Do You Really Need a Business Plan, You Ask?
Every business leader must take control of the design and implementation of the direction for their business. Developing a Business Plan is the first crucial step toward this. If are you selling your business, a different type of Plan is important to ensure you get the best selling price. These don’t need to be elaborate documents that end up sitting on a shelf gathering dust. Some best practice plans can be as short as just 1 week!
Plan to Achieve the Life You and Your Business Want
Develop a Business Plan that will consider what lifestyle YOU want and where your business is at in its life cycle. What type of industry are you in? Know where you are heading and where you want to get to. Plan now!
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Choices to Develop a Business Plan and Execute It
Theory: Constructing a Business Plan
Are you struggling to build a comprehensive strategy for your business? Learn how to do a rapid planning outline through to building and monitoring your plan. Direct link to Courses are available at this link.
Branch: Execute a Business Plan
It is vital that you understand your business plan to then guide your staff on the effective execution of the plans. Ensure that it includes your goal for the direction of the business. Growth, lifestyle or exit. Learn how to manage your staff for change. Also, learn how to prioritise the tasks that are in front of you.
Branch: Business Lifecycle and Industry Type
When developing a business plan you will need to consider what stage you and your business are at. Are you ready for growth? Are you approaching retirement? Do you want to spend more time with your family? What is happening in your industry as a whole. Direct link to Courses are available at this link.
How to Improve The Efficiency of Repetitive Work
Production in all types of industry can consist of a lot of repetitive work. Developing a business plan to optimise the efficiency of this work. See the tools to assist with this here, covering Takt Time, Lean Management, throughput and others. Increase your Revenue by optimising the efficiency of your repetitive work. Direct link to Courses are available at this link.
Branch: How and Why to Build a Marketing Plan
Are you having trouble creating leads or have leads who aren’t converting to buyers? If you have a marketing plan is it specific to your clientele? Act now to find out how to create a plan or what the problem is with your current one. Direct link to Courses are available at this link.
How to Systematically Conduct Projects
Learn about project management tools that will allow you and your staff to have the confidence to seamlessly conduct all projects, including one-off projects. Covers the PDCA cycle, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Theory of Constraints, 80/20 Rule, Kaizen, Drum/Buffer/Rope, Critical Chain Project Management, Local Optima, Small Batches Tool. Direct link to Courses are available at this link.
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