WORKSHOPS and SEMINARS

Create a Lean and Practical Action Plan for 2008!

“If I don’t set aside a day to think through my plan for the year, I’ll never get it done.”

All business owners know the importance of planning for business growth and profitability, but many don’t have an up-to-date plan. We will help you complete a practical action plan for the coming year in our step-by-step workshop. You have two options:
1. Face-to-face plan sessions go from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
2. Tel-online plan sessions have four 90-minute phone/webinar sessions a week apart, with homework in between. 

We guide you step-by-step through a comprehensive workbook, and then help you reduce it to one sheet of paper. If you can’t write your business plan on a page, you can’t get it done in a year anyway!

Here’s what you’ll get:

1. THE BASICS OF ANY BUSINESS PLAN
• Your numbers- revenue, profits, your paycheck
• Marketing and sales needed to achieve these goals
• Operations, administration, and finances. Your people, work place, and equipment. 

2. A COMPLETE, WORKABLE PLAN MUST INCLUDE THESE:
• Vision—Balance your vision and aspirations with business realities
• Growth—Create a game plan for growth
• Profitability, Ease of operation, Satisfaction—How to shape your business to maximize these
• Strategic opportunities—How you will create them, and take advantage of them
• Tough challenges—How to deal with big transitions, sticking points, dilemmas
• Balance business with the rest of your life.

INCLUDED
Preparation:
√ Questionnaire to help you prepare is sent when you sign up.
√ 70-page Success in 2008 workbook. Covers every facet of your business.
√ Action Plan and Key Challenge templates, to keep you on target all year
√ Lunch and refreshments (for those coming to our day-long workshops)

Books:
√ A copy of How to Grow Your Business without Driving Yourself Crazy by Mike Van Horn
√ Your choice of any workbook or e-book in our library

Repeat:
√ Follow up phone/email consultation with Mike Van Horn to make sure your plan is solid and complete
√ You are welcome to attend more than one session at no extra charge.

In addition, you may come to one of our regular monthly meetings of The Business Group, free of charge. (Either a face-to-face or tel-online group) You’ll hear other members presenting their plan to the group.

WHO THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR
This is our 24th year. Over 80% of our participants are owners of established, successful businesses, from a few up to 100 or more employees. Many of these bring their co-owners or key managers. The rest are people running:
-- Start-ups
-- Entrepreneurial non-profit organizations
-- Independent units of larger corporations
The plan process we’ve honed is broad enough to accommodate these diverse people, but specific enough to guide you to a concrete plan. The diversity of participants is a key strength.

ALL THIS FOR ONLY $350
Free to Business Group members

Ways to save money
50% off for people who have previously taken this workshop ($175)
50% off for additional people from your company ($175 each)
25% off for you and them, if you recruit other business owners for the workshop. ($262 each)

LED BY MIKE VAN HORN, president of The Business Group, and author of How to Grow Your Business without Driving Yourself Crazy.

WHICH SESSION IS BEST FOR YOU?
In-person sessions. 8:30 – 4:30. Select the best date
- Tuesday, Nov 13 Tiburon CA (Limited enrollment: call us at 415-491-1896) 
- Monday, Dec 17 San Rafael CA
- Thursday, Dec 20 Oakland CA
- Friday, Jan 11 San Rafael CA

Tel-online sessions
Four 90-min. phone/webinar sessions
8:30 – 10:00 am PST (California time) 
Tue Jan 15, 22, 29, and Feb 5
Other Sessions TBA

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