Streamlined business planning to accelerate your growth

Business planning assistance creates a clear, understandable and actionable roadmap for success for your whole business

Since 2010 I have worked with more than 60 businesses and I’ve seen first-hand that those that plan effectively … AND THEN EXECUTE … are the ones that get the rewards. Business growth. Profitability. A business that is strong and sustainable.

I’ve also seen that business planning is massively mis-understood.

Spreadsheets aren’t a plan.

Targets aren’t a plan.

Aspirational wish-lists aren’t a plan.

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Benchmark your Business Planning

Take my quick questionnaire and I’ll send you a report

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Take the Questionnaire

Consider these questions:

Is your business a little out of shape? Are there areas that give you sleepless nights or cause you concern?

Do you feel like people aren’t focused and delivering what they could? (not just in terms of sales)

Do you have lots of opportunities or things you’d like to change, and you find that they never happen?

Is everyone pulling in the same direction or does it sometimes feel like you are at cross-purposes?

Get streamlined:

Long-drawn-out planning sessions and hours in front of a screen are a thing of the past

We all know the person we want to hear from in the meeting; the one who clearly, succinctly and with real insight shows the solution to the challenge that’s being discussed.

Your business plan should be the same. A document that is 10’s of pages long, backed up with pages and pages of spreadsheets is destined to be filed in the drawer and won’t see the end of month 2, never mind quarter 3 or 4!

Over the years I’ve seen many ways to execute business planning and I’ve taken the best from what I’ve seen to streamline the process. The end result … less is definitely more.

I have created the one-page Winning Game Plan, which unsurprisingly creates a winning game plan on a single page!

Clear and focused discussion and workshop notes are distilled down to this central document that is the focus for every department within the business. Monthly and quarterly sprints, objectives and measures are documented for each department.

Sales, Marketing, Customer Services, Operations, Purchasing, Finance, IT and HR – no stone is left unturned because the whole business needs to constantly evolve and grow to continually deliver and excite your customers.

I’ll help you develop the plan and if you need me to be around regularly as you move forward, I can do that too.

Simple ingredients, well prepared make the best products

Your business plan doesn’t need to be complex.

It needs to be understandable and accessible.

It needs to be the living roadmap to success for the whole business.

I use my skill and expertise to help you assemble and refine the elements of the plan. We then assemble them to outline:

What success looks like (not just financially).
Where we play and the promise we make to customers.
The critical success factors that we need to focus on.
Key initiatives that need to be delivered, department by department.
The lead measures that are the key performance indicators for the business.

The best are the best for a reason

My experience is that most businesses don’t plan. But the best of the best do – take The Red Arrows or the SAS. The SAS don’t just turn up at a building and say, “You do X, I’ll do Y and let’s see what happens”.

Just like them, the best businesses I have worked with have a plan and that sits at the centre of their business.

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It works, but don’t just take my word for it

Take a look at the numerous testimonials about my work helping with business planning and see what some of my clients have to say about working with me.

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