TAB EXTENDS SERVICE INTO WEST MIDLANDS
posted on 29-Jun-2011
TAB EXTENDS SERVICE INTO WEST MIDLANDS
Stoke-on-Trent franchise sold
Peer support and business coaching organisation The Alternative Board (TAB) has extended its service to include owners of SMEs in the West Midlands. This development follows the launch of The Alternative Board (Stoke), headed by local businessman Steve Wood.
Following 25 years in the highly-competitive printing industry, Steve decided to buy the North Staffordshire TAB franchise in order to use his experience to benefit other small business owners.
“I have a passion for business, particularly problem solving,” he explains. “TAB enables me to bring together small groups of business owners to help them to help each other to focus on key strategic issues, plan ahead and achieve their targets.
“The Alternative Board format is very powerful because it combines hard-won practical experience with individual coaching and sophisticated online business analysis tools. This access to multi-disciplinary expertise makes the TAB model ideally suited to the current tough economic environment.”
He said he would be inviting local business owners to attend introductory “taster” board meetings so they can see for themselves how the TAB model works. Owner-managers who become TAB members meet regularly with their peers to share experiences and receive unbiased help and advice on the challenging business issues they face.
TAB boards meet monthly, members are all carefully vetted and selected from non-competing similar-size companies, and each member brings his or her particular skill set to the table.
The establishment of TAB (Stoke) follows the announcement of the recruitment of the 100th TAB member in the UK and brings the number of UK franchisees to 12.
