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Business Planning

Courses suitable for either morning or afternoon delivery

Course fee: £350 - for up to 20 delegates
(Only £17.50 per person)

Half-day course profile

9:30 Introduction to Business planning:
Business planning is a management tool used in a systematic way for approaching future problems and overcoming them. It will always be a compromise between what the business wants and what it can actually achieve over a defined period.

9:45 The 5 characteristics of effective planners:
Creative thinking, use of a plan process, knowledge of the organisation, knowledge of the commercial environment, Coordination of resources.

10:00 The 7 major pitfalls of failed business plans:

  • Considering only one way to do things - plans need flexibility
  • Waiting too long - All the lights will never be green!
  • Not planning for setbacks - the ‘Good news only’ scenario
  • Unrealistic income forecasts - Usually overestimated
  • Inaccurate costs forecasts - usually underestimated
  • Lack of commitment - commitment is the glue that holds plans together
  • Failure to execute effectively - The major cause of planning failure

10:45 Tea and coffee break

11:00 The 8 step planning process:

  • Vision - What are we trying to achieve?
  • Environmental trends - Are things changing or likely to?
  • SWOT analysis - Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats
  • Key issues - What does the plan principally seek to overcome
  • Critical success factors - Agreed targets, budgets, efficiency, outputs
  • Objectives - Specific, measurable, realistic, achievable and time-bound
  • Action plans - Set targets, list actions, assign responsibilities, monitor progress

11:30 Business Planning exercise:
Group exercise involving the use of real-life scenarios to produce an executive summary of a business plan for presentation and group review.

12:30 Question & answer session, Summary and close

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