This course is designed to teach business owners the value of planning in a business. As the big picture is defined in the business, with both short term goals and long term direction, then and only then can accountability exist. This course focuses on not only the key elements of a good plan, but how to use them to guide the day to day operations and decision making in any business. This workshop is designed to teach business owners how to create and use a business plan as a primary management tool. Many business owners will leave this workshop and stay up all night writing their business plan because they finally see how and why a business plan is critical.

We will be addressing:

• How to develop a simple, effective business plan
• Using a business plan as the cornerstone of accountability
• How to present your business plan to employees, customers, vendors and financial groups for powerful partnership results and a "Big Picture" culture
• Developing a corporate vision statement that lives
• Developing information for business planning, how to determine market potential, and information about competition
• Seeing the whole market including how to connect with other companies, affiliates and even competitors to improve your business opportunity
• The power of information
• How to manage from context instead of content