1 Day Workshop: Strategy Planning for Solopreneurs & Micro Businesses – 26th February 2025
Date: Wednesday, the 26th February, 2025
Time: 9.30am-4.30pm
Location: County Wexford Chamber office, Hill Street, Wexford Y35 WR99
Full Fee €150 per person
Skillnet Funded Fee: €99 per person
Details
Get those ideas and business opportunities out of your mind and into your strategic plan! Wearing multiple hats and juggling endless tasks while dealing with service providers can lead to overwhelm and stress. Developing a solid business strategy, clearly outlining your statement of intent for your business, provides you with the roadmap to guide you in growing it sustainably. In this dynamic world of work, change is a constant. Objectively looking at your business in the short to medium term will help you to set and focus on your priority goals and identify the key dependencies to achieving them. A well-structured and simple strategy plan will help you stay focused, make informed decisions and keep track of your progress.
- Define your ultimate vision, values and purpose (aim at 1-3 years maximum)
- Evaluate the current status of your business
- Define stretching yet achievable goals for your business in 12, 24 and 36 months
- Align them with the balanced scorecard
- What does your team look like – in-house and outsourced
- Who are your ideal customers and what is your acquisition plan
- Financial planning and projections
Learning Objectives
- Step back from working in your business, to working on it for sustainability and growth
- Learn how to apply to balanced scorecard to a solopreneur and micro business
- Align the key functions in the business
- Set your performance metrics and scheduling.
Your Workshop Facilitator
Charley Swords Consultancy
Established in 1997 on leaving Bank of Ireland Group after 18 years. For over 27 years, Charley has been guiding c-suite executives, Boards of Directors, leadership teams, business owners and high achieving professionals across 30+ countries to unlock their highest potential and drive sustainable success. Her passion lies in empowering leaders to thrive at the pinnacle of their careers – through strategic alignment, innovative leadership, and people-first transformation.
Drawing on her move from commercial banking in Ireland to setting up her consultancy business in 1997 and through her local and global experience, modernising leadership took on a new meaning when she saw that employees were not at the heart of the decision-making agenda across multiple sectors. Additionally, the need for them to be seen, heard and valued – at all levels in organisations from the front line up to and including at c-suite level, became ever more evident.
Charley believes the most successful leaders are those who align with their purpose and bring out the best in their people. This means mastering modern leadership styles that prioritise empathy, inclusivity, and long-term, high-performance cultures. She challenges conventional leadership frameworks by combining sharp strategic insights with a deeply human approach to create Revolutionary Leaders who first master their own leadership and position themselves confidently without being seen as a direct challenge. Whether you’re navigating complex corporate cultures or dealing with the challenges posed by multi-cultural and multi-generational teams, Charley guides in breaking through barriers to achieve the next level of influence, fulfilment, and impact. Charley is a partner to and associate lecturer in Frankfurt School of Finance and Management for 17+ years and to the International Academy for Banking and Finance Management for 4+ years.
Charley is permanently engaged and is an international leadership, strategy and career mentor, business consultant, trainer, speaker and author. The team comprises a business development and digital partner; a bookkeeper and a VA on an outsourced basis. For larger projects, associate consultants and trainers are contracted on a case by case basis.