Welcome to our collection of tools you can use over and over again to improve your business, reduce your stress and grow your profit.
AI is good at giving you believable answers but can’t tell you how to pick and implement the best solution. The 12Faces ToolKit fills in that hole!
Just pick the current issue from the list below and go to the full list of tools for that topic; arranged in Belt order for your present level of experience.
Work Less time & Achieve More
Your personal time availability is fixed! It's up to you to get the most out of this limited resource. And to do this without working all day and all night. The good news is that it is quite possible. See our collection of time management tools for well proven tips for getting back your time; and your sanity. Yellow Belt
Prioritise the Most Important Tasks
Among our prioritisation tools, there is one that can improve your productivity 16 times. And another that reduces all the things you could do down to just one that must be resolved before anything else will make a difference. Yellow Belt
Improve the Routines that Drive Your Business
Routines like sending bills and doing marketing drive your business. Others monitor cashflow and profit. Still others keep a watchful eye on things like inventory that can be costly if it gets out of control. Poor or missing Routines are a root cause of problems in small business. See how to tune yours to make your business hum! Yellow Belt
Intro to Using AI in 12Faces
We encourage you to use AI to do much of the research grunt work and so ease the amount of personal research you need to do to get started on a project. 12Faces provides strategy and business management methods to build your business. AI does a great job at filling in the detail once you have decided where to go. Use our own tool under "Search" in the menu or your preferred AI. See our introduction on how to prompt AI for best outcome. Yellow Belt
Prefab GamePlans
There are several well travelled paths that every business goes thorough. By identifying the typical issues arising at various point on "your" current path, we can identify candidate issues for the next planning cycle. We call these Prefab GamePlans. Covers e.g growing in size from 1 person to many, lifecycle of Start-up > Growth >Lifestyle > Exit and planning for cashflow control. Yellow Belt
Optimise your Operations
Over time, a boat accumulates barnacles that act as a drag and slows the boat down. So does your business. You can speed up your boat by scraping the barnacles off. You can get a "free kick" to improving your business by optimising the practices that have grown up over time for the current reality. By getting rid of the accumulated wasted resources, you improve the whole business quickly and cheaply! Blue Belt
Solutions to 12 Types of Business and Management Problems
We say that all problems with running a business can be grouped into our 12Faces. Six of our Faces cover business operational issues and the other six Faces cover the skills an Owner didn't learn with your professional training but need now you are running your own business. See the 12 groups and then click on the one most relevant to see a list of all our tools on that topic. Various Belts
This article was provided by Scott Williams AO FAIDC. It describes the way best practice in many management areas has been brought together in the 12Faces GamePlan System. The Goal is to provide an easy to use and repeatable “flywheel” to improve small business owners’ outcomes. Scott is the Founder of NFP small business support services 12Faces and MentorSME and has a Philanthropic Foundation supporting students in education. Scott’s business Petals Network was National Small Business of the Year and 4 times in the Top 100 Fastest Growing Australian Businesses LinkedIn