Is 2020 going to plan? If not read this
Did you start 2020 thinking this would be the year that…?

Set goals to reflect your true colours
I have written many blogs about how to achieve your goals
Benefits and how you change the world
How you change the world – the benefits you supply
A tool to help you identify the benefits you give and how you can refine what you offer. It includes an example to get you thinking
Download “Theory of change developer” theory-of-change-developer-v2.docx – 1 MB

Why should anyone buy from you?
When I was starting out in sales and marketing it was all about features and benefits and I had to analyse a sales brochure to identify the split between the two.
Values
Principles Prioritiser
This tool will help you identify and then rank your values. First identify as many values on the form
Ranking your values
To rank your values take your five top values and then taking the first in the list decide whether it is more important than the second, then the third, then the fourth and then the fifth recording the score again which you choose.
Then take the second on the list and decide whether it is more important than the third and so on. NB you have already ranked it against the first.
The maximum score you can have for any one is 4 and the total score will equal ten. The value with the top score is the one most important to you.
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Values > Behaviours
This tool will help you personalise your values and bring them to life
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Winning with values
This business skills session explains why having clear values is so critical to success

Solopreneur or social entrepreneur, what do you want to be known as?
We spend a lot of our time talking to people who want to set up on their own and are not sure whether they should be a social enterprise or a business but I think both can be social entrepreneurs.
How to create a successful business
This business skills session outlines why the principles of the Responsible Organisation Charter were chosen and how to use them.
Responsible Organisation Check(C)
Use this tool to track where you are in terms of each of the principles of being a Responsible Organisation. It has space for you to write comments about why you scored as you did and identify priorities.
Download “Responsible Organisation Check” responsible-organisation-check.docx – 131 KB
The scores can also be summarised on the more visual wheel of the Responsible Organisation Charter.
Download “Responsible Organisation Charter” Responsible-Organisation-Charter-.jpg – 476 KB

The power of the Sunflower
Sunflowers are joyful things and I think it’s great that they are now being used as a discrete way of indicating someone may have a hidden disability.

An easy way to plant a tree and help save the planet
If you want to help the environment a simple way to do it is to use Ecosia as your search engine particularly when you expect to be clicking through ads.