Arrangers Academy - Frazer Consultants
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Arrangers Academy - Frazer Consultants
Arrangers Academy CONNECTING THE DOTS BETWEEN WHAT YOU KNOW AND WHAT THEY NEED FUNERAL HOME FUNERAL CUSTOMER www.arrangersacademy.com About The Arrangers Academy Todd A. Borek and Karl E. Jennings founded their funeral firm with a singular passion and focus; to change the way people think about funerals and funeral service. The by-product of their work back then is now revitalizing a discouraged profession, revolutionizing the way funeral directors feel about themselves and transforming the way the public is choosing to say farewell to those they love. In 2000, Todd and Karl acquired three funeral homes in a seven-week period. The year before the total volume of their funeral homes was less than 240 calls a year. Today, they serve over 400 families a year. Each of their funeral homes is in small market. None of their funeral homes use price discounting to try to gain market position. They’ve grown their business at each location by expanding the geographic region they serve. In 2001, two significant things happened that forever changed the way Todd and Karl serve families. The first was a book Karl was reading called “The Experience Economy” by Pine and Gilmore. Sadly, the second was the events that took place on Sept. 11, 2001 and the days that followed immediately thereafter. The powerful national narrative at that time is now forever seared on the nation’s collective psyche. This narrative now serves as the platform to help the willing and skeptical understand the value of meaningful ritual and the necessity to have an intentional plan to help their family begin healing. Our Results 67% Increase in Call Volume 115% Increase in Total Revenue 50% Decrease in Cost of Goods Sold Our Team Karl E. Jennings, 30 year Licensee Todd A. Borek, 20 year Licensee Arvid Northrop, 8 year Licensee Brian K. Marry, 15 year Licensee Matthew Mazurek, National Sales Director Steve Johnson, Communication Specialist 2 SURFACE, SOLVE AND SERVE The Arrangers Academy The 3 Keys to Success in Funeral Service in the 21st Century Surface There are essential experiences that each family must have to begin a healthy grief cycle. We provide a healing narrative that surfaces the emotional, relational and spiritual needs of the surviving family. Once surfaced, the family will choose an experience to help them engage an intentional plan that is therapeutic, interactive and educational. This plan attends to their most poignant needs at the time of loss. Solve The primary question of the Silent Generation is “What should we do?” The primary question of Baby Boomers is “What should I feel?” These questions often create a generational stalemate between the privacy oriented conformists from the silent generation and their more self-focused, rebellious and non-traditional baby boomer children. Solving these questions with a healing narrative that addresses what the Silent Generation should do and what the baby boomers should feel enables both to navigate the seven phases of the acute loss period. Then they are better able to choose services that attend to their emotional, relational and spiritual needs. Serve The death of a loved one is a life changing experience. We don’t have to create the opportunity; it is being handed to us to nurture. Providing experiences and support services that nurture the human experience during the acute loss period and attends to the emotional, relational and spiritual needs of the surviving are the delivery components of the Acute Loss Management System. The temptation of business is always to feed yesterday and starve tomorrow. - Peter Drucker 1 Our Core Values INTEGRITY We desire to promote integrity with every client. Promoting integrity means that we will be accountable to our clients and will hold accountable those who join our cause. Integrity is telling myself the truth, honesty is telling the truth to other people ~Spencer Johnson INNOVATION Funeral Service has never been more ripe for reinventing. The public doesn’t choose cremation because they like it, they choose cremation because they don’t think you can help them. If we had asked the public what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. ~Henry Ford INSPIRATION People working in the funeral profession today need a reason to believe in themselves and their future. Our training will revitalize your passion and reestablish your professional relevance. Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed. ~Irene Peter 3 The Seven Factors of Growth Mission This is the reason you get out of bed in the morning. If you don’t get excited by your mission statement no one else in your company will. Be bold…be fearless. Dare to change the world. The quality of your cause will determine the quality of the people you attract to your company. The conviction by which you execute your mission will determine who stays. Everyone needs a reason to get up in the morning. If you don’t provide one, they will create their own and it will likely be centered on their personal needs, not the needs of your company or clients. From the largest companies to the smallest the failure to have a clear reason for being creates little kingdoms and the definition of success will be diminished and subjective. Effective Leadership Effective leadership starts at the top of any organization. You may be at the top because you were the lucky descendant of a successful family business or perhaps you worked your way to the top. Either way the lowest form of leadership is positional leadership. You must earn the right the lead everyday. Socrates guiding principle was to “Know thyself.” Any leader who fails to understand their strengths, weaknesses and interests will limit the growth their company. Leaders who don’t understand how to develop others will have people they must guide task by task and day by day for their entire careers. We will help you grow yourself and your staff in order to grow your company. Marketing Plan Bet you just want to skip this section. Everyone will tell you how to best market your business. You’ve trusted one, two maybe three so-called experts, spent thousands of dollars and, well, let’s just say you haven’t experienced the results promised. Here’s the problem, their job was to sell to you, not your customers or your company to your community. They know where you’re vulnerable; they know you like seeing pictures of yourself and your buildings in local media. They know you like hearing from your friends that they saw you on TV or in the newspaper. You hear them and you think my plan is working but your business never grows. Here’s our pitch. If the outside perception of your business isn’t the same as the inside reality or visa-versa, no marketing plan can be effective. You must first, understand what makes you unique and worthy of someone taking the time to learn about you. We don’t know what your inside reality is; we don’t even know what the outside perception of your customers is. We know what they should be. 4 Simple Sales Narrative If you can’t explain in less than 30 seconds the value of what you do, the skeptical client will have stopped listening. We live in a sound bite world. People are impatient. We will teach you how to take 27 seconds off your 30 seconds pitch. We can enable you to qualify whether they are your customer while they determine if you will be their funeral director. Remember if you sound like everyone else, the price shopper will be listening for only one thing…price. You must stop them in their tracks, surprise them with something they have not considered and earn the right to teach them. Earn the right to teach them and you will have earned the right to serve them. Seamless Delivery This is simple. If you promise it, deliver it as well as anyone could be expected to. Here’s the hard part. If there’s anyone else helping you serve the family you must have a predictable system to ensure seamless delivery. That way you don’t have to “make it up” from family to family. Simple choices make for easy marketing, uncomplicated arranging and seamless delivery. Effective Technology Few things will limit, frustrate or derail the execution of your company’s mission quicker than poor, obsolete or antiquated technology. If there is a more efficient way for you or your staff to get something done, do it now. Then you can use the margin that has been created by greater efficiency to focus on the things that build your bottom line. R.I.P - Really Inspired People One of the biggest mistakes that small business people and site managers make is hiring people to do a task that they personally don’t want to do. This is closely followed by hiring friends of other employee’s without qualifying their ability or skills and then wondering why after months of training they seem unmotivated, disinterested and a poor fit for the job. Getting the right people doing the right things in the right places in your company is one of the most important jobs you have after you hire your first employee. Your job then becomes equipping them with the tools, training and resources to succeed. Our delivery system (including administrative, event planning and service support) provides a platform to properly place staff in their areas of strength. 5 Strategy for Growth To Experience growth you must combine and embrace these seven factors. Leave one out and you will limit your ability to meet your full potential. Mission Leadership Sales Narrative Technology Seamless Delivery Marketing Plan Personnel Poor Mission Poor Leadership Poor Sales Narrative In-Effective Technology Limits Capacity No Seamless Delivery Dissatisfied Customers No Marketing Plan Wrong Personnel Defines Your Value Expands Capacity Creates Advocates Determines Growth Determines Results Subjective Success Chaos Confused Customers Marketi Plan ng ctive Effenology ch Te Determines Reach p hi rs R. I.P . Mission de Se De amle liv ss ery Defines Cause Le a Limited Growth Poor Results es l Sa e e l v Simp r rati Na The Arrangers Academy offers instruction which will develop the fundamental knowledge base that is required for the modern era of funeral service. Our training incorporates the language of healing and the use of cutting edge technology to lead families through a therapeutic, interactive and powerfully personal experience with loss. Upon Completion participants will achieve credentials as a “Certified Farewell Guide”. 6 We all know that we sink or swim by how well we create value for what we can do for a family. During the first 15 minutes in the arrangement room, the family will decide three important things. They are; 1. Do you care about them and their loss? 2. Why do they need your care? 3. How will you care for their needs? In the first 5 minutes of an arrangement conference you must show the family that you care…in the next five minutes you must show them why they need your care…in the last five minutes you must show them how you and you alone can make sure they get what they need. Our program consists of one and half days of comprehensive training with our trainers, followed by one training video per week and takes one year to complete. This is not a magic bullet. It’s an opportunity for you and your staff to become the very best guide any family could hope for and the best funeral home in your market. 1. Day One • Doers and Feelers: Knowing our Customers • The Experience Economy and Funeral Service • Surfacing the Need: The Seven Phases of Acute Loss • Shopper on Line One: 3 Seconds to Silence and Success • Inside Out: Internalizing the Narrative 2. Day Two • Solving Their Problems: Technology and Personalization as Healing Support Services • Reel Time: 3 Recorded Arrangements with our Families • Family Dynamics and Managing Difficult Families 3. Continuing Education • 52 Weekly Training Videos • Monthly: Team Training Videos • Quarterly: Healing Today Videos 7 Training Fees: @ Our Hamburg, MI Site:. . . . . . . . @ Your Site:. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deposit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Annual Fee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $4,000/person $4,000/person, minimum of three people + travel expenses. $500/person $500/person Additional Items: We offer a money back guarantee on training at the Hamburg, MI location. If unsatisfied with our training you will be reimbursed all monies paid less the $500.00 deposit. You must notify the instructor at the end of your training. If your state requires Continuing Education Units we will apply for accreditation prior to your attendance and after your deposit is received. A non-refundable deposit of $500.00 is required to reserve a space in one of our Hamburg Site trainings. The deposit maybe transferred to a different date with 7 days notification. The balance is due before the start of training. A $500 annual fee allows you to both maintain credentials and continue our training. Additionally this would qualify you for an annual refresher course for a reduced rate of $750. 8 Why should a family use your Funeral home? Why should a family spend $10,000 on a funeral? S DOE A N D F EE S R LE R What is keeping you from finding out? www.arrangersacademy.com When We Must Say Farewell How to Help Yourself and Others Through the Worst Experience in Life. When We Must Say Farewell takes you on a journey of life and death through the experience of the grieving. In the process you will learn how to help yourself and others through the worst experience in life. When We Must Say Farewell was written to show the way to prepare for, and deal with, a loved one’s passing as a tool for families, terminal care workers and fellow professionals. Karl E. Jennings Author Karl E. Jennings is author of When We Must Say Farewell and C.E.O of Borek Jennings Funeral Homes and Co-Founder of the Healing Farewell Center of America. Over the past eight years Karl and his partner Todd Borek have developed and proven the healing farewell philosophy. Arrangers Academy Arrangers Academy 7425 M-36/PO Box 735 Hamburg, MI 481394 Phone: 810-844-1444 Fax: 810-231-2739 E-mail: [email protected]