Service Overview
Welcome to Strategic and Business Services. Explore training and services tailored to your specific needs for strategic and business planning, marketing, and partnerships for your community organisation.
We work with you to develop strategic and business plans that will direct you and your organisation for the next 3 to 5 years. Add a market strategy and marketing plan, and you will have the ingredients you need to propel your business activities and your organisation to success.
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“A leader who moves by guess-work, without practical, definite plans, is comparable to a ship without a rudder. Sooner or later he will land on the rocks.”
Strategic Planning
Our Strategic and Business Planning services are for organisations that are serious about growth, or looking for a new lease of life, and to rise to new levels of success. Choose the service right for your needs, including:
- A self-paced DIY Strategic Planning toolkit program for grassroots groups and beginners. Get a professional plan without spending thousands.
- Fully facilitated strategic planning and business plans for your community organsiation or NFP.
- Strategic planning training.
- Systems reviews.
Contact us to discuss your next strategic plan. Find out how we can tailor our services to meet your budget. From carrying out a thorough situation analysis through to assisting you with developing and implementing business, marketing and resource plans. let’s start with a conversation.
Take the personality out of the process. Problems can so easily be traced to break downs in processes, policies and procedures. An internal review can so easily identify the heart of the problem, which may not be what you think it is. Over the years we have worked with clients to review internal processes to address embarrassing situations and facilitate change. If this sounds like something you need to do right now,
We offer a professional development program for organisations and collectives looking for skills to develop their own strategic plan. The program includes facilitated workshops and group mentoring, as well as a stratgegic plan template to complete as you work through the training.
The DIY Strategic Planning toolkit
The DIY Strategic Planning toolkit is a self-paced program that guides you through the process to complete your own strategic plan. It consists of four units that guide you through the steps to put together an impressive plan from within your organisation or club and so eliminates the need to spend thousands on getting it done by a professional. The Toolkit also include a bonus Strategic Planning Timeline and Strategic Plan Checklist.
Strategic planning services or something for your organisation?
Lets have a conversation.
Strategic Planning Article
How a good strategic plan can improve your credibility and increase your revenue
Marketing
Getting good at marketing is not that difficult once you understand who you are really wanting to influence, what they want and then working out the best strategy to give them the service and experience they want.
Over the last ten years, we have worked with dozens of community organisations to connect with their prospects with some amazing results. From marketing audits and research to workshops and training, our programs change the way people think about marketing. Because we understand how not-for-profits work, we are able to translate marketing strategies used in business into the community space so that our clients get the best results possible.
Check out these resources and contact us to find out more about how we can assist you.
Marketing Articles
The Intuitive Marketer
This book explores twenty marketing principles that are as relevant today as they were thirty years ago. Pat has experienced a unique journey, including success in a pan-European niche market, then making the number one mistake that cost her three years of business growth, and first-hand experience of technology’s impact on marketing.
What people are saying
Lunch n Learn – got a group interested in getting more clients, gaining more credibility, and increasing visibility? Contact us to find out more about Lunch n Learn Programs
Partnerships
Getting into bed with the right partner or partners can turn out to be a tricky experience. From informal networking through to full on mergers, getting to grips with different cultures, understanding agendas and meeting expectations are just some of the issues that can come up very quickly if partnerships are not planned properly at the start.
The Community Partnerships Toolbox has been developed over the last 15 years based on real life experiences and lessons learned. Today we work with community partners to plan how they will work together, working through risks and expectations and working with partners through resulting change. The Community Partnerships Toolbox is the sister of our other product The Essential Partnerships Toolbox for Business.
The Community Partnerships Toolbox package has three levels which include features such as:
- Determining the purpose of a partnership collaboration so that you can be clear as to why you’re doing this in the first place
- A process for working out what your individual expectations are and who’s responsible for what and when so you are clear from the start
- Developing a strategic plan for the partnership to ensure it achieves its goals and remains sustainable
- How to manage the process of change especially when physical and human resources are involved.
If you would like to find out more, Contact us now:
Download a copy of our Five Foundations of Successful Partnerships ebook.
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Five pearls of wisdom you should try before jumping into a business partnership venture
