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Alpine Link Consulting Services

Leadership Development, Sales Improvement and Operational Execution

Alpine Link Corporation offers specialized consulting, coaching and training services for corporations, organizations and individuals focused on lifting their business performance. Our approach blends practical experience, timeless principles and contemporary thought leadership together to impact the relevant root cause issues our clients face.

Alpine Link is differentiated from conventional training and consulting firms in four important aspects:

1. Our approach is based on practical experience, not theory. We are business practitioners, not business philosophers. We fully understand the "what" and the "why", but uniquely focus on the "how". Our learning is experiential, not conceptual. We practice, not philosophize.

2. We customize our content to the specific needs of our clients. People, organizations, customers, and markets are different. Off-the-shelf services and programs are great for basic improvement, but fall short of reaching peak performance. We tailor our content to leverage our client’s unique capabilities.

3. Our thought leadership is best-in-class. We keep our expertise current and constantly update our rich principle centered "how-to" library of frameworks. Because most business issues are rooted in people issues, many of our core principles relate to the influence of people, hence our predominate focus on leadership and sales.

4. Our abilities transcend the organizational ecosystem. We uniquely blend capabilities such as process modeling and behavioral science to help our clients get beyond symptoms and to the root enablers of performance improvement. From our experience in working across multiple domains, we have a different perspective on the core principles of success. As Abraham Maslow said, "If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." We see problems for what they are, not for what we have to offer. We have many capabilities that together enable us to get to the root of and overcome performance limiting issues.
 
 
In short, our practical experience, tailored approach, thought leadership and unique cross-domain capabilities provide our clients with more value in less time than with conventional training and consulting methods. This makes us a best fit for organizations and individuals who have the highest expectations. We cater to those whose higher standards go beyond standalone training programs and basic consulting services. We don't settle for mediocrity and neither should you. The trainers and consultants you bring in set the standard for your employees to follow. Use Alpine Link and set the standard high.

Contact Alpine Link for a no-charge introductory consultation and see the difference for yourself.

Alpine Link tailors the following distinctive services designed to significantly increase your performance:

Sales Improvement

  • Marketing & Sales Value Chain Discovery to create transparency into sales performance improvement opportunities.
  • Peak Potential Selling™ Process Reengineering to establish and implement direct sales and in-direct channel go-to-market best practices.
  • Peak Potential Selling™ Sales Training for Sales Representatives & Sales Managers to build consultative selling skills through winning selling principles – not selling tactics.
  • Sales Training for non-Sales Personnel to help consultants, non-sales executives, project managers and other non-sales personnel apply the art and science of selling.
  • Sales Pursuit & Account Penetration Workshops to create competitive differentiation and winning results in targeted opportunities and accounts.
  • Marketing & Sales Conduit Generation to create new opportunities that feed the sales funnel and fill the pipeline.
  • Sales Kit Development to give sales professionals targeted tools, techniques and messages to sell specific offerings.
See Alpine Link's brochure on sales improvement services.

Leadership Development and Self-Improvement

  • Leadership & Management Training to help executives learn The SCOPE of Leadership™ and activate behaviors that bring out the peak potential in their teams, companies, customers and in themselves.
  • SCOPE of Leadership™ Workshops to help leaders learn and apply one or more of the SCOPE of Leadership™ competencies that great leaders possess.
  • Peak Potential Executive Coaching to help executives develop their SCOPE of Leadership™, hone their peak leadership skills and enhance their individual performance.
  • Activating Your Ambition™ Workshops to create a success roadmap for goals that move ambitions to realities.
See Alpine Link's brochure on leadership development and coaching services.

Business Improvement through Operational Execution and Excellence

  • Operational Effectiveness Assessments to identify and implement operational improvements that improve business performance.
  • Best Practice Deployment to capture and institutionalize ongoing best practices.
  • Peak Potential Business Strategy and Business Planning to help business unit leaders create strategies and action plans that achieve near term objectives while building long term competitive advantage.
  • High Impact Offsite Meeting Facilitation to move management meetings and teams to new levels of performance.
See Alpine Link's brochure on business improvement services.

Click here for a listing of Alpine Link's workshops and events.


Mike Hawkins president and principal of Alpine Link CorporationMIKE HAWKINS is president and principal of Alpine Link Corporation. Mike consults, trains, coaches, and leads organizations and individuals to their peak potential. He is a respected author, adjunct professor and thought leader on self-improvement, leadership, consultative selling, business planning, and process optimization.  

Prior to Alpine Link Corp., Mike Hawkins had the distinction of having direct hands-on experience throughout all the primary activities in the enterprise value chain. He excelled as an engineer in product development with Halliburton. He was a successful salesman and marketing executive with IBM. He worked as global general manager for Scient, a fast growing e-Business Systems Innovator, and held the position of executive vice-president for LogicaCMG, a global consulting and IT solution provider. He has worked in multiple industries including management consulting, information technology, financial services, manufacturing, construction, telecommunications, utilities, and energy. Click here for Mike Hawkins' biography.

Throughout Mike’s industry and consulting career he has excelled in overcoming challenging issues that prevent companies and individuals from reaching their peak potential. In his experience in leading cross-functional reengineering efforts and turning around under-performing businesses, he has uncovered recurring root cause issues that limit performance. As a result, Mike has refined several frameworks - The SCOPE of Leadership™, Peak Potential Selling™, Peak Potential Business Planning™ and Activating Your Ambition™ to help organizations and individuals break through their limitations and achieve new levels of performance. (See The SCOPE of Leadership™ or Activating Your Ambition™.)

Using these and other innovative frameworks that identify root cause issues and the primary drivers of value creation, Mike Hawkins has a reputation for consistently overcoming complex issues that prevent reaching peak performance. He specializes in developing great leaders, producing high-performing sales people, embedding efficiency in corporate value chains, institutionalizing best practices, building competitive differentiation, and moving strategies from planning to execution.

To contact Alpine Link Corporation, email: info@alpinelink.com


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American Society for Training and Development
American Society for
Training and Development
Association for Psychological Science SHRM International Society for Performance Improvement