Business Planning For Beginners

Course Overview

Businesses today are lost and won on their planning skills. The importance of planning cannot be overemphasised. By taking an objective look at your organisation, you can identify areas of weakness and strength, pinpoint needs you might otherwise overlook, spot problems before they arise, and begin planning how to achieve your business goals. 

The program examines the key strategic business areas that a successful plan must consider, including core values, purpose, and mission statements. In addition, participants will gain insights into competitive strategies, value chains and life cycles.

Whether you have a small business, a government department or a large multinational organisation, planning skills are vital to success. 

This one day workshop will show you the essentials of planning using modern planning outlines and techniques to meet the goals of your organisation.

Why should you go to the trouble of creating a written business plan?

1. The process of putting a business plan together, including the thought put in before beginning to write it, forces you to take an objective, critical, unemotional look at your business project in its entirety.

2. The finished product – your business plan – is an operating tool which, when properly used, will help you manage your business and work towards its success.

3. The completed business plan is the means of communicating your ideas to others and provides the basis for a financial proposal.

Course Objectives

Throughout the course you will learn tools and techniques which will provide participants with a clear framework to prepare a successful business plan.

At the conclusion of this course participants will:

• Set goals and objectives for their organisation
• Know how to plan to achieve them
• Understand the process of putting a business plan together
• Have developed strategies to implement the plan