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Get your employees engaged and invested in your company’s long-term success

leaderCommunicator

All leaders start down the same path to a strategy based on market research and customer preference data, but smart leaders quickly engage layers of leadership and employees throughout strategy conceptualization. Based on the SWOT, work with your leaders to develop or validate/update your vision , mission, values and goals.

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Free Business Plans for Small Business Owners and Start-ups

Strategy Driven

Check out these comprehensive business plan templates you can download for free to get you started: 1. Its template, available as a PDF or Word download, asks a whopping 150 questions and is generic enough to customize for most types of businesses. The SBA’s template is available to fill out online and then download as a PDF.