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Seven Steps for Building a Successful
Business Plan
This 3 day, hands-on
course leads you through the steps of writing a complete and integrated
business plan. It provides a framework for management to tell a company
story that is authentic, consistent, and believable. The advantages of this
program are:
- A single planning
model is used to incorporate all business functions.
- Definitions are
simplified and worded in plain business language.
- Relationships
between and among planning elements are clearly demonstrated.
- Connections
between strategic, operational, organizational, resources, and contingency
plans are fully formed.
- Total employee
involvement is accomplished by taking the business plan to all levels.
Who Should Attend
Presidents,
vice-presidents, directors and divisional managers who are responsible for
developing a complete business plan. Team attendance is strongly
recommended.
Practical Skills and Applications
As a result of this
course you should be able to understand and apply the following:
- Write a business
plan that connects your day to day activities with your strategic goals
- Develop easily
understood, standardized planning language throughout the company
- Install an
integrated seven step planning process to ensure plan continuity
- Demonstrate a highly
transferable set of skills and tools to cascade the planning downward for
continuity, buy in, and execution
- Produce a five page
finished business plan ready for implementation at multiple organizational
levels
- Demonstrate a
rational method for plan measurement and accountability for plan
implementation.
What You Will Cover
Special Issues in Business Planning
- Define techniques to
overcome organizational resistance to planning
- Eliminate
planning creep mentality found in most planning processes
- Compare implications
for long and short range planning timeframes
The Mechanics of 7
Step Planning Process
- Define methods and
techniques for pre-planning orientation and preparation
- Build an effective
planning conference format and work agenda
- Design and implement
steps to cascade the planning to other organizational levels
- Institute methods
for quarterly reviews and annual updates
- Develop management
activities to support successful plan execution
The Development of a
5 Page Business Plan
- Construct one page
strategic, operational, resources, organizational, and contingency
components
- Connect short and
long term resources requirements to the strategic plan
- Design the
organization’s structure to fit identified strategies
- Develop operational
plans to put the strategic direction into measurable reality
- Consider
alternatives in contingency plans when assumptions fail
The Power of a 5 Page Business Plan
- Connect the soft
corporate culture elements to the hard numbers reality of the plan
- Identifies short
falls or gaps between say and do management behaviors
- Force creative
thinking to set bold strategic goals
- Require
accountability, responsibility, and authority for performance measures
- Move the plan from a
three ring binder on the shelf to management hands
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