Doing a business plan for a small business need not be complicated
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“National Business of the Year” &
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Your Plan’s style depends on what’s on your mind
See several templated approaches covering typical small business planning objectives
Select the most relevant options to drill down to our planning templates that suit
Rapid Start to Business Growth. Newcomers, start here!
Learn our 3 Steps to business growth in just 30 minutes each. Eliminate stressful undirected practices. See how to speed up reaching your goals and never look back. Yellow Belt
Introducing GamePlan Benefits for You
Beginner's Step 1: A rapid introduction to the GamePlan System and its power to reduce your workload and stress and free up time and money. See the method that won us National Small Business of the Year and 4 years in Top 100 Fastest Growing Businesses Beginners Step 1 Yellow Belt
Belts & Medallions Mean GamePlan Mastery at every Stage
Beginner's Step 2: Your management expertise acquired on the job may be patchy and you might be missing some skills that make business life easier. Just like a martial arts student develops better skills at each level, our management tools are colour coded. You start with Yellow and progress through Blue and more. We also offer graduated business development courses starting with our Bronze medallion and going all the way to Diamond. We provide you with a balanced set of skills for each Belt & Medallion level. Be confident of Mastery at each stage. Yellow Belt
Start your Introduction to GamePlan Mastery NOW!
Beginner's Step 3: Our 12Faces Academy has a Yellow Belt level Bronze Medallion GamePlan Introduction online training course as the first step in small business management Mastery. Use our structured learning programs to quickly get the hang of repeatable business success with the GamePlan System. And immediately start applying to your business while you learn so you can see your new skills at work. Yellow Belt
The 6 GamePlan Steps for Speedy Business Plans
If you are keen to get started, or to refresh your memory, use this 6 step process to build your own GamePlan business plan in just an hour. Blue Belt
Deeper Dive into GamePlans
Deepen your understanding of GamePlans for your business success. All our GamePlan templates use this approach so grasp the basics first. Written, podcast and video materials simplify your understanding. Become a Master Planner. Use our Martial Arts Mastery approach to progress from White Belt, though Yellow and Blue Belts enroute to becoming a Black Belt expert on our repeatable GamePlan technique. Progress at your own pace. Blue Belt
Business Goal GamePlans
Often you will have a general goal in mind at a particular time in your business. Typically these include;
- fixing a troubled business in 90 days; quick turnaround if business is stressed
- optimizing a business in 100 days to generate more profit from same income
- growing a business over a year and
- innovation to evolve into some future type of business.
Click links to see our planning packages for each goal. Blue Belt
Business Lifecyle GamePlanning
Small businesses typically go though a lifecycle. Early on, the owner wants to Grow. At some point they are happy with the size of the business and now they want to have a Lifestyle; more time for holidays and family etc. Finally, they want to sell and Exit the business. We cover planning for these lifecycle stages here Blue Belt
Business Size Related GamePlans
Small businesses go through growth stages and each brings its own issues. Read more here on taking your business from startup -> solopreneur -> micro (1-4 staff) -> small (5-19 staff) Blue Belt
Business GamePlan's Library
We have assembled "prefab" GamePlans for common projects. Check out our list of all our GamePlan grouped by purpose in this library. One-stop-shop to find what you want. Blue Belt
Profit Autopilot GamePlan Starts with Profit Goal
Have cash available when needed! Most business plans start with revenue and profit is what is left over. Consequently, you can have cashflow problems. Master Profit Autopilot & have both your desired Profit and the ability to pay debts when they fall due. Blue Belt
StrategyTrees are a visual, tree structure, of your Strategic Plan
A written Strategic Plan can be a cumbersome thing to read and conceptualize. We use StrategyTrees to organize a structured and visual oversight of your Plan. The format also forces you to make sure you address all the issues required to make your Plan work. Blue Belt
Access Lots & Lots More on Business Planning
We have a lot more on planning than covered above. To make access to all our planning material easier, we group them by topic in our drill-down diagnostics pages. See the group relating to planning on this link Blue Belt
Management Science Roots
The 12Faces GamePlan system is based on sound management science. We have picked the most applicable elements from management science that drives big business and made it available to small business owners Blue Belt