Here are a selection of tools you can use in your business right now.

Plan for your Future

This is an intense, 50 question system you can use to facilitate and lead your company through an effective Strategic Planning Process.

Strategic Planning

Think and act  like a CEO

You are the CEO of your business. This is a CEO-level profitablity analysis. A real-world quick analysis tool you can use to:

• Benchmark your company before and after a change is introduced
• Sell your company’s product or service with relation to productivity gains
• Assess and value a company before buying it
• Assess and validate  your company’s value when selling it.
• Loan worthiness. This is one answer when the banker asks: “Why should we lend you money?”

Full Time Equivalent Calculator

Assessment: Yourself and  your Team

Use this tool for setting a realistic “we are here”  benchmark

• Complete this privately to assess your own  skill level as an effective manager.
• Use it as a recruitment or staff promotion tool.

Management Skills Assessment.
Next Steps

Strategy and Planning

This tool is excellent for holding an effective management meeting or strategic “think in”

Simply by changing your base assumptions to use this as a Business owner  or Manager.

The Seven Qualities of Leadership.

Ronan’s Delegation and Decision Making Tool

Before making an investment, you’ll want to know the critical impact of this purchase. Has the decision been an emotional one, or driven by logic? Do we really need this product or service, or is this a reactive decision to stem a sales problem?

Conversely, can you afford not to make this buying decision?

This is a  common-sense, no-nonsense approach to decision making.

The Seven Questions for any Investment.

Re-evaluate and redesign  your Business

Use this key test and tool to uncover the 10 keys to Business Success

The 10 Keys to Business Success.
Next Steps

People your key Resource – Finding, hiring and firing People

In order to grow your business you need to have and add  the right people. It’s all about leverage, in other words having a team with the right complementary skills to enable you as the owner to focus on the business. Here are Free Business Tools for sourcing the right  people, hiring new employees , and even how to fire people or let them go if necessary.