



While day long training programs for skills training or leadership development offer beneficial learning experiences in a highly compressed format, often the actual need is far more comprehensive than can possibly be addressed in just a few hours. An Impact Mentorship contains an abundance of benefits that are otherwise difficult to realize with an educator. It provides for continuity in a training format. It fosters systemic solutions to the entirety of your business model. It promotes a deepening relationship with the Coach resulting in clarity of understanding of the improvement opportunities for your team, an unequalled environment for crisp communication and the comfort of a developed trust through vigorous engagement with both the participants and the issues they face.
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Creating
a Culture of Excellence
provides a rigorous engagement of the essentials of what organizational
executives, owners and managers can do to immediately move their organizations
from mediocrity towards exquisite operations where pristine environments,
devoted employees and dedicated customers are the measure of success.
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Kenneth
Wilbanks
is a professional business consultant providing educational programs,
financial and business process analysis and leadership development for
the Building Materials and Home Center industry.

"Ken successfully combines his years of solid experience in the LBM industry with his natural ability to "reach and connect with" his audience. He has a "direct but supportive" approach that encourages people to honestly reflect on the present in order to identify and target future opportunities. He then coaches them through the necessary changes that are required to maximize their chances of success.
Whether Ken is educating a roomful of members, advising the management and employees of a single member company at their own location, or coaching an owner in a one on one setting, his message helps every listener feel that their personal and corporate possibilities are substantial and attainable.
No matter the audience, the format, or the venue, your members will be inspired and positively changed by Ken Wilbanks."
"I just wanted to take a minute (after hours, of course) to thank you for all the time you have put into our training thus far. Although we are still in the introduction phases of the training, it has coincided with other events and revelations in my life to relight the fires of inspiration within my heart, mind and body.
Anyway, thank
you again for your extraordinary
insight, your leadership and, most valuable
of all, your integrity."
We Can Help:
Providing the tools for Hurricane Katrina Rebuilders
My good friend
Margaret Price Sims at Ridgefield
Supply Company has started From Builders for Rebuilders-
a way for builders and carpenters to drop off used and new hand, power tools,
and long-handle tools to independent lumberyards, and for those tools to
make it into the hands of re-builders throughout the Gulf Coast.
click
here to visit their site >>>
For
Pro Sales Excellence, Get the Basics
"Working with home channel organizations who seek improvements
in all areas of operations inevitably leads to focus working with professional
customer sales teams. These teams are typically truly desirous of personal
success and the success of the customers. The owners and managers at the
helms of these companies are amazingly talented and driven individuals.
They have led their organizations to a plateau of achievement. Now they
REALLY want to experience a swell of new sales and profits..."
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Ken's latest article >>>
Within
a Culture of Excellence
The Embodiment of Pristine Operational Standards
"If
you have neither a vision, strategy, nor target of disciplined excellence,
then consider these consequences. You will lose your best employees over
time as your operational standards slide continuously downhill. You will
also lose your best customers as your facilities, merchandising efforts
and employees lose polish and appeal. Then you PERSONALLY lose energy and
finally lose heart as your business falls in decline. What in the world’s
happening?"
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Ken's article >>>
Don't
Throw in the Towel!
"One
day something begins to peck at us like a woodpecker on a rotten tree. Quiet
little infrequent pecks grow to a pervasive thunder pounding over days,
weeks, months, and years. We begin to suspect the unimaginable, that it
is simply time to go."
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The Impact© Evaluations invite you as experienced, insightful, creative, and inspiring professionals to challenge current business paradigms, to cut past typical daily issues, and to carve course corrections toward a new operational paradigm of aptitudes, attitudes, and actions that promote effective, profitable, and inspiring operations. Tailored to your organizational needs, Impact© Evaluations are facilitated in two formats that best serve your budget, the number of locations, the experience and responsibilities of participants, and your desire to make lasting and meaningful changes in how you go to business.
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