REX Roundtables for Executives is the flagship program with an eighteen-year track record. The roundtable consists of fourteen CEOs or executives from the same industry who meet regularly to help one another improve their organization's performance and the quality of their lives. Senior level professionals develop their leadership and management skills most effective by participating in a roundtable of peers over a sustained period of time under the guidance of a skilled chair. REX offers roundtables in a number of industries and not-for-profit organizations. These include: museums, health clubs and the green industry. We are currently developing roundtables in the mail order catalog business, catering, regional marketing/advertising firms, social service agencies and military veterans starting new businesses. The roundtable agenda regularly shares successes, tests new ideas and plans, solves problems and digests new concepts and tools for organizational and individual success. Some sample issues that roundtables have addressed are: Reducing costs with out impacting quality. Designing every part of the organization to drive towards profits, instead of drift towards them. Implementing the key elements of Good To Great by Jim Collins." Developing competitive strategies. Creating all components of a powerful sales system. Creating an organizational culture that enables staff to do their best work and provide thebest service to the public. Evaluating and improving staff performance. How to terminate a family member in a family business. Enabling staff to be both innovative and disciplined, developing new products and services that meet mission and generate revenue. Developing a strong senior management team that resolves issues and makes wise decisions. Improving communication vertically and horizontally throughout the organization. Strengthening teamwork and coordination across organizational boundaries. Converting strategic plans into effective action. Managing the partner or brother who can't work with the management team. In addition roundtables regularly engage in several other powerful activities: Regularly sharing performance results through a thoughtfully designed set of industry key performance indicators and financial statements. Each sharing is followed by in depth dialogues to explore the causes of differences. Addressing a key industry area at each meeting by comparing what members do and don't do with what works and what does not. Recent areas explored have included hiring systems, sales process, marketing campaigns and business models for an emerging service area. Hot Seats where a member volunteers for an in-depth probing of their plans and performance. This two to four hour process focuses the brainpower and experience of a dozen of the best performers in the industry on your organization. The Hot Seat usually leads to break through performance. Members share significant events in their organization, their family and their life since the last roundtable. This enables members to deeply understand one another then provide on-target insights and support. Members regularly bring their proposed decisions to have them challenged and questioned. These include strategic choices, design of new produces and services and new facilities. Executive Rountables typically have 12-14 members who are not competitors. They meet three times a year for a one and one half to two day retreat.