Want to think about your business from a strategic and systematic perspective? Start by rating your current situation by answering yes or no to the following questions.
Leadership
- I have a clear 1, 3 and 5 year vision for my business.
- I have identified measurable goals that support my business vision.
- I am effective with my time management and understand where I fit best in my company.
- I am able to transform problems and frustrations into opportunities.
- I am able to balance work and my personal life.
Financial
- I am confident about our cash flow and its predictability.
- I conduct regularly scheduled reviews of our income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statements, budget and other key financial indicators.
- I develop and monitor our annual budget and cash flow plan in accordance with our company plan and vision.
- I make adjustments and communicate with our team based on my regular review and reporting of our company financials.
Sales
- I know where my clients are, how they think and how I can best help them.
- I understand and communicate my value proposition in a language that works best for our clients.
- My pipeline is full and I generate leads regularly.
- I regularly measure the effectiveness of our lead generation activities.
- I win and get new business regularly.
- I stay in touch with past, current, and potential clients.
- Most of my revenue is not generated from my personal sales efforts.
- I have all the clients I need.
Client Fulfillment
- I always deliver a “WOW” customer experience.
- I am very satisfied with the quality of our products and services.
- I have a system for monitoring our quality of work.
- I am very satisfied with the amount of repeat customers we have.
- I get a lot of referrals from existing clients.
- I am confident that we are able to meet and effectively manage our business capacity.
Management
- I am able to see my company and our systems as the product not the commodity or service we sell.
- My team and I are clear about “how we do it here.”
- My team is clear about our company vision and how they fit into the plan.
- My team delivers consistent results for our clients.
- I am constantly increasing my company’s capability and adding great team members.
- My business does not depend on a few key team members for its success.
- I am able to recruit, hire, and train great team members.
- Most of our company systems are documented and organized.
If you answered NO to 5 or more of these questions then you should consider speaking with us.