When:  Monday, February 9, 2015; 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm; check-in starts at 5:30 pm

 

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Where: Ferguson Library, 96 Broad Street, Stamford, CT  06901



 
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As a nonprofit resource partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration, SCORE mentors, conducts workshops and provides free counseling to new and existing small businesses.

For more information about other SCORE workshops and/or to get FREE One-On-One Business Counseling please visit our website at:  www.scorenorwalk.org

 

If you have any questions please contact SCORE Fairfield County at 203-831-0065 or by email at: score.fairfieldcounty@gmail.com

 

 

    

A FREE SCORE Select Workshop

Co-Sponsored by the Ferguson Library

Setting Goals and Staying on Track

 

Monday, February 9, 2015

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm | check-in starts at 5:30 pm

Ferguson Library

96 Broad Street, Stamford, CT 06901

 

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-step process: 

  1. Defining clear business goals - your sales and earnings targets
  2. Creating clear action plan priorities - the pathways to goal achievement
  3. 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: John Harmon is an active SCORE counselor and Managing Director of Adulant Consulting Services which serves small and medium sized businesses on strategies for growth and operating excellence.