Business owners who develop a strategic plan have an advantage over those who only have a business plan. Entrepreneurs using strategic planning have a step-by-step guide to accomplishing short and long-term goals and solving issues or malfunctions in daily operations.
Entrepreneurs seek professionals to formulate strategic plans when they want to make significant departmental and operational changes to their company and seek reassurance, input, and guidance from an experienced outside source.
FocalPoint Business and Executive Coach of Lincoln, Vermont, James Clark, previously served as a production manager assessing military capabilities of the South China Sea to influence national plans and policies for regions within East Asia. His professional experience, along with his background in certification of FocalPoint exclusive business growth strategies, assists his clients in creating and implementing action to achieve their desired results!
Strategic Planning: Paving the Way for Growth
Business coaches will help entrepreneurs identify current challenges, anticipate the outcomes of changes, including the potential challenges and solutions, and then assess results – then will adjust or readjust implementing changes accordingly. Coaches also help reestablish personal accountability and encourage leadership by confirming the strategic plan is concise, comprehensive, and as detailed as possible.
A solid strategic plan contains a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis of your business. After completing this analysis, we identify the resources and necessary actions to improve productivity and increase competitiveness. Following is the crafting of a comprehensive action plan to assign roles to staff to complete objectives to fulfill goals and includes a date for completion.
Every step taken is included in the plan to be retraced for further analysis – this allows you to keep track of changes and identify what has and hasn’t worked in achieving goals and solving challenges.
Strategic planning provides a foundation for businesses to pursue commercial success, improve productivity, and continuously create and recreate cost-effective, efficient, and time-saving solutions.
Objectives of Strategic Planning Services
- Define your vision of commercial success.
- Create long-term goals and objectives that will serve as the foundation of running your business operations.
- Pinpoint the Key Result Areas and prioritize them as fundamental to your company’s daily operations performance.
- Identify Key Constraints and adjust to, change, or remove limitations.
- Establish initiatives and record all resources needed to take action.
- Analyze your financial resources and budget.
- Plan and prioritize daily tasks with more efficiency. Time management is key to completing them.
- Create performance plans for teams to accomplish objectives.
- Develop and execute an action plan.
- Enforce accountability to track the time and progress of goal achievements.
- Analyze results and adjust accordingly.
To receive strategic planning services, contact FocalPoint Business and Executive Coach of Lincoln, VT, James Clark! To book services, reach him by calling 802-855-0620 or emailing him at jclark@focalpointcoaching.com, or take the Business Growth Score assessment!
