Strategic Planning—Done Right—Makes all the Difference
As a business owner you know you need to spend more time planning but perhaps….
- You’re too busy doing what needs to be done to find the time.
- You’ve made plans before but never used them.
- You aren’t sure where to start to do it right anyways.
So why do it?
Strategic planning—done right—gets you crystal clear on your priorities, ensuring you:
- Know what matters most to achieve your short and long term business goals.
- Put the systems and habits in place to ensure you set aside time to work on these priorities.
- Be clear on key short-term priorities for the remainder of this year that will guarantee rapid progress in the coming year.
- Understand the bottlenecks and barriers that prevented you from achieving your goals in the past.
- Focus your available time and resources so you can spend less, make more and enjoy the fruits of your labor.
- Experience unprecedented confidence, commitment and excitement for growing your business.
Why now?
No matter when your official business year ends, people naturally have a desire to start fresh at the beginning of the calendar year. The busy-ness of the holiday season means that most entrepreneurs put off their plans until the new year actually arrives. The challenge for most business owners is that when January arrives business ramps up very quickly, leaving them with little time to catch up on the holiday backlog—let alone to plan for strategically growing their business in the coming year. The result? Another year goes by with the owner struggling to keep up and unable to truly get ahead to take their business to the next level.
We can help.
If you are serious about taking your business to the next level of fun, fulfillment and financial success in the coming year the time to get started is now!
Plan for the future.
Introducing the Small Business Strategic Planning Package
Who is it for?
Our Small Business Strategic Planning Package is designed specifically to provide solo-entrepreneurs and small business owners with high quality strategic planning support at an affordable price. This package is for you if:
- You are a solo-entrepreneur or small business owner with less than 5 employees.
- You are thinking of starting a business or are in the early stages of start-up.
- You haven’t done much strategic planning before.
- You lack confidence in your ability to create a plan that gets results (or that you will stick to) based on past history.
- You need help creating tangible systems to translate your plans into real results.
- You need clarity on which strategies to prioritize to achieve your goals in the coming year.
Package Overview
The Small Business Strategic Planning Package is comprised of 6 hours of high-impact business coaching and consulting support. Sessions roll out as follows (but may be customized to suit unique client needs):
Discover: Pre -assessment. Prior to meeting, you will complete several assessment tools that will provide you (and us) with immediate clarity on key goals, priorities, barriers and resources.
Clarify & Focus: This initial 2+ hour session reviews the above tools to gauge the current state of you, your business and your systems to identify critical strengths to leverage, gaps to fill, and opportunities to be explored. This results in a draft of your Living Business Plan – a revolutionary approach to strategic planning that will keep your plan off the shelf and in the hands of the people responsible for making it a reality. This session also identifies key priorities that will set the stage for success in the coming year. You will also receive assignments specific to your unique situation to prepare you to get maximum results from the second session.
Lock in Strategy: The second 2+ hour session takes the strategies and priorities identified in the draft Living Business Plan, breaks them down into concrete milestones and actions, and puts them into an easy-to-use online project management system. This systems allows you to keep focused on your core business development priorities no matter how busy you get with the day-to-day demands of running your business. (Takes place within three weeks of session one for maximum benefit.)
Follow Through: The final 2 hours of support will be broken into one-hour sessions 2 and 4 weeks following the second session. These sessions fine-tune any necessary elements of your strategic plan and provide you with any immediate support you need to stay on track.
Note: all sessions are conducted virtually to eliminate the need for you to waste extra time travelling to our office!