Success in 2012 Plan Workshop
Create a Lean and Practical Action Plan
Here’s an easy way to get your planning done for the coming year—in just one day.
I will guide you step-by-step to complete a practical action plan for the coming year. Use our “Success in 2012” plan workbook, our Action Plan and Key Challenges templates.
This Plan Workshop Is For owners of established, successful businesses—from a few people up to 100+ employees. Many owners bring their co-owners or key managers.
And it is also for . . .
• Independent units of larger corporations
• Start-ups that are already up and running
• Entrepreneurial non-profit organizations
In-person sessions: 8:30-4:30
Monday, Dec. 19, San Rafael
Thursday, Jan. 12, San Rafael
Monday, Jan. 30, San Rafael
Virtual sessions (tel-online interactive):
Four 90-minute sessions
Thursday, Jan. 26, Feb. 2, 9 and 23
8:00–9:30 PST (California time)
Who needs a workshop to get their plan done? Many of us do, including me. Here are the benefits:
#1. You get it done!
#2. You get energized and inspired by the other participating business owners.
#3. I walk you through it step-by-step and help you when you get stuck.
#4. You have the opportunity to present your plan to other participants and get their feedback.
TWO WAYS TO PARTICIPATE
IN PERSON. San Francisco area owners can come to our one-day workshop and work with a roomful of other owners. You work on your own plan, but you draw energy and ideas from each other. Rubbing shoulders with successful owners is a real boost to those who’ve had a tough time recently.
In-person sessions: 8:30-4:30
Monday, Dec. 19, San Rafael
Thursday, Jan. 12, San Rafael
Monday, Jan. 30, San Rafael
VIRTUAL. Business owners anywhere can do the same workshop virtually, using online materials and phone. Here’s how this works.
Virtual sessions (tel-online interactive):
Four 90-minute sessions
Thursday, Jan. 26, Feb. 2, 9 and 23
8:00–9:30 PST (California time)
WHAT YOU WILL GET
Much more than revenue goals and marketing strategies
• How to tackle the dilemmas, uncertainties, and choice points you face in your business
• One-on-one problem solving on your biggest opportunity or challenge
1. THE BASICS OF ANY BUSINESS PLAN
Your numbers: revenue targets, profits, your paycheck
Marketing and sales needed to achieve these goals
Operations, administration, finances, and your people, work place, and equipment
2. A FOCUS ON KEY BUSINESS ISSUES
Vision–Balance your vision and aspirations with business realities
Growth–Create a game plan for growth
Profitability, Ease of operation, Satisfaction–How to shape your business to maximize these
Strategic opportunities–How you will create them, and take advantage of them
Tough challenges–How to deal with big transitions, sticking points, dilemmas
Balance business with the rest of your life.
INCLUDED
• Prep questionnaire to help you prepare is sent when you sign up.
• Our workbook, Success in 2012, covers every facet of your business
• Action Plan and Key Challenge templates keep you on target all year.
• Repeats: you are welcome to attend more than one 2012 session at no extra charge.
• Follow up phone/email consultation with Mike Van Horn to make sure your plan is solid and complete.
SEQUENCE OF OUR PLAN PROCESS
• Review the past years’ performance to learn how to set more realistic goals for the coming year.
• Where are you headed? Vision and long-term objectives
• What do you want from your business? Financial and non-financial
• What is your “sweet spot” of business success?
• What are your biggest opportunities?
• What is your exit strategy?
• What gets in your way? Choice points, dilemmas, sticking points, uncertainties
• Balance between business and the rest of your life
• Parts of your business. Marketing and selling. Doing the work. Running your business. Your staff, managers, co-owners. Financial management.
• Set goals and action items. Action Plan template. 7 ways to make financial projections. How to craft good goals.
• Your Key Challenge plan. How to tackle the thing most likely to get in the way of your goals.
ALL THIS FOR ONLY $350
Ways to save money on registration
• 50% off for people who have previously taken this workshop ($175)
• 50% off for additional people from your company ($175 each)
• 25% off for you and them, if you recruit other business owners for the workshop ($262 each).
• FREE for Business Group members.
ALL SESSIONS ARE LED BY MIKE VAN HORN, President of The Business Group, and author of How to Grow Your Business without Driving Yourself Crazy. Mike has helped way over 1,000 business owners achieve their goals for growth and profitability, and has led this workshop for over 20 years.
VIRTUAL PLAN SESSION
“Success in 2012” Plan Workshop. Virtual session (Online/phone)
“Mike puts the ‘personal’ in ‘virtual.’ His virtual workshop has great interaction among the participants.” Ted Prodromou, netbizexpert.com
We are renowned for our plan workshops, where we get a roomful of business owners together to create their action plans for the coming year. You get energized and inspired and help each other tackle your toughest planning challenges.
I’ve built this same quality of interaction and problem solving into our virtual plan workshop.
Here’s how it works. We divide the workshop into four 90-minute conference calls a week apart. In between, you have time to work on your plan using our 100-page workbook that has questions on every aspect of your business. Then, during the conference calls, we focus on the parts of the workshop that benefit most from interaction among the participants. Using an online file-sharing tool, I walk you through each part, showing examples.
Virtual plan session dates: ••••• Thursday January 7, 14, 21, and February 4. 8:30 – 10:00 am PST (California time).
This is not a canned webinar where you just listen to me talk. It’s an interactive, roll-up-your-sleeves, get-it-done session.
You will leave with a practical plan of action for your business for the coming year. (Scroll down to see what our action plan covers.)
Who this is for. Owner of any going business, from 1 to 100 employees. We focus on the goals and challenges of running a business that are shared by every entrepreneurial business owner in the world.
Virtual Plan Workshop Sequence:
Before it starts. Work on the prep questions I send you as soon as you sign up.
Online/phone session #1. Review your performance. Where are you headed? Your vision, long-term objectives, biggest challenges
Between sessions. Problem solving 1 on 1
Session #2. Parts of your business. Marketing and selling. Doing the work. Running the business. Finances. Balance business and the rest of your life.
Between sessions. Work on “Parts of your business.”
Session #3. Set your goals. Financial, marketing, each part of your business
Between sessions. Complete your Action Plan using our template. Get help from me if needed.
Session #4. Present your plan to the other participants (optional), and get their feedback. You learn a lot by hearing other people present their plans.
Afterward. If some part of your Action Plan wasn’t completed, I will be glad to help you and give you feedback.
Safe to share your plan? Some people are initially reluctant to share their plan with “strangers.” But it never turns out to be a problem:
– You’re not required to share anything you feel uncomfortable about.
– Participants pledge confidentiality. There’s never been a breach of confidentiality so far as I know.
– The parts that are most beneficial to share are not the things you want to keep private. It’s the workings of your business: how to tackle challenges, take advantage of opportunities. In these areas, all small businesses are the same.
– Strong group cohesion emerges rapidly. These people are there to help you, and you them. We entrepreneurs realize we’re all in the same boat and we’ve got to support each other.
