Effective goal setting is the foundation of business success, providing clarity on where you’re headed and how to get there. Through coaching, we’ll break your vision into achievable milestones, ensuring consistent progress and measurable results.
Effective goal setting is the foundation of business success, providing clarity on where you’re headed and how to get there. Through coaching, we’ll break your vision into achievable milestones, ensuring consistent progress and measurable results.
Baseball is an excellent analogy for the importance of goal setting in business.
You step up to home plate with a clear objective: hit the ball, run to each base, and ultimately aim for a successful home run. However, without “bases” to guide you, how can you chart a path to progress and achieve the success your business needs?
Our business coaching program helps small business owners to achieve results by design and not by chance. Part of this is recognising the critical importance of setting goals and creating a plan to achieve them.
Think of goal setting as a series of outcomes you want to achieve.
Typically, Mark helps you to craft your 12-month, three-year, and often five-year goals. These goals may not just be around the business but can also include personal goals. After all, if the company doesn’t sustain you personally and give you an excellent quality of life, what is the point of running your own business?
We then break down our 12-month goals into 90-day plans to keep us on course for each quarter. In other words, smaller, shorter-term tactical goals realise the strategic, long-range milestones.
Our business coaching programs help you crystallise the most valuable and necessary objectives for your circumstances.
One of the things I like about working with Mark is how flexible this service is. For the first year Mark helped us put in place all the processes to make our business run well and create a great culture. Now Mark gives us advice and feedback on our business challenges and goals and I really enjoy having input from someone who is an expert on business and takes a genuine interest in what we are doing.
Mark has been an integral force in our trade services Business for over 3 years. He readily developed a through Understanding of our business model. His experience in developing business and management strategies has really helped us to Focus and achieve our goals. We highly recommend Mark As a Business Coach.
What I like about working with Mark as a business coach is that he makes us accountable so we get things done in our business. He makes sure that no matter how busy you get, you always remember your ‘big picture’ focus for your business and keep your end goals and direction in mind with everything that you do.
Want to learn more about this? Visit our time management page to discover the enormous benefits of a default diary.
Don’t underestimate the importance of goal setting for employees. If you have a clear path forward, so will they. Without it, it’s like you are all lost at sea and floating about aimlessly.
You can see clearly what you’re achieving.
Now that you have a plan and can check in with it, it’s much easier to realise.
The more direct path is usually the more efficient one.
Will it help or hinder you in achieving this goal?
There’s cohesion and alignment between the team and you.
How To Set A Business Goal:
The Business Coach Mark Process
Clients don’t come to Mark wanting to set business goals. They come to him wanting to grow their business and profits, improve their workplace culture, enhance their quality of life, etc. However, whatever they want to achieve, setting business goals is one of the tools we use to make it happen.
STARTING WITH AN ALIGNMENT SESSION
We typically begin with an alignment session to coordinate the business goals with any personal goals. If it adds value, this session can involve your spouse or life partner. Why? Because I’m a big believer that your business sustains your personal life. If you and your family want to holiday overseas twice yearly, who pays for it? If you’re going to grow an investment portfolio, how do you bankroll it? Your interests outside of work are interwoven within it.
This alignment session is crucial as it ensures that your business goals are in tune with your personal goals, leading to a more balanced and fulfilling life. ‘Not everyone wants to involve their partner/spouse in this alignment session, but it’s available and encouraged’
THE 80/20 RULE
It’s crucial we apply the 80/20 rule to all our planning. The Pareto Principle dictates that 20% of inputs lead to 80% of outputs (results). In other words, it is the art of doing less to achieve more. This principle can be applied to goal setting, helping you focus on the most impactful goals that will drive the majority of your business’s success.
DEVELOPING A 90-DAY PLAN
CHARTING A PATH FORWARD
STARTING WITH AN ALIGNMENT SESSION
We typically begin with an alignment session to coordinate the business goals with any personal goals. If it adds value, this session can involve your spouse or life partner. Why? Because I’m a big believer that your business sustains your personal life. If you and your family want to holiday overseas twice yearly, who pays for it? If you’re going to grow an investment portfolio, how do you bankroll it? Your interests outside of work are interwoven within it.
This alignment session is crucial as it ensures that your business goals are in tune with your personal goals, leading to a more balanced and fulfilling life. ‘Not everyone wants to involve their partner/spouse in this alignment session, but it’s available and encouraged’
THE 80/20 RULE
It’s crucial we apply the 80/20 rule to all our planning. The Pareto Principle dictates that 20% of inputs lead to 80% of outputs (results). In other words, it is the art of doing less to achieve more. This principle can be applied to goal setting, helping you focus on the most impactful goals that will drive the majority of your business’s success.
DEVELOPING A 90-DAY PLAN
CHARTING A PATH FORWARD
Our session also quickly filters quality, achievable goals from nice-to-have achievements. Indeed, it’s critical to set “SMART” goals that are Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and set within a certain Timeframe.
Mark’s business coaching helps you identify the opportunities that will help you achieve your business goals. Call 0403 881 105
Choose Business Coach Mark As Your Small Business Mentor
Setting goals is just part of the process – I can help you become a better business leader.
Mark will keep you accountable so you do what you say you are going to do. This way, you will move toward success much faster.
This is not about cookie cutting. Everything we do has to benefit you. Mark wants you to enjoy every moment of personal and professional growth and see tangible results.
Mark knows how to nudge you out of your comfort zone and towards new ways of thinking and behaving that will truly move the dial.
Sometimes he has to tell you things you won’t always like to hear but need to hear because no one else will tell you.
You’re not investing in me to listen to your excuses; Mark is not afraid to remind you of that.
We want to see you working on your business, not just in it.
Every business is unique, as are their objectives. Some potential goals might include:
Remember, objectives must be measurable, so you need to apply qualifiers alongside each goal (e.g. I will reduce costs by X% by X date)
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