If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!

Map out Your Road to Success...

The more you plan and work your plan, the more successful you’ll be.Great organisations build a culture of planning and continuously improving their organisation.  This allows them to respond quickly to changing external and internal environments and build internal practices that produce better bottom lines, products, services and systems.

It is strange to think that people spend more time planning their next holiday than the future of the organisation they work in. Is it little wonder we see so many struggling and failing organisations do not become one of the statistics

Click on the links below to go to the appropriate sections:

Succession Planning to Businesses

Strategic Planning

Operational Planning

Feasibility Study

On-going Planning

Business Planning For organisations who do not have a plan or are starting out
Succession Planning For organisations who have to face a change of leadership or ownership
Strategic Planning For those who have a business plan but need to re-strategise to keeping moving forward looking at opportunities and strategies
Operational Planning For organisations who have strategic plans and simply need step by step of how to...
Feasibility Study For organisation who are looking at a new direction or business opportunity and want to know if it feasible
On-Going Planning For organisations needing a second wind and a re-assessment

Succession Planning to Businesses

30% of Business Owners Set to Retire in the Next Five Years….

With 80% of family business owners, now aged over 50 and 20% of them over the age of 65, a lot of family businesses will be wishing to sell.  BUT, the reality is only 1 in 4 will be sold.

So, only the best will sell for maximum value.

Is your business ready and are you prepared?  Succession or Exit Planning takes time...

Consider:

  • If you weren’t in the business, would it still be successful and profitable?
  • Are you looking to sell, session to next generation, run under management or ...
  • What would happen if you couldn’t sell your business?
  • If you have partners – do you have separation agreements, wills etc to accommodate all situations?
  • What would happen if you lost a key member of your staff?
  • Would your business survive if you were involved in a serious accident?
  • Would it effect your retirement if your business suffered a serious drop in value?
  • Could you survive a major disaster like your business premises burning down?

Global Training Institute can help you with the

successful exit of your business.

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Strategic Planning

Developing a Clear Direction and Strategic Plan for your Organisation

Outcomes:

  • Have everyone on your side by sharing your clear and concise vision for the Organisation
  • Identify business, employment and profit-making opportunities
  • Stop being side tracked by setting your rules for determining which opportunities you proceed with
  • Ensure things get done by prioritising and determining timelines for opportunities identified
  • Create an action list, with people responsible, to move forward – for higher priority opportunities

Don’t take only our word for it, here’s why Clubs Queensland strongly recommends all Associations have a current Strategic Plan...

“If an Association is to grow and prosper, it must have defined ideas about what it wants to be and where it wants to go… . Strategic planning can help an Association decide where it wants to be, when it wants to be there and what path it should take to get there. This process is not simply about developing a plan, but about getting results and organising an Association's business so it can best satisfy its members”.

Developing a Clear Direction and Strategic Plan for your Organisation. It can be done over 1 or 2 days as you require.

Step 1:

  • Have everyone on your side by sharing your clear and concise vision for the Organisation
  • Identify business, employment and profit-making opportunities
  • Stop being side tracked by setting your rules for determining which opportunities you proceed with
  • Ensure things get done by prioritising and determining timelines for opportunities identified
  • Create an action list, with people responsible, to move forward – for higher priority opportunities
  • Don’t rely on the Government by maximising current funding to the organisations, including mining royalties, grants, current businesses, investments…

Step 2:

  • GTI and key person work together to develop a step-by-step plan of action.
  • GTI to complete the written plan, with dates, tasks and people responsible.

Step 3:

  • Get everyone on side through presenting the draft plan to members
  • Identify modifications required to the draft plan to gain full ownership by members
  • Adoption of the draft plan by members
  • Tasks and responsibilities delegated - so that everyone adopts and takes responsibility for the plan

Step 4:

  • Strategic Plan modified – a full working action plan to achieve the vision
  • GTI produces final copy
  • Final copy distributed

‘We were absolutely delighted. Our time together has given us a vision to move forward, renewed enthusiasm, and produced a step by step plan to achieve goals beyond our expectations. We worked out strategies to provide excellent value to members whilst being very viable. We highly recommend Shane and his team to any organisation looking to thrive and not just survive.’ Lisa Nicolle, Hardware Association of Qld.

‘Excellent strategic planning weekend. Having it facilitated meant we listened to other people’s views with an open mind. We gained a better understanding of our club and its potentials. Great new ideas. We were very happy with the whole process.’ Mal McDougoll, Brothers Sports Club, Bundaberg

Call Global Training Institute today on 1800 998 500!

If you need someone to facilitate your strategic planning process, or would like help to develop a Strategic Plan for your Organisation, Give Anne a call on 1800 998 500

Operational Planning

What is it?

The organisation’s operational plan clearly states the step by step actions needed to implement goals and strategies identified in the strategic plan.

An operational plan details the actions required to implement each strategy, assigning responsibilities, setting timeframes, identifying resources required and indicating what difference the specific actions will make.

Often a facilitated operational plan helps put realistic time lines on activities, ensuring that the plan is not doomed to fail from the start.

Global Training Institute can facilitate your Operational Planning process to maximise its chance of success.

Goal:  Healthier people in our community

Strategy

 Action/Activity Who When Resources
Community awareness activities relating to health promotion Open Day held on a quarterly basis to promote health issues Indigenous Health Project Officer

 

June 2009

 $ advertising Promotional materials
Children are informed of health issues Information sessions on health promotion at the local school on a monthly basis Indigenous Health Worker July 2009 Resources

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Feasibility Study

For your top business opportunity - purchasing or starting

Undertake a study to see if the opportunity may work. A Global Training Institute consultant explores the opportunity, develops a written plan including financials and reports back to your organisation.

The study may consider the following:

  • Gained employment for your people
  • Profits able to be made to buy assets including land
  • Skill transfer, Utilising of current local skills
  • Ensure the opportunity is not short-lived by considering Future Trends
  • Understand what the absolute minimum input is required to make profit or break-even
  • Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats and Opportunities of the opportunity identified – no hidden pot holes

With 80% of businesses failing in the first 5 years and another 80% in the next five years, do not waste good time and money on an opportunity without first determining how well it will go or how many people will frequent the business!

On-going Planning

Through ‘Better Business Program’ you will have the practical knowledge, information and tools to:

  • Design and implement a winning game plan for each next 90 days;
  • Work your way into super profits;
  • Create a business that works without you.
  • Improve the management and viability of your business
  • Identify growth opportunities
  • Gain new business information
  • Identify areas for improvement
  • Implement plans and strategies developed in other modules

“We are now measuring, planning, organising and documenting what we do. It has really opened my mind right up!” M. Gladwin, Fortune 8

YOU will have “peace of mind”, knowing that you are dealing with an experienced organisation, trainers and facilitatorswho are committed to your success.

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