How to Develop Business Strategy - and Follow Through!

On any given day, business owners are pulled in 50 different directions; they’re responding, reacting, filling in gaps on the fly. The business owners we work with who are struggling with effectiveness can’t find the time or capacity to develop and implement strategic initiatives, or they have developed half-baked strategies based on reacting to the urgent situation at hand.

Thoughtful strategy is essential to achieving the vision you have for your business: it often means the difference between a successful business that feels good–and does good in the world– and one that doesn’t. Lots of business leaders develop strategies, but very few businesses– between 20-25%– articulate processes for executing the strategies they develop. It’s in the follow-through where owners fall short, often sacrificing revenue, peace of mind, and work/life balance in the process.

In this course, we’ll walk you through the essential pieces of developing strategies that work for your life and your business including:

Establishing your foundations: values, vision, and why Using foundations to identify, evaluate, and prune potential strategies down to 1 or 2 Developing a plan for implementing strategy Creating accountability around your plan

PLEASE NOTE! THIS IS A THREE-PART SERIES THAT TAKES PLACE ON THE FOLLOWING THURSDAYS; NOVEMBER 30, DECEMBER 7, AND DECEMBER 14. THESE WILL TAKE PLACE IN-PERSON AT THE SMALL BUSINESS CENTER.