Pande Associates Inc.
Working with top business executives
who want to build companies that
will continue to enjoy sustained
long-term success

NEWS

 

May 21, 2007 – Prafulla Pande spoke about CEO Advantage™ at a session organized by Gujarat Chamber of Commerce in Ahmedabad, India.

 

May 14, 2007 – Verne Harnish recently conducted a series of workshops called “Making of Indian Giants”. Prafulla Pande participated in the workshop in New Delhi on May 14, 2007.

COACHING CLIENTS

  • Bloomfield Hills Optimist Club
  • CSP Corp
  • Doshi & Associates
  • Epiphany
  • FNG Corp
  • John Tagle Associate
  • Lakeshore Engineering
  • Lotus Bank
  • Marble Mechanical
  • Michigan District Optimists
  • National Civility Center
  • Smart Solutions
  • Summit Academy
  • Value Recovery Group

BUSINESS COACHING

Entrepreneurs, business owners, and key executives in any organization share a common concern: How do I build a solid business with sustained profitability? They get frustrated when the strategies designed to build a solid business fail to deliver desired results. This breeds a perpetual need to rework the strategies and achieving long-term success becomes a real struggle.

This struggle comes from the failure in many organizations to create of clarity of purpose, vision, strategy and execution. Typically, key executives are consumed by the day-to-day, leaving them little, or no time to think about these issues. The cure lies in adopting a sound long-term strategic focus and implementing a process for executing strategies. Further, organizations are made up of people. They thrive when people view their jobs as responsibilities and take ownership of their actions. Creating an environment that raises morale, enthusiasm and energy level of employees is the key to success of any organization.

Coaching is a relationship between a coach and an organization built on trust, mutual respect, discipline and accountability that enables the individuals to achieve levels of performance they may not be able to achieve on their own. Some of the things it focuses on are:

  • Clarify your vision
  • Build a healthy leadership team
  • Strengthen your competitive advantage
  • Inspire your staff
  • Identify and implement effective strategies
  • Get you to achieve your vision

Vision

Corporate vision is a short, succinct, and inspiring statement of what the organization intends to become and to achieve at some point in the future, often stated in competitive terms. It describes aspirations for the future, without specifying the means that will be used to achieve those desired ends. It is a combination and alignment of core values, purpose, mission and the big hairy audacious goal (BHAG).

When the vision is articulated properly and shared it inspires and energizes the organization.

"Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe." - Winston Churchill

Strategy

Strategic Intent is an organization's declaration and commitment to achieve its vision. Strategy is the way in which an organization orients itself towards its target customers to increase or sustain its market share. It is the way an organization plans to gain a sustainable advantage over the competition. It is the way an organization plans to achieve its vision.

Successful companies focus their efforts strategically. They think and plan long-term but execute short-term. All strategies and actions contained therein must align with the organization's vision.

"Having conceived oh his purpose, a man should mentally mark out a straight pathway to its achievement, looking neither to the right nor the left." - James Allen

Execution

Visions are achieved when strategies are implemented successfully. It is a proven fact that organizations do not fail for lack of vision and strategies. They fail for lack of execution of strategies. Execution is getting results from strategies. Successful execution requires identifying the important priorities and having the discipline to work on them without distractions day after day after day.

"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." - Japanese proverb

Outcomes

Knowing you have a champion - an experienced business professional you can trust to guide you - helps keep you accountable and drives you to greater levels of performance. Coaching brings the advantages of facilitated thinking, consensus building and catalytic action to your vision, strategies and programs leading to desired outcomes.

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