A recent survey asked Garage Owners, ‘If they had a business plan?’

Only 2 out of 10 businesses had a business plan, which is startling.

Some of the respondents who did have a business plan said they only had a business plan to attain some sort of finance, the bank required it, or when they went to get a grant they were required to put a business plan together.

In most cases, they did not have a business plan because they wanted one. 

But because they were forced to write one.

However, what I would ask is how does any business without a plan measure success?

Are they merely looking at if they made it to the end of the year?

We've made it through another year. Is that your definition of success?

Well, if it is, how are you ever going to improve?

How will you achieve your final Vision?

Lots of people, when I talk about business planning, say, ‘nothing ever goes to plan so what is the point?’

I agree, Nothing Ever Does.

However, if you do not have a framework for improvement then you'll just carry on doing what you always did.

‘If You Always Do What You've Always Done, You'll Always Get What You've Always Got.’ ~ Henry Ford.

If you want to make improvements, however small, you must set goals and measure progress.

This training topic outlines the Atomic Success method of setting out your 10-year Vision, 3-3-year Goals, and 1-year Plan.