A written plan can help you move forward faster. How?
Remember a time when you had a great idea, but every detail was only planned out in your head? You have team members helping you with the technological, online and admin issues, but other than that you are pretty much doing everything yourself. Launch date is approaching and at the 11th hour you have to deal with an urgent matter that takes up most of your day. Your head is spinning from an overload of work …your launch is the next day… you have a teleseminar scheduled with 100 people signed up to attend…what can you do? Panic? Crumble under pressure? Postpone the planned launch and / or the teleclass?
There is a better way!
The scenario could look quite different if you had a written plan:
- You call your VA and tell her you are unable to personally do the teleclass
- Your team could still launch the program or service and monitor the emails, answer questions, maybe do the calls or postpone the teleclass
And here are two more tips about planning a project:
- Make sure all your contractors are aware and committed to executing their individual tasks according to the pre-arranged schedule.
- No matter how tempted you are to multi-task or stray off course, stay focused on your plan. Being distracted is going to put you in a hole. And that is one place you do not want to find yourself.
Knowing what to do then communicating the plan to your team is crucial. Make sure that everyone knows their role in executing the plan so that if something does come up, you are able to step away temporarily, delegate to your team, and ensure that the launch is successful.
Whether you remain actively involved in the entire process or not, it is important to keep your team in the loop. As cash flow allows, have them become more involved in the process so that they can comfortably implement the plan with minimal oversight provided by you. Need help managing your team? Stay tuned...we'll talk more about the team next time.
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