REAP what you SOW: A Cyclical Process for Improving Business Performance

1. Review – Gather Business Performance Data and Stated Goals
   1. Statistics – Sales, Website Stats, Revenue, Growth, etc
   2. Objectives – Review progress on previous cycles objectives and core mission.
   3. Workforce – Discuss potential bottlenecks and growth opportunities with team.
2. Evaluate – Analyse what appears to be working and where there is room for improvement
   1. Strengths – Identify what types of work and plans have proved most effective.
   2. Opportunities –Prioritise any identified opportunities based on strengths.
   3. Weakness – Identify any weakness that may impact your progress on opportunities.
3. Adapt – Define one or two core focus based upon each of the following categories.
   1. Strategies – Create an overall strategy for exploiting opportunities within the next cycle.
   2. Objectives – Define specific objectives and deadlines to enable your strategy,
   3. Workflow – Make any required workforce or system changes necessary to achieve objectives.
4. Perform – Work towards milestones with regular scheduled reviews.
   1. Systemise – Document systems and processes at every stage to allow for lessons.
   2. Optimise – Constantly measure, learn and adapt as lessons are learnt.
   3. War-Room – Develop and make use of a core platform for transparent real time feedback.

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