No business plan in 2020 had Covid contingency plan on it. No one had a crystal ball that told us exactly what will happen and 2020 taught us that very quickly. Our ability to map a business future is possible, and we are looking back at 2020 at four key areas that affected a business trading success and how we can learn to map our future success.

• Preparedness

• Ability to act

• Agility to react, respond and pause.

• Limitations of a 12-month perspective

We reflect a lot in our business; it's critical. Critical because it develops our skills, competencies, failings, perspectives, and opportunities and identifies growth areas. Most importantly, reflection allows us to challenge and question how we add value.

We live and work by seasonal thinking and making decisions by our values.

This seasonal reflection creates change, iterations, tweaks, adjustments a steady evolution. It can positively affect your business, leadership style, success, and outcomes.

Our core product, the 24-month Framework, has evolved naturally from this thinking and action.

Firstly, let us explore why is this even a relevant question. Surely everyone sets up a business to grow it, don’t they? We have experienced that most people who set up, run (or take over) a business have the want and desire to be successful, yet usually, they have not even considered how it would grow; there is an expectancy that growth would just happen!

No business plan in 2020 had Covid contingency plan on it. No one had a crystal ball that told us exactly what will happen and 2020 taught us that very quickly. Our ability to map a business future is possible, and we are looking back at 2020 at four key areas that affected a business trading success and how we can learn to map our future success.

• Preparedness

• Ability to act

• Agility to react, respond and pause.

• Limitations of a 12-month perspective