ABOUT GROWE
GROWE membership is for accomplished women entrepreneurs who own established and successful businesses. Our members value learning, accomplishment, collaboration, and professional & personal development. They think big, work hard and find work-life balance to be elusive, yet desirable.
The Program
GROWE members experience a confidential, non-competitive forum that combines the power of in-person mastermind groups, self-study learning and one-on-one executive coaching. Specifically, members receive:
- Monthly Peer Advisory Roundtable Meetings led by GROWE's professional coach facilitators. Learn interactively with other executive women who are traveling down the same path. This is the one meeting a month you will never want to miss!
- Monthly Skill-Building training curriculum delivered in an electronic workbook format. Thought-provoking topics covered include The DNA of Women Leaders; Money: Asking for More; Powerful Choices that Create Dynamic Balance; The Coach's Toolbox: Listening & Questioning for Excellence; Barriers to Success; and Creating a Business Plan with Heart and Soul.
- One-on-One Coaching with a veteran executive coach experienced in working with established and successful business owners. Coaching will help you apply what you are learning and build on your momentum.
- Executive Insights ™gives you 24x7 access to behind-the-scenes recorded interviews with experts sharing their business wisdom exclusively for GROWE members. Topics include: Financial Health, Growth Strategies, Managing HR Issues, and much more.
- Assessment Tools that help you pinpoint abilities, motivations, and growth opportunities to get the results you want. Assessment results are delivered and debriefed during a one-on-one executive coaching session.
The Benefits
GROWE members become more successful both financially and personally by tackling the most challenging issues faced by women business owners: feeling isolated, having little time to acquire new skills, risking burnout, trying to do it all, struggling with finding and keeping key staff, and making sound decisions that fuel business growth. GROWE helps you transcend these challenges by providing you with...
- A Trusted Circle of Entrepreneurial Girlfriends. It is indeed lonely at the top, and very difficult to find like-minded and trusted peers who understand your position and are as eager to celebrate your milestones as they are willing to tell you the hard truths. Experience the magic of collaborating and connecting in a non-competitive way with the best and brightest minds in the local entrepreneurial population, all focused on building up each other's strengths and lifting one another to greater heights.
- Advanced Business and Personal Skills that Enhance Your Capabilities. GROWE's skill-building sessions generate creative and practical ideas that you can implement immediately. Bring specific questions about your business strategies and challenges, and know you will leave with solid answers to help you grow your business.
- A Laser-Focus on Strengthening Your Work-Life Balance Proficiency. When work seeps into every corner of your life, you risk overload, which diminishes your ability to function at the high level necessary to run your business successfully. Over time, this can have a negative impact on all aspects of your health: physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. GROWE is committed to helping you create the rich work-life balance that ultimately feeds your business success and personal fulfillment.
- Smart Talent Management Strategies. Savvy executives surround themselves with first rate people. Learn powerful tactics for hiring, retaining and making the most of your employees. Discover how to escape the "no-one-can-do-it-as-well-as-I-can" mindset that ensnares many women entrepreneurs.
- A Laboratory for Developing and Testing New Ideas. In the confidential, safe container of your GROWE group, you can explore new concepts for your business, or design the ideal exit strategy, and know you'll receive frank feedback and fresh perspectives. Pushing the bounds of your existing thinking will absolutely set your business up for growth and prosperity.
- An Upbeat Setting that Is Fun, Meaningful and Practical all at once. GROWE's culture hinges on lively and engaging interactions that enhance the impact of learning and refresh you with energy, knowledge and strategies to bring back to your business.
The Principles
GROWE is founded on five key principles that we call the "5 C's" of membership. We encourage you to review these principles as they are the basis on which GROWE will operate.
The "5 C's" of GROWE Membership:
Confidentiality - GROWE will provide a confidential environment in which members can share proprietary information about their businesses. Therefore, members agree to respect the privacy and confidentiality of information disclosed at GROWE meetings.
Contribution - GROWE will be most fruitful if all members contribute to the dialogue. Therefore, GROWE members agree to share ideas and bring a spirit of support for their fellow members to each interaction.
Candor - GROWE can only flourish if members are honest. Therefore, members agree to be candid with other members and with themselves.
Coaching - GROWE founders, Michelle Goss and Debby Stone, believe that coaching is a powerful tool to fuel business growth and facilitate life balance. Therefore, GROWE members agree to be willing to receive coaching and feedback on topics they bring to the group meetings and to their individual coaching sessions.
Commitment - GROWE will only be as successful as the commitment of its members. Therefore, members agree to be on time for GROWE meetings and to make attendance a priority.