Glossary
Organization & Platform
- Growmotor: organization providing advisory, content, delivery and support.
- Growmotorio: Growmotor’s application (App)
- www.growmotorio.io Growmotor’s website.
People and Entities
- Administrador: a supervisor of one or more cohorts.
- Growth Angel: a workshop facilitator, mentor, or guest speaker (Warriors*).
- Participant:
- Owner/CEO: lead participant of an admitted company.
- Team members: senior managers or supervisors from admitted company.
- Sponsor: an organization that provides financial support to run a program.
- Partner: an organization that offers opportunities and/or, benefits in kind to member companies of a cohort.
- Warriors: Battle-tested business leaders and entrepreneurs who have successfully grown businesses while overcomingo multiple tough challenges.
Activities & Reports
- Pre-workshops: brief workshops imparted prior to the beginning of a new cohort to reduce variance in the level of knowledge about accounting, finance or marketing.
- Workshops: one-day workshops focused on how to grow Cash (three workshops), Productivity (three workshops) and Revenue (four workshops).
- Drills: meetings where a small group of CEOs (3 or 4) take turns to discuss their responses to assignments and receive feedback. These meetings also serve as preparation for next workshop.
- Growth Gists: written storytelling (280 characters maximum with concrete numbers) of growth events that took place since the last workshop.
- Exchanges: sessions where participants offer or request contacts for specific resources (idea, someone, people, entity, opportunity, knowledge, information, data) that can trigger growth (in Cash, Productivity, or Revenue). For example, a participant may be looking for additional warehouse space, access to an expert / talent or access to a key manager in an entity and another participant may have contacts, ideas or information on where to find them. It is not a buying and selling activity.
- Family Meetings: brief gatherings of owners/CEOs to talk about challenges and frustrations with the goal of receiving peer encouragement and potential antidotes, thereby lifting individual and collective spirit while strengthening group cohesion.
- Panel: presentation and Q&A with Warriors.
- Mentoring: private session between an owner/CEO and one or more Growth Angels.
- Benefits: opportunities offered to participating companies by partners of Growmotor.
- KPIs: confidential dashboard of outcomes to assess program effectiveness.