Soar to Success January 2017

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Michael Kaplan is a seasoned business owner with a skill for creating successful
businesses, leadership transformations, and personal growth with owners and
managers of mid- sized businesses. He has a passion for people development.
Kaplan has more than 36 years of experience in sales, business coaching and
entrepreneurship. In 2008, he opened his own coaching business, Strategic
Solutions Coaching, and developed his business coaching system, GPS (Growth
Producing Strategies) for Business™ that gives business leaders a new way to look
at their businesses to accelerate growth. As a Certified EMyth Business Coach, he
has access to the most comprehensive business development system anywhere.
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able. Whatever you do,
don’t follow through with
something in your plan, just
because “it’s in the plan!”
Stay flexible and be open to
change, when you do, you’ll
have a business plan that
serves your company well.
6. Use milestones. You’ll find
that if you break your annual
goals down into achievable
milestones, you will keep
yourself and others engaged
throughout theyear. Away to
do this is to make sure every
goal has a project associated
with it. Then determine the
high-level tasks necessary to
complete the project. Give
each task a due date and
assign accountability for
accomplishing that task.
Now that you are organized and
have laid the foundation using
the six steps above, it’s time to
continue moving towards the
creation of your plan. Watch my
video to learn how to determine
the benchmarks needed for the
writing of the plan.
If youwould like some assistance
with the creation of your annual
plan, reach out to me and
SOAR TO SUCCESS / January 2017 / Core Business Strategies