Business Planning for a Successful Year - Webinar (Recorded)

Overview:

New year-new programs, new projects, and new initiatives. Whether you are a project manager or lead a business line, location, or department, your success hinges on not only leading projects and seeing them through to success, but on first deriving the right business plans.

Learn how to structure a winning business plan that substantiates your project goals within your company’s priorities, as well as the strategies to put it into action. In this live, interactive, 60-minute online training, Michelle will share her tools and methodology for creating effective business plans and define the financial and business goals and activities needed for project success.

Why you should Attend:

As the adage goes, 'Fail to plan, plan to fail'-in order to be successful, it is important to focus on the right things, map out how to achieve them, and then follow through on execution. Determining priorities and gaining buy-in and sponsorship of those priorities can make all the difference. Knowing how to start, what to consider, and where to go frames successful progress and results.

Think about the following questions:

• Where do I start?
• Is there a process to follow?
• Who do I involve?
• How detailed do I get?
• Who do I communicate it to?
• How do I make it all happen?
• How do I determine if we are successful?

Both new and existing organizations need good business plans in order to succeed. Learn a practical approach to developing a sound business plan and instituting a planning process for your organization and/or its lines of business.

Discover how to evaluate opportunities; compile market, competitive, financial, and risk analyses; and make critical strategic decisions to address the issues and opportunities confronting your organization-using a proven model that has helped organizations large and small across various industries.

Areas Covered in the Session:

Tools to Structure a Winning Business Plan: Do's and Don'ts

• Strategies to identify, design, build and manage new initiatives, projects, or programs
• How to balance resource needs with those available and accessible
• Keys to develop processes that allow for an easy-to-manage project flow

Numbers that Speak: Forecasting Tools for Business Proposals

• Forecasting models & analytical tools for developing practical expectations
• Creating and setting meaningful and measurable targets for progress
• Determining critical activities, milestones, and back-up plans

Project Execution: Keys to See Your Business Plan through To the End

• Project management meets business planning: what the project needs to succeed
• Creating mechanisms and communication strategies to monitor progress
• Anticipating and overcoming common obstacles in plan execution