In my thirty years as an Agribusiness Consultant I have observed that businesses that have up to date business plans and cashflows rarely ever get into financial difficulty.

Any business plan must be consistent with the personal values of the owners and so two sections are essential.

  1. Personal Section
    - Personal Goals/Motivation/Values
  2. Business Plan

Our workshop manual is well proven over many years and is designed to be suited to workshop activities or as a do it yourself strategic planning manual.

It comprises -

1.0 PERSONAL SELF EVALUATION

A series of exercises designed to stretch the imagination, issue challenges and create pathways for participants to clarify their own personal values, beliefs and goals.

Includes -

  • Lateral thinking exercises.
  • Personal Coat of Arms.
  • Self image analysis.
  • Achievement motivation quiz.
  • Life Review.
  • Personal Self Evaluation.
  • Personal Goal Selling.
  • Personal SWOT analysis.
  • Your key personal values and beliefs.
  • Motivational exercises.
  • Time management.
  • Summary.

 

2.0 BUSINESS STRATEGIC PLANNING

  • Business wheel, business teams.
  • Vision statements.
  • SWOT analysis.
  • Strategic Planning Analysis of
    - Change factors
    -     Competitors
    -     Customers
  • Business goals.
  • Business Coat of Arms.
  • Benchmarking.
  • Business objectives.
  • Contingency planning.
  • Putting it all together into a Business Plan.
  • Progress monitoring.
  • Establishing business support networks.
  • Financial
  • Implementation - action plans.

This manual has proven invaluable for a wide range of businesses including -

  • Those considering starting up a new business.
  • Those seeking to improve an existing business.
  • Those wanting to grow or diversity an existing business.

 

SUMMARY

This manual concisely guides to clarify -

  1. Your personal values/goals and ambitions.
  2. What you want to do (your business vision or mission?.
  3. Who you are and what are your objectives?
  4. Obstacles to your business (change factors, political, regulatory).
  5. Who do you want to do business with (customer analysis)?
  6. Who are, or could be, your main competitors (competitor analysis)?
  7. How will you reach your customers and goals (differentiation of products and services plus marketing strategies)?
  8. What makes you think you can succeed (personal self evaluation, SWOT, motivational, self image)?
  9. What are you financial goals and projections (capital, cashflows, budget)?
  10. What will your market look life in five years and what is your response likely to be (products/services)?
  11. What could go wrong (contingency planning)?
  12. Can you cope with the extra work (personal self evaluation, time management)?
  13. Summary - Of all the key points above.


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