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FAQ - AKLabs' Advisory Process

"What Is Your Process for Helping a Business?"

We take a Targets, Tools, and Team approach to helping a business grow:

Targets: We go to the source and separate the root cause from the symptoms.

  • Assessments & Surveys to Benchmark current practices with Market Dominating firms that went from Zero to Leadership.
  • Identify critical Gaps between your current business and the company the owner dreamed of building

Tools: We support action by transferring knowledge into user-friendly Applications.

  • Close Knowledge Gaps with our on demand CourseWare.

  • Close Behavioral Gaps with our on demand Job Apps.

Team: Why go it alone? Surround yourself with Talent by becoming a Member. 

  • Access to the AKLabs Team for on demand advice and support.
  • Access to other entrepreneurs, business owners, and executives for advice and support.

What Results Can I Expect from Membership?

Performance: If your company is in the early stages of growth, our efforts are directed at maximizing performance from existing resources. 

  • Leadership: creating the picture of perfection and role model
  • Strategy: path to founders dream
  • Accounting: managing cash flow
  • Sales: sufficient and predictable cash flow
  • Production: focus on becoming the LCP (Lowest Cost Producer)

Profit: If you have achieved your first fast growth spurt that utilizes all of  your current capacity, our efforts are directed at maximizing profits.

  • Management: using metrics to maximize return
  • Service: using service as upselling to existing customers
  • Talent: finding, challenging, and keeping the right people
  • Quality: remove all waste and nonvalue from processes

Reinvention: if your decision is grow the business larger instead of selling, our efforts are directed at building new capacity for sales and production.

  • Industry Leading Processes - BFL - Better, Faster, for Less
  • Industry Leading Products & Services - MTR - Make the Rules the competition must play by

How Do I Find What I Need?

  • eZine - every month AKLabs will feature a theme critical to achieve Fast and Sustainable Growth with members receiving enhanced services.
  • Forum - topic areas to post questions, issues, problems to gain insights from other members and the AKLabs Team.
  • Files - based on membership level, access to downloads of Reports, Articles, Podcasts, CourseWare, and Job Apps
  • Webinar - based on membership level, access to real-time and self-paced webinars to close knowledge and application Gaps.
  • Events - based on membership level, access to local events on Benchmarking, CourseWare, and Job Apps
  • Products - based on membership level, free or discounted pricing on AKLabs industry defining Tools
  • Services - based on membership level, free or discounted pricing AKLabs support services
  • gFOUNDRY - our newest feature - a collaborative community for problem solving and the design & development of unique solutions; the customization of the LABS Library of Best Practices to build your own - assessments, surveys, courseware, and tools

Applied Knowledge Labs - MEMBERS AREA