Alignment
Productive Facilitation
Best Practices Resources
Leadership and Participation Principles
Power of Collaboration
“In Their Own Words”

Alignment -- We recognize the value of experienced input and advice. Up front, we explore to understand your challenges, opportunities, and desires. While member company sizes range from $1M to $360M, we match you with others facing similar issues and challenges. The focus is on well-aligned groups of business leaders who can help each other

Productive Facilitation -- Your time is valuable. Our facilitators are experts at effectively eliciting dialogue that draws out intelligent, practical advice — quickly and on-point. The focus is on engaging people in a manner that inspires action and results.

Best Practices Resources – We believe in learning from the best – whether it is experiential learning or applied expertise. Well aligned peer members provide most of the experiential learning. Our widespread network of members and affiliated partners provide subject-matter expertise when needed. The focus is on delivery of best practices learning and value in every Peer to Peer meeting.

Leadership and Participation Principles
This list of principles sets the framework for participation in Peer to Peer Advisors. Members recognize that Peer to Peer Advisors are committed to helping one another grow and improve their respective businesses. As a result, we honor these fundamental principles:

Being open-minded to change, ready for change, and believing in the power of collaborative relationships to propel growth.

• Encouraging learning from each other, and sharing experiences to drive growth.
• Respecting the diversity, backgrounds and contributions of all.
• Committing to full participation at and in meetings.
• Being impeccable with our word and respecting the confidentiality and trust engendered in our Peer to Peer Group.
• Holding ourselves accountable to the group for direct honest feedback and an open exchange of ideas.

Power of Collaboration -- Nobel Prize winners James Watson and Francis Crick are credited with discovering the double-helix structure of DNA. Watson, on the fiftieth anniversary of the event, stated that he and Crick cracked the elusive DNA code not because they were the smartest people pursuing the answer. Rather, it was because they weren’t the smartest people pursuing the answer. Watson felt the smartest was Rosalind Franklin, a brilliant British scientist. The difference was that Franklin worked alone, seldom seeking outside advice. Watson and Crick often collaborated, looking for answers beyond their knowledge and experience. Collaboration works, and it works better than going it alone. That’s why collaboration is the key to the tone of Peer to Peer meetings.

In Their Own Words

“I have to give a lot of credit to the facilitation. Participants are business managers and owners who are not shy about jumping in.” Owner, Financial Services Firm

“I would say that my investment in Peer to Peer has produced at least a tenfold return which has come in a variety of ways and areas of my business including monies saved through increased productivity and revenue generated.”
Owner, Web Services Firm

“My Peer to Peer experience helped make last year my most profitable year in three years.”
Owner, Trailer and Auto Dealer

“No where else can you participate in a forum of professional business people where the goal is to help one another succeed! You’re not alone in your business! Peer to Peer professionals have similar issues. The forum is an excellent venue for guiding insight.”
Owner, Wireless Communication Company

“My Peer to Peer experience enables me to see myself and my business from a different perspective. It is as if I am learning to see my business and my work with a new set of eyes. That is a gift.”
Owner, Healthcare Education Company

“One Peer to Peer discussion, and the advice received is helping me decide on an expansion strategy. The Peer to Peer experience is different than other groups because we can have these types of personal and in-depth detailed discussions”.
Owner, IT Services Firm

“Peer to Peer's value is experience — the collective business experience in my group exceeds 200 years across a variety of disciplines. To me, that's priceless.”
Partner, Community Focused Website

“They do a great job of matching people. And they are continually working at it. They do a good job determining the needs of individual group members.”
Owner, Software Development Company

“Thought stimulating — Motivating to action — Energizing” Owner, Training Business

“We've been able to streamline our operations. I'm now able to dedicate my time to the things I'm better suited for. I wouldn't have got to this point as quickly without Peer to Peer.”
Owner, HR Services Firm