Job Description
Do you want to be your own boss? Have more independence and flexibility? Earn what you’re really worth? Make a difference in the community? With today’s corporate environment, chances are you’ve already thought about being your own boss and owning your own business. As a franchise business owner with The Alternative Board (TAB), you will have the opportunity to be “in business for yourself, but not by yourself.”
Since 1990, TAB has helped over 20,000 business owners achieve their personal and professional goals through monthly business advisory boards and coaching. We’re looking for business professionals who are leaders in their areas of expertise. You could be a consultant, coach, business owner or senior business professional looking to combine your passion for business and helping others succeed.
Benefits to Becoming a TAB Franchisee
- Our Members typically stay with us for years. That means predictable income for you, and a chance to make a real difference to a company and its leadership team.
- It’s local, so no more travel (unless you go on vacation!). You get an exclusive territory with a substantial number of businesses.
- Hours of operation are strictly business hours. Apart from a few breakfast networking meetings, the majority of your working day will be 9-5. This means you’ll be working smarter, not harder and be home for all the important family and social events.
- We offer a proven system that has been in operation since 1990 and has been named the No. 1 Business Coaching and Consulting Franchise. This means that we know what we are doing and exactly what you should be looking for in a franchise partner.
- We take care of all the accounting for you. We do all the invoicing, collect dues from your Members and pay you the same day each month.
- You get to wake up each day and make a difference using your business experience and skills.
- You can work from your home office. Being a business services business means there’s very little overhead to run your business.
- We provide world-class training from people who have successfully launched franchisees all around the world.
Desired Skills
We’re looking for a business partner who will represent the TAB brand in the right way. You may be the perfect fit if you exhibit these skills and attributes:
Great communicator
You’re someone people naturally like to converse with and open themselves up to. You understand that how well you listen is as important as what you say.
Business leadership
You’re a growth expert in business, someone who has the ability to help a business grow through its people, its systems and its innovation.
Expertise and curiosity
You don’t have to know everything, but you do have an area of expertise (marketing, sales, finance, operations). Perhaps even more important, you’re passionate about learning all areas of business and people development.
Can-do attitude
When you join TAB, you’re not buying yourself a job. You’re buying (in part) the formula to help all willing business owners succeed. TAB is looking for people who are prepared to do whatever it takes to spread the TAB message in their local community. This means meeting and sharing our great story with a lot of people in your business community.
Positive-minded
TAB is an organization of business leaders who are all striving to help their local business communities. We’re looking for people who have a glass-half-full mentality, and who will represent what we do and our culture well.
Hardworking and hungry
You know this is your business and are willing to work hard to build it to the level you need it to be. You consider yourself competitive, wanting to blaze new trails and break company records.
A Typical Week of a TBO
Facilitating and Coaching
You’ll host board meetings made up of business owners in your local community. You’ll also provide individual coaching sessions using TAB’s proprietary tools and processes. You’ll help Members create a strategic plan and be their accountability partner to make sure they implement what they promise to themselves (and their board).
Networking
You’ll attend business networking events in your local community, and even host a few of your own. You’ll be asked to deliver topic talks on business growth at local networking events where you’ll provide value and explain why TAB offers a great benefit to the small- to medium-sized business community.
Developing your Business
You’ll use multiple marketing and sales tools, including direct dialing, social media, email outreach, and in-person networking to explain what TAB does and how it can help business owners. You’ll meet face-to-face with potential strategic alliance partners, event hosts, and prospective board members to determine whether there’s a good fit for potential partnership.
Consulting
As a trusted business advisor, you’ll get occasional business consulting assignments from your Members. The scope of this opportunity can be as niche or as broad as you’d like to make it.
The People You Will Serve
TAB’s peer network for business owners includes thousands of business owners from almost every industry imaginable. Our Members come from professional and service firms, manufacturing and distribution companies, contractors and construction companies, and so much more.
Members typically stay with TAB for years – or even decades – because of the incredible value they receive. Much of that value is delivered by our franchise owners, who facilitate the monthly board meetings and provide one-on-one coaching and accountability. They also get access to TAB’s world-class tools and processes, including the Business Builder’s Blueprint.
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