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How can I balance short-term needs with long-term targets?

As a business leader, you’ll be familiar with the tricky balancing act that comes with the appeal of solving short-term needs at the potential detriment to long-term goals. While short-term wins may seem appealing, how do they affect your overall strategy? And how do you navigate turning down short-term opportunities in order to focus on long-term plans? These are the big decisions that every business needs to make.

Ways to help you deal with it:

Action plan

Develop your goal setting and planning routine

Effort: Low
Impact : High
Working on your routine adds rigour to the planning process and makes sure your team can work effectively. Get started with our five-step plan.

ACTION PLANS are a structured list of steps designed to help you approach tackling a particular business challenge.

  • We explain why each step is important
  • Customise by setting your own completion dates and assign tasks
  • Helpful tools are provided for certain steps
  • A downloadable PDF version of each action plan is available

Guide

An introduction to balancing short-term business needs with long-term targets

Businesses face constant pressure to respond to urgent operational and financial needs. The risk is that the company might lose sight of long-term goals.

GUIDES break a challenge down, providing important context and real-world experiences.

  • Based on SME experiences, not corporate jargon
  • Filled with real-world stories
  • Achievable steps every business can take

Other support that's available

How other businesses have tackled something similar

The questions lots of businesses are trying to answer

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