The One Page Business Plan captures the critical elements of a business plan on a single page using key words and short phrases. There is no room for fluff. --every word counts. This book, with interactive CD, guides new training consultants and seasoned Pro’s through a step-by-step process to create business plans that are incredibly focused and clear!

Use this practical workbook style, planning tool to create a business plan for your practice in just hours. Or teach business planning to your corporate clients with the direct, easy to use worksheets combined with compelling samples that make completing every stage of the one-page planning process easy and fun at the same time. This workbook can be used to get any training audience through the valuable experience of business planning in just a few hours. Teach planning as one course or break it down into 5 separate components to shorten training and give participants time to edit and refine each stages work before starting the next. At the end, you and your participants will have a new appreciation for planning…planning that facilitates and focuses--DOING!

There are five other versions of the One Page Business Plan for different market segments:
The One Page Plan for The Creative Entrepreneur
The One Page Plan for Women in Business
The One Page Plan for Non-Profit Organizations
The One Page Plan for Financial Services Professionals

One page planning can be split into 5 mini-courses or activity steps:
Vision Stage -- the passion
Mission Stage -- what's in it for the customer
Objectives Stage -- know what you need to achieve
Strategies Stage -- the track to success
Plans Stage -- how and why, the doing!

The work from the five stages is distilled to a single page making this process relevant to any planning or organizing challenge.

Use One-Page Business Plan’s for:

• Developing an annual plan for your training department or for each trainer.
• Developing a strategic plan for your own consulting practice.
• Teaching planning and organizing.
• Teaching project planning.
• Tying disparate parts of the organization together under one flag.
• Aligning activity and effort with business priorities.
• Adding/refining a business planning section to any performance management system or performance management training.
• Leading goal setting/planning with any group.
• Developing strategic plans that are useable and actionable.

Benefits:

-Teaches complete business thinking and planning.
-Makes plans useable tools instead of intellectual exercises.
-Methodology is flexible to planning any organized activity.
-Unifies disparate teams, departments, divisions and people together under one vision.
-Simplifies planning, enabling it to be part of continuous performance management.
-Improves business decision making by causing problems/challenges to be anticipated.
-Aligns goal driven activity with strategic priority.

Some folks hate to write in the book! So we listened... now 22 exercises from the book are available in Microsoft Word. If you prefer to brainstorm or do the exercises with your word processor... it's easy, just open the CD toolkit, select the appropriate page and begin typing! Each CD contains:

• Interactive Exercises & Templates Entrepreneurs tell us they love the interactive exercises, but some hate to write in the book! We listened... now 22 exercises from the book are available in Microsoft Word. If you prefer to brainstorm or do the exercises with your word processor... it's easy, just open the CD toolkit, select the appropriate page and begin typing!
• Powerful Sales Calculators Estimating sales can be difficult! We've made it simple! The Entrepreneur's Toolkit CD contains three ready made Sales Calculators* that allow you to perform multiple "what-if sales scenarios". It also contains a mini-sales budgeting system. This is a great tool for entrepreneurs who are intimidated by the "numbers" associated with business!
• One Page Performance ScorecardsTracking business goals monthly is critical to achieving success... and it's easy to do with the One Page Performance Scorecards using the pre-formatted Excel spreadsheets. Create a Scorecard for each Objective on your One Page Business Plan. Comparisons to Budget, Forecast and Last Year are quick and easy!
• One Page Budget Worksheet Every business needs a budget... especially small ones! The One Page Budget Worksheet makes creating a 12 month Income and Expense Statement simple and easy. Use a Sales Calculator to help determine revenues, estimate your expenses and presto... you have a budget!
• And Over 20 Additional Sample Plans... PLUS 10 Bonus Tools Your CD toolkit includes over twenty additional sample One Page Business Plans accessible with Microsoft Word® (including four non-profit plans). PLUS... Your CD Toolkit contains 10 additional practical and powerful bonus tools!

The One Page Business Plan is receiving praise from America's leading business thinkers, venture capitalists, bankers and the U.S. Small Business Administration. It is now being used in several Fortune 500 companies and as a textbook in colleges and universities around the world.

"The One Page Business Plan is an out and out winner!"
~ Tom Peters, Author, In Search of Excellence and The Circle of Innovation

"Using the One Page Business Plan book improved my business to the power of 10. Using Point, Click, Plan! and One Page methodology consulting improved my business to the power of 100!"
~ Catherine Marechal One Page Business Plan Consultant Rome, Italy

"The One Page Planning System has been incredibly profitable to our firm, generating over $250,000 in consulting revenues in the first year. Over 20 of our clients have engaged us to implement One Page Planning. They love the methodology!"
~ Dr. Terry van der Werff van der Werff Global Ltd. Devon, PA