GRITT

4 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 3 Founded in early 2018, GRITT is a multidisciplinary business coaching firm that specializes in three unique areas: Business Literacy, Financial Literacy, and People Literacy. By combining these key focuses, GRITT guides its clients to engage their workforce, grow their leadership skills and team, and create a learning culture that fosters positive growth. In effect, GRITT helps clients take back control of their business. GRITT splits its service categories into Profit & Cash (financial literacy to improve productivity and performance), Huddles (team communication with impact), Scoreboards (connecting with organizational goals), GRITTPulse (identify themes and initiatives to enhance culture, performance, and satisfaction), and GRITTrac: GRITT’s proprietary goal tracking system. Patrick Carpenter, President at GRITT, outlines the importance of a comprehensive, goal-driven approach to business coaching. “Our purpose, what we stand for at GRITT, is really quite simple. We help people become better at work and in life GRI T T BUSINESS COACHING (GRI T T ) through deep engagement and understanding. We have many struggling businesses turn to us for help when their staff isn’t engaged. The number one engagement question staff ask themselves is: Does my supervisor care about me as a person? If your team answers this question negatively, your level of engagement will be low.” Carpenter elaborates on his first point by highlighting that “The questions employers tend to ask themselves are: How can I increase my cash flow? How can I raise productivity? How can I improve performance? The answer lies in engagement. The problem is, the percentage of workers employed in the US that feel engaged in the work they do is as low as 36%.” “ Our goal is to blow that number out of the water. GRITT goes into the personal life of business leaders and managers as well as the professional. We work with organizations of all sizes to empower their leadership and provide actionable, measurable goals to raise the bar in engagement, skills, and development.”