Definitive Business Plan, Second Edition, The

Meeting post-mortems

While the meeting is still fresh in your mind, replay it mentally and consider if your business plan did its job. Make notes for reference and list the topics to cover at the next meeting. Were there questions that the plan does not answer? Did you identify the decision-makers? Were there prejudices or concerns that conflict with the plan? Were you asked for further information that could have been in the plan? You might want to revise the document, especially if you expect to be showing it to other people.

When you are in a repetitive cycle, you will certainly want to make sure that next year's plan covers these points.