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A FREE SCORE Select Workshop
Co-Sponsored by the Westport Library
Setting Goals and Staying On Track
"A pragmatic approach to running your business with greater focus, alignment, and odds of success."
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm | check-in starts at 5:30 pm
Westport Library
20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT 06880
It's easy for small business owners to feel overwhelmed by day-to-day events and frustrated by their inability to achieve consistent growth. But day-to day events can be shaped by the business owner to a far greater extent than they think. The solution lies in a 3-stop process:
- Defining clear business goals - your sales and earnings targets
- Creating clear action plan priorities - the pathway to goal achievement
- Setting clear measurement milestones - the feedback required to stay on track
This workshop will give you pragmatic, straightforward tools for setting meaningful goals and increasing the odds of consistently achieving them.
You will learn:
- What is a goal and why goal setting is such a success driver.
- How to set business goals utilizing market analysis, business trends, and the "SMART" approach.
- How to cascade those goals through critical action plan priorities with clear outcomes, timing, accountabilities, and cost.
- How to "measure what matters" and set up monthly guideposts - Key Performance Indicators (KPI's). Specific suggestions will be made across the key business functions: Sales, Cost & Cash, Organization, Service and Marketing.
- How to break down your critical functions into a repeatable project management process so that timing and accountabilities are clear.
- The key components of a Monthly Business Review.
Our Speaker: David Albright, is an active SCORE counselor with extensive experience in the consumer products industry including being President of Pepperidge Farm, Inc., Godiva Chocolatier Worldwide and Glacial Confections, a start-up venture. He currently consults with venture capital firms on the food and confectionery industries. David has a BS degree and an MBA, a certificate in Financial Planning (CFP), and a Master's in Burgundy from the French Wine Society (FWS).