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Future-proof your business today. Strategy, sales, innovation and execution for boards that want to grow without working harder — in cycles of 90 days, with a team that keeps the rhythm going afterwards.

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13 boards · 5 countries · one framework

Jack Korsten, founder of GrowthPartner

GrowthPartner helps its customers to be successful today, tomorrow, and the day after by building future-proof organizations.

The 7-Star Framework

Seven domains decide whether you take the top spot.

Five stars is meeting the expectation. Seven stars is setting the standard. The framework from Jack Korsten’s book makes visible which of the seven domains is actually holding your growth back — and which three to tackle this quarter.

Growth programs

Four boosts. One rhythm of 90 days.

Each program starts from the situation as it is, ends with a result you can point at, and leaves behind a team that runs the next cycle itself.

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90-day program 01

Growth Boost

Most entrepreneurs and managers are busy enough with their daily business. They do want to grow or accelerate their growth but don’t know where to find the time. Or how best to start and continue a growth trajectory.

The 90-day Growth Boost is the answer in these kinds of situations. Together with the entrepreneur and his growth team, GrowthPartner determines the company’s growth ambition and strategic direction. Then, with the help of the 7-Star Scan, essential points for improvement for realizing the growth ambition are identified.

The scan results are essential input for the design of the first 90-day growth action plan, which is then drawn up and implemented. After 90 days, a formal evaluation takes place, and the team starts its next 90-day growth cycle.

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90-day program 02

Sales Boost

The average salesperson spends at most 25% of his time selling the organization’s products or services. The rest of his time, he is busy with other things. Also, the management of the sales staff and the sales department can often be much more effective.

With the Sales Boost, it becomes possible to quickly get a clear picture of the current effectiveness of individual salespeople, the supporting sales systems, the sales management, and the essential improvements ahead.

The sales team implements these improvements together with GrowthPartner. Monitoring of the results starts. Where necessary and possible, measures are taken to further increase and anchor the impact. After 90 days, a formal evaluation takes place, and the team starts its next 90-day growth cycle.

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90-day program 03

Innovation Boost

The continuous improvement and renewal of products, services, methods, and processes have become an absolute condition to remain relevant and successful. In practice, the “issues of the day” almost always dominate, so that the necessary improvements and innovations are not made fast enough, well enough, or not at all.

The Innovation Boost aims to make an inventory, together with the board, management, employees, and customers, of the most essential improvements or innovations that need to be implemented in the company’s products, services, and processes to remain relevant in the market.

Under the guidance of GrowthPartner, these improvements or innovations are then prepared, implemented, and embedded in the organization by internal innovation teams. After 90 days, a formal evaluation takes place, and the team starts its next 90-day growth cycle.

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Effectiveness Boost

Personnel costs are among the most significant expense items in most organizations. Yet, there is often only limited attention for the effectiveness of the board, management, and employees. And for the opportunities that exist to raise it to a substantially higher level.

The Effectiveness Boost is aimed at significantly increasing the personal effectiveness of individual employees and teams. Using a 360-degree scan, it is determined where the effectiveness can be increased.

The results of this scan are the starting point for a ‘70-20-10 Effectiveness Boost’: 70% training on the job, 20% group learning, and 10% traditional learning. This is completely attuned to the daily reality of the people involved, so that what has been learned can be applied directly in practice. After 90 days the results are evaluated and the team starts the next cycle.

My people now work with an approach that is growing us 20% or more per year.
Conrad Bos, Founder/owner at Bosta UK

Conrad Bos

Founder/owner · Bosta UK

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The book

The whole framework, on paper.

An inspiring thought and workbook for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial leaders who want to future-proof their organizations. The framework behind every GrowthPartner program is in it in full, including the worksheets per domain.

The book was published in Dutch, under the title De 7-Sterren Organisatie.

Jack Korsten, founder and owner of GrowthPartner

Founder GrowthPartner

Jack Korsten

Jack Korsten is the founder and owner of GrowthPartner. He helps entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial managers to be successful today, tomorrow, and the day after by building future-proof organizations. His previous book ‘The Growth Spiral’ was nominated for Management Book of the Year.

  • “Entrepreneurship is change, growth is optional. Choose your route carefully.”
  • “Don’t be afraid of competition. There are not many people who are willing to give up what it takes to actually realize their dream.”
  • “No one is a growth champion by themselves. But anyone can become one.”
  • “Dream big, start small.”
  • “Growth begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
  • “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t lead to growth.”

Testimonials

What boards say about it.

From dentistry and hospitality to insurance, data analytics and industrial supply — in the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Romania and the United Kingdom. Every quote below is in the words the client wrote them in.

“Without Jack, Talent for Care might not even have existed…” For many years I have worked with Jack and appreciate his ‘dedication’, fanaticism and sharpness. Regarding my entrepreneurial start 12 years ago and then regarding growing into the organization we are today, Jack has been a key factor in fueling, stimulating and making our ambition succeed! A true Partner for Growth!
Jenneke Ewals, Founder/owner at Talent for Care

Jenneke Ewals

Founder/owner · Talent for Care

Besides a long time trusted advisor and dear friend, Jack is an inspiring business thought leader that has worked side by side with our people and our most strategic clients, helping them accelerate their business by installing new growth behaviours, mindsets and tools. I strongly recommend Jack as both a strategist as well as an acclaimed business development coach. His working models and body of knowledge have helped me and many others to succeed in a rapidly changing landscape.
Ricardo Martins, CEO at Cegoc – Beyond Knowledge

Ricardo Martins

CEO · Cegoc – Beyond Knowledge

GrowthPartner provided our organization with a practical and structural basis for profitable growth from the start-up, and then at each growth phase. Jack could also paint a clear picture of what was to come and what we had to prepare for. As a result, our organization preventively made breakthroughs on which we could build. Jack is an effective and critical analyst who knows how to make his proven approach tangible and approachable in a pleasant way. For everyone. In our case, the result was great involvement and support among the decision makers, so that we can now face the future with great confidence.
Rudolf Hogendoorn, Managing director at Vitadent

Rudolf Hogendoorn

Managing director · Vitadent

GrowthPartner’s 7-star approach has inspired me and given me a mindset that you can set the standard yourself in your market. It has helped us enormously to completely restructure our business and continue impacting our customers and their business with our services in a rapidly changing market environment. We are now building an incredibly beautiful, agile and innovative 7-star organization for our customers and employees.
Ron van der Kleij, Co-founder and owner at KVL — Bringing analytics to the people

Ron van der Kleij

Co-founder and owner · KVL — Bringing analytics to the people

GrowthPartner has been working with us in recent years to develop the capabilities of our distribution channels and the results are very positive both in terms of performance growth, but also in terms of satisfaction and positive impact on the culture of our teams. The ability to customize the approach and understand the challenges of our organization were key to the results achieved.
Sérgio Pereira Carvalho, Head of Marketing at Fidelidade

Sérgio Pereira Carvalho

Head of Marketing · Fidelidade

By listening carefully to the members of our management team, GrowthPartner paved the way, after careful analysis, to grow into a scalable organization in a few well-dosed steps. Above all, we received tools and the appropriate training to implement this process ourselves now and in the future. Thus, our strategic choices and management are continuously one solid and innovative whole.
Wim van der Torre, Geriatric dentist, managing director at Vitadent

Wim van der Torre

Geriatric dentist, managing director · Vitadent

GrowthPartner’s growth approach helped tremendously to restructure and focus our business professionally and successfully. The approach has led to impressive results, financial and non-financial, from the start!
Vasile Capris, Managing director at Hydrosystems

Vasile Capris

Managing director · Hydrosystems

At first, I was skeptical about yet another consultant coming to tell us what we have been doing wrong for 20 years. But GrowthPartner’s understanding, practical approach, and passion have made me a much stronger leader, and my people are now working with a pragmatic approach that is growing us 20% or more per year. Even in times of economic headwinds.
Conrad Bos, Founder/owner at Bosta UK

Conrad Bos

Founder/owner · Bosta UK

How nice to have a ‘growth partner’ around me! As a sparring partner and inspirer, Jack always knows how to ask the right questions at the right time. As an entrepreneur, this helps me in my personal and business development!
Marlies van Dam, Founder/owner at Vitalies

Marlies van Dam

Founder/owner · Vitalies

GrowthPartner has been an important sparring partner for me from the very beginning. Not only by challenging me in a constructive way to get the best out of myself, my people, and my restaurant. But also in the implementation of an innovative approach to our guests. GrowthPartner’s efforts have certainly helped us to be chosen, years in a row, as the ‘Best Restaurant Experience’ in the Netherlands, and lay a healthy foundation for even greater success in the future.
François Geurds, Michelin-star chef and owner at FG Restaurants

François Geurds

Michelin-star chef and owner · FG Restaurants

GrowthPartner has been a sounding board for structural growth for more than 10 years, both for me and the company. Thanks to the pragmatic approach, I have been able to gain market share in various markets at an accelerated pace, each time from a clear basis and a well-prepared PMC approach.
Steffert Vanneste, Sales director Belux at Jaga

Steffert Vanneste

Sales director Belux · Jaga

As Learning & Development Manager at Lufthansa Cargo AG, I worked closely with Jack to develop a training curriculum for our sales teams that helped give hands on shape to the new sales strategy. It was a challenging assignment in a complex environment. Jack proved to be able to collectively build and lead a multi-disciplinary and multi-national team. With his vision, we developed and completed a state of the art content framework following the 70:20:10 philosophy, tested it in practice and successfully rolled it out. This curriculum and associated governance has led to a new learning culture worldwide where continuous personal development and performance improvement go hand in hand.
Renée Telkamp, Senior Learning & Development Specialist Europe at Steris

Renée Telkamp

Senior Learning & Development Specialist Europe · Steris

Working with Jack Korsten is to benefit from an exemplary quality of service. With outstanding preparation and a high level of professional proficiency, it has been possible to develop and deliver various training, management, and business development programs successfully and with a tremendous positive impact. From the first moment, I trusted in the vision, the intervention proposals that he presented, as well as in his mission spirit to “make it happen!”. With the leadership of Jack Korsten and teams of excellence, it was and always has been possible to develop high-level training programs in the company I work for!
Fausto Nunes, Training Director at Fidelidade Insurance Company

Fausto Nunes

Training Director · Fidelidade Insurance Company

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