Small Business Planning Orientation

Targeted audience: Existing business owners, executives or managers that want to learn how to build and implement effective business plans that can drive realistic business goals and objectives while meeting stakeholder expectations.

Workshop description: This free workshop provides some basic business and realistic marketplace perspective while identifying traditional and contemporary business success factors. Part two of this interactive program provides additional business growth perspective and identifies the growth process and what is required for building an effective strategic growth plan.

Key audience benefits:

• Provides general business perspectives
• Provides a realistic marketplace perspective - External force of impact 
• Provides and introduction to the business planning process
• Introduction to the SCORE universal business planning model
• How to use the planning model for business assessment Assessing current business challenges (Problems, needs and opportunities)
• How to use the planning model for planning Identifying challenge solutions, best practices and core business principles 
• Introduces the tactical planning mind map
• Introduces the budgeting process
• Prepares the attendee for the three part planning workshop series designed to prepare a formal business plan.