How Does Your Company Stack Up Print
How Does Your Company Stack Up?

Business development services we provide include assisting owners and executives with ideas and strategies to grow their businesses. These ideas and strategies come from our experience as business owners and executives.


Our management consulting services help owners and executives:
  • Increase company presence in the marketplace
  • Achieve significant growth in sales and profit margins
  • Lower indirect costs
  • Lower employee turnover
  • Reduce system errors
  • Create better lines of interdepartmental communication
  • Provide better customer service

Businesses profit from our services as we assist them in shifting their operating paradigm from that of a tactical operation to a strategically operated business. In other words our clients start out working in the business and end up working on their business, which is the real reason owners started their business in the first place.

With thirty years of experience under our belt, we have the skills, technologies, ideas and strategies to assist you whether it is increasing profits, developing strategic alliances, building your business, acquiring a company, building Value Added Reseller Channel, preparing your company for sale or merger, or succession planning to name but a few.

Vision-Leadership Systems offers a broad range of services. At VLS we are dedicated to collaborating one on one with our small business clients in the development of ideas and strategies to meet business growth objectives. Our services are billed monthly tailored to your companies expense structure and needs.


Regain Focus

Over the last 30 years Mike Adams has operated ten different businesses and understands there comes a moment in time when many small business owners take a stand and say
"I have had it. I have got to find a better way of doing things. I have got to get out of this grind, this is worse than working for someone else, at least in the past I could take a vacation, I had a little extra spending money that was not targeted for the business, and I was not tired all the time, not to mention I never get any time at home! I have to get the business profitable enough to support my personal goals, to help my family and get some time off where I can enjoy the fruits of my labors!"

Take this simple test, if these issues hit close to home, then our services may be of help.


  • Cash flow problems?
  • Need funding?
  • Profitability not there?
  • Need to update your sales strategy?
  • Need a marketing strategy?
  • Lonely?
  • Need an exit strategy?
  • Working lots of hours?
  • Have you become your own taskmaster?
  • Are you plagued by working capital problems?
  • Are you concerned your competitors are servicing your customers better?
  • Do you know how well your people are performing, or do you even have a standard?
  • Are you experiencing both growth and contraction in cycles, or is the business just stagnant?
  • Would an extended illness put you out of business or in peril?
  • Are your people doing the job the way you want it done?
  • Would your wife loose it all if you suddenly cannot function for some reason?
  • Has your business lost your vision, your personality?
  • If you wanted to sell today, would the new owner buy your job, or would they get a stand-alone business that can operate independent of you?
  • Are you able to take a real vacation, or just working vacations where your family goes with you?
  • Are your employees motivated?
  • Is your turnover high, or are you loosing good people?
  • Have you lost control of the important metrics from which you originally built your business?

The way you answer these questions determine what the real value of your company is, to you, to your banker, to your investors and to your heirs.

This method of operation causes a fundamental shift from an owner who owns their job into a business where the owner enjoys freedom to grow outside of his or her role as technician and manager into a true entrepreneur.

Benefits of this shift include:

  • Increase the value of their businesses to potential buyers
  • Allow for operation of the business when they are away
  • Give them freedom from the day-to-day operations of the business
  • Increase profits with more efficient operations and processes
  • Increase profits by helping your employees become more productive
  • Provide performance metric's for all levels of the organization including tactical, managerial and executive
  • Provides owners and owner families with security in case of long-term illness or death