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Create Better Opportunities, Faster

Ten Ways You Can Improve Your Business in a Cheetah Mastermind Group

Increase Your Profits AND Your EnjoymentBy Michelle LaBrosse, PMPFounder, Cheetah Learning

1. Leverage the “Social Capital” of Your Cheetah Mastermind Group Members When you take the Cheetah Mastermind course to learn how to run your own Cheetah Mastermind group, you learn how to as-semble a group of 12 of your business peers in your local area for periodic business development meetings. Anthropologist Robin Dunbar says that our brains can handle at the most 150 people in our social networks and maintain healthy relationships. When you stop and reflect on your meaningful relationships, they may num-ber up to 150. When you work with 12 other people in the spirit of helping your businesses grow, you have access to the 150 people they know. This opens you up to 1,800 other meaningful contacts that could help your business.

2. Stay Accountable to Achieving Your GoalsBusiness Week research shows that distractions cost $650 billion per year in produc-tivity losses. These very same distractions—such as email, texting, Facebook, also impact your personal performance with running your business. When you learn how to run a Cheetah Mastermind group, you learn how to help each and every member set goals and put the actions in place to achieve those goals between the meetings. You learn how to take charge of your day-to-day actions so that you can reach the goals you set for yourself at each Cheetah Mastermind meeting.

3. Create Exponential Opportunities with People Committed to “Going for It”As you get to know your Cheetah Mastermind group members by doing the various business development activities, you create a strong emotional bond. By learning how to help others, you in fact help yourself. When you share a common vision to go for it with your Cheetah Mastermind group, you deepen your commitment to helping each other. This deepening bond and the spirit of “Going for It” opens up numerous opportunities for each of you, you would never create on your own. With the Cheetah Mastermind approach you learn how to pursue these opportunities together at Cheetah Speed.

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4. Accelerate Your Learning and Accelerate Your EarningAs you learn how to lead a Cheetah Mastermind group, you learn a number of accelerated learning techniques Cheetah Learning has perfected over the years in teaching Project Management and Negotiations. The faster you learn, the faster you create and pursue new opportunities with your Cheetah Mastermind group members.

5. Work Smarter, Not HarderHere is a quote from a Cheetah Mastermind group member: “I found that I was working a lot of hours but not really making much headway. With the power and the support of the Cheetah Mastermind group, and the group exercises and facilitation, I was able to set clearer goals, establish a plan, break it down and move forward. Making decisions and taking action were stumbling blocks before Cheetah Mastermind, but now that’s all changed. I want to help other business owners realize the same level of success and performance through Cheetah Mastermind Groups like I did.”

6. Renew Energy in Your DreamSometimes you may feel alone and get discouraged with the challenges of your busi-ness. It happens to the best of us. When you learn how run a Cheetah Mastermind group to connect with other business owners based in a spirit of growth and collaboration, you get the original spark back that inspired you to get into business in the first place. And if you’re new to the game of business, you get infected with a go for it spirit from seasoned business owners—it is intoxicating.

“When I asked Michelle to help me with my Mastermind Group I had no idea what fun was in store for us. I love the format we use with the Cheetah ap-proach. My husband, who usually won’t participate in these types of events, saw what it was doing for my small business and decided to join us. It’s like the guy just had two rocket boosters put on him for his business.”Nishanto K., Therapist

“My wife is continually recruiting me to participate in one crazy business moti-vational scheme after another. So when she told me what she was doing, it was like ‘Blah blah blah blah blah.’ When I saw the impact on the bottom line of her business, just after the first two Cheetah Mastermind group events, I wanted in. Every meeting, I leave with some amazing new insight on how to better run my business. I’m on fire—after 35 years running it. This is nothing short of a miracle.”Bob K., Independent Grocer & Catering



“I recently made a life-changing decision to end my 25-year career as a global product manager for a major power plant manufacturer to develop an independent consulting firm and apply my experience to the growing power industry in China. By participating in the Cheetah Mastermind group, I have gotten a significant jump-start on what it takes to transition from employee to business owner. Not only am I setting my goals and meeting others with the same aspirations in the Cheetah Mastermind group, but I am actually developing skills that are making a huge difference in how I am setting up my business. It is inspiring to meet with others who have similar objectives.”Bill K., Product Manager

7. Design Your Business for Speed AND AdaptabilityIt isn’t the strongest who survive in nature. It is the most adaptable. It’s the same for you when you are running a business. When you learn how to run a Cheetah Mastermind Group, you learn about business process design. You learn techniques to guide and coach others in setting up their businesses for success. One of the critical success fac-tors for ANY business in today’s fast-chang-ing climate is to have adaptable business

processes. The more skills you develop in designing streamlined, easy-to-imple-ment and -follow business processes, the faster you can move and the quicker you can adapt to new opportunities.

“I have participated in Mastermind groups before. Cheetah’s approach is far differ-ent. We focus on developing the skills to achieve our goals—not just on our goals. I like the short, organized format for the meetings and the skilled facilitation has made a huge difference in the effectiveness of the meetings. My business was struggling, I guess like everyone else’s in this economy. I made just a couple of minor changes based on what I learned with their activities, and I’m back in the black.”Maribeth P., Promotional Events Coordination

8. Work on Your Business Rather Than in Your BusinessAs every business coach tells you—you must work on your business rather than in your business. In Cheetah Mastermind you learn how to inspire your group members to adopt the 80/10/10 rule: You spend 80 percent of the time on activities for the future growth of your business—such as competitive strategy, new product development, new market development, new marketing strategies, streamlining operational efficiencies, staff development processes. You spend 10 percent of the time on the present—this is creating and delivering your product or service to your customer base. You spend 10 percent of time on the past—this is accounting and filing taxes.



9. Learn Business Best Practices From Your Cheetah Mastermind Group MembersAs you get to learn about your other Cheetah Mastermind Group members, you will see things they are doing that make a lot of sense and would work well in your business. No man is an island. It is easy to get caught up in the “not invented here” syndrome when people present you with ideas on how you could improve your business. In the Cheetah Mastermind group, you learn how to run a meeting; you learn how to facilitate the conversation so people share the best of their businesses. You learn new ideas through osmosis rather than intrusion. You get to pick what will work for your business and how, rather than feeling you need to be compliant to the advice of an outside consultant.

10. Replace Fear with HopeLearning and growth are fun. They turn any situation from a “have to” to a “want to.” The modern media is constantly telling us how bad things are in the economy and how bad it is to be a small business owner these days. Sure we could sit around and focus on all the terrible stuff happening everywhere. The truth is whatever you focus on is what you create. As a Cheetah Master-mind group leader, you learn how to hold the positive intention of the group and how to keep people in the go for it mindset. You learn how to create an environment of hope and possibil-ity so your Cheetah Mastermind group can soar to new heights together.

“Looking back, I now realize how scared I had become on how this economy was impacting my business. Maintenance contracts were down well over 50 percent, and I’ve had to make cutbacks in every part of my business. All the tricks I had up my sleeve to increase revenue and decrease costs had been played out. I had kind of given up and was just trying to ride out the storm. My golf buddy suggested I check out his Cheetah Mastermind group. I’m not one for networking or get-rich-quick schemes—I wasn’t sure if this was just another MLM play in disguise. My only regret is that I really wish I knew then what I’m learning now. Cheetah’s approaches work very well—first with having me reinvent my idea of what is possible for me, and next with inspiring me to ‘go for it’ with my business. I’m excited to get out of bed in the morning again.”Joe L., Property Maintenance

We want to help you be part of the success story of small business owners. Create your own Cheetah Mastermind group. It’s obvious you are as committed to your business growth as we are. Learn how to fa-cilitate your own successful Cheetah Mastermind Group in our 33-hour online program. Since you took the initiative to read the “Ten Ways Cheetah Mastermind Can Help You Grow Your Business,” you can get this $2,100 course for $333. Go to www.cheetahmastermind.com/weallwin and use the promotion code “WeAllWin” to take the Cheetah Mastermind Facilitator course for $333.



About Michelle LaBrosse, PMP

Michelle LaBrosse, PMP, is the founder and Chief Cheetah of Cheetah Learning, and author of Cheetah Negotiations, Chee-tah Project Management, Cheetah Know How and Cheetah Exam Prep. In October 2008, The Project Management Insti-tute (PMI), recognized Cheetah as the Professional Develop-ment Provider of the Year. Previously, PMI selected Michelle as one of the 25 Most Influential Women in Project Management in the World, and only one of two women selected from the train-ing and education industry. She is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Owner President Managers (OPM) program and is a REAL rocket scientist—she also holds engineering

degrees from Syracuse University and the University of Dayton. Her articles have appeared in hundreds of publications from around the world. Her monthly col-umn, the Know How Network is carried by over 500 publications, and her monthly newsletter subscription list includes more than 50,000 people. To date, more than 35,000 people have become “Cheetahs” using Cheetah Learning’s innovative Project Management and accelerated learning techniques. Michelle credits the success of Cheetah Learning to using the Cheetah Project Management method. This approach enables the team to better manage both people and technology. Michelle’s mission is to help people achieve great results, FAST, by making it fast, easy and fun to learn and do Project Management. She lives in Alaska with her family, rides a Harley, and travels the globe sharing her unique perspectives of how Project Management can help people create happier, more fulfilled lives.


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