As we begin 2023, do you know where you want to be at the end of the year? Here’s why you need a blueprint for your business, and how to make one.
Defining a Business Blueprint
A blueprint in your business means knowing where you want to go. Here at Business Growth Curator, we recommend having a three year vision, objectives and key results for each year, and 90 day (quarterly) targets. Can you see why we focus on having a blueprint first in our businesses? If you don’t know where you want to go, it is impossible to know whether or not you’re headed in the right direction. However, having a blueprint isn’t enough.
Why You Need a Plan to Go With Your Blueprint
When you want to build a house, you usually go to an architect with all your ideas and discuss what you want. Then the architect will draw up a sketch of the home, and you’ll work with them to modify it until it is the exact vision. This becomes your blueprint.
But if you handed that blueprint as-is to a general contractor, they would not be able to immediately build a home. They need plans for HVAC, water, electricity, and all the elements that go into a home.
This is similar to having a blueprint and a plan in your business.
What is a Plan?
A plan in your business is the “how.” If you know you want to add 25 customers to your books this month, that is the blueprint. Cold calling 100 people in your target demographic and running Facebook ads to capture leads may be the plan. If you didn’t have that objective, you wouldn’t know what you were shooting for. This means that it will be impossible to develop the plan to get there.
Begin Your Blueprint
So let’s start here: What do you want to accomplish by the end of Q1? The end of 2023? And how do they have vertical alignment for what you want to accomplish in the next three years? How is this year and even this next quarter going to serve you in getting there?
Grow Your Leadership
Bradley has many resources to grow your leadership in the area of vision and priorities. Check out a few of them:
Watch this quick video to learn Bradley’s top 8 takeaways from ownership, entrepreneurship, and leadership this year. Keep reading…
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It’s difficult to get to your destination if you aren’t sure where you currently are! After all, the path from Minnesota to Canada is very different than the path from Mexico to Canada. If you aren’t certain where you’re at today in business, you need to take the Rainmaker to Architect assessment. It will gauge your strengths and weaknesses as a leader and in your business. Then, you’ll get detailed, specific suggestions for improvement. Take the assessment here.