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The Purpose Of Our Work With You: From Chief Cook To CEO, From Confusion To Systems and Self Management

Roby Wallace, President of EntreBusiness, directly assists business owner-operators and non-profit leaders in moving from Chief Cook to CEO and in creating high functioning, self managing organizations.

Roby walks owners and leaders step-by-step through the core, critical work necessary to turn their organizations into highly effective, self running workplaces. Owners are led through systematic tools, training, and coaching to design, innovate and implement their essential business systems, which results in an organization that works for owners, employees and customers. A premium is placed on development of individuals and teams who self manage, self lead, and effectively use systems thinking and problem solving.

Comments from Roby

We must focus on the core, critical work. We do not have the luxury to function any other way. We must know what is most important to do (DO IT) and what is important not to do (DON'T DO IT).

How Do The Leader, Her Team And Roby Work Together?

The owner/leader and her team work closely with Roby in regular, ongoing meetings. The meetings are customized to meet the most current, pressing needs of the organization in real time, while building a people and system infrastructure that truly works for the long haul.

In each meeting and in between-meeting contact (via phone, fax, email), Roby assists the leader and team with learning, implementing, troubleshooting, and team involvement. Further, Roby helps the owner stay on track and move forward by holding him accountable, holding up the mirror, and grounding him in the broader entrepreneur point of view (rather than the narrow technician point of view).

Frequent involvement of employees on conference calls and at in-house trainings is essential. The object is for the team to learn, adopt and implement this way of working and thinking as their fundamental approach to daily work.

With organizations far from EntreBusiness (in Albuquerque, NM), meetings are held as conference calls, though in-house workshops can be arranged. With organizations close to Albuquerque, meetings are held both by phone and as in-house workshops.

What Results Are Expected?

A shift in the owner from the technician point of view and role to the entrepreneur point of view and role. The entrepreneur view/role is a focus ON the entire business, a focus on designing and fitting together all the business systems to function as a greater whole. (Technicians are narrowly focused, typically with excessive attention to product/service delivery and sales, combined with neglect of the major systems that undergird the business and hold it together, that monitor function and effectiveness, and that ensure smooth function.)
Revenue and profit growth.
A business that is run far more consistently, predictably, profitably and on-time, primarily by others, with far less tactical assistance and hands-on input from the owner/leader.
Business growth in the ways the owner needs it, while decreasing the owner s workload and increasing peace of mind.
Increased employee effectiveness and efficiency while creating a business environment that is a pleasure for owners, employees, customers and lenders.
Greater balance of business and family/community life.

What makes Roby qualified?

Roby has worked with small business in this way since 1999. Further, he trained under the guidance of E-Myth Worldwide's founder Michael Gerber, author of the business bestsellers The E-Myth Revisited and E-Myth Mastery. Roby is a committed advocate of transforming small business to create better lives for owners, employees, families and communities. See the Testimonials page.