Thursday, April 1, 2010

Sunbrook Featured in Smart Business Magazine

Sunbrook Academy was recently featured in an article in Smart Business Magazine entitled, “Smart Leaders: Finding Some Help.” The article was built from an in-depth interview with Neil Gass about Sunbrook Academy’s national growth strategy and how it is very important to grow with the right people on the executive team. This article delves into advice that other business owners should take into account when expanding their business. Below is a piece of the article along with a link to the full article.

Smart Leaders: Finding some help
By Kristy J. O’Hara

When Neil Gass and his team decided to set a new direction for Sunbrook Franchising Inc., they knew it wasn’t a quick process, so they spent nearly six months evaluating what they wanted to accomplish.

They decided they wanted to open or have in development 60 new centers over the next five years. Then he broke it down and decided that in order to achieve his goal that he would need to open 12 centers this year.

“You start with your longer-range objectives — where do I want to be in five years?” says the CEO of the 160-person child care franchising company. “You hear this in the business publications from everybody, and it’s an often repeated story, but where do I want to be in five years, and then back it up in smaller increments. Now I have to look at what does it take to get these 12 months accomplished?”

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