Business Tools
Find a tool, survey, or quiz below to help your business succeed.
Family Business Quiz:
Take this quiz to see if you are suffering from ‘Outsider Syndrome’ in the Family Business
A successful family business creates a workplace culture that welcomes non-family employees, treats them with respect, and provides equal advancement opportunities.
Every business faces challenges, but family businesses, in particular, face the unique challenge of motivating non-family workers who too often feel under-appreciated, ignored in company planning sessions, and overlooked for advancement into management positions.
Take the quiz to the right to find out what is your score:
What does your score indicate?
Over 80: Success!
You are creating an effective work environment for nonfamily employees.
Between 60 and 80:
Time to fine-tune your management practices.
Below 60:
It’s a good idea to re-gear by instituting ideas from the accompanying story.
Family Business Assessment Quiz
Business Owner Strategic Assessment:
Assessment Survey:
Complete a Strategic Assessment to provide a current status of the overall health of your business that includes your leadership, management and employee teams.
Honestly and objectively assessing your business provides the necessary information to answer the question, “Where do you want to go?” Knowing where your business stands currently compared to the vision of where you want it to be is the clarity needed to reach your desired potential.
Once Complete, combine all the data by team functions to identify high and low points and any big gaps between teams.
Strategic Assessment Topics:
Purpose
Core & Strategic Values
Core Competency
Business Definition
Core Product/Service
Ideal Client
Client Value Proposition
Our Competition
Our Competitive Advantage
Our Mission
Our 3 to 5 Year Vision
Critical Constraints
Strategy
Responsibilities & Actions
Take the Free Assessment Online to download your assessment and send an anonymous copy to your facilitator.
Assessment Time takes less than 5 minutes
Strategic Plan Best Practices - 4 Essential Pieces Of The Strategic Plan
Strategy Assessment
Strategy Assessment from Step 1
One Page Strategic Plan
A Comprehensive One Page Plan that is a powerful and simple tool to keep your business on track
Strengths Weaknesses, & Trends
An updated version of the old SWOT, the SWT is essential to keep your business competitive and up to date.
Action & Accountability Plan
Without execution, all plans are useless. Use whatever tool you have access to to ensure your plan is executed and responsible parties are held accountable.
Focal Point Align-Focus App
FocalPoint has partnered with Align to create the FocalPoint Focus App. This is the application and process found in the book "Scaling Up" and is a best practice for Small Businesses.
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