Vistage provides private advisory groups for business owners, executives, and medical doctors to get impartial advice and honest answers from peers in other industries. Members meet monthly where an experienced chair facilitates discussions to help members solve problems, evaluate opportunities, and work on strategic and operational issues. Through this confidential forum, members are able to draw on the diverse experience of other executives to develop solutions for their own businesses and gain perspective on tough decisions.

1. Private advisory groups for MDs,
executives and business owners.

2. Find out how joining a working group
of MDs, executives and business owners
will benefit you and your business.
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3. Why
Vistage?
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Because you want impartial advice.
Because you need an honest answer.
Join Vistage, get answers and take action.

4. Since 1957, Vistage has been bringing together
successful MDs, CEOs, executives and business
owners into private advisory groups. Each
group is purpose-built to help members
help each other improve the performance
and outcomes of their businesses.
In our groups, about a dozen executives
(like you) meet once a month to solve problems,
evaluate opportunities and work on an
assortment of strategic and operational issues.
Our 17,000 members around the world
represent a wide range of industries and
a variety of backgrounds.
It all starts
with a
group.
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5. An expert
guides the
meetings.
Put twelve or so high performing business
executives in a room and the potential is
enormous. The role of a Vistage Chair is to
ensure that every bit of that experience and
wisdom is applied in a Vistage meeting.
Chairs are accomplished leaders (many are
former MDs or CEOs). They are part facilitator,
part coach and totally committed to the
success of group members. They help
stimulate thinking, frame issues, guide
discussions, limit tangents and ensure
accountability in the group.
Most Chairs take on the role with the express
purpose of helping others build great
(or greater) businesses.
Having been a CEO myself,
it is now a wonderful privilege
to assist so many great leaders
and their businesses to
outperform their goals.
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John Watkinson,
Vistage Chair

6. The group
digs deep.
Thinly reasoned conclusions have no place
in a Vistage group.
The hallmark of our groups is something we
call Issue Processing. It’s a structured, thorough
and efficient approach to helping members
think through the dynamics of a challenge.
It forces you to push beyond your assumptions
and get to the real issues. That’s critical to
understanding and evaluating your options
before making a decision and taking action.
The process is a bit like working on a
post-graduate business case in real time.
Only the subject is you and your business.
It adds so much more
to your thought process.
Chris Barnes, Finance Director,
Dartex Coatings Ltd
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7. We are really prepared
to challenge each other and
ask the difficult questions.
The topics
can be
intense.
When you own or run a business, even
the simplest decisions can have profound
implications.
In a Vistage group, no topic is off limits. If you
are willing to talk candidly about the tough
decisions you face, fellow members will rally
around you, listen, ask tough questions and
bring to bear every resource they have to help
you solve problems and seize opportunities.
Whether the question is operational, financial,
legal, structural or even personal, your Vistage
group is a confidential forum of experienced
executives who rely on each other for wisdom,
advice and counsel.
Alistair Needler,
MD at Needlers Ltd
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8. Ideas and
answers
start to
flow.
With the wealth and diversity of experience
Vistage members bring to their groups,
chances are someone has grappled with
the situations you are facing right now.
And because members thrive on exchange,
discussions get very interesting, very quickly.
As you work together, you and your group
start to develop a range of options and
solutions that can only come from a team
of business professionals working toward
one another’s success.
This is not your standard industry group.
There is a thoughtful energy in a Vistage
meeting that is hard to describe. But once
you’ve experienced it, it’s impossible to forget.
“ They bring up answers
or solutions or thoughts
that I would never have
dreamed of.
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Paul Watson, MD, TWU

9. Then it
happens.
The work pays off. Through facilitated
discussions with knowledgeable executives,
you’ve turned“What to do?” into“What to do.”
You’ve gained perspective and good advice
and developed a definitive action plan—all
in one day (along with a few sandwiches).
Equally valuable, your group will follow your
progress. In your next meeting, count on
members asking if you advanced your plan.
There’s another outcome you might not
have expected. You helped other members
immeasurably with your experience and
insight. Members tell us that can be one of the
most fulfilling parts of being part of Vistage.
You get a real sense of
energy and what’s possible.
Jo Macsween, Owner & Director
at Macsween of Edinburgh
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10. Coaching
Each month you and your Chair
will have a private, one to one
session designed to help you
identify your most important
needs and opportunities.
Speakers & Events
Engage and gain valuable insight
from expert speakers in a small
group setting. Attend events
where a wide array of members
come to connect.
Online
Use My Vistage to connect with
fellow members between group
meetings and tap into the broader
international Vistage community.
Keep the momentum.
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11. “Since joining Vistage, I’ve
developed more in the last
year as a manager, leader and
as a person than I did in the
previous 10 years combined.”
Adrian Welch, Sales Director
Techo UK
Why? Simply put: Vistage works.
Contact us today if you are
interested in joining a Vistage
group or becoming a Vistage Chair.
Get answers and take action.
Vistage Ireland
E2 Nutgrove Office Park, Nutgrove
Avenue, Dublin 14, Ireland
Tel: +353 (0) 1 2916039
www.vistageireland.com
Vistage UK
Vanbrugh House, Grange Drive,
Hedge End, Hampshire, SO30 2AF
Tel: +44 (0) 1489 770200
www.vistage.co.uk