Management Groups

[ Are you on the Right Path? ]

You're bright, resourceful, hardworking, and ambitious. But sometimes you face problems even the brightest can't solve alone. Or maybe you're searching for ways to capitalize on a newly discovered opportunity.

So where do you turn for insight, ideas and concrete tactics to strengthen your business?

Spader Management 20 Groups. A peer experience that reveals the secret to improved business performance and profitability: When it comes to information, experience, advice and best practices, 20 heads are better than one.

What People Are Saying

For myself, I believe the regular 20 Group meetings are a must. What an opportunity it is to meet with my peers in the farm equipment business and be held accountable for the way I do business.

—Cal West

Why Spader?

Spader 20 Groups get results. Proven ideas and best practices are shared. Paradigms shift. Solutions are identified. It is not a social club. Real work gets done.

Members benefit from an incredible depth and breadth of experience. A facilitator who has been there as a business owner or in a key management role. Detailed and proprietary reports. And carefully matched peers who share your goals and needs.

Spader 20 Group members also receive our proprietary forward forecasting system, a method of predicting future sales and profits with amazing accuracy. And every month members get comprehensive consolidated financial reports showing peer-to-peer comparisons.

Membership gives you concrete advantages.

  • Best practices in your industry
  • Spader's valuable monthly financial report on your business and how it compares to others in your group and industry
  • Hard intelligence on trends within your group and your industry
  • Spader's proprietary forecasting analysis to predict with amazing accuracy your future financial performance
  • Timely discussions on critical issues, such as maintaining margins, industry consolidation, what's hot and what's not, etc.
  • What works–and straight talk on what doesn't
  • A Spader facilitator with knowledge of multiple industries for advice on growth and cross-industry insights
  • Visits to member-businesses to see best practices first-hand
  • The chance to solve tough issues with peers face-to-face several times each year
  • A support network of other business peers solving common challenges to productivity and growth
  • Valuable relationships with peak performers in your industry
  • Toll-free support for any questions that arise

Total Business 20 Groups

Total Business 20 Groups address all aspects of Business Management—from broad company-wide issues to narrow department-specific topics—and help you see and create the future of your business.

Departmental & Special Focus 20 Groups

Departmental and Special Focus 20 Groups provide an ongoing educational channel for those who are on the frontline for individual departments.