Creativity
This piece is your reminder that “creativity” in business isn’t artsy fluff – it’s about doing what you already do insanely well and finding smarter ways to create value and stand out. 1. Creativity = Doing what you do well…
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Business Processes: Don’t do THIS Before THAT
Building a stronger business isn’t just about what you do—it’s about doing things in the right order. Here’s your “this before that” playbook, one hard-hitting principle at a time: Don’t aggressively chase sales until you know you can make healthy…
Standard Operating Procedure
This template is a simple way to get what’s currently “in people’s heads” into a clear, repeatable Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) you can actually run the business on. You’re not writing a novel here—you’re defining who does what, when, and…
Break Even and Target Profit Calculator
This calculator is doing one simple but important thing for you as a business owner:it’s showing exactly where your business stops losing money and starts making it. What “break-even” actually means Break-even is the point where: Total revenue = total…
Customer Satisfaction Survey
This Customer Satisfaction Survey is a simple way to get past guesswork and find out, directly from your clients, how well you’re actually performing across the whole project experience. It’s designed for you to use at the end of a…
Elevator Pitch Formula
This short presentation is your playbook for answering the one question you hear everywhere: “So, what do you do?” Instead of freezing, rambling, or giving a bland job title, this tool shows you how to give a clear, memorable answer…
One Page Business Plan
This one-page business plan is basically a blueprint for getting your whole organization on the same page, both literally and figuratively. It takes everything that usually lives in 40-slide decks and scattered spreadsheets and forces it into a simple structure…
Business Mastery Toolkit – The 8 Elements of Successful Businesses
This is the “how” manual for the business mastery model. You know the four stages: Viability, Marketability, Profitability, and Sustainability – now you’re seeing the eight domains of business mastery that cut across those stages. 1. Strategy, Planning & Goal…
Roadmap to Sustainability – The Lifecycle Stages of a Business
This roadmap is basically a growth ladder for a business: you start by proving the idea works (Viability), then you make it wanted (Marketability), then you make it consistently profitable (Profitability), and finally you build something that runs and grows…
Business Mastery Stage Definition
This piece is your orientation to the whole model – it explains what the four stages of business maturity are and how to use them to make better decisions inside Empower. At a high level, it’s saying: “You’re not just…