It is not the same as business consulting.   When you work with a business coach, you commit to being your best in business and in life.  As Business Coacheswe do not tell you how to run your business; we help you develop, organize and manage your greatest assets – your personal vision, and your staff.  Our most important contribution as coaches is to ask all the right questions.  We do not provide the answers; we help you come up with the answers.  Our proven methods empower you to make the changes you seek, commit to your vision of a better tomorrow, and act on that vision.  Business focus, business motivation, business management and business results are all much better when you work with a highly skilled professional business coach.  Keep in mind that even Tiger Woods has a coach…

Business Coaching helps you improve your leadership skills and get your business running at peak performance. The business coaching relationship is simple and working with a business coach forges a foundation for the success you want most in business.

It is lonely at the top! You probably don’t have anyone to talk to, to express your fears and concerns, to expose your ideas and plans, and to discuss your actions and goals.Your coach can be the confident, the sounding board and the advisor who working closely with you can help you reach the next level in leadership.Your coach can work with you to enhance organizational performance and organizational development, to increase your value to yourself and your organization, to walk the talk (and deal with those who don't), to deal with difficult people and situations, to strategize your personal development, to manage your time, energy and money, to experience fulfillment and success, and much more.

We can work with you to:

• Develop a strategic plan, marketing plan, sales plan, succession plan, exit strategy.
• Assist with organizational development and organizational alignment issues.
• Work with the management team in solving problems.
• Prioritize business needs.
• Develop a personal development plan.
• Help to balance personal and business life.
• Assist in the preparation of financial statements or plans.
• Any other issue that can use the expertise of the Coach.

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Strategic Planning:

Simply put, strategic planning determines where an organization is going over the next year or more, how it's going to get there and how it'll know if it got there.  The focus of a strategic plan is on the entire organization and the entire organization must become part of the plan and “buy into” the plan.  The CEO is only one of the participants of the planning and the entire organization must participate in its development.

There are a variety of perspectives, models and approaches used in strategic planning. The way that a strategic plan is developed depends on the nature of the organization's leadership, culture of the organization, complexity of the organization's environment, size of the organization, expertise of planners, etc.  Development of the strategic plan greatly helps to clarify the organization's plans and ensure that key leaders are all "on the same script". Far more important than the final strategic plan document is the strategic planning process itself.

Utilizing a method specifically developed for small and midsize businesses we guide you through the process of strategic planning, step-by-step.  We start by defining your personal goals for the business as well as the public vision to lead the business.  Organic strategic planning starts by articulating the organization's vision and values.   We continue with a simple but thorough analysis of strengths and weaknesses of the business, of you as its leader, and of the management team. 

The process of developing goals, strategies and tactics is done considering the resources available, status of the business and timing needed for any corrective activity.  The action plans to achieve the vision and goals must be practical and effective while adhering to the values articulated.

Strategic planning serves a variety of purposes in an organization, including to:

·         Clearly define the purpose of the organization and to establish realistic goals and objectives consistent with the mission in a defined time frame within the organization’s capacity for implementation.

·         Communicate those goals and objectives to the organization’s constituents.

·         Develop a sense of ownership of the plan.

·         Ensure the most effective use is made of the organization’s resources by focusing the resources on the key priorities.

·         Provide a base from which progress can be measured and establish a mechanism for informed change when needed.

·         Provide clearer focus of organization, producing more efficiency and effectiveness

·         Produce great satisfaction among planners around a common vision

·         Increase productivity from increased efficiency and effectiveness

·         Solve major problems

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Financial Analysis

We can perform for you a comprehensive financial analysis of your business from your balance sheet and P&L statements, with reports in plain English that eliminating the typical “accountant language” that can be confusing to the layman owner or manager.  We utilize a web-based financial reporting software program that uses ratio analysis, industry comparisons, and trend analysis to depict the financial health of the company in plain language.

This top financial analysis software is designed to be very quick and easy to use.  Created by Sageworks, ProfitCents™ is built on artificial intelligence technology that can develop more than 6 trillion unique, analytical reports. Used by thousands of accounting and financial professionals, ProfitCents™ will help you understand not just the financial status of your business, but will also let you do projections, easy “what if” analysis, and even give you estimates of the valuation of your company.

The various applications within ProfitCents financial software include analytical procedures tool to automate core parts of your audit and review work.  In addition, nonprofit (NPO) companies will benefit with our popular nonprofit software, ProfitCents for Nonprofits™.  For individuals we can conduct an analysis of their financial status with our personal financial software, My ProfitCents™.

Sageworks Analyst - Global Analysis enables us to more accurately and efficiently analyze the true overall financial picture of you and your company and the platform provides advice that integrates the business and the people who run it. It also enables us to help our business clients prepare more meaningful loan application packages when the need arises.

This is the first product on the market that analyzes the combined financial condition of a business and its owners in one integrated platform. The product was developed, because in analyzing the financial performance of smaller companies it is vital to have a “global” or overall look at a business and the people who run that business. Often, it is not possible to clearly distinguish the financials of a business from the condition of the people who run the business.

Thus, Sageworks Analyst - Global Analysis evaluates the combined financial condition of a business and its owners. This unique technology allows for an accurate financial assessment of entities whose financial health is dependent on the business and the people who run that business.

Sageworks Analyst™

Sageworks Analyst™ is an excellent analytical program for deeper financial analysis and granular forecasting. The most important feature of Analyst is that it allows you to forecast numbers automatically from historical numbers using both trend and regression data techniques.

Contact us for further information about this valuable service.

ProfitCents for Nonprofits™
We can do for nonprofit organizations what ProfitCents does for our for-profit clients. ProfitCents for Nonprofits™does fundamental analysis of nonprofit entities, using a patented expert system and a whole new set of benchmark data. Our nonprofit clients can now be given reports in plain language that they will actually understand.

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Organizational Development and Alignment

360 Degrees Assessments

Survey software with all the features you're looking for already built in – by design.

360 degree feedback refers to the process of collecting data from multiple sources (peers, direct reports, manager, self) on their perspective about an individual's job performance. Its use is based on the premise that:

·         Self-perceptions are often different from the perceptions of others;

·         Knowing these differences in perception leads one to a more accurate understanding of their leadership skills;

·         An accurate understanding of one's leadership skills is essential to the development of an effective leadership development plan.

360 degree feedback provides individuals with confidential and anonymous feedback for development purposes only.  It is not a performance appraisal.  The feedback should be used by the individual to strengthen pertinent core competencies, skills and behaviors, and thereby improving one's overall job performance and one's personal self.  The 360 degree feedback process provides managers and leaders with personal and professional development opportunities through candid, open feedback delivered via a quality, structured process.

We utilizea robust and user friendly web-based 360 survey tool that increases data accuracy, decreases processing time, improves response rates and reduces cost.  Most importantly, it provides the feedback you need to develop your leadership resources. We identify Core Competencies in12 areas for the team that will complete the survey. These Core Competencies form the basis of the survey questions used in the process.

We use a third party organization to assist us in facilitating this process.  The entire process is e-mail and web based.  Based on 20 years of experience implementing 360 assessments, the leadership development practitioners who created this tool understand what goes into an effective 360 process, from administration to report to development planning. 

V&A Management, LLC

65 Quail Dr. South

Phoenixville, PA  19460

610-933-2987

Fax: 610-933-3159

Contact: info@vamanagementllc.com