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Understand Your Business Today
Having a business is one thing; having a full understanding of your business is another thing. Understanding your business and how well it holds in the business world makes a difference in today’s world. For many people, this has always been the breaking point, as their business understanding has given them the insight they need to manage it properly.
Understanding your business intricately involves becoming familiarised with the different stages of your business. These stages are generally referred to as your business life cycle, and you must understand each of the stages.
This is because each stage holds different opportunities, risk and difficulties. Knowing what stage your business will allow you to plan on boosting your business for high profit strategically.
The stages of a business life cycle are;
Stage One: Start-Up
As the name suggests, this is the first point of your business. At this stage, you will find yourself developing your business’ concept, figuring out the right customers, identifying how to produce constantly. Others things include building your brand, getting finance for your business and advancing your business.
Stage Two: Growth
You find yourself producing and delivering your product or service and expanding your customers’ base in this stage. Other things in this stage include managing and developing your team, managing your money, implementing systems and coming up with new products for your business.
Stage Three: Maturity
Here, your focus is often on properly managing your business’ team, maintaining and managing clients, and improving business effectiveness and efficiency. Other things include protecting the assets and IP of your business and market position.
Stage Four: Renewal
In this stage, you often manage your clients, seeking new opportunities for your product or service, repositioning, rebranding, and reinventing. Others include managing team, recruiting and restructuring, getting new clients, and protecting your business assets and IP.
The last stage involves the exiting stage involving discussion on pertinent issues like succession, business transfer and wealth creation.
We provide business coaching for all of these stages to help you pull through the difficulties and take each stage’s opportunities. For instance, for stage one, which involves the start-up and planning stage, our business coaches take you through strategic business planning. This would allow you to kick start your business with the assurance that you have what it takes to sustain it in the long run and get the desired result.
We welcome you to reach out to us today to have a taste of what it takes to run a successful business where it seems like everything is already figured out.