Leadership is about vision, great leadership is about planning your business using business planning tools to match their ambitions to the opportunities in their market, using tried and tested planning tools. Successful business owners step back to work on their business not in their business. Looking at where they are going and why. What are the opportunities within your market and sector over the next few years. Business Planning is a process of assessing options using tried and tested business planning tools, which provide robust and accurate options for business owners to grow their business successful.

1. S
Leadership is all about
vision
By Richard Gourlay
Cowden Consulting.co.uk

2. Beyond the NOW
S Leadership is about the leading.
S Great leadership is looking for tomorrow’s opportunities.
S Many leaders focus on what needs to happen today.
S So who is looking after tomorrow’s success?

3. Don’t get dragged into today
S Its easy to get dragged into the here and now!
S Urgent
S Immediate
S Important
S The NOW
The situational leadership role takes over and becomes the
ROLE.

4. Fire Fighting yesterday’s mistakes
S Where you are today is the result of what you did
yesterday.
S If you focus on fire fighting you become a fire fighter.
S You become good at fire fighting (becoming operationally
involved) you become part of the problem not the
solution.

5. Find Opportunities For Growth
S Successful business leaders focus on finding new
opportunities
S Know where you are and where they want to be.
S Validating opportunities ensuring they are real
and tangible.
S Check and rechecking that they are genuine.
S Assess opportunities and evaluating which ones
are best for the future of your business.

6. Ambition
S Successful leaders have AMBITION
S They look for OPPORTUNITIES
S (They need know how to find and assess opportunities)
S They turn them into a PLAN
S Which matches their VISION
S That delivers the SUCCESS they want to see

7. Leaders Success Pyramid

8. Orientate towards your
GOALS
S Once you can see your VISION, then
you need to OWN it.
S Its YOURS not anyone else’s
S Its your Number 1 priority.
S You must COMMUNICATE it to
everyone.

9. Deliver it in your business Plan
S To deliver your vision, you need
clear GOALS
S GOALS = outcomes that matter.
S Set CLEAR SMART goals
S What needs to CHANGE and
why?
S How are YOU going to get where
you need to be?

10. How to Assess Your Opportunities
S What’s driving you?
S What’s driving your market?
S Where’s the growth in your sector?
S You need to systematically assess your
opportunities, using tried and tested business planning
tools. Click here to learn how to assess and plan your
market.

11. Summary
S Like to know more about how to find the right opportunities,
then click this link to learn: How to take the guess work out of
your business success.
S Like to know how more about finding and turning opportunities
into success then click here now to learn more.
S Thank you for taking the time to read this article.
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