Business Planning

Name: Business Planning
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Effective Methods For Achieving Your Business Goals

Created byDebi Peverill

Last updated 2/2017

English

What you'll learn

Set meaningful and realistic goals that are achievable
You will establish the vision for your business and determine how close to that vision you plan to be by the end of the year.
You will determine the best strategies to be employed to achieve your business goals by selecting from lists of proven business profitability strategies.
You will learn how to organize your time so that the tasks which need to be performed each day/week/month are documented on the forms that are provided as a part of the course.

Course content

3 sections • 14 lectures • 34m total length

Introduction0:56
This is the introduction to the course and explains what will be covered. The course will help business owners set realistic meaningful goals and give them a format to follow to make them happen.

Setting Meaningful Goals5:15
This lecture explains how to set meaningful realistic goals and discusses what makes a goal a bad goal.

Students will understand how to set a realistic goal for themselves.
Exercise 10:10
Improving Focus6:35
This lecture talks about how to focus on the goals that are important to you and explains the goal keeping system that will be used during the year. The workbook has copies of all the forms.
Students will understand the process for focusing on their goals.
Exercise 20:05
Business Plan Design4:45
This lecture covers the preparation of a business plan. The workbook includes the template and the steps in the process of preparing the plan and achieving the goals.
Students will document their vision for their business.
Exercise 30:03
Financial Goal: Increase Net Income6:37
This lecture covers the potential strategies that could be used to help a business become more profitable, under the assumption that this is a goal most businesses would embrace.
Students will be able to choose the strategies they would like to use to make their businesses more profitable.
Exercise 40:06
Successful Goal Keeping System5:19
This lecture covers the process for comparing the plan for the week with what actually occurred and making the plan for the coming week.
Students will be able to compare their weekly plan with actual results.
Exercise 50:05
What to Do at the End of Each Week1:49
This lecture covers the process for comparing the plan for the week with what actually occurred and making the plan for the coming week.

Students will be able to compare their weekly plan with actual results.
What to Do at the End of Each Month1:46
This lecture covers the process for comparing the month’s goals with the goals that were actually achieved and making the necessary modifications for the coming month

Students will be able to utilize the goal keeping system to evaluate their monthly performance and plan the coming month.

Requirements

All necessary materials will be provided

Description

This course is for business owners looking to achieve positive business milestones this year. The focus of this course is to learn how to set and achieve goals by using the business plan outline and weekly, monthly and annual goal keeping sheets provided in the workbook accompanying each lecture.

•You will learn how to set meaningful and realistic goals for your business.
•You will be taught the two main reasons that goals are not achieved and will understand the solutions to finally achieving these once unattainable goals.
•Using the workbook, you will complete forms that will allow you to prepare your business plan.

Forms included along with the business plan are:
.Weekly Goal Keeping Sheet
•Monthly Goal Keeping Sheet
•Annual Goal Keeping Sheet

•You will establish the vision for your business and determine how close to that vision you plan to be by the end of the year.
•You will determine the best strategies to be employed to achieve your business goals by selecting from lists of proven business profitability strategies.
•You will learn how to organize your time so that the tasks which need to be performed each day/week/month are documented on the forms that are provided as a part of the course.

Course Structure
•The course is comprised lectures and exercises.
•Each lecture contains a video of facilitator Debi Peverill talking with notes on screen accompanying her.
•Learning resources for the course are PowerPoint slides and a workbook (PDF) that includes:
.Printable goal keeping worksheets
•Business plan outline
•A checklist of strategies for increasing the revenue of your business.

Who this course is for:

This course is for business owners looking to achieve positive business milestones this year
The focus of this course is to learn how to set and achieve goals by using the business plan outline and weekly, monthly and annual goal keeping sheets provided in the workbook accompanying each lecture.

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Course content

Welcome to Business Planning1 lecture • 1min

Lectures12 lectures • 33min

Conclusion1 lecture • 1min

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Description

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