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Event:
Verne Harnish - Go for Growth
Date:
14/09/10
Time:
8.30am - 5.00pm
Venue:
The Sebel Hotel, 65 Queens Road, Melbourne Vic 3004
Presenter:
Verne Harnish
Description:
Go For Growth is a highly interactive seminar designed to guide Managing Directors, CEOs, GMs and their senior management on the four decisions (people, strategy, execution and cash) critical to an effective strategy for business growth.

Using his trademark One-Page Strategic Plan and practical tools and resources, Harnish will demonstrate how to create focus, alignment, better communication and a killer strategy required to dominate any industry.

Harnish’s goal is to enable and empower business leaders to grow their businesses by following the easy-to-understand guidelines and actual case studies in Mastering the Rockefeller Habits – which is currently ranked in the Top three strategy books on Amazon.

Learning Outcomes:

• Lead the charge on high-payoff initiatives
• Keep everyone in your organisation aligned and accountable
• Create customer loyalty that makes price irrelevant
• Fuel growth with smarter cashflow management
• Know what’s working in today’s mega-growth businesses
• Build real marketvalue and serious stakeholder wealth

8.30-12.30 Strategy
The session concentrates on people and strategy, organised
around the highly regarded One-Page Strategic Plan
document. Verne Harnish will cover the following topics:

Cash Model
How to double your operating cash flow in 12 months.

Market Intelligence
How leading firms learn faster to remain ahead of their
competitors and drive priority setting.

People
How to select and hire A players and keep them
motivated.

Core Ideology
Bringing your core values and core purpose alive to
energise your employees and simplify your human
resource systems.

BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal)
Aligning it with your business fundamentals.

Brand Promise
The key strategic decision that differentiates you from
competitors i.e. if you can’t state your strategy in a
sentence, you don’t get it!

X-Factor
The 10–30 times advantage over competitors that helps
you dominate your industry and block competitive
response.

Annual and Quarterly Focus
The most critical short-term decisions an executive team
can make to drive alignment and performance.


1.30-5.00 Execution
The session centres on execution, organised around the
highly regarded one-page Rockefeller Habits checklist.
Verne Harnish will cover the following topics:

Rockefeller Habits Checklist
Ten essential habits that reduce the executive time
needed to manage the business from 50 hours/week to
less than 15 hours.

Meeting Rhythm
The daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual
meeting rhythm and the specific agendas that make
them effective and practical.

Metrics
The three types of metrics that drive the business on a
daily and weekly basis.

Priorities
Using daily, weekly and quarterly themes to drive
alignment and focus.

Organisational Structure
The three types of organisational charts and how to
apply them to keep everyone accountable.

Themes
How to use them to make your priorities memorable and
add energy to your organisation.

Group Bookings:
Standard (6 or more attendees) $750pp


Fees include: A copy of Verne’s Mastering the Rockefeller Habits, comprehensive workbook and notes, one page strategic plan, lunch, morning and afternoon tea
Cost:
Member: $795.00  Non-Member: $895.00  


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