90-Day Business Planning: GrowthCLUB, October 2026
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De Vere Wokefield Park Estate, Goodboy's Lane,
Reading
RG7 3AE
110 + VAT
90-Day Business Planning: GrowthCLUB
GrowthCLUB
Hosted by: Rob Pickering, Peter Loverdos & Lisa Sinfield
I’m delighted to be joining fellow ActionCOACHes Peter Loverdos and Rob Pickering for our next GrowthCLUB, alongside my own clients. By bringing local coaches and their clients together, GrowthCLUB offers the chance to benefit from the ideas, experience and energy of a much wider business community.
GrowthCLUB 90-Day Planning is your 90-day business planning workshop. We will inspire and assist you to build a step-by-step practical, relevant and tailor-made action plan for the next 90 days, aimed at driving more profit into your business.
During the business planning workshop, you will build:
- Action strategies to increase your sales and profits right away
- Clear business goals and targets for the next 90 days
- Detailed action plan of how to achieve your goals
- Vision, focus and enthusiasm for the next 90 days
- New skills and tools to enable you to achieve more in less time
- Contacts with a group of like-minded business owners
What’s the agenda for the day?
GrowthCLUB 90-Day Planning is a full-day workshop where you’ll have the chance to learn how to write your business plan, start working on it and attend engaging seminars on topics that will support your business success. Refreshments throughout the day and lunch are all included!
The agenda for GrowthCLUB in October 2026 is:
8:30 Arrival
9:30 Introduction
9:40 Peter Loverdos: Reviewing Your Past 90 Days
10:20 Rob Pickering: Practical Use of AI in Your Business - Part 1
11:20 Break, 15 minutes
11:35 Rob Pickering: Practical Use of AI in Your Business - Part 2
12:15 Lunch
1:00 High Growth Awards
1:15 First-time attendees: Intro to Planning
1:15 Afternoon Planning Session
3:30 Closing Session, Actions from the day
4:00 Join us for a drink and chat in the bar afterwards for a chance to reflect on your day – or leave if you prefer.
Topic 1: Reviewing Your Past 90 Days, delivered by Peter Loverdos, Business Coach
Before you plan the next 90 days, it is worth stopping to look properly at the last 90.
Whether you were with us in June or this is your first GrowthCLUB, the quarter just gone holds the useful information: what worked, what did not, and what you would do differently. Not to dwell on it — to learn from it. When you know what caused a good result, you can repeat it. When you know what caused a bad one, you can stop it happening again.
Peter will walk you through that review quickly and honestly. Celebrate the wins, take the lessons, decide what changes. Because reflection without action is just nostalgia.
Topic 2: Practical Use of AI in Your Business, delivered by Rob Pickering, Business Coach
Most businesses using AI are writing blog posts and drafting emails with it. That is the least interesting thing it does.
This will be a practical, jargon-free look at how AI - Claude specifically - can save you hours a week and drop straight to your bottom line.
If you own a business and you're still treating AI as something to "look into eventually," this will be the session that changes that.
Most business owners have heard endlessly about AI over the last two years, but very few have actually put it to work. That's not surprising - the noise is enormous, half of it is hype, and it's genuinely hard to know where fifteen minutes of playing with a chatbot ends and a real productivity gain begins.
That's not an AI problem. It's a nobody's-shown-me-how problem. And it's entirely fixable in this session.
If you can, bring your laptop. You'll be able to try things out as we go.
Why this matters now
What was clever-but-fiddly a year ago is now genuinely reliable - connected to your email, your files, your calendar, doing real work while you get on with something else. The business owners who get to grips with this over the next twelve months buy themselves back hours every single week. The ones who don't will just be working harder than their competitors, for no good reason.
What we will cover
- Using AI to Increase Productivity - An Introduction. A clear-eyed look at what you can implement right now! You'll leave this section knowing exactly where to focus first.
- Claude Connectors. How to connect Claude to the software you already use every day - your email, documents, calendar, and CRM - so it understands your actual business instead of giving you generic answers. This is what turns AI from a novelty into something that saves you real hours, because it's working with your real information.
- Claude Cowork. Moving on from asking AI questions to handing it real pieces of work and getting finished results back. This is where the productivity gain becomes obvious - tasks that used to take you an hour done in minutes, while you get on with something else.
- Scheduled Tasks. Setting AI to run repetitive jobs automatically, at a time you choose, without you lifting a finger. Perfect for the recurring admin nobody enjoys - reports, reminders, chasing information - freeing up time you didn't know you were losing.
- Creating Skills in Claude. Teaching AI your own processes and house style, so it does things exactly the way you would, every time. Once built, a Skill turns a one-off explanation into a repeatable capability your whole business can use.
- Building Dashboards. Turning scattered data into a single view of the numbers that actually matter to you, updated automatically. Instead of hunting for information across different systems, you'll see what you need to know at a glance - and make faster, better decisions as a result.
What you will take away
You'll leave with a clear, practical understanding of where AI can genuinely save you time and money in your business, hands-on experience of tools you can start using the same day, and enough confidence to keep exploring on your own.
Who should attend?
GrowthCLUB 90-day business planning is designed for business owners and senior managers, though anyone is welcome. Many business owners choose to bring one or two of their senior team. It often helps to bring along more than one person from a company, as it can make it easier to create plans on the day, and to hit the ground running back at the office when it comes to implementing the plans.
Is this just for big businesses?
GrowthCLUB is for just about any size of business, whether you’re the business owner with no employees, or part of a large organisation with a large team – all sizes of businesses attend this event.
Hosted By
Rob Pickering
Senior Business Coach
Peter Loverdoss
Senior Business Coach
Lisa Sinfield
Business Coach
