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What We Do

With business challenges on the rise and resources to solve them on the decline, you’re walking up hill both ways to work just like your grandfather did back in the day. When uncertainty is the only certainty, where do you begin to make the most improvement?

TAB membership provides the resources senior leaders need to overcome major business challenges. Whether you’re looking to boost sales and marketing, achieve the optimal work-life balance or solve all your business and personal issues for good, start with TAB – and end with victory.

The Board

Business Advisory Boards bring together business owners and leaders to mutually support each other’s company success by leveraging mutual knowledge and experience for practical, real world tested solutions.

“One of the greatest discoveries man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
Most of the bars we beat against are in ourselves— we put them there, and (with a facilitator’s help) WE can take them down.”

-Henry Ford

COACHING

TAB Business Coaching works hand-in-hand with the Board Meetings. Knowing what you want out of life is only half the battle. The other half is a real opportunity to keep you focused, accountable and on track to achieve it.

TAB Business Coaching provides a trusted advisor you can count on to help you increase business performance, work through business opportunities and challenges, achieve greater success and truly live the personal and professional life you desire. TAB Business Coaching sessions will make you focused with more balance – and what feels like more time in your schedule to sit back and soak up the signs of success.

Business Builder’s Blueprint

Do you remember why you started your own business – more time, more money, more freedom? Chances are that your vision of control has been overtaken by the thousand and one details that seem to need attention every day. TAB’s Business Builder’s Blueprint™ tool is an executive management dashboard that enables the distillation of the myriad tasks into the few key elements that are meaningful to running a successful and growing business. It will help to ensure that everyone on your team is on the same page, that your business is on track or exceeding the industry at large, and to monitor the performance of ten key areas that impact every business, large and small. Watch our quick video of how the Business Builder’s Blueprint can have a positive impact for your business.

TTI Assessments

The Alternative Board has partnered with TTI Performance Systems, Ltd. the world’s leading source for research-based, validated assessment and coaching tools that enable organizations to effectively meet their human capital management needs. We have helped companies worldwide with the selection, retention and development of their most important asset—people.

We are a licensed, certified provider of a powerful battery of TTI assessments including DISC, Job Fit and other targeted solutions for achieving superior performance throughout your business. We employ affordable and effective assessment methods to assess your personnel/staff and conduct in-depth workshops for team building using the results.

Selection: The foundation for hiring superior performers starts with this patented job benchmarking process.
Employee Retention: Keep your employees motivated, engaged and working with proven, effective retention solutions.
Leadership Development: This crucial program stresses 5 key competencies leaders need and provides the foundation for their ongoing development.
Performance Management: An effective, personalized, job-related performance management program.
Behavioral Intelligence: Allows individuals to identify, understand and adapt the right behavior to achieve success.

These best-in-class assessment tools ensure that you hire, develop and retain top talent.

Sales Assessments

ASSESSING YOUR SALES CANDIDATES 
Imagine a tool so reliable that you could eliminate most of the mistakes made when hiring salespeople and never again be fooled by an individual’s charming personality, “perfect track record” or exaggerated resume. You won’t have to wait six months to a year to learn whether your next candidate will succeed in your difficult business. Our Sales Candidate Assessment provides easy, instant access to the same accurate, insightful results that thousands of successful companies rely upon to choose winning salespeople.

The Alternative Board has partnered with OMG to provide sales candidate assessments for organizations. The OMG Sales Assessment has been acclaimed as a top sales assessment tool and continues to pioneer the sales assessment industry by providing crucial insights to maximize sales performance in companies of all sizes and from all industries.

The OMG Sales Assessment is based on the assessment tools developed by Dave Kurlan which are used by more than 8,500 companies and on 500,000 salespeople. Why do the top sales development experts in the world choose to use our assessments for their valued clients? Our sales assessment goes wider and deeper than anyone else and all of our findings are sales specific, not adapted for sales.

Read Client Testimonials.

The Science of Salesperson Selection

 

Recruitment

TAB NOVA provides you with the candidates, hiring tools & coaching to hire better employees.

Whether the challenge is to hire a key manager, sales rep or office help, TAB NOVA can help!

Our proprietary online hiring software allows you to easily identify to talent in your candidate pool and do away with messy resume piles. Through a combination of our hiring software, service and advertising we can help ensure that your next hire is a success.

Sourcing candidates is only the beginning.  Making sure a potential hire is a fit for your organization requires assessing technical skills, aptitude, compatibility with company culture, requisite management style, and proper matching of job requirements to skills.  We ensure that all of this and more are thoroughly researched and vetted in order to protect your hiring investment.

Financial Benchmarking

Want to know where your company stands in comparison to others in your industry? This financial benchmark looks at six areas of your business including liquidity, sales, profits & profit margins, borrowing, assets and employees. It compares up to 5 different time periods to track your progress with tips to help you improve your financial standing. Reports customized for your business include:

  • Financial Statement Analysis
  • Audit Risk Assessment
  • Private Company Industry Data
  • Business Projections

The Alternative Board Northern Virginia has partnered with Abrigo® which allows you to benchmark your company against others of the same size in the same or similar industries in North America or Virginia. By comparing dozens of financial ratios you measure your company’s performance against the “best in class” for your industry. Beyond performance benchmarking, Abrigo® also increases visibility into cost and profitability trends in a specific industry and helps identify how a company’s financial structure differs from the industry as a whole.

Abrigo® reports solve specific problems based upon your needs and converts hard-to-understand financial numbers into plain language to demystify financial information so you can better manage your business.

 

The Alternative Board currently helps business owners in 21 countries around the globe!

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