Reach your higher self
Lead your team to Greatness
Business Challenges Consulting
Building better individual and team performance
at B2B Organizations Large & Small
We specialize in Consulting & Coaching Projects in B2B environments typically focusing on:Visioning & Strategic Planning
Marketing & Sales Effective Group Work
Executive Life CoachingHow can we help you?
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CHARTING YOUR ROADMAP FOR A SUCCESSFUL CAREER CHANGE
Are you feeling stuck, unhappy, or unfulfilled in your current job? Do you want to pursue a different career path that aligns with your passions, skills, and values? If so, you are not alone.
HOW CAN I GET MY TEAM TO BE MORE EFFECTIVE?
There are many ideas floating around on How to get teams to perform. Business Challenges Consulting has expertise in getting Sales & Marketing teams to be effective by utilizing: The Team Performance Model, Visual Facilitation Tools, and Agile techniques.
USING THE TEAM PERFORMANCE MODEL
The Team Performance Model is instructive on the questions a team member has in their mind as they work on a project. Knowing this information is helpful in workshop and exercise design as well as sequencing. Here are 8 videos explaining the model and how to use it.
BUSINESS MODEL CANVAS: VISUALIZE YOUR BUSINESS
Quickly and easily define and communicate your business idea or concept. Assess its desirability, viability and feasibility. Best done as a group facilitated activity.
WHAT IS EXECUTIVE COACHING?
You want to know more about coaching here are some articles and pictures to describe what topics we cover, the benefits and what is it.
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About
MissionTo help team leaders and managers realize their best results through coaching and facilitation.Our StoryJeffrey Landau aka The Chemical Coach (on Facebook) is the founding member of Business Challenges Consulting. After working more than 30 years in both large and small companies, Jeff started Business Challenges Consulting in July of 2020 with a focus on building better individual and team performance. Jeff comes with a wealth of business and marketing consulting experience from his past work at Evonik Industries, Polytex Environmental Inks and more. Jeff has recently received his Executive Coaching Certification from Coach Training EDU and is now accredited by the International Coaching Federation. During the pandemic, Jeff has also burnished his digital marketing expertise and virtual facilitation skills with XPLANE Visual Thinking Bootcamp and Gamestorming Expeditions both renowned organizations in this space.
Clients who work with Jeffrey Landau & Business Challenges Consulting in a coaching and consulting engagement will become confident and motivated, more successful in managing their teams and projects, and achieve higher levels of satisfaction with their work-life balance. Ready to get started?
How can we help you?We specialize in Consulting and Coaching in B2B environments. Projects typically focus on:Visioning & Strategic Planning
Executive Life Coaching
Marketing & Sales Effective Group Work
For coaching work, we focus on 4 cornerstones - Building Capability, Boosting Confidence, Enhancing Self-Awareness and Providing Clarity- We challenge you to be a better version of yourself using the latest coaching concepts such as hope theory.
- We know how to work both sides of the ocean (Europe and USA) in small and large companies.
- Our ideal clients include rising stars, mid career professionals, and senior managers.
For Marketing & Sales Effective Group Work, what do we bring to your organization?
- We challenge groups to work together, innovate and achieve great results.
- We enable your team leader to bring their team to high performance.
- We utilize visual thinking tools to promote collaboration and alignment.
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Testimonials
Jeff managed and lead many individual business teams with our Marketing and Sales Excellence group. Jeff’s strength was in leading diverse teams in a variety of types of businesses in an open and non confrontational way to develop new ideas and an action plan forward to achieve the objective.
Mitch Bowyer - Chemical Industry Senior Business Consultant
Gary Tumminello -
President at Omni WC, Inc.
We invited Jeff to Omni to lead our team on a strategic growth project. Jeff quickly became a member of our team and quarterback. Would I recommend Business Challenges Consulting to a friend or colleague? Absolutely!
Jeff Landau was part of our trainer staff. We appreciated his great motivation, comprehensive marketing knowledge, constant desire to improve the content as well as his teaching methods and great ways to interact with our students. I definitely recommend him as an instructor.
Regine Trippe - Dean School of Marketing at Evonik Industries
Executive Coaching
Would you like to "up" the game for a select group of employees or managers with intentional change coaching? Reach your ideal self or explore how to switch from your performance to learning zone. We subscribe to the intentional change theory where you the client set the agenda based on your hopes. You can read more about this here. We offer the following options to start your coaching experience today.
Free Introductory Session: Will discuss what is executive life coaching, what it can do for you and conduct a mini-session to demonstrate it.
Package of 5 sessions: Reach your ideal self using a structured approach.
Custom Package: Discuss what you want to achieve and expected duration. Let's design your alliance together.
Frequently Asked Questions
Getting Marketing & Sales Teams to Perform
Using the state of the art facilitation techniques including graphic facilitation, gamestorming and appreciative inquiry we will coach your team on their journey to becoming a high performing team. We will pick a topic area together such as Visioning, How to Grow?, or exploring the possibilities with Digitalization.
Visioning & Strategic Planning: What should our future organization look like in 5 years? How do we get there? Do we have the right set of suppliers/principals? Have we looked at this from our customers' perspective?
Sales Growth: Organic Growth - Can we grow geographically or to new markets? External Growth - Should we figure out where we grow via acquisitions?
Customer feedback: How are you getting feedback from the customers? Can we move beyond just responding to customer complaints (reactionary) and be more proactive? Have you looked at some of the latest techniques such as Net Promoter Score? Once you have feedback from customers, have you closed the loop and acted on their feedback?
Marketing Strategy & Social Media Posting: What are the main initiatives we need to be focused on? Who are are target clients? What are the best way to communicate and interact with them? How do we combine personal and digital touch points into a coherent plan?
Business Model Innovation: Are you thinking about staying ahead of your competitors? Re-evaluate your current business using a the Business Model Framework Visualizaton. Explore the possibilities in a group setting. Can be done as a 1 day workshop.
Frequently Asked Questions
What topics are covered with Executive Coaching Clients?
Source:Created by Business Challenges Consulting (can use if sourced)
Benefits of Coaching explained with 4C+ Model
Source: Coaching: The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership Book by Ruchida Chaudary
Gain a Clear Outside Perspective
Be the leader that you want to be
Leverage your strengths and be aware of your weaknesses
Build Effective Teams and Relationships
Continuous Support and Accountability
Act now and you can access a professional executive coach for just $100 per session. First session is free.