You have heard it numerous times – you should be working on the business as well as in the business. Business planning is just one of many aspects vying for your attention. You know it is essential, but fitting in time for planning is difficult.

What has worked for me is to abandon traditional business planning in favour of business planning days. Since 2004, these quarterly business planning days have helped hundreds address the challenges of business.

Here are some of the problems commonly faced by business owners, and how my style of business planning helps address them.
 
Running your own business can be lonely
One of the isolating aspects is the lack of people to bounce ideas around with. Planning thrives on ideas, so how do you generate them?

Solution
My Business Planning Day consists of a day offsite to which I invite you and your fellow director or manager or an Advisory Board member. This allows issues, ideas and outcomes to be raised from different perspectives. You’d be surprised how many people in your network will be happy to take time out for a structured planning session.

Not taking the time to celebrate your successes
If you are not taking time to celebrate your successes, you and your fellow team mebers will simply feel like a mouse on a wheel.... Not getting anywhere....

Solution
The business planning day starts and ends with a celebration of what we have achieved in the last three months and ends with where we want to be in three months time. For your staff and your close network of supporters, it’s a chance to reward their commitment to you and also a chance for everyone related to your business to gain confidence from your achievements.

There’s never enough time to set goals, let alone review them
As a result, it’s easy to get lost in the “doing business” and ignore long-term strategies for the business.

Solution
Set a regular schedule for your business planning days and, if possible, schedule them for quieter times in your business’ calendar. We do our planning days every month - and then follow them up every quarter. Currently we have over 100 businesses attending our planning days. 

When to start ?

 
Solution
NOW - Our free business planning day offer will not run on forever, so register your interest and one of our team will be in touch with upcoming planning day dates. We will book you and one of your team members in on the next available date for yourself and help you start and plan for the business you have always dreamed of.

Simply fill in the form below to register your interest.