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SMB’s Top 3 Pain Points to Growth

We surveyed SMBs and they identified their
top 3 obstacles to growth in 2025

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Low accountability/
productivity

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Stuck in the day-to-day
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People-related issues

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Low accountability/
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Stuck in the day-to-day
working “in” the business

People-related issues

See How Talent Planning Solves These Pain Points

At the core of most businesses challenges are people-related issues. Most teams struggle to have honest, open and transparent (HOT) discussions leading to lower accountability and productivity.

Key pain points include:

  • Only 7% of workers feel productive at their workplace

  • 70% of business failures result from poor strategic planning, lack of delegation, and working too much ‘in’ the business

  • 80% of turnover comes from hiring mistakes

  • Unclear roles and Ineffective performance of employees

  • No future leaders & succession planning is ignored

  • No talent strategy for hiring, developing, and retaining top talent

Let us know how we can help
you achieve your goals

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Why Talent Planning & Management Matters

Just like any other plan, it solves the problem. Talent planning helps SMBs:

  • Win at talent/People

  • Increase retention

  • Build high performance leaders and teams through meetings and development plans

  • Make the right hire the first time

  • Build leaders through succession plan

  • Enhance communication and build a culture that makes it a great place to work

  • Increase accountability and productivity

  • And not get stuck in the day-to day

Stop The Vanilla trained supervisors/leaders on how to complete 1:1 meetings and development plans for all employees which dropped turnover from 40% to 8% saving over $300,000 per year.

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Reduced Recruitment Costs
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Lower Training Costs
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Increased productivity
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Higher morale & engagement of employees

Our Services

We train SMB leaders on how to Win at talent to build the right team to execute the right strategy on their own, if you so choose. Or one of our trained advisors can lead you through any strategy, talent or execution process.

Breakthrough Team Development Session

Creates honest, open, & transparent (HOT) conversations that enables teams to resolve their toughest challenges.

Strategic Planning

Create a differentiated strategy and a strategic and financial vision that guides all decisions.

Talent Planning

Build a high performance team and get the right people in the right seats to achieve our vision.

Plan Execution

Follow a consistent meeting cadence/rhythm to enhance accountability and execution of the plan.

Exit Planning Optimize Company Value

Having the right team and strategy in place optimizes business value and your payout.

Transition Planning To Next Generation

Ensure a smooth transition to the next eneration of leaders through alignment on 3-year strategy and talent plan.

Training

We train leaders on how to use behavioral science to win at talent and build high-performance leaders and teams.

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How We’ve Made an Impact

Discover how SMB leaders are transforming their businesses with our Growth Accelerator System.

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Greatest Outcome of Process?

Our team is more unified today, then we have ever been.

Dave Allen
President

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What did you like best?

My favorite part of the process was being vulnerable with my team.

Mike DiSalvo
President

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  • Empowers SMBs to own, update and execute their strategy and talent plan

  • Faster execution and real-time tracking for better results

  • Data-driven insights replace guesswork with smart decision-making

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Frequently Asked
Questions

At Stop The Vanilla, we want to teach you how to fish vs. fish for you.  In other words, we train/coach small to medium-sized business (SMB) leaders to Win at Talent by using behavioral science and technology to make the right hire the first time, retain top p productivity. We train/guide you on how to develop and execute your strategy and talent plans to fuel growth and dominate your industry.   

Right Strategy, Right People, Right Technology, Right Now for SMBs 

In most businesses, there’s a plan for everything—401k, marketing, finances, even vacations. But when it comes to solving the issues that most often derail SMB growth—low accountability, stuck in the day-to-day, and people-related challenges—there’s often no plan for those.  

Talent Planning is more than another leadership exercise—it’s a comprehensive strategy for aligning your people with your business goals. You’ll define your vision, the team you need to achieve your vision and identify the steps to get from where the team/organization is today to where it needs to be to achieve that vision.  Talent Planning includes your strategy, talent and execution plans all tied together.  

Use simple, research-backed behavioral science tools—DISC and Motivators—to accurately execute your Talent Plan. You will excel at using science to hire the right people, retain your rock stars, develop future leaders and win at talent and achieve your strategic and financial vision.   

Those Who Talent Plan – Profit! 

We have a saying that “a great process leads to a great process.”  What that means is we first define your objectives and the process to achieve those objectives.  Once we have confidence the process will achieve your objectives, we discuss who is going to lead each step of the process and then Stop The Vanilla will immediately provide you a scope of work to deliver the process.

Stop The Vanilla has trained thousands of leaders that are building great places to work by investing in and caring for their people.  These leaders are excelling at building high-performance leaders and teams that are achieving records sales and profitability.

100% – We would love to get to know you and understand what your objectives are. 

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