Strategic and Operational Business Training For Business Owners
An 8-week one-to-one training programme that teaches business owners how to build their own strategic plan, operational plan and financial understanding of their business.
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No pitch. Just an honest conversation about whether this is the right fit.
Why this training exists
Most business owners did not start out as business owners.
You probably started as a technician. Skilled at the trade, the craft or the service. The business grew on the back of that skill, and somewhere along the way it became something bigger than the work itself.
That transition is the moment most owners hit a wall. You are good at what the business does. What is now missing is the management capability to lead the business itself: setting strategic direction, designing operational structure, understanding the numbers that tell you whether it is working.
If your business is going to grow, you have to grow with it. This training is how you do that, deliberately and with structure.
What the training covers
Three modules. Eight weeks. One coherent learning journey.
The programme is delivered over 8 weeks as three structured modules. Each module teaches a discrete set of capabilities that the participant applies to their own business between sessions.
Module 1
Strategic Planning
Weeks 1 to 4 | Weekly sessions
Participant is taught vision, strategy, structure, culture, objectives, critical success factors, and business diagnostic interpretation. Participant builds their own strategic plan.
Module 2
Operational Planning
Weeks 5 to 7 | Weekly sessions
Participant is taught how to build operational plans across products, marketing, finance, people, systems and KPI design. Participant builds their own operational plan.
Module 3
Financial Literacy
Week 8
Participant is taught how profit and loss, cash flow and balance sheet interconnect and how to use them to inform commercial decisions.
What you will learn
Capabilities you will take away.
By the end of the 8 weeks, business owners and senior managers will have learned how to:
- Develop their own documented vision and strategic plan
- Interpret a business diagnostic and prioritise actions
- Build their own operational plan across products, marketing, finance, people and systems
- Design KPIs that measure and manage the business
- Read profit and loss, cash flow and balance sheet statements and understand how they interconnect
- Apply financial literacy to inform commercial decisions
At the end of the programme, participants review their completed plans and analysis with the trainer to demonstrate capability transfer.
Who this is for
Business owners ready to lead, not just run.
This training works best for business owners and senior managers who:
- Run a business that has grown beyond what their original skill set can manage alone
- Are profitable but operating without a documented strategic plan
- Want to build the management capability to lead their business rather than continue to be consumed by it
- Are ready to commit 8 weeks to do the work properly
The details
Everything you need to know.
This training is registered with the Regional Business Partner Network. To explore if your business is eligible for support, contact your local Regional Business Growth Advisor here: Find your local Regional Business Partner.
Next step
Start with a conversation.
The first call is free. Thirty minutes to understand your business, what is holding you back, and whether this is the right training for you. If it is, we will tell you. If something else suits you better, we will tell you that too.
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Or email chris@thinknudge.com.