What Your Numbers Are Telling You
Business Wisdom Podcast
Every so often in business, we need to pause and take stock. Not just to look at reports or spreadsheets, but to understand what our numbers are actually telling us. Every number in your business tells a story. When you know how to read it, you make better decisions, build stability, and lead with clarity. In this episode of Business Wisdom, we will walk through how to review your numbers without emotion or judgment and how to use them as a practical leadership tool. Numbers don’t tell you how to feel. They show you where to look. We’ll explore: Why numbers should be part of your...
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Is Your Week Aligned with Your Vision?
Business Wisdom Podcast
Most leaders I meet are busy. They’re capable, organised, and working hard. But a full calendar doesn’t always mean meaningful progress. You can have a packed week and still be far from where you want your business to go. In this episode, I explore the idea of alignment, specifically, how to tell whether your week is actually supporting your vision or quietly pulling you away from it. Because when actions and plans stop matching, drift sets in. And drift is one of the biggest threats to long-term progress. In this episode, we’ll cover: Why busyness often disguises misalignment How to...
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Developing a Strategic Plan for the Upcoming Year
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A new year brings opportunity, but opportunity only turns into progress when you have a clear plan to guide your decisions. Winging it leads to scattered effort, reactive choices, and goals that never fully take shape. A strategic plan changes that. It gives you direction, structure, and the confidence to lead your business with purpose. In this episode, I walk you through what an effective strategic plan looks like, when to build it, and how to keep it simple enough to use every day, including: What a strategic plan actually is (and isn’t) Why planning early gives you a significant...
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Building Confidence Through Strategic Reflection
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Reflection is one of the most powerful tools we have in business. Yet it’s also one of the most overlooked. We rush toward the next goal, the next task, the next idea, and miss the clarity sitting in the work we’ve already done. In this episode, I explore how strategic reflection helps you build grounded confidence, make clearer decisions, and move forward with purpose. Reflection isn’t about nostalgia. It’s about learning from evidence, recognising patterns, and leading with insight rather than assumption. You’ll learn how to reflect with structure, how to extract lessons that...
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Approaching the New Year with Strategic Confidence
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The start of a new year often brings a mix of excitement and uncertainty. There’s an opportunity ahead, but also pressure to make the most of it. For business owners, the key isn’t just confidence, it’s strategic confidence - the ability to back your decisions with clarity, preparation, and purpose.
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Maintaining Strategic Focus During the Holiday Rush
Business Wisdom Podcast
The end of the year can test even the most organised business owner. Deadlines, client wrap-ups, final reports, and the personal rush of the season all compete for your attention. In the middle of that noise, strategy often slips into survival mode.
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Preparing Your Business for the Holiday Season
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As business owners, it’s easy to reach the end of the year and feel like the holidays have arrived out of nowhere. The calendar fills, deadlines loom, and before you know it, December becomes a blur of activity, last-minute sales preparations, and unfinished plans.
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Reflecting on the Year and Planning Ahead
Business Wisdom Podcast
Before you charge into a new year, take a moment to look back. Reflection isn’t just a feel-good exercise, it’s a strategic advantage. In this episode, Clive Enever shares how intentional reflection helps you learn from experience, sharpen your focus, and enter the next year with clarity and purpose.
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Elevating Business Performance Through Strategic Adjustments
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Elevating Business Performance Through Strategic Adjustments
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Why Early Planning Sets You Up for a Breakthrough Year
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Too many business owners wait until January to plan their year, but by then, they’re already behind. The businesses that grow, scale and thrive don’t wing it in the new year. They step into January with clarity, priorities and momentum already in place.
info_outlineA new year brings opportunity, but opportunity only turns into progress when you have a clear plan to guide your decisions. Winging it leads to scattered effort, reactive choices, and goals that never fully take shape. A strategic plan changes that. It gives you direction, structure, and the confidence to lead your business with purpose.
In this episode, I walk you through what an effective strategic plan looks like, when to build it, and how to keep it simple enough to use every day, including:
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What a strategic plan actually is (and isn’t)
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Why planning early gives you a significant advantage
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The five core elements every strategic plan needs
Why a Strategic Plan Matters
Without a plan, you end up reacting instead of leading. You spread your time across too many tasks, measure progress by activity rather than outcomes, and miss the clarity that helps you make confident decisions.
A strong strategic plan brings focus, flexibility, and alignment. It makes delegation easier. It sharpens your marketing. It turns growth into something you can build, not something you can chase.
Planning early means you start the year in motion rather than recovering from the holiday fog. It’s your chance to lead the year instead of being pulled along by it.
The Core Elements of a Strategic Plan
1. Vision
Define what success looks like by this time next year. Your vision becomes the compass for every decision you make.
2. Priorities
Identify three to five strategic objectives that will move you toward that vision. Keep them focused and intentional, revenue, systems, team development, or market expansion.
3. Milestones
Break each priority into quarterly or monthly markers. These checkpoints help you adjust early rather than course-correcting too late.
4. Resources
List the people, tools, training, and budget you need to support your plan. Preparation now prevents scrambling later.
5. Metrics
Decide how you’ll measure success. Choose indicators that matter, the numbers that reflect real progress, not vanity.
Keep It Simple, Flexible, and Visible
Your strategic plan should live in a format you’ll actually use: a one-page summary, a shared document, or a visual dashboard. Strategy only works when it’s accessible, reviewed often, and adaptable when circumstances shift.
A strategic plan is a living document. Things will change, but with structure, you can adapt intentionally rather than reactively.
Lead the Year, Don’t Chase It
Your role as the leader is to stay anchored in what matters most. Use your plan to guide decisions, shift priorities, and hold yourself accountable.
A powerful year doesn’t happen by luck. It happens by design. Plan now. Lead now. Decide what the next 12 months will look like, and commit to building it.
Tools to Help You Build Your Strategic Plan
The Business Wisdom Vault https://academy.enevergroup.com.au/bundles/BusinessWisdomVault
A library of strategic planning frameworks, templates, and decision-making tools designed to help you create a clear and confident plan for the year ahead. Access the resources that support consistent progress and purposeful action.
Book a 1:1 Strategy Session https://www.enevergroup.com.au/booking-clive/
If you’d like support developing or refining your strategic plan, book a one-on-one session with me. We’ll map your priorities, structure your milestones, and create a plan that helps you lead the year with clarity and confidence.
Highlights
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00:22 The Importance of a Strategic Plan
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01:15 Defining a Strategic Plan
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01:49 Why Strategic Planning Matters
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02:21 When to Start Strategic Planning
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02:53 Key Elements of a Strategic Plan
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03:57 Making Your Plan Actionable
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04:27 Aligning Your Team and Workflow
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04:52 Using Your Plan to Lead
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05:17 Reflection