KMG Consultants Inc, a marketing and sales firm located in Roseville, Minnesota, we believe that our ability to work as a team will help the company and our team achieve professional and personal goals. Each member in the office works closely together and in this atmosphere created by the team, each member has the opportunity to step up and lead. We take a moment each month to recognize one person who decides to go the extra mile and give them recognition. This month Xavier Fust has earned this feature.
Xavier is a Minneapolis native who attended Totino-Grace Highschool and then attended Gustavus Adolphus College where he majored in Business Management. Once Xavier graduated, he looked to gain experience where he landed a corporate job. After working there for 14 months, he was looking for something different. After interviewing at KMG Consultants Inc., Xavier liked the opportunities at the company and joined the team. He liked that the company gives him the opportunity to gain skills in leadership and that he has the opportunity to develop his own team. In that, he aims to help KMG Consultants Inc. grow the team to help end the 2016 year strong. We also are excited to have his help in a 2017 office expansion.
K.M.G. Consultants, Inc. works with one of the largest online office supply retailers and is based in Roseville, MN. Based on our client’s investment and growth expectation, we are focused on developing our team members, both professionally and personally. Our goal is to help our staff gain not only sales and customer service experience, but the leadership and management skills that will allow for advancement in the industry. It’s with this responsibility that having members of our team willing to step into leadership roles are crucial. Each month, the management team at K.M.G. Consultants, Inc. celebrates the members of our team who step up in “Meet the Team.” For October, the company is featuring Jason Spars!
Jason, who is a recent addition to the K.M.G. Consultants Inc. personally recruited by Leah Iverson, leadership team, has a background in restaurant and catering management. Being able to work in a fast paced environment combined with his experience in training others proved useful when he moved into sales and K.M.G. Consultants Inc. management development program. Jason is focusing on developing the new comers to the office. For November, Jason aims to have 2 of the company’s entry level account managers earn their first promotion in the Management Development program. He also aims to aide Sam, K.M.G. Consultants Inc.’s president, in building and maintaining every team member’s consistency and performance using metrics the company defines as the trend. Jason wants to dominate the northern markets and is working towards opening an office in Minneapolis in the next year.
Angie joined the only just this summer and has already made an immense impact on the team. Before joining KMG Consultants Inc, Angie worked in both the restaurant and medical fields. She was able to channel her experience from both industries to quickly learn the ins and outs of being successful at KMG Consultants. The inviting atmosphere and opportunity to grow and lead as a business professional drew her starting her career at KMG Consultants. She was able to move quickly through the Leadership Development Programand has also become an integral part of the training team. In the next month, Angie plans to mentor and on board two account executives and also aims to top the client’s top 50 club before the year ends. She is also committed to helping KMG Consultants Inc. expand to three new locations by 2018.
“I love how hard we work and how we constantly motivate each other. The job is not easy but the people that we work with make it worth it. Compassion, brutal honesty, and resilience is why I love KMG!”
-Angie Jo Lockwood
Angie studied and obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Saint Catherine University. She has a passion for child care and one of her long term goals is to open a clinic for foster children. Before joining the KMG Consultants team, Angie was a yoga instructor.
K.M.G. Consultants Inc., located in Roseville, MN, Partners with the largest office supplies retailer in the nation. As such, it’s important that the team at K.M.G. Consultants Inc. is able to take lead and show professionalism. The team at our Minneapolis, MN location exceeds our expectations and the client’s as well. We are able to train and develop a fantastic team, in most part, due to our great leaders at our office. One of these top leaders at K.M.G. Consultants is newcomer Leah Iverson, who came in and took charge as a top performer.
Leah, who joined K.M.G. Consultants this past summer, has incredibly diverse experience in the education, business administration, real estate, and interior design fields. She was able to mesh this experience with the training that K.M.G. Consultants Inc. provides and was able to become a top performer that K.M.G. Consultants’ can rely on. With her ability to learn the position quickly, Leah was also able start training and developing new team members as well.
“I value the chance to grow within a company within a short amount of time with out climbing the corporate ladder for 10-15 years before getting to a place of ownership.”
-Leah Iverson
Leah’s goal with the team is to help develop and grow the team by five new members in the next month and aims to head up an expansion team by February 2017. Leah’s hobbies include yoga and meditating. She also enjoys being outdoors and exploring. She has the best rescue dog ever. Learn more about the team at K.M.G. Consultants Inc. and the training and management development program here.
K.M.G. Consultants Inc., located in Roseville, MN, meets and exceeds the needs of our client with great assistance from our team. We are able to train and develop a fantastic team, in most part, due to our great leaders at our office. One of these top leaders at KMG Consultants is Collin Jacobson, who is a cornerstone to our training team.
Collin hails from Atlanta and is from a family of entrepreneurs. He plans on running his own company, which K.M.G. Consultants Inc. will help facilitate, and believes that entrepreneurship is key to fulfilling his dreams and wants. Collin, who was initially looking for experience, joined K.M.G. Consultants at our Michigan location and was a key person in our expansion to Minnesota. Over the past few months, Collin has been able to on board and develop great assets to our team and is a go to in our company. He plans on earning his promotion to Assistant Manager this month and continue to develop our team here in Roseville.
Collin has been a consistent top performer at K.M.G. Consultants Inc. and is setting the pace for our team. His family, who are all entreprenuers and also owns 2 bars in belieze, have helped instill an incredible work ethic and impressive leadership. Instead of taking up the family business, Collin chose to pave his own path. He aims to help K.M.G. Consultants expand to 3 different locations in the next year and aims to retire at the age of thirty.
KMG Consultants Inc, located in the Minneapolis metro area, has a long standing record of peak performance and delivering results for its clients. We are able to do so consistently because we are able to develop a top notch team that works hard and follows through. One of our team members, Tyler Dittrich, is not just an outstanding part of our team but also a great summer intern.
Tyler, who started in the beginning of the Summer, came to work with KMG Consultants looking for an opportunity to gain experience in the sales and consulting business. He found KMG Consultants through an online job search and found that he like the atmosphere, people, and opportunity to make great money. He also really enjoyed the aspect of being in control of his own day.
“KMG Consultants is a perfect balance between work and fun,” says Tyler. While he is only here interning this summer, planning to resume his studies at University of Minnesota studying marketing, he has quickly caught on and become a top performer at KMG Consultants. Tyler has benefited working at the company by improving his ability to communicate along with his time management and budgeting skills. He feels that he not only has learned to communicate more clearly but has also gained more confidence in his time here. He enjoys that KMG Consultants gives him the ability to learn hands on and go at his pace. With that, Tyler has consistently been in the client’s top 50 list and has also been able to train and develop others in his position. He has even earned a promotion while here.
Tyler is a part of KMG Consultant Inc’s Summer internship program and will return to University of Minnesota in August. He enjoys basketball immensely and has a laid back personality. He is motivated by money and success, making KMG Consultants a great fit. Interested in learning more about our Internship program? Click here.
At KMG Consultants, we are driven to outperform for our clients and provide our people the best resources and development. We also know that our people are our best resource and by helping them reach their full potential, they help our firm become best in the nation. Last month, KMG Consultants brought on Bailey Lund as a full time Summer intern while on break from the University of Minnesota. When she joined the team, Bailey took the training provided and has since become a top performer.
Bailey, who is from Moorhead, MN, is currently a Junior at University of Minnesota and is studying economics. She is involved in Colleges Against Cancer, Women in Business, the Economic Student Organization, and she volunteers with the YMCA mentoring program. She choose to work with KMG Consultants for her internship because she enjoyed the laid back yet serious atmosphere. She also liked that she and the team had fun and got along really well. In the office, she is known as the Keurig queen. Her passions include shopping and volleyball.
Bailey plans to keep outperforming for our firm and learning as much as possible while she continues her internship. She is starting to learn how to talent scout and on-board new team members along with learning how to train. She aims to personally train and develop at least one new team member before her internship ends. She aims to continue gaining her degree in Economics and achieve a 4.0.
K.M.G. Consultants has completed its most recent expansion to Minnesota.
In January we set big goals to grow our firm and gain new cities for our client. K.M.G. Consultants is excited to announce that we reached our quarter one goals. In gaining the Minnesota market, K.M.G. Consultants now has four branch locations. We have been able to accomplish this by creating a personal relationship with our clients’ base and our sales and marketing firm has a unique way of reaching and connecting with potential customers. We also teach our employees the skills necessary to properly market for our fortune 500 clients and give them the tools they need to manage our branch offices. By doing so, we now have capable managers and teams leading each location. Our most recent manager, Aaron, was able to assume the lead for our Michigan branch.
“Aaron is a wonderful father of three with over 10 years of management and business sales experience. He has been working in our industry for the last year and has proven himself worthy of leading the expansion team in Detroit, MI”
-Sam, President at K.M.G. Consultants
Aaron started with K.M.G. Consultants seeing that he had the ability to earn his own management promotion by focusing on building and developing the team. He was able to quickly move into assistant management just nine months after starting with our firm. He, with assistance from the team, aided in the first 2 expansions. Now, with his own promotion and running the Michigan branch, he has full autonomy of his career and will continue to help K.M.G; Consultants with its national expansions. “I didn’t have to wait for ‘Johnny’ to be promoted or quit to hit my goals. I look forward to being able to watch my kids grow as an involved parent. Especially watching my little boy’s lacrosse games one day “even if he’s one and doesn’t know it yet.” says Aaron in regards to his promotion.
K.M.G. Consultants was founded in April, 2011 and is located in Roseville, MN. As a sales and marketing firm, K.M.G. Consultants specializes in new customer acquisition and maintaining quality customers for our national Fortune 500 clients and we are recognized as a leading consulting firm in the Midwest region. K.M.G.’s vision is to build people from an entry level position into management at a fast pace; having them learn the business from the ground up. We teach our employees the necessary skills to adequately market for our Fortune 500 client as well as give them the tools they would need to eventually manage one of our firm’s national locations.
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K.M.G. Consultants team celebrating Aaron’s promotion.
We had an excellent 2015 here at KMG Consultants Inc.!
Many of our staff was able to travel to a wide variety of places around the country for business trips. Cities that we traveled to included Los Angeles, CA, Chicago, IL, Nashville, TN, and Cancun, Mexico. You can bet we had a blast with all of the travel!
KMG Consultants Inc. also had some great promotions. The new members of our team excelled, and worked hard to reach leadership positions. Congratulations to Bill for his promotion to Management, and Aaron for his promotion to Assistant Manager. Our leadership promotions included Amber, Collin, Steven, Daniel, Shannon, and Jennifer. Thank you for your hard work and dedication to making KMG Consultants Inc. one of the best companies to work for in Southfield, MI!
Our family grew this year, and we’re looking forward to where we’re headed in 2016. Here’s to another year of success, and making KMG Consultants Inc. the premiere business consulting firm in the Metro Detroit area.
Sometimes networking isn’t a choice. Your job may require you to make networking connections as part of your regular duties. Introverts are made uneasy about social tasks in general and possibly more so when they’re a requirement.
Don’t panic. We’ve assembled some strategies that will help introverts become more comfortable at networking events. Give them a try and start improving your skills this week.
Practice Networking Techniques
The anticipation of a networking event is often more painful for introverts than attending the actual event. Reduce your fears by getting them out of your head with a trial run. Set up a practice session with friends, family, and coworkers. What are you most afraid of? Act out your nightmares and you will reduce your fearful anticipation to manageable levels by developing coping responses before hand. You may not eliminate your fear, but you will reduce it.
Have Short Conversations
Networking is frightening for introverts because the worst situations we’ve imagined feature long conversations with lots of different people we don’t know. Relax, you don’t have to have a lot of long conversations. It’s perfectly reasonable to approach people at the event to say hello and request their business card and offer yours and then move on by simply explaining that your time is limited. People will appreciate your efficiency. Let them know that you’ll contact them later and then remember to follow up within the next day or two with an email, a useful resource, or an invitation for a cup of coffee.
Write Open-Ended Questions
Develop a few questions in advance based on the event topic to develop conversations starters. Write out your questions on cards and become familiar with them before the event. You can add some bullet points related to these questions for further discussion. Your goal is to develop familiarity and ease with your topics before the event. Practice asking the questions and answering them out loud to increase your comfort levels.
Identify Preferred Contacts
It’s often possible to use your existing contacts or to contact the event’s organizers to find out who will be presenting at or attending the event. Use this information to craft a list of people who you would like to meet. Pick a number from one-to-ten and decide to meet only the number of people you’re honestly comfortable meeting. Be honest with yourself. If you can only handle one person at a time then only plan to introduce yourself to one person. If you attend 4 networking events in one month then that means you’ve made 4 new contacts.
Build Social Links Before You Network
Introverts find social media to be great tool when they want to reach out to colleagues, coworkers, and contacts without increase the stress created at face-to-face events. Use LinkedIn or Facebook to reach out to your friends if you want an introduction to someone at an upcoming event. Connecting through social media allows you to start a conversation before the event that you can continue when you meet in person. The hard part is already done!
Volunteer, Organize, and Present
Networking is easier for introverts if they’re part of the event from the very beginning. By becoming part of the event as a volunteer, organizer, or presenter you are able to build connections from the inside out. Often you will be invited to participate in training events prior to the event that will allow you to practice reaching out to others in your professional community in a low-pressure situation. If you have a particular area of expertise consider leading a workshop or talk, which are both great ways to make a big impact at one event in a limited focus.
KMG Consultants Inc, a marketing and sales firm located in Roseville, Minnesota, we believe that our ability to work as a team will help the company and our team achieve professional and personal goals. Each member in the office works closely together and in this atmosphere created by the team, each member has the opportunity to step up and lead. We take a moment each month to recognize one person who decides to go the extra mile and give them recognition. This month Xavier Fust has earned this feature.
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