Business Growth Index

Business Growth Index

Discover the common traits and concerns business owners experience at each of the various levels of the Business Growth Index.

Where is your company?

Each level of business growth:

  • Requires you to lead in some capacity
  • Challenges you with its own issues and opportunities
  • Requires specific strategies to get you to the next level
  • Challenges you to step out of your comfort zone to get to the next level of business growth and maturity

Developing

You’ve got Start-up passion but are starting to feel overwhelmed. Working hard “in” the business & laying the foundation for the future, you’re figuring out what you don’t know as you learn how to grow this start-up into a thriving business.

Growing

With increasing demands in all aspects of the business, you’re experiencing growing pains, employee issues, financial challenges & too much work/not enough time. You’re wanting to grow the business beyond yourself, the owner, but keep getting mired in day to day operations.

Tracking

With consistent performance by a developing team, you’re company is making an impact and creating relevance in the market place. You still lead your company but are developing an executive team, have systems and processes in place, some of which still need to become more streamlined and documented.

Thriving

You’re the strategic visionary of the company. You still lead, but not the day-to-day operations, and can do it from a distance. You’ve got a team of people running day-to-day operations.  Congratulations, your company is Thriving!  As strategic leader, watch for some challenges with change, potential cultural challenges and resistance.

Where is your company on the Business Growth Index?

How can you know where you’re headed if you don’t know where you are?