Business Planning for Success

Business Planning for Success - Managers

This course is aimed at Leaders, Managers and Team Leaders who are looking to take ownership of their own performance and build a business plan to take their team or their company to the next level.

Course £420 Course + 1-1 coaching £840 Free Preview

Make sure that this year is more successful and planned than last year!

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail

Having a structured annual plan that's broken down into quarters, months, weeks and even potentially days means that the plan can adapt and update as the markets change around us.

We've seen in previous years. how things can change so quickly.

Knowing what's coming up in relation to your business, being able to assess the positives and negatives and make the changes required to progress can give anyone the confidence to 'keep calm and carry on'.

There are 2 purchase options on this course.
£420 for the course and online support.
£840 for the course, and additional 1-1 coaching via Zoom/TEAMS.

Why the training works

Simplicity

The most common mistake is over-complicating things. Business Plans can strike fear into the boldest individuals, but understanding the process, documentation, and detail behind the analysis, can make putting the plan together easy.
Answering the question!

Having someone else to work with to answer your questions and queries, give you advice on your own business or desk challenges, can make the world of difference to your motivation to getting it done!
Understanding your business

Knowing the information required to be able to understand what's driving your business, where the successes are and what you need to do to focus on key development areas... is just the starting point.
Coaching Support

You have the community and online access to coaches to get your questions and queries answered, but if you want to take it to the next level, you can purchase the upgraded course with personal weekly 1-1 sessions with a recruitment coach.

Course curriculum

1. A message from your instructor
2. Course Overview
  FREE PREVIEW
3. How to use this course
4. Before we begin...
1. Vision, Purpose & Goals
  FREE PREVIEW
2. Having a Vision for Your Business
3. What are the different types of goals?
4. Setting SMART goals
5. Understand Your Motivators
1. Understanding Your Business Assessment and Analysis Document
2. Assessment Form (Overview)
1. Introduction: Analysing Your Market
2. PESTLE - Market Analysis
3. What it takes to be an expert in your market
4. Operational review SWOT analysis
5. Creating your PESTLE analysis
6. Understanding market drivers
7. Additional resource: How to make a simple, but brilliant PESTLE Analysis by Rod McMillan (from the Monster Zone)
1. Introduction: Analysing Your Stats
2. What Can You Learn From Professional Athletes
3. Using Meaningful Metrics
4. Understanding Your Own Ratios
5. The Ideal Industry Standards
6. Operational Review - Internal SWOT analysis
7. Turning Your Stats Into Ratios
8. Determining the Value of New, Existing Clients
1. Introduction: Business Operations SWOT Analysis
2. Assessing Your Own Operational Effectiveness
3. Activities and Results
4. Business considerations
5. Your SWOT analysis
1. Introduction: Business Planning & Goal Setting
2. Business Objectives - the 'Orbit'
1. The People Plan - overview
1. Introduction: Building Your Client Development Strategy
2. The Business Development Strategy
3. Getting a Business Development mindset
4. Have a Marketing Mindset
5. Winning new clients that will benefit your business
6. Retaining Existing Clients
7. Reconnecting with lapsed clients
8. Key Account Management
1. Introduction: Building your Candidate Development Strategy
2. The Candidate Development Strategy
3. Talent pooling for the future
4. Candidate care plans for registered candidates
5. Utilising social media within your strategy
1. Introduction: Finalising your Annual Business Plan
2. The annual plan – bringing all together
3. Breaking it down into ‘bite-sized’ chunks
4. What should be included in a QBP? (with example)
5. Building in contingency plans
6. Creating objectives and goals from the analysis (examples)
7. Presenting the plan to your Director/Line Manager (if relevant)
1. Before you go...
2. Congratulations!
3. More resources
1. Session 2 - Analysis, stats, ratios, data all leads to planning!
2. Session 3 - Completing your business plans
3. Session 4 - Round up and discussion of the 'People Plan'

About this course

£420.00
60 lessons

Business Coach

Lead Coach Angela Cripps

Angela, a recruitment advocate with 35+ years of experience that’s still passionate about our wonderful industry.
Angela has been training for 35 years and coaching Executives for 20 of those. She worked for Blue Arrow (the largest independent recruitment company in the UK at the time) and was lucky enough to join their award-winning training team in 1997. Since 2003, she's had her own company – Connemara UK, and in 2020 took over the running of the Recruiting Gym. In 2021, she bought it.

Angela's aim is to make companies more successful and profitable through the development of their people and processes. Her passion is to travel, so she's worked with over 200 SMEs, throughout the world in 26 different countries so far.