Business Planning

Courses

Would you start out on a long journey without knowing your destination or working out the best route to get there? It’s surprising how many people who run their own businesses actually do exactly that – but by using simple planning tools and techniques you can save time and money and develop your business by planning for success!

Planning needn’t be time consuming – it’s not about having massive documents that sit gathering dust on a shelf and they needn’t be full of jargon either. Business planning has four main stages:

• Understanding where you are now
• Working out where you want your business to go
• Analysing problems, challenges and potential pitfalls
• Developing key actions that will get you where you want to be

Our Business Consultancy Service provides individual business assessment at affordable rates – our team of experts visit your premises, learn about your business and help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, working with you to develop your own action plan.

If you feel you’d like to know how to carry out this kind of business assessment for yourself then you can – by accessing our Business Healthcheck workshop which will give you a step by step guide to analysing the key aspects of your business.

Every business needs an annual business plan, reflecting your overall business strategy. This plan can be used not just by you but can also be submitted to potential investors or used to secure finance from a bank. Our Introduction to Business Planning workshop gives you the tools to create a simple but effective plan.

Your business may already be established and you may want to consider having an expansion plan – our Developing Your Business - Going for Growth workshop helps you assess areas of your business that have the potential for expansion and considers how you could diversify and increase your market share.

Every journey needs a detailed route map - a clearly set out list of actions, with timescales for achievement and mechanisms for checking progress along the way. Without this, many businesses lose their way, deviating from their original business strategy – if you don’t know exactly what and when you should do something how will measure your performance? By Building an Operational Plan for achieving goals, your business can focus its resources on things that need to happen for success.

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Remember - If you are a member of the Island Health and Wellbeing Network you will be able to access FREE and discounted training opportunities saving you hundreds of pounds!