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Business Development

Strategic Planning

The strategic planning programme is specifically designed to help you get back on track and unlock the potential within your business.

Our unique approach to strategic planning looks not only at the goals of the business but starts by focusing on the business owners' personal vision and goals.

The benefits of strategic planning are:

• Greater control over your future
• Defined succession/exit plan
• More freedom from your firm
• Higher return on your investment
• Improved team morale and productivity

This programme is a powerful step towards freeing up your time and start working ON your business rather than IN it.

What you will achieve through the strategic planning process:

• A strong strategic direction and business philosophy
• Clear objectives for your business over the next 5 years
• Business goals that help you achieve your overall life plan
• The ability to build on your business strengths and overcome its weaknesses
• The information to be able to take advantage of the opportunities and develop strategies to identify and protect against potential threats
• A clear action plan for the next 12 months
• Hands-on support to help get the first 5 strategies implemented.

Once we have defined the personal visions and goals, we concentrate on looking at WHERE the business owners see the business being in 5 years time and where the business is NOW. The next step, which is a unique feature of our approach, is to determine HOW to achieve the transition from NOW to WHERE.

As well as producing strategies to achieve the HOW, we will also provide the business owners with measurement tools to determine that these goals are being achieved.

At no time during the sessions do we claim to know more about your business than you do. The sessions are designed to be interactive and the majority of the ideas and strategies developed will come from the business owner. We provide the framework to generate and unlock ideas and will offer suggestions which can be used or not as the business owner sees fit. The sessions are held in our offices so the business owner is removed from the day today running of the business and can therefore focus on working ON the business not IN the business.

The strategic planning process involves us working closely with the business owner to develop core values, a purpose statement and a mission statement. Once these have been developed we then move to developing strategies for business success, some of which can be implemented immediately and some are aimed at the long term. We also offer a half day session with our marketing consultant and a 30 day consultation period to ensure that the strategies are being implemented and to resolve any issues which may arise during this period.

A detailed report is produced which is specifically designed to be used by the business owner as a tool for both future decision making and performance appraisal.

Once the strategic planning has been completed we like to maintain regular contact with our client's to ensure their businesses are progressing according to the plan.

Business Health Assessment

As an introduction to some of the concepts covered by strategic planning, we have developed a business health assessment form to provide us with information about your business as it is NOW.

Please print out the form before you complete it. This will enable you to carefully consider each question before answering it. If you then fax the form to our business development department on 01865-557732, they will review it and contact you to arrange a FREE initial meeting to discuss the results.

In addition to strategic planning, we have a range of further services available to ensure that the business owner can achieve the best for their business.

If you are interested in receiving further information on any of our services, or would like to attend one of our regular seminars, please contact us.