Planning
Research to see yourselves as others see you:
- Conduct focus groups
- Facilitate workshops
- One-on-one interviews
- Research historical documents
Business plans you can drive:
- Pin point your current position
- Decide a destination, whether it’s two miles down the road, or half a world away
- Plot the GPS course to take you there
Marketing plans that find the opportunity in another’s problem
- Establish your competitive advantage and how to capitalise on it
- Identify buyers and how to reach them
- Take Action plans that push play
Communication plans so you can talk the walk
- Isolate the different groups you need to impress
- Find out what they need to know about you]
- Establish the best way to tell them whether a media conference, brochure, store display, facebook or twitter
Crisis management plans for when good business goes bad
Know who you need to talk to in advance
Have a plan of action to get the best message across
“O wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
It wad frae mony a blunder free us,
An’ foolish notion:
What airs in dress an’ gait wad lea’e us
An’ ev’n devotion!”
– Robbie Burns (To a Louse)
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“It takes less time to do a thing right than to
explain why you did it wrong.”– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow