10 questions to help carry out a year-end review of your business
As another year draws to a close, it is a perfect opportunity to carry out a year-end review.
This is an invaluable opportunity to revisit your goals, celebrate all the amazing things you have achieved and learned, consider areas for development and identify goals for next year.
These insights will help you to set your next business goals and plan effectively for your business.
If you are a business owner, particularly a solopreneur, you do not have a manager or team leader to carry out your year-end review with you, so it is easy for this crucial part of your personal and professional development to go amiss.
The headings below, alongside 10 question prompts, provide a structured framework to help you carry out a year-end review of your business:
Reflecting on 2024
1. What goals did I set?
Remind yourself of the goals you set, whether they were annual goals, biannual goals and/or quarterly goals.
2. Why did I choose these goals?
What was the importance behind them?
What was I hoping to achieve?
3. Did I successfully achieve them?
If so, great! What helped me to achieve them?
What processes, opportunities or habits did I put in place to make this happen?
If not, what happened? How can I use these insights moving forward to next year?
4. What have been the highlights of my year?
These may be achievements or certain skills or knowledge you have acquired this year.
What have been my most popular products or services?
What learning opportunities have had the biggest impact on me this year?
5. What have been my key challenges?
Identifying your key challenges and how you navigated your way through them provide opportunities for development and growth.
Would I do anything different next year?
6. What am I most proud of?
This is an opportunity for you to give yourself a pat on the back for something(s) you are particularly proud of and to say well done.
7. Who or what am I grateful for?
Practising gratitude is an important part of goal-setting as well as helping to enhance your wellbeing.
Looking ahead to 2025
8. What are my business priorities for 2024?
Which goals do I want to move towards next year?
What steps do I need to take to achieve these goals?
What resources, knowledge or skills will help me achieve my goals?
9. How do I want to spend my time?
Where do I want to focus my time and energy the most next year?
What habits and routines do I want to create/embed next year?
What would I like to let go of next year?
10. How am I going to invest in my wellbeing next year?
Which hobbies or self-care practices can I use to support me?
How can I carve out time and space for these in my schedule?
How can I maintain a healthy work-life balance?
I hope these 10 questions will help you carry out a end-of-year review of your business and to celebrate all you have achieved this past year.
Remember to carry out an end-of-year review of your business before you set your 2025 goals, so you can begin the new year with greater clarity, focus and confidence.
3 ways I can help you end 2024 on a high:
Your year-end review and goal-setting session
Together we will carry out your year-end review of your business and set your 2025 business goals.
Price: £200
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Goal setting and action planning session
I will help you set your 2025 business goals and create a step-by-step action plan to reach them.
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Website review
Get your website ready for 2025.
I will take a thorough look across all of your websites’ pages and send you detailed feedback with suggestions and improvements, so your website can work better for your business.
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I would like to wish ‘Happy Holidays’ to all of my clients and followers. Thank you for all your support this year and I wish you all a very Happy New Year!
