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Strategic Planning Guide-A strategic planning checklist
By admin | August 28, 2009
Making your Future Plans a Reality
Finding the time to work on your business rather than falling into the trap of always working in it, requires discipline and a structured methodology to make it happen.
Here is a checklist to help highlight the things to do and help set priorities for your business.
We have assisted many clients to achieve their long term goals by having a structured Strategic Plan in place.
Strategic Planning Checklist
Issues Tick if this is an issue Rate on a scale of 1 to 5
(where 1 is unimportant & 5 is very important)
We don’t have an annual budget
We have trouble making decisions
We don’t produce monthly figures on a regular basis
There are no clear lines of authority
We don’t have regular management meetings
We don’t get the whole business together often enough
We seem to lose a lot of customers
We receive a lot of complaints from customers
We need bigger customers
We need better customers
We have not offered new services/products to our customers recently
There is no clear future leader of the business
We do not have a funded retirement plan
We do not have a clear successor to the business
We can’t find good staff
Our staff are not motivated
Our staff do not want to take responsibility
We have high staff turnover
Our staff don’t have sufficient skills
We should get rid of some members of staff
Sometimes we feel like we are working for the staff
No one is responsible for marketing
We don’t have a Marketing Plan
We don’t understand what is different or unique about our business
Our customers don’t understand what is unique about our business
Our staff don’t understand what is unique about our business
We don’t have up-to-date marketing materials
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