Using our Strategic Acceleration methodology, organizations often come to our Studio to help compress time in launching a new company, product, process, direction, or for team synergy.

Tony Jeary is about getting RESULTS!  In fact, many people call him the “Results Guy.”  To effect major results, it means getting an entire culture on board.

Tony takes a four-pronged approach to Strategic Facilitation.  These are:  Awareness, Skill Sets, Processes and Tools.

Awareness – Raising awareness to incorrect or outdated beliefs and eliminating “blind spots” is critical for gaining clarity on the current situation.

Skill Sets – Teaching skill sets to leaders and team members that will enable them to accomplish objectives

Processes - Utilizing proven processes built from best practices over the last 20+ years of working with some of the world’s best companies.

Tools – Taking advantage of Tony’s vast arsenal of tools to help effect culture change or building new tools specific to your needs.

“You exceeded my level of expectations, we got to exercise a team dynamic that we normally don’t get to exercise, and we built a much more powerful team.  I see us being the envy of the industry and a company that others want to emulate.  This is a great first step in getting this going in that direction.”
- Mike Gorey, Bridgestone Firestone Building Products

“Tony’s work has been very successful in helping us evaluate the general status of Hillwood in exploring our branding matrix, performance standards, competition evaluation, developing team synergy. The sessions proved invaluable in making our company leaders’ objectively evaluate the company, and in establishing goals for better performance.”
- Russell Laughlin, Hillwood Properties, A Ross Perot Company

“That was a GREAT meeting. I have not had so much $/minute value ever! Great ideas, great contacts and great action items.”
- Carson Conant, EVP, Nightingale Conant

“You are obviously very dedicated to your work and not just as an occupation through which you can earn a living but as an avocation – something that calls you to utilize your skills and abilities to make other people’s lives better – almost like a ministry of sorts.”
- Pat Jannausch- Con-way Transportation

“The deliverables I personally walked away with centered around 2 main ideas, the FLOW concept on how we as business owners need to stay focused on what generates FLOW and avoid things that take away from FLOW.  Also the Belief Window concept and the video on Paradigm shifting and understanding will be of great benefit.  The marketing materials that your team has helped my company develop will net an additional $500,000 in net profit.”
- George Burke, Owner, Burke Painting

“Thanks for doing such a terrific job in leading, inspiring and challenging all of us at the Mitsubishi Electric Distributor Conference this past week.  I had several of our distributors tell me that they would be going back home to implement the training that you shared with us during that time.  Thanks for challenging all of us into moving from good-to-great-to-Mastery!”
- John Wright, Sales Manager, Mitsubishi

“Thank you for your leadership at the TEREX ConExpo Training. This is our largest trade show in North America.  Our associates with Freeman introduced us to you and your team.  You helped us clarify our objectives and lead us through a process which quickly and efficiently produced a workable structure for the training, a set of deliverables to work against and clear roles and responsibilities among the team.  You quickly developed an understanding of our organization and its challenges and responded with helpful suggestions on how we could accomplish our goals.  You kept us on track.   Post event surveys were above 8 on a scale of 10 and I think it is safe to say we could not have achieved these results without your leadership and the efforts of your team.”
- Kevin Janco, Sr. Director of Marketing, TEREX

“Congratulations! We were notified today that Freeman has been awarded the contract for imX 2011.  They selected us based on our entire strategic package we presented.  They have also expressed interest in utilizing our Marketing and Creative services. Thank you all for your hard work, leadership and dedication to imX, SME and AMTDA. I look forward to working with you all in order to fulfill our promise to the imX brand! Thank you for helping us frame up the story and turn our ideas into platforms for growth.”
- Toby Purdy, Freeman Companies

“Tony worked with our senior leadership team on two occasions. With a wealth of industry experience, our leadership team was sought out by several large conference coordinators, analysts and media to speak and comment about industry topics. Tony worked with the leadership team to improve their presentation skills and increase their communication effectiveness. He provided counsel and recommendations to ensure the team was fully prepared to present at national conferences and as media opportunities arose. His facilities allowed the team to get away from day-to-day demands and focus time to fully prepare themselves. He was engaging, thoughtful and his insight helped the team feel a new level of confidence as presenters.”

Top qualities: Personable , High Integrity , Creative

Jan Tankersley
hired Tony as a Business Consultant in 2004

The speed of life is a global condition that presents a strategic challenge for everyone.  The speed of life combines excessive amounts of unrefined information with a glut of choices and opportunities and presents itself in the form of confusion and distraction!  How well we function within this constant condition determines value, competitive advantage and the ability to create results that will convert a vision or a dream into reality.  These issues are always important but in tough economic times they are absolutely critical to success.

The speed of life can’t be stopped but it can be understood and leveraged in a positive way.  It is a fact that knowledge and information have always been a cornerstone of power, influence and achievement!  However, the speed of life generates so much information it creates distractions that unwittingly lead people into well-intentioned busyness.  It is a form of busyness that marginalizes results.  The solution is to identify and deploy high leverage activities that harness the right information at the right time and focus on action that will move the results needle!

The only thing certain about the speed of life is uncertainty.  It is impossible to accurately forecast future conditions over a long period of time and an  approach based on the principle of ‘going as far as you can see — so that you can see farther’  is needed.  Such a strategy is created by concentrating on the three strategic issues that matter most:  Clarity, Focus, and Execution.

CLARITY
If you have no cohesive vision there is little chance of achieving sustained success in a bad economy.  Think about this:  Most organizations have adopted vision and mission statements; however, many within those organizations find it difficult to articulate the vision or mission, without reading it.  This condition is typical and may be evidence that there is no real  clarity about the vision and how to achieve it.  Unless there is clarity regarding a vision — there is no vision!

When businesses have clarity concerning their vision it lives!  It also creates zeal and passion for the commitment and determination needed to execute the vision.  The vision itself becomes able to pull everyone forward.  The pulling effect is created because clarity impacts people at the level of belief and produces voluntary change in attitudes and behavior.

Clarity is achieved when we have an unfettered view of our vision and understand what we really want, why we want it, the value of doing it and the highest purpose for doing it!

FOCUS
Focus is the opposite of distraction!  At the speed of life,  success hinges on the ability to cut through the clutter and focus on the high leverage activities that directly impact results.  Focus is not something that comes naturally for most people, and that is why it is a skill that must be learned, polished, and practiced. Specifically, focus is a thinking skill that is acquired as a result of mental discipline.

Because the human mind serves as a connector of facts and information, fresh input is the raw material of creativity, opportunity recognition and problem solving.  The mind is always hungry for new information because it stimulates thought and is fulfilling.  Unfortunately, basic process of thinking provides the opportunity for distraction.  Distraction is always the path of least resistance and the most natural activity for the mind to embrace.  The speed of life offers up scores of opportunities each day that lure us into distractions that gobble time.

Between today’s conditions and tomorrows hope is a gap that must be crossed.  In that gap is every goal, objective and action step that must be taken to be successful.  Achieving focus is a matter of identifying the high-leverage activities in the gap that powerfully impact results and developing the mental skills to insure they receive the time they deserve.

EXECUTION
The ability to persuade others has a direct impact on achieving superior results, faster, which is what the speed of life demands.   As we gain clarity and develop our focusing skills, the need to concentrate on high-leverage activities becomes paramount.  However, identifying and focusing on those activities is only the beginning.  Once our high-leverage activities are known the challenge of actually doing them becomes the issue.  People must be persuaded to focus on these activities and to act quickly!  This always involves exceeding expectations.

There is more to exceeding expectations than adopting the idea as a strategy.  Exceeding expectations has its greatest impact when it is adopted by individuals as a way of life.  When you have a group of people who are willing to exceed expectations in the normal course of their daily activity a powerful force for superior results is created.

People in businesses and organizations are persuaded to exceed expectations based on the positive strategic presence of their leadership team. Leaders create images of influence in the minds of those they lead and those images define the organizational perception of leadership.    It is this overall persona that creates what I call Strategic Presence.  Leaders are constantly creating positive and negative Strategic Presence based on their values and their behavior.   The most important fact about Strategic Presence is that it produces two possible reactions in others.  It either produces voluntary cooperation or it produces various forms of resistance.  If the Strategic Presence of leadership is highly positive, people will be more likely to support the vision of leadership.  If the Strategic Presence of leadership is negative, people will not be willing to exceed expectations.  They may actually try to undermine the goals of leadership!

The key to persuasion is Strategic Presence and the ability to communicate strategically is the foundation for both.  Organizations frequently treat communication as a collection of skills, or just another training or coaching objective.  This idea represents a tactical approach to communication.  If execution can be seen as a train rolling down a track to a predetermined destination, communication is the engine that powers the train!  If you can’t communicate effectively you will not execute effectively

©2008 Tony Jeary, author of Strategic Acceleration: Succeed at the Speed of Life

Author
Tony Jeary, author of Strategic Acceleration: Succeed at the Speed of Life, has been and continues to be the coach to the world’s top CEOs and high achievers for more than 20 years. His clients include the Presidents of Wal-Mart, Firestone, Shell, Samsung, New York Life, and the United States Senate, to name only a few. An advisor to many, Tony Jeary has invested his life and career in helping others discover new clarity for their vision, develop focus on direction, and create powerful execution strategies that strategically impact achievement and results. Tony is happily married and blessed with 2 great daughters.

“Tony worked with our senior leadership team on two occasions. With a wealth of industry experience, our leadership team was sought out by several large conference coordinators, analysts and media to speak and comment about industry topics. Tony worked with the leadership team to improve their presentation skills and increase their communication effectiveness. He provided counsel and recommendations to ensure the team was fully prepared to present at national conferences and as media opportunities arose. His facilities allowed the team to get away from day-to-day demands and focus time to fully prepare themselves. He was engaging, thoughtful and his insight helped the team feel a new level of confidence as presenters.” May 12, 2010

Top qualities: Personable, High Integrity, Creative

Jan Tankersley
hired Tony as a Business Consultant in 2004

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Tony Jeary has devoted his career to the study of Being Your Best.

Here are the significant benefits you can expect from experiencing Tony:

1. Preparation – Tony and his team extensively prepare beforehand by studying your materials, brochures, company website, videos, organizational charts, history, background – anything you can provide to help understand who you are as a person, as an organization, and/or as a company.
2. Proven Processes – Tony has developed dozens of effective proprietary processes over the years that he can deploy as needed to help get the results you want, whether it’s his unique MOLO analysis, Branding Matrix™, Marketing Audit, or “One Pager” tables of checklists.
3. Library (Resource Arsenal) – Tony has spent twenty years gathering, reading, and studying the very best books, tapes, and videos on all business-related topics. Over the last ten years, he has summarized hundreds of these books into a condensed two-page format for fast, easy digestion. The book recaps contained in his library offer extensive and fresh content that contains some of the best improvement principles, ideas and concepts in the world. He has amassed over 900 binders of various projects he has consulted on during the last 20 years. His library is cataloged and organized for ease of use for his clients. When you want to benchmark and do it quickly, imagine the great ideas he can bring to you in just minutes, pulling from over 1,000 clients and thousands of projects that he has documented into his business library.
4. Facilities – Tony has built a one-of-a-kind Strategic Acceleration Studio on his estate in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, designed specifically for success coaching, presentation development and strategy sessions. It can be set as a mock stage, a mock boardroom or into a meeting environment where LCD projection is simultaneously projected and documented.
5. State-of-the-art equipment – To support your sessions, Tony uses the most sophisticated equipment available – from stage lighting to LCD machines, speaker phones to high-tech computers, props, and much, much more.

Success Acceleration Studio

1. Fun – Your coaching experience will be inspiring, with a fresh flow of humor stimulated by Tony’s famous “dollar bill” giveaways. If you have not yet heard about this attention-getter, ask us!
2. Memorable experience – Tony has a track record of creating memorable experiences that change peoples’ (habits and) lives forever. Each customized session with Tony can be a “turning-point experience” for you and/or your organization.
3. On-the-spot, real-time benchmarking – Tony works with highly successful people and organizations, resulting in the ability to provide examples of best practices that have proven to be successful and can be adapted to your individual needs.
4. Time efficient, period! Tony practices, to the benefit of his clients, the principles in his book, Gaining 100 Extra Minutes a Day. Clients are consistently impressed with his commitment and discipline to maximize every minute of the time they are with him.
5. Enthusiasm – Tony pours a seemingly endless source of energy and enthusiasm into each assignment. This is validated time and again as evidenced by thousands of testimonials from satisfied clients.

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Strategic Acceleration produces clarity and focus about things that need to be said. Communication Mastery provides the methodology and the means by which those things can be said. The result of Communication Mastery is growth, enhancement of perceived value in the marketplace and sustainable methodologies that yield highly productive cultures characterized by accomplishment.

As Strategic Acceleration becomes a reality, communication skills and abilities are elevated at every level. They are raised not by the training of individual presentation and speaking skills, but by the presence of a system that produces clarity and focus and the ability to execute. When people have clarity, focus and execution they are confident. When they have tools and processes that facilitate their communication objectives they become better communicators. When a system of communication is established, the ability of the team is elevated. A rising tide raises all boats and that is the effect of Communication Mastery.

Organizations are actually living things composed of people whose success depends on their collective ability to express the common values, focused objectives and proven practices that will yield dynamic growth and sustained success. When people within an organization communicate, their goal must be to do so at a level that produces measurable impact. Some are able to communicate more effectively and powerfully than others and have greater impact. Tony Jeary presents Communication Mastery as a system capable of lifting everyone to higher levels of impact. As entire organizations elevate their communication standards, their impact on people improves from Basic to Mastery over time. The greater the impact, the more profound the results. This concept is graphically depicted with the “Impact Curve Graphic.”

So, what is the effect of Communication Mastery? Four things always appear: