CHANGE THE WAY YOU LEAD, BUILD THE CULTURE YOU NEED
Our team works with leaders to define, articulate, and communicate their individual and organizational purpose and vision, while identifying critical disciplines needed for success. We provide guidance on leading and integrating purpose and vision into every decision and every aspect of their company creating a unified, intentional, healthy, and profitable enterprise.
Who We Are
Over the seven decades HBK has provided financial management and business advisory services to owner-operator-entrepreneurs, we have recognized that the best performing companies have strong leadership and an organizational culture that involves empowering employees to achieve the company mission. In 2019, HBK developed High Performance to help our entrepreneurial clients improve their leadership skills and foster organizational cultural values en route to improved company performance.
WE HELP SMALL BUSINESSES SOLVE
LEADERSHIP AND CULTURE CHALLENGES
Meet Michael
High Performance Principal Michael Ross has worked with hundreds of business owners and executives, from large corporations to small businesses, helping them become more effective leaders who inspire their employees and grow their revenues. His dynamic leadership programs have reshaped companies from stagnation and paralysis to highly competitive and successful organizations. As a college athlete and during his service with the United States Navy, Michael learned that intentional actions combined with strategic disciplines can create exceptional outcomes. He witnessed firsthand the power of unified teams and quality leadership. In building his firm and programs, he has used his education and experience to help leaders clarify their vision and enact real behavioral change in their organizations.
“EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS HAVE CLEAR PURPOSE AND VISION FOR THEIR ORGANIZATIONS. THEY ARE INTENTIONAL IN THEIR DECISIONS AND ACTIONS. AND IN THE FACE OF ADVERSITY, THEY NEVER WAVER FROM THEIR MISSION. THEY LEAD.”
Michael Ross, Principal, High Performance
Events
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Leadership Speaking Series: Erie Chamber of Commerce
High-Performance is partnering with local chambers to conduct a 12-month leadership series that will give Erie area businesses a leadership edge.
LEADING A TEAM
May 4 – Building Cohesive Teams
May 18 – The True Value of Personality Tests
June 29 – Leadership that Inspires
COMMUNICATION
July 20 – Intentional Questions and Active Listening
August 17 – How to Lead an Effective 25 Minute Meeting
September 14 – Make Your Next Presentation Unforgettable
VISION, GOALS, AND DIRECTION
October 19 – Creating a Vision that Unifies
November 16 – Smart Goal Mapping
December 7 – Leading Through Adversity
Leadership Speaking Series: Youngstown/Warren Chamber of Commerce
The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber is committed to helping our members continually develop leadership skills, knowledge and strategies so that they can have a positive impact on their organizations and communities. In 2023, we are partnering with High Performance to offer a 12-month leadership series designed to give Valley businesses a leadership edge.
Each quarter, High Performance will focus on a particular aspect of leadership excellence that has proven to be a critical determinate of success. The monthly sessions will take a deeper dive into common challenges leaders face, along with practical solutions to give you a path forward. Monthly sessions include group discussion, Q & A and specific action steps you can share with your team to begin transforming your organization.
FOUR DAILY DISCIPLINES
May 11 – Double Tree Youngstown
Onlead:
How to Communicate, Behave, and Think Like a Leader
OnLead, a simple and efficient training program to help aspiring leaders understand the basics of successful leadership.
East Liverpool
Orientation – 3/28/23
Course Start Date – 4/4/23
Course End Date – 11/2/23
First Tuesday of the month
Sessions are 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Youngstown
Orientation – 7/26/2023
Course Start Date – 8/16/23
Course End Date 3/20/24
Third Wednesday of the month
Sessions are 9 a.m. – 12 p.m
Erie, PA
Orientation – 6/28/23
Course Start Date – 7/12/23
Course End Date – 2/14/24
Second Wednesday of the month
Sessions are 2 p.m. – 5 p.m.
These training sessions are available for a monthly payment of $500/month for your 8 months of sessions or for a one-time payment of $3,985.
Previous Webinars:
Making it Stick: The Seven Elements of Change – Watch Now
PVD 23 – Watch Now
The Five Characteristics of Great Leaders – Watch Now
UNSHAKEABLE: How to Build Organizational Stability in an Unstable World – Watch Now
Turning Blame And Excuses Into Ownership And Solutions; How Changing Your Mindset Will Change Your Organization – Watch Now
Leading Through Anxiety – Watch Now
Four Daily Disciplines for Leadership Success – Watch Now
The Number One Reason Employees Don’t Love Their Jobs – Watch Now
Three Steps to Improve Culture – Watch Now
PVD System
The big hurdle for many owner/operators is that they simply don’t have the time or resources to adequately address ongoing workplace leadership and culture issues. As a result, small problems become big problems. The organization loses its sense of direction and profitability suffers.
High Performance developed the PVD System to give small businesses an efficient and sustainable framework for addressing leadership and culture issues that affect financial growth and profitability, decision making, crisis management, organizational unity, and more. The PVD System harnesses the power of Purpose, Vision, and Disciplines to clearly define what you are, where you are going, and how to get there as an organization.
We begin the process with a conversation. We want to hear your story and your specific challenges. Once we clearly understand your goals and challenges, we begin leading you through the PVD System.
Ascend PVD
While helping organizations navigate leadership and culture issues, we discovered that many young accountants lacked critical skills that could benefit their firms and their personal careers as well. As a Top 50 accounting firm, we understand the value of leadership training for our young accounting colleagues and years ago developed Ascend PVD to address this need. Now, we are making Ascend PVD available to accounting firms across the country with a series of two-hour quarterly workshops using the framework of Purpose, Vision, and Disciplines to create exceptional leaders.
OnLead
OnLead is a simple and efficient training program to help aspiring leaders understand the basics of successful leadership from the small business leaders and culture experts at High Performance.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or comments, please give us a call at 330.758.8613 or send us a message using the contact form.