My top 10 tips from 10 years of running my company! Part 1: tips 1 to 3

Now we are ten... I am very proud, having set up 3rd Sector Mission Control in the spring of 2013, that ten years later, we're still going strong! With thanks to everyone we've worked with so far, here is a post with the first three of (appropriately) ten tips that I've learned along the way. Tip 1: Write your plans down and keep returning to them Before we opened our doors, I wrote a business plan (pictured here). Looking at it now, some of it turned out to be bang on, while other areas didn't quite happen the way I'd expected. The point is, though, that I kept returning to it and wrote a new one each year based on what I'd learned from what had happened. How often do we file our strategies away never to look at them again? How do we hold ourselves accountable? My first top tip is to be brave enough both to write down what you hope to achieve and to look at it again later! Tip 2: Find a friend and a person to convince when presenting Presenting can be daunting, can't it? Whether it's making a presentation to a (relatively) crowded room, as I'm doing here, or presenting in a trustee meeting, for example, a great piece of advice I took on board over the last decade was to think in particular about two people. Can you identify one person in the room who you think might be supportive of you, and who you can look at when you need a bit of reassurance? And who is the person you are trying to reach who might need a bit of persuading? Maybe someone at the back