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Alpine Link Consulting Services

Leadership Development, Sales Improvement, and Operational Excellence

Alpine Link Corporation offers specialized consulting, coaching, and training services for corporations, organizations, and individuals. We pride ourselves in delivering high-impact services through an approach that blends practical experience, timeless principles, and contemporary thought leadership that collectively targets the root cause issues our clients face.

Alpine Link is differentiated from conventional consulting and training firms in five ways:

1. Our approach is based on practical experience, not theory. We are business practitioners, not business philosophers. We fully understand the "what" and the "why", but uniquely focus on the "how". Our learning is experiential, not conceptual. We practice, not philosophize. If you don't care about experience, then hire speakers who only speak, coaches who only coach, and trainers who only train. We think to stay relevant and be the best trainers, speakers, and coaches possible, you have to also stay engaged in real work. We have hands-on experience and continually apply our skills in hands-on business improvement consulting work. 

2. We customize our content to the specific needs of our clients. People, organizations, customers, and markets are different. Off-the-shelf services and programs are great for basic improvement, but fall short of enabling higher levels of performance. We tailor our content to leverage our client’s unique capabilities and circumstances. Rather than use generic exercises or contrived examples, we utilize scenarios that represent our client's actual challenges and environmental conditions.  

3. Our thought leadership is best-in-class. We keep our expertise current and constantly update our rich principle centered "how-to" library of frameworks. Because most business issues are rooted in people issues, our core principles relate to the influence of people, hence our focus on improving leadership, execution, and sales.

4. We make the intangible tangible. We put science into the art. We uniquely apply analytical capabilities such as root cause diagnostics, process modeling, and behavioral science to areas considered non-scientific and intangible such as self-improvement, organizational change, leadership, and sales. We have a unique ability to create straightforward frameworks and models that simplify understanding of the complex issues our clients face.

5. Our abilities transcend the organizational ecosystem. From our experience in working across multiple domains, we understand how organizational elements impact each another. 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 for what we have to offer.
 
 
In short, our practical experience, tailored approach, thought leadership, ability to deal with complexity, 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 the highest expectations. We cater to those whose higher standards go beyond standalone training programs and basic consulting services. We don't settle for mediocrity and neither should you. 

The coaches, speakers, trainers, and consultants you bring in set the standard for your employees to follow and reflect your leadership competence. Use Alpine Link and set the standard high.

Contact Alpine Link for a no-charge introductory discussion and see the difference for yourself.

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

Sales Improvement

  • Marketing & Sales Value Chain Discovery to create transparency into sales performance 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™ Consultative Sales Training for Sales Representatives & Sales Managers to build consultative selling skills through winning selling principles – not selling tactics.
  • Consultative 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 and accounts.
  • Marketing & Sales Conduit Generation to create new 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

  • Leadership & Management Training to help executives learn The SCOPE of Leadership™, develop a coaching approach to 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 that 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 goals that move ambitions to realities.
See Alpine Link's brochure on leadership development and coaching services.

Business Improvement through Organizational Change and Operational Excellence

  • Operational Effectiveness Assessments to identify and implement operational improvements that improve business performance.
  • Best Practice Deployment to capture and institutionalize ongoing best practices.
  • Peak Potential Business Strategy and Business Planning 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.

Click here for a listing of Alpine Link's workshops and events.


Mike Hawkins president and principal of Alpine Link CorporationMIKE HAWKINS is award-winning author of Activating Your Ambition: A Guide to Coaching the Best Out of Yourself and Others, and president of Alpine Link Corporation. Mike speaks, consults, trains, and coaches organizations and individuals to higher levels of performance. He is a respected practitioner, columnist, adjunct professor, and thought leader in self-improvement, leadership, consultative selling, and business management.  

Prior to founding Alpine Link Corp., Mike Hawkins had the distinction of having direct hands-on experience throughout 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, utilities, and energy. Click here for Mike Hawkins' full biography.

To contact Alpine Link Corporation, email: info@alpinelink.com


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