Business Planning & Strategy Session

It’s important to have a strategy in a business.  It is also exceedingly important to complete business planning.  We have all heard the expression that “Businesses don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan”. 

We all hear that, and yet not enough small to medium-sized business owners participate in business planning or business strategy sessions. 

Even less business owners have a documented and current business plan.  As an experienced business coach, I have worked with many of my clients to first set up a strategy, business plan and determine the business goals before we start coaching. 

Whilst these services are not compulsory to coaching, I do encourage them as they most certainly will add value to and complement the business coaching that we do.  In essence, having a strategy and solid business plan equates to having solid foundations on which we build further with coaching.

If you do not wish to have ongoing coaching, but would love to have a business planning and strategy session, then this IS an available option as I offer this as an optional extra.

Some of the benefits of business strategy, business planning and goal setting include:

• Determining your goals and objectives

• Implementing strategy into your goals and actions to achieve the right outcomes

• Shifting dreams and wishing into actuality with a specific and documented plan

• Knowing where you want to go with your business long term so that the short-term goals match and complement those long-term objectives

• Knowing who will be doing what, when and how (and, of course, why)

• When it’s written down, you can begin tracking, measuring and, of course, as your coach, there is greater accountability.

A goal planning session is generally run over a half-day (morning or afternoon) and is face to face.  For those who are outside Brisbane, I have a varied delivery which will equally meet your needs. 

We determine what has worked well in your business of late, and what hasn’t been so good.  I assist you to gain clarity around your goals and objectives and then from there we determine your goals for the next year. 

After our half-day session, I then go away and build your plan, which will have specific and SMARTER goals and most importantly the action steps you need to take to achieve those 90-day goals.

Smarter goals are specific, measurable, achievable, reportable and timely.  That leaves the ER on the end.  E is for emotional-based; you need to have a degree of passion around a goal otherwise, you just won’t be motivated to do it. 

The R is for resources; you can’t have a goal which is unrealistic from a resources perspective; either not having the time or the money to action it.  The time and/or money you invest needs to be relevant to the expected return.