Strategic planning gives entrepreneurs across all industries valuable insight and concise instructions for accomplishing essential business goals, contributing to business growth and improved productivity.
Strategic planning may seem time-consuming and complex because it requires data analysis and a thorough business assessment – and understandably, many business owners are overwhelmed by the process. Fortunately, certified business coaches facilitate the process.
I offer strategic planning for my clients to develop a clear and solid organizational strategy utilizing team collaboration, existing resources, and the most effective action plans to achieve results. You’ll find a briefing on my strategic planning process below.
Strategic Planning With a Business Coach
Nonprofit organizations experience success by taking a strategic approach to achieve goals – whether in marketing, creating a new business model, expense reduction, budgeting, or talent management. Working with a certified business coach to advise you on solutions to challenges using cost-effective, data-driven, world-renowned business growth strategies creates a path to long-term growth.
- I use a professional business assessment to identify your current position and performance in your industry compared to your peers. A business assessment gives us a starting point in identifying actionable goals to pursue growth, competitiveness, and development.
- Using a SWOT analysis, we will assess internal and external constraints to your growth with feedback from your board members to help set goals to adjust, change, or remove current limitations.
- We identify the key results areas available to capitalize on and maintain market competitiveness.
- We identify new goals to improve sales revenue, develop organizational leadership, adopt a new business model, use a new business operations strategy, and more.
- We will communicate the strategic plan to the organization by holding an engaging and insightful meeting.
Overview of Business Coaching Services
- I assess your purpose, mission, vision, and values as defined in your business plan to determine your past and current progress in fulfilling your personal and professional goals – this helps us to identify your professional future and path to overall fulfillment.
- I use financial assessments to determine your organization’s position in your sector compared to the benchmark and top 10% of your industry to create purposeful budgeting, revenue, sales, and valuation goals.
- I will create action and performance plans with key performance indicators to achieve strategic goals involving business skill development, team development, expense reduction, operations management, and more.
- We will schedule check-ins to confirm the completion of objectives and that your organization is on track with the plan’s deadlines.
How Organizations Thrive Using Strategic Plans
With a strategic plan, you reduce or eliminate nonessential, confusing, and complex tasks and spend less money, time, and resources. Additionally, you create goals using a critical approach such as a business assessment, financial assessment, and reliable feedback from your most significant professional relationships to ensure they’re purposeful and relevant to your growth.
If you own a nonprofit organization and need assistance, you can book a consultation with me today to develop a solid organizational strategy.
