Hello.
Welcome to Bossy Like Me, an interview series and resource destination for and about women small business owners and pioneers.
Welcome to Bossy Like Me, an interview series and resource destination for and about women small business owners and pioneers.
“I’m too busy to plan for next year”
“I’ll never get through my to-do list”
“I’m overwhelmed by the everyday tasks of my business”
“I have no idea what I would do if I got a great opportunity to expand”
Have you said any of the above one or a million times? Me too!
Focused/Flexible
Be Kind. Make Money. Create Impact.
All the basics of strategic planning for small business.
“Focused & Flexible: Strategic Planning for Small Business” is a workbook for the small business owner who can never seem to get organized, is kept hostage by a never-ending to-do list, and can’t ever find the time to launch that amazing new idea.
I know how you feel because I’ve been there! I wrote this workbook for you!
“Focused & Flexible” gives you the tools and the tactics to make it happen. This step-by-step guide helps you brainstorm new products, services or programs, then guides you through strategizing how your ideas will benefit your current business, then teaches you how to prioritize what to take on, and finally, it helps you put it all on the calendar to make it happen. There is even a whole chapter on empowering you to create new habits so you really get it done this time. There are also mindset challenges throughout the workbook to shake you out of your comfort zone. You can use this workbook year after year.
Focused & Flexible will get you there!
“Focused & Flexible” is meant to be your personal guide for quarterly, annual, and multi-year planning. This is a step-by-step strategy tool used by project managers in large organizations but written specifically for small business owners. No need to decode how it all relates to your work.
You need the “Focused & Flexible” workbook so you can finally launch your next big idea and weather the storms of small business ownership!
You will dig deep into the details of S.W.O.T. analysis. A strategy tool to find out your ideas’ strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. We talk about it means to create S.M.A.R.T long-term goals. And then discuss how to create a CEO Retreat Day, where you get all the planning done and put it on your calendar. This is truly a step-by-step guide to strategic planning!
Get organized. Stop procrastinating. Make It Happen.
Stop being held hostage to the day-to-day work
Start prioritizing your own happiness
Get organized
Systemize your workload so you have more time for more important things
Get through your to-do list, FINALLY
Move towards the big ambitious goals you’ve always dreamed about
Be ready for that big opportunity when it arrives
Get your personal time back
Spend more time with the people and things you want
Take a real vacation where you forget about everything
Celebrate all the things you have done
Create real impact in your community
Hi! I’m Reneé Blanchard. I live in the historic Central City neighborhood of New Orleans .
Why Am I The Right Person To Write This Workbook?
My name is Reneé Blanchard and I launched Bossy Like Me in 2015 because I wanted to learn from as many small business owners as I could. So I started interviewing them!
But I am a campaigner and a project manager for environmental non-profits by trade. For ten years I wrote scientific reports gathered by professional and citizen scientists so everyday people can make real change for their communities. I helped plan for and then put into action campaigns that empower large corporations to eliminate toxic chemicals from their consumer products.
Then in 2012, I caught the entrepreneurial spirit! I opened a cafe in New Orleans, LA, and became a small business owner. I took all my project management skills and tested them in the restaurant business.
I loved my career before owning a restaurant because it taught me how to be incredibly organized and plan ahead for all kinds of possible challenges. I wrote this book because I know what it takes to build a successful small business. I took my non-profit and small business ownership experiences and wrote this workbook on strategic planning specifically for small business owners.
I know the information in this book can help create more resilient small businesses that can weather big storms and create great success that truly benefits our communities.
"Focused & Flexible: Strategic Planning For Small Business"
