Top 3 Things To Know Before Starting To Write A Business Plan

While you may be very knowledgeable of the business you want to start, it is still really important to write and prepare a business plan. Here are 3 things to know to prepare yourself when building a business plan.

Opening A Dollar Store - Growing Your Business

One of the challenges that every retailer faces is continually growing sales. Opening a dollar store is no different. It is important to know the current level of sales. It is also important to have established future sales goals.

Into The Goal Mine - The Heart Of Goal Setting

Many organisations and the people in them start 2007 with boundless energy, hope and eagerness to reach new goals, to succeed even more than last year, to change for the better. Some celebrate their achievements with champagne while others who weren't so lucky hide in shame. What exactly turns a goal into gold?

Planning and Execution - Lessons from Prisoners

In both leading an organization and in the classic film: Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.

Strategic Planning Transports Business Owners From Sea Level to See Level to See the Bigger Picture

What keeps business owners from achieving their goals? Maybe it is their elevation. One of my key strategies as a business coach in assisting small business owners and executives to build their businesses faster than they ever imagined is to tell stories. Stories allow us to hear the message without defining it.

The Value of Core Values in Strategic Thinking and Business Planning

A often overlooked component of self written business plans is a statement of core values. We explore not only the importance of communicating your core values but committing to them without compromise.

Asset Management in the Supply Chain

Over the last decade more and more companies have implemented returnable and reusable transit packaging fleets and pools, whether it is pallets, tote bins, steel stillage, cages or even wooden crates. What is guaranteed is that these fleets require a capital investment, (whether directly or by a fleet / pool provider), and should be protected as you would any other company asset.

Eight Key Characteristics For A Strategic Planning Facilitator

Selecting a professional strategic planning facilitator is very important. Facilitation of your strategic planning process involves working with groups of people and requires that the facilitator be tuned in at all times to what is happening. The facilitator also must be able to suspend or change the direction of the process when necessary. An experienced professional facilitator used in your strategic planning process will greatly increase the probability of a successful process and strategic plan and will also enable the participants to leave with positive feelings, a stronger cohesiveness, a sense of accomplishment and a stronger team. In selecting a professional facilitator, your strategic thinking business coach suggests that you look for the following key characteristics.

Assumptions Continue to Derail the Best Strategic Business Plans

What assumptions do you live and breathe within your business without knowing them? How are these assumptions creating dissatisfied customers?

The Adventure of Business Planning

Creating a business plan is not a favorite for many entrepreneurs. This article transfers the process of planning for an adventure to creating an exciting business plan.

Ten Top Benefits of Strategic Thinking and Planning For Business and Not For Profit Organizations

What are the real benefits of strategic thinking and planning for business for a not for profit organization? This is one of the most frequently asked questions I have encountered in more than 30 years of work in strategic planning endeavors. In preparing to write this article I reflected on those years of experience and chose what I believe to be ten top benefits of strategic thinking and planning. These are not listed in a priority order.

Melbourne Business Planning

Melbourne Business Planning - When it comes to running your Melbourne business you can use all the help that you can get. Why? Because the more help and support that you receive in relation to planning your business, the stronger networks that you build for your business, the better your chances of success.

Remember Your Quality Of Life - What Do You Want To Achieve With Your Own Business?

Before you start a business take some time and really visualize how you would like to live. Put all the elements in your life that matter. Decide how much time that you would like to spend with the people in your life, and whether you will work weekends too. Visualize the ideal commute to and from your business. How much money will you need to bring in per month to have a balanced life financially?