Growing your business

            

     

Putting effort to seeing your business grow is a whole lot of challenge.To take your business to a higher level is another  challenge. In other words, to really        make your business worthwhile, you need a strategic management process.  Here are the 8 strategic tips to adopt that have been provided by Carla Turchetti to help make your business boom!

1.      1. Envision Where You Want to Be

Your strategic plan for success probably includes a BHAG style, which is an acronym for Big, Hairy, Audacious, Goal. Those are the goals that dreams are made of. It is tangible, energizing, highly focused. By imagining where you want to be you need to work harder and be focused.

2. Picture where you’re going

If you do not have direction to where you are going, then you are bound to fail you won't get there if you can't see where you're going. Everyone in an organization should have a clear picture to hold onto of where the company will be after it heads in a strategic direction.

3. Keep the Journey thrilling

To work toward the future you have to be excited about the future. If you have passion for what you do, the journey will so exciting that it would continue to keep organization motivated. 

4. Keep Climbing

According to Collin and Porras, "Start-up businesses frequently suffer from the 'We’ve Arrived Syndrome' after reaching a stage in which survival no longer seems in question" it takes commitment and determination to succeed in life. If you've hit one peak, it's time to set the next goal. Keep the strategic directions of your small business moving even when things are moving on well.

  

5. Work Together

In every company or business there should be team spirit. No company will head in the right strategic direction without teamwork. Working together not only speed up activities but also create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. Ideally, the entire team understands the goals and shares the vision for how the business is moving forward.

6. Evaluate Where You Are 
  
Every once in a while stop and evaluate how the strategic management process is going. It is important to measure the success of your business to know how far you have gone and what needs to be reform.

 7. Live the plan

 Let the plan come to work with you every day and be part of the strategic direction of the company. Keeping the plan alive and active, will become a reality.  It is also good to encourage everyone in your company or business to live the plan as well.

 8. Believe in Yourself 

No plan, no matter how organized or how intricate, is going to work if you don't believe in 
yourself, in what you can do, in your purpose or in your company. Trust your instincts 
and use your entrepreneurial skills to move your small business in the right direction.