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The Alternative Board (TAB)

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Take Charge of Your Future with The Alternative Board (TAB)

The Rensselaer County Regional Chamber of Commerce is partnering with The Alternative Board (TAB) to provide our members with our newest member benefit, designed to assist businesses to grow and succeed. TAB is an internationally recognized firm which offers business owners, presidents, and CEO’s of small and medium sized businesses a proven path to success through coaching services and peer advisory boards. Members of the Chamber can now access the programs of TAB through its new chapter TAB NY Capital, and will receive a discount on all TAB programs and services.

Each TAB board consists of up to 10 CEOs and presidents, who run non-competing businesses; these boards are formed by and facilitated by TAB certified facilitator/coach. Every month, board members meet to share their business expertise, solve business challenges, and help each other seize new opportunities to achieve enhanced profitable growth and success in a “think tank atmosphere”. In addition, each month, the TAB certified facilitator/coach meets with each member individually to discuss how the member’s business is progressing.

Top 10 Benefits:

  1. You'll have your own personal Board of Advisors.
  2. You'll get the help you need to redefine your role in your company and develop your vision.
  3. You'll get advice from fellow members and your Coach/Facilitator that can only come from peers who understand your situation because they've been there.
  4. You'll get help, month after month, leading your company to where you want it to be.
  5. Your fellow TAB members and Coach/Facilitator will open your eyes to new alternatives and opportunities and hold you accountable for moving forward.
  6. Your frank discussions at TAB Board meetings with people not beholden to you will help you determine what you need to change in your managerial and organizational approach.
  7. You'll avoid mistakes by learning how fellow Board members faced and solved problems.
  8. You'll gain a broader perspective as you learn about the challenges other TAB members face
  9. You'll think more creatively and solve problems by sharing ideas with fellow Board members.
  10. You'll develop a stronger network of local and national resources through the TAB community.

TAB Kick-Start

 During the first 90 days of your TAB membership, working together with your TAB-certified Facilitator/Coach and your Board, you will focus on five key growth drivers:

  1. Defining your competitive differentiation and building a marketing plan
  2. Constructing a sales process to turn marketing leads into sales
  3. Developing an HR plan that either motivates or incentivizes current employees, or helps you hire the right ones
  4. Examining your costs through an analysis of your P&L
  5. Using the Board to come up with new ideas and processes that are relevant to improving your business right now.

We'll take the emotional decisions off the table, so you can start running your company from a peer-reviewed strategic plan.

For more information on how you can participate in The Alternative Board, contact the Chamber's Director of Business Development, Ryan Silva at 518.274.7020 ext. 14.