The business planning workshop series starts with a thorough assessment of your company. Through a process of data collection and face-to-face discussions the current state and quality of your current operations is established, and, your performance relative to best practices is measured.

Assessment data collection involves all six business elements defined by Grantlun's business planning process: money, market, machines, manpower, management and mindset. Assessment data collection typically takes from one to two weeks and is easy to do - Grantlun provides the collection tools, you simply populate them with data.

Once assessment data is in-hand, Session 1 takes one day.

Session 2 builds the foundation for the business plan and establishes its heading by first defining your short term objectives and strategies and then modeling them to test their profitability.

Session 2 takes one day and is best held the day after Session 1, and no later than one month after the completion of the Assessment.

Session 3 extends your short term plans; establishes long term objectives and strategies; and, models them to test their profitability. Session 3 takes one day and is best held the day after Session 2.

Session 4 translates your business strategy into action plans; establishes who must do what and when to implement your plans; and, initiates the on-going execution-planning cycle.

Session 4 takes one day and is best held the day after Session 3.