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Alpine Link Leadership Development, Sales Improvement and Consulting Services

Alpine Link Corporation offers specialized consulting and training services for corporations, organizations and individuals focused on lifting business performance. Our approach blends practical experience, timeless principles and contemporary thought leadership together to impact the relevant root cause issues our clients face.

Alpine Link is differentiated from conventional training and consulting firms in four important aspects. One, our approach is based on practical experience, not theory or academic research. We are business practitioners, not business philosophers.  We employ valuable lessons learned from direct experience, not merely from knowledge or from supporting staff roles. We fully understand the "what" and the "why", but uniquely focus on the "how".  Our learning is experiential, not conceptual.  We practice, not philosophize.

Two, we customize our content to the specific needs of our clients. People are different, organizations are different and markets are different. Off-the-shelf services and programs are great for basic improvement, but fall short of reaching peak performance.  By tailoring our content to leverage our client’s unique capabilities and opportunities, we are able to help them better differentiate themselves and reach their peak potential.

Three, our thought leadership is best-in-class.  We have a rich principle centered "how-to" library of frameworks and expertise to offer our clients.  Our thought leadership in business performance improvement, business planning, business strategy, sales effectiveness, self-improvement and leadership is constantly updated and provides refreshingly innovative perspectives. 

Four, our abilities transcend the organizational ecosystem.  We uniquely blend capabilities such as process modeling and human behavior psychology to help our clients get beyond symptoms and to the root enablers of performance improvement.  In our experience in working across what are typically disparate domains, we have developed a different perspective on the core principles of success.  We are able to perform high-impact work that crosses the traditional boundaries of consulting, training and self-improvement.  As Abraham Maslow said, "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."  We see problems for what they are, not as what we have. We have many tools that together enable us to get to the root of and overcome most any individual or business performance issue.
 
 
In short, our practical experience, tailored approach, thought leadership and unique cross-domain capabilities provide our clients with more value in less time than with conventional training and consulting methods.  This makes us a best fit for organizations and individuals who have higher expectations.  We cater to those who set higher standards which go beyond standalone training programs and basic consulting services.  We don't settle for mediocrity and neither should you.  The trainers and consultants you bring in set the standard for your employees to follow.  Use Alpine Link and set the standard high.

Alpine Villa Executive Retreat in Breckenridge, COAlpine Link's sister company Hawkins Properties LLP, offers organizations a refreshingly different venue alternative to hotels for off-site team meetings and gatherings.  The Alpine Villa, located in Breckenridge, CO, is a newly constructed executive retreat with special amenities designed for team-building, meetings and relaxation.  Together with the Alpine Villa, Alpine Link offers clients an integrated solution for team off-site meetings that include consulting workshops, training seminars and lodging accommodations.  For more information on the Alpine Villa, see www.alpinevillaretreat.com.

For organizations and individuals who are ready to move beyond basic training programs and off-the-shelf consulting services, contact Alpine Link for a no-charge introductory consultation and see the difference for yourself.

Alpine Link tailors the following distinctive services which are designed to significantly increase your performance:

Sales Improvement

  • Marketing & Sales Value Chain Discovery to create transparency into sales improvement opportunities.
  • Peak Potential Selling™ Process Reengineering to establish and implement direct sales and in-direct channel go-to-market best practices.
  • Peak Potential Selling™ Sales Training for Sales Representatives and Sales Managers to build consultative selling skills through winning selling principles – not selling tactics.
  • Sales Training for non-Sales Personnel to help consultants, non-sales executives, project managers and other non-sales personnel apply the art and science of selling.
  • Sales Pursuit & Account Penetration Workshops to create competitive differentiation and winning results in targeted opportunities & accounts.
  • Marketing & Sales Conduit Generation to create opportunities that feed the sales funnel and fill the pipeline.
  • Sales Kit Development to give sales professionals targeted tools, techniques and messages to sell specific offerings.
See Alpine Link's brochure on sales improvement services >>

Leadership Development and Self-Improvement

  • Alpine Learning Center Management Training to help executives learn The SCOPE of Leadership™ and activate behaviors that bring out the peak potential in their teams, companies, customers and in themselves.
  • SCOPE of Leadership™ Workshops to help leaders learn and apply one or more of the SCOPE of Leadership™ competencies great leaders possess.
  • Peak Potential Executive Coaching to help executives develop their SCOPE of Leadership™, hone their peak leadership skills and enhance their individual performance.
  • Activating Your Ambition™ Workshops to create a success roadmap for BHAGs that move ambitions to realities.
See Alpine Link's brochure on leadership development and coaching services >>

Business Improvement for Operational Excellence and Management Consulting

  • Operational Effectiveness Assessments to identify and implement operational improvements that improve business performance.
  • R²-L.I.F.T.™ Maintenance Office Deployment to capture and institutionalize ongoing best practices.
  • Peak Potential Business Strategy and Planning Facilitation to help business unit leaders create strategies and action plans that achieve near term objectives while building long term competitive advantage.
  • High Impact Offsite Meeting Facilitation to move management meetings and teams to new levels of performance.
See Alpine Link's brochure on business improvement services >>

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Mike Hawkins president and principal of Alpine Link Corporation MIKE HAWKINS is president and principal of Alpine Link Corporation. Mike consults, trains, coaches and leads companies and individuals to their peak potential. He is a respected business columnist, adjunct professor and thought leader on self-improvement, leadership, business planning, process optimization and consultative selling. 

Prior to Alpine Link Corp., Mike Hawkins had the distinction of having direct hands-on experience throughout all the primary activities in the enterprise value chain.  He excelled as an engineer in product development with Halliburton.  He was a successful salesman and marketing executive with IBM.  He worked as global general manager for Scient, a fast growing e-Business Systems Innovator, and held the position of executive vice-president for LogicaCMG, a global consulting and IT solution provider.  He has worked in multiple industries including management consulting, information technology, financial services, manufacturing, construction, telecommunications and utilities. Mike Hawkins' biography >>.

Throughout Mike’s industry and consulting career he has excelled in overcoming challenging issues that prevent companies and individuals from reaching their peak potential.  In his experience in leading cross-functional reengineering efforts and turning around under-performing businesses, he has uncovered recurring root cause issues that limit performance.  As a result, Mike has refined several frameworks - R²-L.I.F.T.™ ,The SCOPE of Leadership™, Peak Potential Selling™, Peak Potential Business Planning™ and Activating Your Ambition™ to help companies and individuals break through their limitations and achieve new levels of performance.  Click to learn more about The SCOPE of Leadership™ or Activating Your Ambition™.

Using these and other innovative frameworks that identify root cause issues and the primary drivers of value creation, Mike Hawkins has a reputation for consistently overcoming complex issues that prevent reaching peak performance. He specializes in developing great leaders, producing great sales people, creating transparency in corporate value chains, developing best practices that increase client value during sales pursuits, creating competitive differentiation, making selling value chains more efficient and moving strategies from planning to execution.

To contact Alpine Link Corporation or Mike Hawkins, call 970-453-4924 or email mike@alpinelink.com


Member of:

American Society for Training and Development
American Society for
Training and Development
International Society for Performance Improvement