for the Application phase.

In this phase you may choose to analyze certain departments separately in comparison to the entire organization, and/or to analyze the individual results from certain key leaders separately. It also is possible to do a pilot program with a single department first before taking the entire organization through the culture transformation process.

Phase 2: Application

Your core team will collaboratively develop the key set of strategic organizational values, associated behaviors and the culture development plan. Depending on the project objectives and organizational culture, one of two methods will be used to clarify the organization’s mission and vision. At this point you may also choose to include more assessments such as a Leadership Values Assessment with 360 review, and target specific leaders for coaching and training. The length of this phase will depend on the size of the participant group and the scope of the project.

Phase 3: Alignment

This is the phase where the project comes to fruition at the largest scale, potentially impacting the way everything is done such as hiring, performance reviews, marketing and strategic planing. Rolling out the desired changes and sustaining them over time will ensure that your objectives are met in a way that honors the heartfelt values and inspired mission and vision that you all share.

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Align Your Culture With Your Shared Inner Wisdom and Purpose

As a leader of a mission-driven organization, you need to bring out the best in your team. Yet, to inspire people to perform at their best, they need to know not only what they are doing but why it matters.

When your organization has a higher purpose:

• You attract and retain the best employees, partners and investors
• Your employees experience their work as meaningful and fulfilling
• You make a greater impact in the world
• You create a legacy that lasts and makes the world a better place

Imagine uncovering and mobilizing your collective deeper purpose. When you bring your combined inner wisdom as an additional resource into major business decisions, you become an inspiring force for optimal change both inside and outside the organization.

This work is designed for your organization if you:

• Place a high value on innovation. You are adaptable and responsive to changes in your industry, and want to be an industry leader in your niche. You understand that embracing change is critical to your growth and sustainability.
• Know the old paradigms of business cannot sustain you, and are scanning the horizon for inspirational ways of evolving and recreating your business.
• Want to create a purposeful company, one that is organized around a higher vision that brings meaning and focus to work for your employees and stakeholders.
• Sense that mission, vision and values need to be more than dry statements on your website and annual report. You are searching for practical and authentic ways to inspire your  people and provide clear direction, new strength and inner satisfaction.
• Want to leverage intuition and inspiration in setting your strategy. You appreciate that the best ideas often defy conventional logic, and know the value of following the heart and gut as well as head, and inner wisdom as well as logic and reason.
• Appreciate the need to be a sustainable company, built on delivering products and services that make a positive impact, in order to continue to attract the best employees, customers and partners.

Through this process you can expect to find:

• A description of the essence of your organization, which will inform your brand and marketing message
• A detailed explanation of the transformational impact your organization is meant to deliver as an agent of change, and the ideal audience for your work. In particular, you will learn how to recognize the condition your audience is in when they need your transformation, how to describe the results they will receive, and how the steps of your transformation works. This provides a strong and unique basis for your positioning in the marketplace.
• The basic blueprint for services and/or product designs that showcase your unique purpose as an organization
• Your legacy mission and core wisdom message you are meant to bring the world
• Purpose-based marketing language that will touch the heart and soul of those you are meant to serve
• As a result of the process, much greater engagement, alignment, inspiration and sense of purpose as a collective

True Purpose^® Program for Organizations and Groups:

There are three phases to this program:

1. Accessing Inner Wisdom
2. Discovering Collective Purpose
3. Integrating Shared Purpose

Phase 1: Accessing Inner Wisdom

In this phase of the organizational purpose process, team members learn how to access a source of inner wisdom, including tools for navigating any fears, concerns or distractions that keep them from being open to that connection and information. In the process, they discover the details of their individual life purpose.

Note: Phase 1 of this program can also be met by previous completion of the True Purpose individual process through a workshop, private coaching in the Individual True Purpose® program or successful self-study; ask for more details.

Phase 2: Discovering Collective Purpose

In this phase, the purpose project team members resolve any collective fears, concerns and conflicting priorities that keep them from accessing the truth of their collective higher purpose. The purpose details are received and the team gains new collaborative decision-making tools to converge on purpose statements that light everyone up.

Depending on the size of your organization, customizations to the purpose discovery process will allow all organization members to have a voice in the final choice of purpose statements.

Phase 3: Integrating Shared Purpose

The final phase brings it all together – applying and integrating your organizational purpose into everything you do, at the pacing that makes sense relative to your other priorities. Examples include marketing, sales, hiring, onboarding, performance reviews and more.

“Audrey’s expertise to guide a group or organization to name their higher purpose is second to none. This methodology (TPI) is unique in how deep it goes to reveal the purpose that exists energetically rather than feeling like another corporate brainstorming activity. The benefit is a truly inspiring and intrinsically motivating purpose that feels ‘right’ to everyone involved. I’m grateful to have learned so much from Audrey over the years and for her to lead our team in this purpose discovery that is guiding our intentions, strategies, and outcomes. Her patience and compassion ensure that you will work through resistance and get to the finish line.”

★★★★★
Andy Swindler
Chief Empathy Officer & Social Learning Technologist

What keeps your organization from achieving your ground-breaking mission in the world? Gain clarity of purpose, alignment, momentum and a detailed plan for achieving the impact you are here to make.

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Business Systems Optimization, Rent-a-CFO, Tech Support

with David Meyer

It’s hard to succeed in making a better world if you’re not managing the bottom line well.  All your dedicated efforts will go to waste if you run out of cash or critical systems fail. Did you know that according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (2016), 50% of businesses fail within the first 5 years, 65% fail within the first 10 years, and 79% fail by year 20? How will your business beat these statistics and thrive, when most do not?

There are multiple reasons for businesses to close their doors, but some of the most common ones include:

• A founder/owner who is strong on passion, vision and leadership but not skilled at managing operations, systems and cash flow
• Infrastructure investments that are a mismatch for your current stage of growth, either too much or too little
• Hardware and/or software challenges and failures due to inadequate tech support and security
• Database breaches and failures
• Cash flow issues and even missed payroll and loss of key personnel due to inaccurate forecasting

To keep your business strong and growing, David Meyer offers the following services:

1. Business systems optimization
2. “Rent a CFO”
3. Tech support

Business Systems Optimization

Align your cash, talent and assets with your company vision and mission to achieve your ultimate desired outcomes. Another very important factor is learning how to scale your systems to match the appropriate stage of your company’s growth.

• Accounting
• Tax compliance and planning
• Financeial analysis optimization
• CRM – Customer Relationship Management
• ERP – Enterprise Resource Planning
• Web and social media presence

Rent-a-CFO

Affordable experienced financial guidance for purpose-based lean startups and mid-size businesses. Keep your focus on what you do best, and still see and understand your financial past and future for timely confident decision making and rapid growth.

• Strategic planning
• Financial analysis including dimensional modeling, performance metrics and cash flow management
• Customized executive dashboards, XLQ and Advanced Excel programming
• Financial controls with GAAP compliance
• Financial Living Forecasting^TM– Nimble accurate cash flow projections
• Accounting and supporting systems – Quickbooks Certified ProAdvisor®
• Tax planning
• Billing/Invoicing
• Payroll

Tech Support

“We can resolve nearly any tech issue, and if not, we will know someone who can in our resource network.”

• PC, Mac, servers, Android, iPhone, printers and peripherals, audiovisual
• Network infrastructure: LAN, WAN, and wireless
• Database setup, integration and administration: Access, SQL, Oracle, Salesforce, Filemaker, OLAP and more
• Email setup and administration
• Hardware strategy, maintenance and life cycle
• Software strategy, maintenance and training
• Remote help desk support
• Livestream video broadcasting and editing
• WordPress website development and maintenance
• Disaster recovery
• Security

An unusually broad consulting experience enables David to think way outside the box and to get results that no one in house would even imagine.

Examples

A well-known bank would never consider gambling theory in its management of paper check processing federal penalty deadlines. I ask, if you never pay a penalty, how do you know where the edge is? I developed a system that was designed to risk paying a penalty 1% of the time, which saved over $1 million dollars a year.

A school district was spending 30 hours a month on California sales tax compliance, and was still paying around $40,000 a year in non-compliance penalties. I automated the system, and reduced the time spent by staff to 30 minutes per month and eliminated the non-compliance penalties.

For a semiconductor, I significantly increased stock value by developing a “living” rolling forecasting system, with the goal of stabilizing financials, to meet Wall Street expectations in the very volatile semiconductor industry. The stock price went from 26 to 127 in 4 months.

“David has been a godsend. He transformed my level of visibility into cash flow and business health. David has learned the ins and outs of my businesses very rapidly as well as given me great advice to keep it healthier. He has also taken on accounting processes I do not enjoy; that has freed me up to generate more revenue and do a great job for clients. In addition to accounting, he helped me set up a new computer and work through that upheaval far more smoothly and quickly than I’d imagined. Even when I am feeling frustrated and crabby, David is always patient and professional. I recommend David very highly.”
★★★★★
Julie Fraser, Founder and President
Inyo Advisors, Inc

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