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Strategic Planning
Business Turnarounds
Succession Planning
Executive Coaching

Strategic Planning

“We were a company that had lost its focus and was drifting, with flat sales and diminished profits. Through a series of strategic retreats... Bruce Michels truly helped pull our management team together.”
Doug Lindal, Partner
Lindal Cedar Homes

“The interactive and integrated strategic planning process used by Management Skills helped us to clarify our strategic direction, realign our corporate structure and implement the action plans to ensure our growth and financial stability.”
Stan Miller, President
PSF Industries, Inc.

“Bruce Michels assisted Continental Mills in defining strategic and tactical objectives. I found him effective and knowledgeable with a talent for getting participation and acceptance from other members of our management team.”
John Heily, President/CEO
Continental Mills

“The very detailed strategic planning process we were introduced to by Management Skills allowed us to focus on the top strategic priorities and align our processes and company structure accordingly.”
Rob Harris, President
Pacific Market International

Business Turnarounds

“...we could not pay our bills or meet our payroll and the bank was ready to close us down. Then somehow we found Bruce Michels and he saved our lives...your valuable input and advice allowed us to become very successful.”
Joop Schippers, President
Color Service Inc.

“In 1989 Farwest was a struggling transportation company with a management team lacking experience and business acumen for operating a company...we retained Bruce Michels which proved to be the single best management decision I have made in my professional life.”
Rob Geddes, President
Farwest Freight

“In 1992...our main question to Bruce Michels was "Are we a viable business and can we be saved?" His answer was a resounding "Yes, lets get busy."...Bunnies By The Bay became profitable, repaid its debts and built our own 12,000 square foot workshop in 1996...Working with Bruce was great...because he believed in our business, our product and us.”
Suzanne Knutson, Queen of Tablets and Tales
Bunnies By The Bay

Succession Planning

“...we also began addressing ownership and management succession. Bruce Michels worked with my father, me, our accounting firm and attorneys to arrange a successful and amicable sale of the company while grooming and counseling me for eventual ownership.”
Rob Geddes, President
Farwest Freight

“Succession planning...his(Bruce Michels) independent consultant position and respected business background gave him the influence to connect with everyone and succeed in this challenge.”
Doug Lindal, Partner
Lindal Cedar Homes

“...This allowed me to begin the process of acquiring the company which has led to a very successful ownership and management succession.”
Stan Miller, President
PSF Industries, Inc.

Executive Coaching

“Perhaps Bruce's most valuable contribution was the executive coaching he provided over a number of years.”
Roy Robinson, President/CEO
Prolab, Inc.

“Over the past 15 years Bruce Michels has played an advisory role with an uncanny ability for identifying what can be done; what needs to be done; and how to structure the methodology to efficiently develop a bottom line management business plan. He was able to take a novice management team and coach then as a team and individually to identify weaknesses and to capitalize on strengths in order to facilitate in the internal restructuring of the organization.”
Rob Geddes, President
Farwest Freight

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