Our Mission Statement
To provide our customers with professional service by drawing up a comprehensive, strategic and well composed business plan which will supply the resources, authority and opportunity to assist a business in becoming both productive and profitable.
Our objectives
We at Business Plans for the Trades promise to arrange appropriate and timely service. We’ll treat you with courtesy, respect and with fairness giving you full and accurate information. We aim to maintain a high standard in all aspects of the service we provide.
We assist small business stakeholders, especially tradies, develop and understand their own business plan. We are organised to assist and encourage small business entities to view their new business plan as a roadmap to future success.
Our objective is to achieve a 100% success rate with our customers in achieving their objectives and cash flow targets within a short period of time.
Tradespeople who are apprehensive about starting out on their own will be encouraged to prepare a business plan in order to foresee what must be done in order to achieve success; statistics showing that most small businesses fail within the first twelve months, due to flying blind.
Bruce O’Brien, principal of Business Plans for the Trades is a former bank manager, having 30+ years banking experience, fourteen of those as a hands-on branch manager specialising in commercial lending.
Bruce has extensive experience in business management principles, enhanced by formal qualifications. He has been lecturing in ‘Small Business Management’ and various other management subjects at Victoria University, and the Bacchus Marsh Adult Education Centre for over twelve years. A subject close to his heart is ‘The Business Plan’.
Bruce’s qualifications include, but are not limited to:-
- Graduate Diploma in Administrative Management
- Graduate Certificate in Vocational Education and Training
- Diploma in Management
- Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment