And that’s a wrap. Well almost!
No doubt you and your team and frantically running around to maximize on the last two weeks of 2024.
Thank goodness, you just need to coast to the holidays and then that’s it. You’ll deal with everything in the new year? Not quite. If you want to unlock growth in 2025 before the year even starts, here are 3 ways to use what you learned.
1. Celebrate how far you’ve come 🎊
Why would you celebrate how far you’ve come? It’s important to just keep going right? After all you don’t stop until you win. And if you stop to reflect, that may just throw you off track right?
Actually, the opposite is true.
Taking the time to recognize your wins at the end of the year will re-fuel you with the energy and motivation you need to move forward in 2025.
Think about where your business was in January and think about everything that happened during the year. No doubt you’ve made progress.
TIP ✨ Even though we always want to be further than where we are, just for a moment, stop to pause with your team and celebrate. Do something out of the ordinary to celebrate the moment! Not sure what to celebrate? Check out some ideas.
2. Identify your three biggest wins - and be specific 🏆
What were the three biggest wins your business had in 2024?
Try to be as specific as possible. For instance, perhaps you perfected your customer onboarding process but dive into things a little deeper.
- Where did you start off this year?
- Where did you end?
- And now, the most important part; how did you get there?
Yup, this is the process.
Of course, we’re going to tell you to document it in Whale. But if you don’t use Whale, write it down somewhere. And make it part of your secret sauce.
You may find that doubling down in this area in 2025 is going to unlock growth in ways you can’t imagine.
TIP ✨ Why not start a company win list? You can do this on Whale or even just on your company whiteboard. You may think that small wins don’t count but make a list of these too. It’s important to place value on your small wins, too because everything adds up!
3. What were the learnings? 🤓
It wouldn’t be life and it certainly wouldn’t be entrepreneurship without the challenges along the way.
It’s often easy to get caught up in feeling like you failed but it’s never a failure if you learn along the way.
Get your team together and write a list (5 things maximum) of what didn’t work in 2024. Why didn’t it work? Was it a timing thing? Was it a resource thing? Or was it purely not in line with the business values?
If you’re working on the EOS model, try to identify which component was the problem and how to do this better in 2023.
TIP ✨ Reflect on how you’re going to adapt your process in 2025 to refine the way you do things or even use the learnings as opportunities from which to springboard new business growth.
Some of our highlights from 2024
What We Launched in 2024
In 2024, we;
- Launched our new Organizational Chart Feature
- Released Checklists
- Went live on Product Hunt
We delivered value & growth
We grew our team to ensure we continue to deliver value and growth to clients. Check out what our customers said.
G2 voted us tops 🎉
We’re absolutely THRILLED to have been awarded the number one position in a number of categories on G2.
This includes being rated:
#1🏆 for Easiest To Do Business With
#1🏆 for Quality of Support
#1🏆 for Ease of Use
We made clients happy! And that made us happy! 🎉
We close 2024, happy that we made a real difference to client’s businesses this year.
We LOVE hearing your customer feedback and we love that Whale is making a difference to the way people work.
We had fun 🎉
We work hard but we also had alot of fun this year. Not just working together but in our socials and with our customers.
In aiming to deliver frictionless wow’s to our customers, we find that having fun is the best way.
Comment on our posts, if you’re loving the new approach.
So as you embark on new goals and rocks for the year to come, we just want to say;
We look forward to sharing the journey with you in 2025! Here’s to celebrating and unlocking more growth in the year to come!
We wish you your best year yet!
