This episode of ScaleUp Radio is one of our monthly theme presentations and it's around planning - in particular three year planning.

But before you switch off with images of 110 page business plans or worse in your mind, it's not about that at all. We all know that we should be doing our planning at least an annually but how many of us really hand on heart do it properly and think about it in the right way with the right people involved and then come out with some really good priorities for the year for example that we stick to?

So what we take you through here is a simple way of getting to the point where you've got that sorted, not a big written business document, but ideally on a one page plan. 

So a nice simple way of doing it, and we look at some of the reasons why it's so important, and most importantly, how to go about it in a practical, pragmatic way that gets you to where you need to get to, because as small business owners, we don't want to spend all of our time with our head buried in spreadsheets and word documents. 

And we also have a couple of guests presentations from business owners and their experiences of the planning and how they go about it and why they found it so valuable.  

One is from Matt Busby, who is the founder and General Manager of the name Label company. And the other is Ian Morgan, who is the founder and director of MBS Accountants.

They give some great insights as to how they go about planning within their businesses and the difference that it's made to them. 

So I think you're going to get a lot of value out of this session, and something that you can take away and really start to apply to your business. I certainly encourage you to do so and think about how you can really set your direction and then how you can keep on top of it and take yourself further with your business.

As always, there are tools mentioned throughout the presentation. If you’d like a copy of them please email [email protected]

 

Matt Busby can be found here:

linkedin.com/in/matt-busby-79594b5

 

https://www.namelabelco.com/

 

[email protected]

 

 

Ian Morgan can be found here:

 linkedin.com/in/ian-morgan-mbs

https://www.mbsaccountants.co.uk/

 

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