Course details

With creative entrepreneurs and freelancers very much alert to the fact that Covid 19 is going to impact our lives and livelihoods for many months to come, and require us to flex, improvise and think differently more than perhaps we’ve ever done, this course is designed to help you invent your future.

Perfect for those of you who need to re-imagine your business or career in light of the pandemic, or who simply need some help focusing on strategy amidst all the uncertainty we face, this is business planning training for a different time.

Course leader Julia Payne will help you think about how you can live well and make a living in this ‘new normal’ we – and all our audiences and customers – are having to adjust to.

What we cover

You’ll get inside the following:

Why a plan, and how to make planning less daunting
What business planning is, and how on earth we can do it now
Messy thinking and tidied up plans: right brain vs left brain planning
How to make sure it starts with you, where you want to go, what’s important to you, and what you are for
Superheroes in disguise – strengths, weaknesses and making a change
Sketching your landscape and finding your tribe… looking around to get ahead
The strategy stuff… debunking the strategic jargon and getting the ideas down
Belt and braces risk… What are the risks? And how would you deal with them?
Making the money work – how to budget not fudge-it
Making this work for you…how to turn your plan into action.

Inventing Your Future – Business Planning for People Who Hate Planning