Business Plan
Learn the secret to writing a winning business plan to guide you to success in just 3 simple steps: Visualize, Brainstorm, Write.
This is a practical guide to force you to get your business ideas out of your head and onto paper in a structured and meaningful way.
Validate your ideas before racing off in the wrong direction
Are you an entrepreneur starting off your first business? Have you worked for somebody else for most of your working life and are now looking to go it alone? Are you struggling with the idea of how to start your new business? Maybe you are in business for years and simply haven’t understood the value of a business plan and how it can push your business rapidly forward.
A business plan is a roadmap for your business to follow. If you take the time to consider where you are going to, and document it in a business plan, then there is a pretty good chance that you will actually get there.
Writing a business plan is not an academic exercise. Rather, it is a simple way to plan out your journey and to identify milestones you should pass along the way to your ultimate goal or destination. Without a business plan you are likely to take the long way round and maybe never reach your destination.
Niall Strickland has been coaching hundreds of small and medium sized businesses on how to create focused and achievement driven business plans for more than 20 years. He sees business plans as the guiding light through a maze of dead-end-streets. Real Business Plans are not written for your bank, your ego or your filing cabinet. They are living breathing documents that constantly change and evolve as a business moves forward and help business owners and entrepreneurs to keep on track as they focus on winning and getting to the end game.
Your business plan does not have to be 50 pages long, or even half of that. Some of the best business plans can be laid out very simply in 5 to 10 pages.
Some key pointers include:
- How to visualize your future from a position of power
- Turning your Vision into your business plan
- Understanding your core values & their impact on your business
- Writing a Killer Mission Statement
- Brainstorming the Key Modules of a Winning Business Plan
- Working with your family or team to validate your business strategies
- How to double, triple or even quadruple profits through the power of focus
- Getting Buy-in from your stakeholders
- Building sustainable competitive advantage
- Setting SMART Goals
- Easily crunching the numbers (even if you hate numbers)
- Setting achievable Milestones that boost your confidence as you progress
- Attracting the attention of potential investors with your Executive Summary
- Anticipate what your competitors will do - long before they do it
- How to use the templates provided to answer the Hard Questions
- Moving from Mind Maps to a properly structured business plan
- How to use Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) to stay on track
- Simple & regular "tweaks" required to supercharge your performance
- Building the team that gives you the best chance of long-term success
