HACK GROWTH, SCALE UP, BUILD VALUE!
Get your business further
with the leading facilitation platform
for scale-up entrepreneurs!
30-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE
The Impactified Guarantee
Try Scale-Up Facilitation with Impactified with total peace of mind! If you are re not satisfied within the first 30 days, you’ll get your money back!
SO, What is Scale-Up Facilitation?
Scale-Up facilitation a synergetic relationship between entrepreneurs, business owners or CEOs looking to push their business and teams to their next level, and a professional business facilitator focused on making this happen.
How do I get started with SCALE-UP FACILITATION?
Give your business
a 360 checkup
Scale-Up Facilitation with Impactified starts with a 360 SWOT checkup that points us towards untapped growth opportunities and identifies your blind spots.
Ready for the challenge?
Co-build
an actionable roadmap
Once we know where your business stands (the good, the bad and the ugly), we work on co-building an actionable roadmap that will then be used over time to get you closer to your target.
Boost that business
& Make change happen
We then work with you very closely to monitor implementation and progress, and we support you in all the collateral aspects of your business journey.
That includes working with your team!
WhAT RESULTS CAN I EXPECT?
3,5
months of routine tasks
saved each year
by working on time management,
setting clear and easy-to-use goals people can follow effectively, building delegation systems, and improving processes.
+83%
in staff autonomy
by setting change management strategies, improving decision-making systems, building top & mid managements, and setting leadership development programs internally.
+92%
in talent retention
& team engagement
by working on building inspiring visions, turning managers into leaders, improving internal communication, and providing personal development opportunities to the staff.
635%
return on investment*
by building innovative business models, ambitious business strategies and positive corporate cultures, while reducing risk exposure and investing in the strengths of your teams.
(*COHERENT WITH INDUSTRY AVERAGES)
*Aligned with business coaching market standards
Why trust
an impactified scale-up facilitator?
Our Facilitators
are entrepreneurs too
Our core focus is on entrepreneurs and medium-size companies rather than on large corporates. This is who we are, and that makes communication a lot easier!
We know where to find
untapped
growth opportunities
We know how companies like yours operate and our proprietary SWOT analysis makes spotting untapped growth opportunities & boosting your turnover easy!
We don't just coach,
we provoke & mentor
Typical coaches limit themselves to asking questions and letting you find the answers. We go beyond that and get you to your next level!
Our expertise?
Business management
Do you have an industry expertise? So do we! Our business facilitators are experts in entrepreneurship, business management and business acceleration!
Teams matter too,
they can count on us!
It goes without saying, but an Impactified scale-up facilitator typically works with business owners and… their teams! Think workshop facilitation, leadership mentoring, and all that!
Privacy, Confidentiality,
we are your sounding board
Think of your Impactified facilitator as a private and confidential sounding board, available to help you think outside of your own box, whenever you need to.
We have the tools and methods
you have been looking for
Running a business takes work and method, so any scale-up facilitator in our network will provide you with a set of Impactified branded actionable tools you’ll be able to use right now.
We work on practical, tangible, actionable business boosters
Business modeling, value proposition definition, business planning, cash flow management, leadership development… our tools and methods really have you covered!
Our partners' network
will also boost your business
When our clients grow, we are also able to leverage a network of complementary partners to get them even further. Think financial engineering, advertising, currency management…
We have
a global reach
Our growing network of scale-up partners spans from Europe to Asia, and we work with clients from North America, Europe, the Middle-East and Asia.
In person or online,
we are where you are!
Depending on where you are, our sessions and workshops happen online or in person. Very convenient, and totally efficient, whenever you need!
We help to build
your company's valuation
Think of this as a matter of building the valuation of your company over time. A company that works without its founder(s) is worth a lot more!
We don't just coach entrepreneurs.
We provoke growth, scale, and build value!
What people say about
Scale-Up FACILITATION BY impactified
BENEFITS & ADVANTAGES
OF SCALE-UP FACILITATION
Spot Untapped Opportunities
Imagine your business, times five or ten. What if we pointed you to new untapped opportunities coming from the inside, out of your typical blind spots and dead angles? SWOTs audits are not “just” some theoretical stuff, the question is, will you dare giving yourself a chance?
Get challenged & boost your Business results
Are you looking to be challenged? Need someone to brainstorm with, in person or online? Impactified puts you (and your team!) in touch with experienced business facilitators & sparring partners you will love. From business positioning and pitching, to personal performance, we have you covered!
Empower teams with innovative brainstorming
Your teams are an asset, but do you leverage them? Usually not. Whether your business needs a vision and storytelling, a strategic plan with follow-up, a Blue Ocean Strategy type of brainstorming, or a SWOT workshop, we can make a difference. Online or in person!
boost your skills with an accelerated MBA!
We also share tons of business growth, performance improvement and leadership development insights. They are entrepreneur-proof, solve real issues, and they are available for free. The only thing you have to do is give them a read, and think a bit! Try!
WHEN SHOULD I WORK WITH A SCALE-UP FACILITATOR?
If turning your business into an asset that works for you, a lot less without you, and can become relevant to potential investors and buyers is important to you, then you should talk to your scale-up partner on a very regular basis! Our facilitators act as a sounding board and are there to help you think outside your box, clear the noise and get ahead faster – they will be here to help whenever you need!
But here are some situations in which working with a scale-up facilitator is especially useful:
To see through
the complex stuff
There’s a point where seeing through the ambiant noise is complex. Facilitation helps you sort things out and refocus on what matters.
To build visions, set goals
& track progress
Visions are essential but they usually don’t get to the teams! With the right tools and workshops, a scale-up facilitator will do the difference!
To spot your business'
untapped opportunities
With our 360 SWOT analysis, you now have a way to know what’s working and what really needs your attention. Try and see for yourself!
To optimize your
business organization
Imagine a business that works for you and without you a lot more, just because you optimized its operating mode. How does that sound?
To (re)build your
commercial strategy
Sales are at the heart of everything, but many businesses need a (big) push as far as commercial strategy is concerned. Rings a bell?
To (re)build your
business' future
There is what your business is worth now, and there is what it will be worth in five years, but getting there takes work and careful preparation. Try!
To save 3,5 months
of routine work a year
Forget the routines that cost you time, money and energy instead of creating value. Shaving 3,5 months of work every year is doable!
To help turn managers
into team leaders
Anyone can be a manager these days! Building team leaders in your organization is a lot more interesting and scale-up facilitation can help!
To better communicate
with your teams
People have their own ways of communicating and behaving, which creates tensions. A scale-up facilitator can put oil in the wheels!
To boost your financials
& master your cashflow
Mastering cash flow management is often what makes the difference between life and death for a company. Could you use a push?
To build business plans &
give your next steps a chance
Looking to get funding one way or another? Wondering how to build your business? A facilitator will challenge and support your work!
To build valuation
(& put money in the bank)
Down the road, the money comes from selling the business to a bigger fish, wish only happens if you think valuation & exit. Let us help!
How does growth & Scale-Up Facilitation work?
To understand how a scale-up facilitator can make a difference, it helps to first understand how your business works without one.
Without a growth & scale-up facilitator
Running a business is a daily challenge, and those who do it on a daily basis are usually confronted to a difficult reality: being alone at the top sucks. Making decisions that have an impact on others is not easy, and dealing with the wide scope of emergencies that keep coming up is an impossible task. Meanwhile, if the urgent is handled, the important and the strategic are left behind, which costs a fortune in terms of innovation, business development and business valuation in the long term.
Business valuation is often typically in an absolute blind spot, because most business owners never consider the option of ever selling the business to a bigger fish. Which is too bad, because this is where the money really comes from!
With a growth & scale-up facilitator
With a facilitator, your entrepreneurial adventure and business career changes rapidly. You now have a partner with a solid business strategy background, who does not judge you but does their best to support you whenever you need.
Your growth & scale-up facilitator brings new logics and the tools you need to turn logic into practice. They provide a sounding board, to help you think faster and clearer. And they become a pillar your close environment (your board, your teams) can also count on to help clear the noise, communicate more efficiently, come up with new ideas, improve processes, and make rapid progress thanks to personal coaching, team coaching and provocative brainstorming facilitation.
Of course, your facilitator also makes you think in terms of exit strategy and valuation along the way, which gives your business a value it never had before. You can’t turn that business into money in the pocket if you don’t bring that kind of logic into the equation!
Here are several key concepts related to scale-up facilitation that will help you understand how a business coach works and the benefits he (she!) can provide:
Your business is an asset
A fundamental concept with growth & scale-up facilitation is that your business isn’t a job you should keep as long as possible. Your business is an asset you should nurture, develop, and turn into value someone else will want to buy from you.
Those who understand and apply this logic go far beyond those who don’t. it’s that simple.
Productivity isn't about working harder
We all want to be more productive, and we all want our teams to generate more. Still, increasing productivity is not a matter of working more or harder, it is a matter of working smarter!
For that reason, growth & scale-up facilitation by Impactified focuses on putting some oils into the wheels – strategies, people, processes, smarter is the answer!
Managers aren't leaders
Anyone can be a manager these days, so the term means nothing and having managers around you creates no value for your business. The stake, really, is to build a team around leaders who can push, provoke, improve and guide people towards a direction you’ve set.
Managers aren’t growth and scale-up facilitators either, by the way. Which means they probably won’t have what it takes to push you to the next step!
Exit & valuation are key
Your business is only worth money in your pocket (or bank account for that matter) if it can work and produce value without you. Hence, bringing exit thinking (planning how you will sell a few years from now) and valuation thinking (for how much) into your business routine is should be a strategic priority!
Business facilitation gives you ways to do this easily, no need to worry!
Growth & scale
methods
An Impactified growth & scale-up facilitator will typically use a variety of methods to challenge and boost their clients, and each of these methods has its own benefits!
Most independent business coaches focus on strictly asking you questions, until the answers strictly come from you, and at your own pace. But does it help dealing with complex situations that require fast actions and reactions? Not really, no.
At Impactified, we go beyond traditional coaching methods to ensure that our clients leave our sessions with tangible next steps and provoking breakthroughs, not just with more questions.
To do that, we use various facilitation methods:
But here are some situations in which working with a business coach is especially useful:
- business coaching (asking questions)
- business mentoring (making suggestions)
- board support (challenging board members)
- team support (giving managers a way to think wider)
- workshop facilitation (giving teams a space to brainstorm creatively and come up with Aha! moments and Wow! solutions)
Alternatives to
Scale-up Facilitation
Management Consulting
Management consulting is widely used in medium to large firms to obtain feedback and suggestions on what to do next. Consultants get in, assess, hand you a report you don’t necessarily find relevant, and leave (or charge dearly to handle implementation).
The biggest drawback of this is that your participation to the process is null. Plus, teams often hate the exercise…
Traditional Coaching
Coaching is another typical way to obtain business support. A coach gets involved and works with people to identify blind spots and help people find ways to solve their own problems.
The biggest drawback of this is that coaching methods heavily rely on questioning rather than challenging, which means businesses often feel lost with more questions when what they want it answers, method improvement, growth and scale facilitation.
DIY!
Or, you can deal with your business on your own. Identify your own issues and blind spots (ahem!), then put the right strategies in place to tackle issues, and follow up on implementation – let alone giving your teams a push, helping them to think outside of their own box, and spending some time on facilitating their brainstorming sessions!
The drawback with this is… Well, you already know. Don’t you?
Long story short? Neither management consulting, traditional coaching nor DIY can replace the benefits of growth & scale facilitation. A challenging facilitator is the best business-boosting solution for most entrepreneurs, business owners and team leaders!
FAQ!
Are you looking for more information about how business facilitation can help with pushing your business to its next level?
You should always trust your guts when it comes to hiring a business partner, because their job is to challenge you and you have to be comfortable with them doing just that.
You should also ensure that your business facilitator has the right logics, methods and tools to get you going seriously and efficiently (beyond merely asking you questions!). If you need help with that, check our online scale up facilitators booking platform and get started fast!
Business facilitation sessions focus on a variety of topics, depending on your needs and concerns.
Sometimes the sessions will focus on team management and internal communication, but they can also focus on your business model, on your value proposition and on your commercial strategy. Of course, your scale-up facilitator can also help with business planning, cash flow forecasting, so forth and so on!
Yes. In fact, we always go through a SWOT analysis with our clients.
We are not talking about theoretical, business school SWOT analyses that make no difference however. Our proprietary SWOT analysis will make you explore your business through six different angles and seventy questions – an ideal set up if you want to identify low-hanging fruits, set long-term strategies and put your fingers on those nasty blind spots you should get rid of as soon as possible!
Of course! An Impactified scale facilitator is trained to facilitate innovative thinking brainstorming workshops where teams collaborate and co-create around big issues, strategic processes, strategic visions, etc.
We use post-its, coffee and sweets to do that, and the results are always Wow!
Of course again! Customer journey workshops are a common exercise in our routine and we enjoy putting them into place with ambitious clients who genuinely care about putting their customers first!
Yes. We use Blue Ocean thinking a lot in our facilitation methods, especially when the stake is to turn a slowing business into an innovative and revolutionary one.
Kindly note, however, that Blue Ocean strategies are a trademarked brand to which we are not affiliated. The logic works nonetheless!
Any Impactified scale facilitator works with teams on a routine basis. This is because, while we often start working with the top management, our clients often realize that their teams too could benefit from what we offer.
Think productivity, time management and priority setting, but think also leadership development and internal team communication!
Of course! Again, the Impactified growth & scale facilitators routinely work with those who decide at the top, which includes board members.
In fact, when a company starts to grow, we consistently suggest the creation of a board to ensure stability and continuity. We are used to doing this!
You should pay for the services and value created by a facilitator if you want to give your business the boost it deserves, and if you want to turn that business into an asset that works for you a lot more (more than the other way around).
If these points are not relevant to you, then you shouldn’t pay at all and keep doing things as usual. What are you doing here, though?
Depends! An Impactified facilitator typically meets their client two or three times a month (online or in person), and the collaboration may involve working with one or a few people, therefore prices will differ.
Prices start from around a thousand dollars, however.
Both options work, and it all depends on where you (and your facilitator) are based.
Sometimes everyone is in the same city, which makes it easy to meet in person. But a lot of our coaching sessions take place online. We work with international clients based all around the world, we are used to it!
It depends on the package you are choosing, really. But ideally you should build a strong relationship with your facilitation partner and feel free to get in touch whenever you feel like you need to.
As our relationships with our clients deepen, we often become a sounding board and routinely help with filtering the noise, outside of the planned calls. That’s the point of it!
Our contracts stipulate that collaboration should initially last for a year (because that’s the time it takes to implement a strategy and track progress), and most of our clients keep using us as their sounding board for several years. That’s because they see value in what we do, but the rest is totally up to you!
Even though we often work with our clients for a few years, we know that starting a collaboration with someone you don’t know is not easy. We therefore guarantee to refund your coaching sessions investment if what we do isn’t something for you after the first month. That’s it!
Please not that the 30-day guarantee only applies to 1:1 sessions but does not cover SWOT workshops – which remain optional.
While facilitation will get you one step closer to success, we only act as “facilitators” to business owners and their teams. Therefore, making decisions and running the business always remains your role and responsibility.
That is indeed one way to describe what we do! That’s because, due to the nature of the relationships we build and the trust that comes with them, our clients often talk to us before talking to anyone else, just the clear the noise and get their ideas clear. There can’t be a good violin or guitar without a good sounding box, why would things be different for a business owner?
You can get started with growth & scale facilitation very fast. Look for a facilitator on our booking platform and get in touch, your first session can happen within the next 48 depending on your availability.
Alternatively, feel free to drop us a line and we will connect you with a suitable partner. Kindly make sure to provide enough information as to your needs, otherwise the matching exercise tends to be difficult!