Each CEO Forum meeting includes time for group problem-solving. Group dialogue, facilitated by a CEObuilder professional chairperson, creates a synergy which stimulates questions, feedback, and new ideas which would otherwise not be revealed. The combined expertise of 12-15 CEOs, intensely focused on a single issue, is an extremely powerful resource available to each CEO in the group.

Members soon learn that the Problem-Solving Session of CEO Forums is among the most valuable features of the CEObuilder model. Here they receive the unvarnished perspective of their fellow group members. By definition, there are no competitors in any group; therefore no one has an “axe to grind” or any reason to be reserved in giving feedback and ideas. The CEO receiving this candid counsel gets the best thinking of a peer group often representing over 200 years of business experience and education. Time and again, this session has a huge positive impact on members–and their businesses, specifically in terms of ROI, resolution of tough personal and business issues, and enhanced leadership skills.

Issues which have been discussed in recent CEO Forums include:

• How to improve production flow to fill backlogged customer orders without turning away business and stifling company growth
• How to prepare a CEO’s son for taking over the company within the next two years
• How to deal with Japanese supplier whose component quality has slipped, resulting in the recall of nearly a million dollars worth of the CEO’s products
• Brainstorming new potential new products
• How to work with an excellent employee whose attendance and performance has dropped due to treatment for a potential life threatening disease.
• How to hold an business open house and make it very successful