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Entrepreneurial Operating Guide; Communicate the Vision, Focus the Team, Guide Your Direction Hardbound Book!
This Entrepreneurial Operating Guide utilizes eight essential steps to streamline and grow your business. Looking at the Wheel of Business, you can address which of the eight areas needs the most work. For the pages that need clarification, there are short instructions at the top of the page, as well as extra notes below. Take the time to get things out of your head and onto paper. Let the process guide your direction. If you have a leadership team, include them in communicating the vision and focusing the team. Need a little more motivation? Check out our Pivotal Entrepreneur Operating Guide Workshop and many other topics here.
Communicate the Vision
1. Bring your vision to life by implementing your vision and goals.
2. Document a process for operations, sales, marketing, finance, and onboarding. There are also three additional blank title process pages if you have another central area that needs to be documented.
Focus the Team
3. Gathering and tracking life-changing data is crucial. This includes listing primary rocks for the quarter and determining your main issues with accomplishing those rocks. This way, everyone on the team knows their focus for the next quarter. We’ve included documents for both Business and Personal Rocks and Issues. Most entrepreneurs and employees walk a fine line between work and their lives. Personal rocks and issues will also affect the business if you’re not proactive. Everyone on your team needs to have a number goal that is tracked weekly. We’ve included a scorecard for each quarter where you can list your team members, the measurable, the goal number you’re trying to achieve each week, and room to track your actual weekly numbers for sixteen weeks (eight weeks on the top half, eight weeks on the bottom half. There is more than enough room each quarter. We’ve also included a quarterly Who is Accountable document that works well for entrepreneurs who struggle with cutting the cord and need a visual on how many hats they wear and to be more conscious about giving up those hats as they grow throughout the process.
4. Getting the Right People in the Right Seats is one of the most challenging aspects of running a business. Check out our starting point diagram of an Accountability Chart and a page to create your own. Focus on what each team member is “accountable for” versus what they “do.” You will also find a one-page evaluation sheet per quarter to assess your team. The right people value and live your core values, while the right seats understand the role responsibilities, want the position, and can do what is required.
Guide Your Direction
5. Budgeting your Finances is simple—budget for what is most important. Track where the money goes and make adjustments as needed.
6. Balance Work and Life is a hot topic. Invest in your staff, and you will be rewarded immensely.
7. & 8. Resolving Issues is the key to gaining momentum, and the only way to resolve them is to address and solve them in weekly meetings. We’ve included a meeting process and checklist that works, no more boring meetings where decisions are never made. The guide includes 52 weeks of meeting templates, and another Wheel of Bussiness to assess your growth at the end.
Don’t forget to check out all the extras at the end of this Entrepreneurial Operating Guide to Communicate the Vision, Focus the Team, Guide Your Direction, and further your quest to operate your business more efficiently.
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