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Contact: Tom Long Phone: (708) 524-0886 |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4/1/2005 |
Tom Long Makes Presentation on The Biggest Mistake
an Owner May Make at the National Workshop for the Institute for Independent
Business
OAK PARK, ILLINOIS – At the National Workshop
for The Institute for Independent Business recently held in Chicago, Tom Long
presented key issues and a process to help small business owners who are
preparing to sell their businesses.
The prestigious
British organization, the Institute for Independent Business (IIB), has offices
globally and in the United States. Its goal is to bring it's proven Associates
training and business support programs to small and medium sized businesses and
the advisors who serve them.
The
Business Support Program provides client companies with an endless variety of
professional hands-on "practical advice that works" in a manner that
leads to cost effective and successful implementation. All IIB advisers
("We prefer the term Business Advisers rather than management
consultants." - Eric Leaman) are experienced, professional businesSMBn and
women who have made the decision to become business advisers. They are then
trained in the IIB's proven methodology, after which they become accredited to
the Institute and join the global IIB network.
It is
worth repeating that all IIB Executive Associates, who conduct private meetings
with general managers/owners of businesses, are themselves senior executives
from virtually every profession, background and industry imaginable. Almost all
IIB Executive Associates are mature business people who have been Chief
Executives, General Managers or Executive Board Directors themselves. Thus they
have experienced at first hand the pressures, stresses and joys of running a
business. Many have started up, run and eventually sold their own businesses.
Others have run some of the best-known businesses in the world. In short, IIB Executive
Associates have 'been there, seen it-and survived to tell the story'!
Unlike
traditional management consultants, who often restrict their involvement to
TELLING clients how to correct their business problems, IIB-trained business
advisers roll up their sleeves and do the required work or they arrange to have
specialist Associates, in the ever growing IIB network of Associates, complete
the tasks required. This takes the time pressure off the client, releasing
him/her to run the company. The Business Support Program delivers agreed upon
results whether the work is done by the 'lead' business adviser or by another
IIB specialist in the network.
This unique concept, and the IIB International Network of over 1,300 professional advisers that deliver it, is tied together by the IIB process, a strong Code of Ethics and a highly functional and valuable website at www.iib.ws.
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Thomas E. Long, Solid Oak Consulting, LLC
522 South Elmwood Avenue, Oak
Park, Illinois 60304 708-524-0886