214: How to Easily Create a Strategic Plan for Your Design Firm with Michele Williams

This week we're rerunning episode 131 of the Profit Is A Choice podcast, “How to easily create a strategic plan for your design firm.” This is an awesome topic that we processed through a couple of years ago. And I will say to you, it is still relevant and it's something that we work on and focus on in Scarlet Thread Consulting all the time. I want to encourage you as you wrap up this year, and get ready for next, that you take the time to consider your strategic plan, what it might look like, and how you can improve upon it from moving forward.

Topics Mentioned: 

• Vision

• SWOTT

• Milestones

• Goals 

Key Thoughts:

• A strategic plan, simply put, is a document that tells where a company or organization is going. Consider it your road map for traveling into the future with your business. Michele (4:54)  

• Part of the beauty of creating a plan is having an idea of where you are going so you can plan in advance. Michele (10:24)   

• Every company has a limited supply of resources. These resources can be time, money, and people. Knowing how to spend each of these gives us an advantage. Michele (15:40) 

 

Contact Michele:

• Email: [email protected]

• Facebook: Scarlet Thread Consulting

• Instagram: @ScarletThreadATL

 

References and Resources:

• The Designers' Inner Circle - Become a Member Today

• Traction by Gino Wickman

• 12-Week Year by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington

• 6 Pre-Planning Tips for Your Design Year - EP 116 with Michele Williams

• 4 Year-End Steps to Prepare Your Interior Design Business - EP 118 with Michele Williams

• Year End Planning for HR, Marketing and Finances for your Design Firm - EP 121 with Michele Williams

• 5 Reasons Successful Interior Designers Use a Strategic Plan - EP 129 with Michele Williams