thealternativeboard.co.uk
As business owners, we all dream of business success and personal freedom. But, as we continue through our lives, it becomes easy to lose track of the business goals we set.
The Alternative Board® can help you reach even your most extraordinary business and personal goals—and reach a new level of business success.
Take a few minutes to read some of our member comments and discover how TAB is helping them:
The network of contacts and the alternative ways of how other people tackle their problems has impressed me. What I like most is that TAB members speak from experience not from a book of theories. The forthright way in which problems are openly discussed is a revelation with some issues being so sensitive that I would be cautious about talking to my own board about them!
It is not just that my fellow TAB colleagues have faced similar challenges to my own, but it is how they have gone about sorting them out that is so valuable. There’s no fudging the issues or the answers!”
Mark Jones, CEO, Yorkshire Horticultural Supplies www.yhs.uk.com
“Sharing experience, knowledge, hopes, ambitions and fears with a board of peers is enormously beneficial to my business and to me as an individual. Consultants can only go so far - nothing beats the real life lessons that a peer group of this stature can give. Give me real experience over books and gurus any day!
The TAB process has made me do things that I needed to do in the business. Joining TAB is the most important thing that I have done in the last 6 months!”
“I find that the TAB board gives me the opportunity to debate difficult issues – often things that are at an early stage in my thinking. Whilst they are generally things that I will discuss with colleagues I often find it helpful to know that I can talk in confidence to a group with very broad business experience and that I can trust implicitly. Even more importantly, I have found that I now have the benefit of 9 new partners that have also become friends; have no particular interest in telling me things I want to hear; are supportive but brutally honest about the things I do need to hear!
“TAB meetings enable me to meet and talk with like minded people, gain new angles and fresh ways of thinking for my business. I meet bright, intelligent people each of who have made a success of their chosen businesses. More importantly, they understand the trials and tribulations that every organisation, irrespective of size, is faced with every day. It is this hard won, practical experience that TAB brings together and which is readily shared around the boardroom table to the benefit of all. Whatever problems arise it helps to know that I am not on my own.”
Bob Gomersall, Chairman, Virtual Collegewww.virtual-college.co.uk