FOCUS Your Chapter Now! The One Page Business Plan Training, Dec 15th and 16th.

Posted on December 6, 2008 
Filed Under Act Professionally, Focus Efforts, Meet Purposefully

At long last we’re ready to help our chapters create their own One Page Business Plan.   Just in time for 2009.  We introduced this concept at our leadership meeting in October and promised to make it available to our chapters before the end of the year.  To do so we’re going to use Go To Meeting – a web based virtual meeting service that allows everyone to view the same documents at the same time and speak/listen in a teleconference setting.  These virtual training meetings will be conducted in English only.  We hope to translate them to Spanish and other languages in the near future. 

Training Dates:

There will be two identical virtual training meetings.  We hope that by providing two sessions our chapters will be able to fit one into their schedule.  We ask that only one or two people from each chapter attend.  Perhaps you can have your chapter president and a board member participate.  Copies of the presentation will be made available through those who attend.  The training will be one hour in length. 

Once the initial training has taken place and chapters have had an opportunity to create their plan we’ll have  follow up training sessions in early January to instruct chapters how to use the One Page Business Plan as a planning and accountability tool to measure their progress.  In summary, the December training will focus on plan creation; the January training will focus on plan implementation. 

Sign up for one of two identical training sessions:

December 15, 2008   from 9AM – 10AM Pacific Time

December 16, 2008   from 5PM – 6PM Pacific Time

How To Register:

Please contact our One Page Business Plan Trainer, Joel Deceuster, and he’ll send you the Go To Meeting information and phone number to dial in.  Joel@FocusYourBusinessNow.com  Be sure to tell him which session you will attend.  There is no cost for the training but each chapter will be required to purchase a book.  The book is called, The One Page Business Plan for Non-Profit Organizations.  You can get it for about $23.00 through Amazon.  Be sure to get the “Non-Profit” edition of the book since there are editions created for Entrepreneurs, Financial Services and Professional Consultants.  The book has a CD in the back with contains all the digital tools we’ll use to implement the plan in January. 

How to Prepare:

Participants will be sent a copy of the master One Page Business Plan for the BYU Management Society.  We suggest you review it and seek to align your chapter goals with those of the World-Wide Management Society.   The Steering Committee enjoyed great success in 2008 because of this plan and have updated it by creating a new One Page Business Plan for 2009.   We’d also recommend that you read the book, The One Page Business Plan for Non-Profit Organizations.  It’s an easy read and will help you to prepare your understanding for the 5 simple steps for creating a plan.  It’s not essential to read the book in advance.  We realize the time is short until our training sessions and you might not be able to have it delivered in a sufficient amount of time to read. 

About Our Trainer/Facilitator

Joel Deceuster is a certified consultant/coach for the One Page Business Plan and has his own business coaching/consulting company in San Jose, CA.  He specializes in focusing business owners and managers to develop their annual strategies for business and bottom-line growth.  Joel is a past president of the Silicon Valley Chapter.  In 2007 he was invited to become a member of the International Steering Committee where he introduced the concept of the One Page Business Plan as a means of helping the society  achieve its goals and objectives.  Joel was also inducted into the National Advisory Council (NAC) of the Marriott School of Management at BYU in the Fall fo 2007.   Joel and his wife Madeline graduated from BYU and  raised six children, five of which attended BYU.  He currently serves as Ward Executive Secretary.  Joel is an avid rosarian and active in his local Rotary club.  To learn more about Joel and his program for focused business growth and development visit his web site at:  www.FocusYourBusinessNow.com

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  1. Jamie Matwyshyn on December 14th, 2008 9:49 pm

    I work for a Canadian non-profit organization and we are thinking of starting up chapters in different provinces across the country. I am curious to know how chapters get started, whose usually involved, and what the structure looks like. Basically, if you have any tips on how to start your organizational chapters, I’d really appreciate the insight!

    Thank you so much for your time.

    Cheers,

    ~Jamie Matwyshyn

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