Second Stage provides a variety of services. Our most popular are listed below.
Planning
Start-up, newer business or established business, planning is where your business smarts first gain traction in the real world. Here you'll find some of the planning services we offer to make your business as productive and efficient as possible. MORE
Financial Management
Money. Where to get it. How to use it. Making it.
Financial management is all about a hard-nosed, unbiased approach to making money work for you. Money is the life blood of a business. Second Stage can help you manage it better. We'll give you an advantage in figuring out how to get financing, how to more profitability invest your money in the business, and how to track performance.
You don't need a Wharton MBA to be a good financial manager -- you just need to hire one to give you the benefit of the best financial thinking around.
Market Research
How many customers are out there? How many are looking for just what you have to offer? And how much will the pay?
Second Stage is deeply experienced at analyzing market opportunities, sizing them, and figuring out the best way of reaching new prospects. Don't develop your products and services based on a hunch about what people want. Find out first. Doing the research up-front is a lot less expensive than trying to sell what too few people want.
HR Services
People. No matter what industry you're in, no matter what you make or sell, you're in the people business. People make what you dreamed up, and people sell it. And people buy your products and services.
Managing people is a complicated and to some extent mysterious business. It takes knowledge, the right tools, and some natural talent. If you're light on one of these three, the other two can compensate to a great extent. Second Stage can't help you become more talented in managing people, but fortunately you don't need to have a charismatic, magnetic personality or a "golden touch" when managing people. MORE
MBA Learning Programs
You don't have to be an MBA to start your own business. In fact, many successful entrepreneurs don't have a formal business education. But at some point, even if you're a natural at business, it helps to become familiar with the concepts and methods taught in MBA programs.
You could take off a couple of years from running your business to get an MBA, or take several years of night and weekend classes, or sign up for one of those big dollar executive education programs at a top business school.
Or you could contact Second Stage. We develop and deliver focused, custom, individualized learning programs designed for your business, for your learning style, to help you deal with the specific challenges you face in your business. It all happens at your location, on your schedule.
The learning program will be developed and taught by someone who has been through one of the best MBA programs in the world, who has deep practical experience in managing and leading companies, and who has years of experience teaching at some of the country's best universities. MORE
