Planning for Success in your Business

Often, business owners give excuses for not planning like they are simply too busy or too bogged down in the day to day running of their business to look or think ahead and this is an easy mistake to make, but it is a false economy to buy into the belief that you’re too busy; if your planning were better, there would be systems in place to prevent this and to distribute the work load more appropriately.

As we all become expert planners at Christmas, we thought we would devise some key tips and ideas you can use to help you with planning in your business.

Test and Measure (OFTEN)

We don’t prepare, cook and serve the entire Christmas Dinner without stopping to taste things and check that they’re going to be well received.  Realising the turkey is raw on carving is not the desired outcome!  The same is true of planning in your business.  You don’t want to set your goals at the end of this year and then wait until the end of next year to check on whether you’ve attained them.  Rather, set your goals, break them down into smaller, achievable targets and then devise your plan on how to achieve each goal.  Then review, test that you’re on track to meet these targets, measure your progress so far frequently throughout the year in order to be able to determine whether the strategies you’ve devised are working and so that you can plan further course of action to undertake either to continue in the same vein or to address a problem if there is one within plenty of time to still enable you to meet your goal.  

One of the first things we recommend to all of our clients is to attend our 90 day planning workshops as this gives the formal time and setting for planning for their businesses and our next planning event is just around the corner.  For more information, visit the events page on our website:

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Thoughts:

“Failing to plan is planning to fail.”

Alan Lakein

“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
Thomas A. Edison

“Think ahead. Don't let day-to-day operations drive out planning.”
Donald Rumsfeld

“Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.”
Winston Churchill

“Time = Life, therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life.”

 Alan Lakein