See where your business really stands. Then plan the next quarter.
A half day workshop for your leadership team, run in your company, every quarter. Your team X-Rays the business honestly, agrees four goals and leaves with a quarterly plan.
- Half day
- One company at a time
- Every quarter
Most planning days start with goals.
Without an honest look at the business first, the goals usually repeat last quarter's wish list.
- 01
Leaders are too busy running the business to step back and look at it.
- 02
Everyone has a different picture of where the business stands, and of its numbers.
- 03
Goals are vague, too many, or chase growth while the foundation is cracked.
- 04
The plan is made on the day and forgotten by week three.
This workshop puts the diagnosis first, so the goals come from what the business actually needs.
An honest picture, every quarter.
Business X-Ray is my quarterly health report for a business. Every quarter, it shows honestly where your business stands on the journey to freedom, and what to fix next.
- It looks at practices, not opinions.
- Each practice is scored on a simple ladder, from not yet in place to embedded in how you work.
- It maps your business on a staged journey.
- Each stage has its own payoff.
- It tells you what to build next.
- Foundation comes before growth.
- It checks scores against your numbers.
- Margins, cash, collections and customer concentration sit beside the practices behind them. A score without evidence is lower than claimed.
- It is built for Indian SMEs.
- Family run businesses, monthly numbers, credit and cash realities.
From a sample report. The business is fictitious.
How the half day runs
Before the day, your team brings its key numbers from the accounts and a short look back at the last quarter.
- 01Rear View MirrorBefore deciding where to go, the team is honest about the road just travelled: the biggest win and the biggest blindspot.
- 02The Business X-RayYour leadership team takes the X-Ray together, debating and agreeing one honest score for each practice. The debate is where the alignment happens.
- 03Reading the reportThe team sees where the business stands, its strongest and weakest areas, and what its own numbers say.
- 04Four goalsA few foundation fixes from the X-Ray plus one or two business projects. Every goal is checked against the X-Ray, so no project rests on a weak foundation.
- 05The quarterly planEach goal is broken into weekly steps with clear owners.
- 06CommitmentEach leader says out loud what they own this quarter.
The Business X-Ray report
Where the business stands, its focus areas, its strengths and what its numbers say.
One shared picture
Of the business, across the leadership team.
Four agreed goals
For the quarter, each with an owner.
A quarterly plan
Ready to go on the wall.
The team returns, reviews last quarter's goals, takes the X-Ray again and sees its scores move. One to one coaching is a separate engagement, for teams that want weekly support in between. About coaching
- Diagnosis before goals.
- The plan comes from an honest X-Ray, not a wish list.
- One shared truth.
- The leadership team agrees its scores together, out loud.
- Numbers, not just feelings.
- Self-scores are checked against the accounts.
- Progress you can see.
- The same X-Ray every quarter shows what has actually moved.
- Run by an owner.
- I run a second generation manufacturing business myself, so I plan like an owner, not a consultant.
“Jo likha hai, woh ho jayega.”
What is written will be done.
Business owners at the closing circle of a Business X-Ray workshop, in their own words.
- AHalf day
- BOne company at a time
- CEvery quarter