An organic business plan is based around creating a series of necessary activities for your business to evolve in a way that maintains your enthusiasm and passion for the work that you are involved in. It recognises that most individuals reading this document created a business to support their lifestyle, their values and their ideas of freedom.
The process also helps clients decide if it’s a business they want to run or is it perhaps a role within an existing business that they are ultimately looking for?
As Harold Whitman so adequately put it:
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
The principles at work in the OBP are:
- A place to analyse where you are and where you want to go
- Creating and moving towards your ideal business
- Planning your work around your business systems and working your plan
- living your integrity through written goals/intentions and through consistent evaluation of your business systems
Cost: I have been running the Organic Business Plan since I started my own business in February 2003 as it was my launching programme. It has been delivered via telephone, 1:1 as well as in face to face group sessions. As it is geared towards individuals who are thinking about starting a business, the programme is set up over an intensive month and involves 2 sessions with a critical review of the plan once it’s completed. £60