Small Business Coaching
- Getting the Most from Financial Statements – We can review your financial statements with you each month, making sure you understand the information that is there, and suggesting actions you should take based on that information.
- Communicating Effectively – It’s essential in business to communicate effectively with all your stakeholders . . . not only with employees, but with customers and suppliers as well. Whether the communications are written or oral, we can help craft them to insure they are clear, concise, and carry the exact meaning you intend.
- Improved Decision-Making – Making a good decision is a process, not an event, and the process should be thoughtful, not reactive. We help you make better decisions with a process that includes careful fact-finding, analyzing the data, clearly understanding the alternative actions that are available, and implementing the chosen course of action.
- Leadership – It’s the business of getting people to work together toward a common goal because they want to, not because they have to. If your employees are not marching in the same direction to the beat of the same drum . . . if there is confusion about the company’s direction or disagreement about it . . . we can assess where leadership may be breaking down and guide you in ways to improve it.
- Accountability – Small business leaders are generally pretty good at holding their employees accountable for accomplishing the things they’re expected to do, but who holds the leader accountable? Who provides the nudge when the leader is falling behind his own goals? We can be your conscience to help you stay on track to achieving the goals you have set for yourself.
- Developing Key Performance Indicators – While good financial statements are essential, the information in them is five or six weeks old by the time you see it. So you need other guideposts that can tell you how key parts of the business are performing, allowing you to take swift corrective action when something starts to go wrong. We can assist you by designing a “dashboard” for you business that will give you timely, actionable information so you can guide the business day-by-day and week-by-week.

Rock Solid Business Development specializes in small business consulting, small business coaching, and small business management services in Schaumburg IL, Oakbrook IL, Northbrook IL, and surrounding areas. Call today at (847) 665-9134 for a free 2-hour strategy session with absolutely no obligation.
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Small Business Owners and CEOs . . . is your business stuck?
Despite everything you try, is the business under-performing or failing to grow as it should?
Hi, I’m Andy Rockwood, owner of Rock Solid Business Development. Since 1997, I have been helping small business owners and operators restore the joy of running a business. In today’s economy, it’s easy for small business people to get stressed out. Competition is fierce. Your customers are demanding that you provide more service and more attention for a lower price. And you’re probably trying to do that with fewer employees. Under circumstances like these, it’s more important than ever for small business leaders to get above the fray of daily problems to take a longer term look at where the business needs to go and how it needs to get there.
If all this resonates with you, you’re in the right place. If you’re still not sure, click on the “Who We Serve” navigation key above to learn more about the business people I want to work with as well as recommendations from past and present clients. Or, if you would like to read some of the management tips I have written, click here to visit our small business blog.
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Albert Einstein
"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
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Richard Palmer
"The nicest thing about not planning is that failure always comes as a complete surprise and is not preceded by a period of worry and desperation."
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Richard Teerlink
"The result of leadership is a group of people working toward a common goal because they want to, not because they have to."
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George Patton
"If everyone is thinking alike, someone’s not thinking."
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William J.H. Boetcker
"If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong, either with you or with your business."
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Peter Schutz
"If you listen closely enough, your customers will explain your business to you."
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John B. Roberts
"One of the greatest challenges as a manager is how to delegate so effectively that once you have gotten the monkey off your back, your employees don’t return it to you . . . with instructions for its care and feeding."
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Wayne Gretzky
"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."





