A Strategic Plan Should Prepare Your Business for Change

How do you plan for contingencies you can’t predict? Think in terms of planning for change instead of specific situations. 

Of course, just having a plan isn’t enough — you need to know when to initiate it. Planning and preparing are only the first steps. You must be constantly assessing threats and be prepared to put your plan into play, if needed. With a plan already in place, you’ll be in a much better position to face whatever challenges arise.  

Make planning for the unthinkable a critical part of your strategic planning. Call David for guidance! 

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Does Your Strategic Plan Prepare You for the Worst?

Your strategic plan maps your path to success, guiding you and your employees toward growth. It outlines your commitment to success and acts as a GPS to lead you to it. 

But what if you meet an unexpected challenge or emergency and need to take a detour? Plan for that, too!

Preparing for the worst while expecting the best:

• Demonstrates respect for your employees and/or investors
• Minimizes loss 
• Prevents panic and decision making based on emotions 

Knowing what to do during an emergency, and who will do it, can help minimize the impact on your business and employees. The hope is that you’ll never have to use it, but wouldn’t you rather be prepared than not? 

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Plan for the Unthinkable!

Few business owners would have predicted a pandemic in 2020. But savvy business owners may have planned for contingencies such as supply line interruptions or workforce shortages. Pandemics, natural disasters, rent or location events, or the unexpected loss of life – these are things we don’t want to think about. But if you don’t think about them, and the unthinkable happens, how will your business hold up? 

Make planning for the unthinkable a critical part of your strategic planning. Call David for guidance! 

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Plan for the Long Term

Having an exit strategy in place when you start your business ensures you’ve taken the right steps toward success, left less to chance, and are prepared to make informed, rational decisions when or if the time comes that you need the exit strategy. You won’t be rushed – won’t be as likely to make decisions based on emotions, under stress. Instead, you will execute a thoughtfully formed plan. 

When you plan for your success, don’t forget to plan for the long term! And don’t forget to call David for guidance. With over 40 years of business experience, he can help you lead your business to its greatest potential.

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A Business Coach Can Help You Through the Tough Times

Business problems are rarely simple. Often, the visible problem is a symptom of a bigger issue. By the time it comes to your attention, what may have been a simple fix has grown into a complicated problem.

When multiple departments, processes, or outside contributors are involved, an issue can resemble a complicated web of cause and effect with many entwined strands. To get to the root of the problem requires careful attention to avoid causing further damage. 

A business coach is an expert detangler, bringing experience, skills, and a unique perspective to help you get to the root of the issue. 

What’s holding you back from calling David? 

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What's Keeping You from Working with a Coach?

Do you feel like you’re wearing too many hats in your business?

Are you stretching to make payroll every month?

Are you concerned about high employee turnover?

Those are common concerns in business that sometimes represent serious challenges. But, while they may be common problems, the solutions aren’t always clear. The problem isn’t always as clear as it might seem, either. 

Business problems are rarely simple. Often, the visible problem is a symptom of a bigger issue. By the time it comes to your attention, what may have been a simple fix has grown into a complicated problem.

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How Will You Lead Your Business Past the Pandemic?

If you’re wondering how you’re going to lead your business past the pandemic, you’re not alone. Small businesses everywhere are struggling to recover. For many it’s not as easy as hanging out the “Open” sign again. 

The pandemic changed the way Americans do business – digital technology has become the norm in everything from restaurant ordering, to product sales, to healthcare delivery. 

Recovery might mean optimizing your office space, adding digital commerce, or delivering your services in new ways. In any case, your business will need to adapt to accommodate new business models. Are you prepared?

AdviCoaches help business owners prioritize their business needs, identify areas of improvement to support those needs, and lead their business to its greatest potential.

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Take Charge of Your Pandemic Recovery!

Fortune recently reported nearly 100,000 small businesses closed their doors by September, due to the pandemic. Now, as business begins to recover, those remaining have an opportunity to fill the gaps if they can successfully navigate the post-pandemic landscape. But the path forward isn’t necessarily clear or easy.

A business coach might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you’re worried about your bottom line, but wouldn’t it help to sit down and talk things over with an experienced business professional who can give you a fresh perspective? 

AdviCoaches help business owners prioritize their business needs, identify areas of improvement to support those needs, and lead their business to its greatest potential.

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Kick Off the New Year with Confidence

Are you wondering how to move forward from all the unexpected changes you had to make for your business to survive the pandemic?

Lessons learned from the pandemic make it clear that business can’t go on as usual. Everything has changed, from the supply chain, to your workforce, to how your customers shop and what kind of service they expect. The adaptations we’ve been forced to make since March are not going away. Customers are concerned about health risks, have grown more comfortable doing business online, and have come to expect the instant gratification of online shopping, customer service chat-bots, virtual meetings, and the convenience of delivery and curbside pickup.

How do you move forward? With help from David. 

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Welcome to the "Next" Normal

Did the pandemic throw an unexpected monkey wrench in your plans for business growth last year?

Welcome to the “next” normal. The last thing any of us expected to interfere with our business last year was a pandemic. Yet, by mid-March, businesses were closed indefinitely, the supply chain was crippled, and our customers were afraid to venture out. Nobody saw it coming. And it’s unlikely any business in America had a contingency plan for pandemic conditions. Did yours?

It can be hard to plan for every situation, even under normal conditions. Even when making planned changes. It’s hard because the roadblocks to our growth aren’t always in plain sight. Or even on our radar – like a pandemic.

David helps you find and tear down the roadblocks. 

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Breaking Through Barriers to Change

Business goals that require change across the organization often relate to time, team, or money. Within those broad categories we often chart a pathway forward only to find barriers, some deeply rooted in company culture. In fact, you may not recognize barriers if they’ve been in place for a long time or if they didn’t seem to interfere with successful results.

Being involved in the process grants management a different perspective than staff will have. Likewise, staff might have knowledge of day-to-day processes that management doesn’t see from their perspective. 

David Waymann can help identify and address barriers in your small business – physical, environmental, cultural, mindset, or communication-based – to clear the way for your success. 

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What's Holding You Back?

Studies show that change across the organization is hard – in fact an estimated two out of three change initiatives fail. But we know that to pursue goals and be successful requires change, maybe continuous change. So, why do so many change initiatives in pursuit of goals fail? Because many small businesses don’t recognize the barriers within their organization that can trip up their goals. 

David Waymann can help identify and address barriers – physical, environmental, cultural, mindset, or communication-based – to clear the way for your success. 

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Can You See the Forest for the Trees?

So, you’ve analyzed the past year and are ready to dive into your strategic plan. Stop for a moment and ask yourself one last question: am I seeing the complete picture? 

Chances are you’re not.

No matter how involved you are with all the various aspects of your business – no matter how well you know your people, processes, and products or services – you can only view them from your own perspective. And when you’re as deeply involved as you are, your perspective is influenced by history and what you can see. What about things you can’t see (blind spots). You take for granted that the way things are is how they should be. If it’s not broke, don’t fix it, right? But a process that appears to be working might not be working as well as it could or should. Or, it might depend on outdated resources that could be improved. Looking at your business from a different perspective gives you a fresh insight into the familiar and opens up possibilities.

David Waymann, AdviCoach, can show you how to look at your business from a different perspective. With David’s guidance, you won’t just think outside the box. You’ll step outside the box and look deeply into it. 

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Look Back to Move Forward

Year end is a time to look forward to plan for the future of your business. It’s also a time to look backward to assess the past year’s performance with a critical eye. Past successes and failures can both provide valuable information to drive future growth. 

Maya Angelou described her respect for the past, saying “If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going.” 

Indeed! Our focus in business is often to look to the future – on moving onward and upward. But leaving the past behind, unexamined, leaves a critical gap in your understanding of how to get there. Analyzing the past gives you the wisdom to choose the best future path.

A SWOTT (Strengths, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats, and Trends) analysis is a great way to look back on your year to identify what helped and what hindered your goals.

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Virtual Coaching: Adapting to the New Normal

The COVID pandemic has changed the rules of engagement in everyday life, in every arena, from how we educate our children to how we manage our businesses. 

Successful businesses recognize that they can’t always change their external circumstances, like COVID, but must accept the change and adapt in order to thrive. 

Coaching is no different! 

In the aftermath of stay-at-home orders, and as we move into the next phase of life and business with COVID, it’s more important than ever for coaches to be available to support your changing business needs. To do that, we’ve adopted virtual coaching.

Since COVID, sitting down together with a handshake and a cup of coffee is no longer a safe model, but we can still provide the heart of what we do as coaches via virtual meetings.

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