--- title: Business planning advice for the silly season description: James shares some simple tips for managing your team during the holiday season. image: https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/hubfs/Beach%20holiday.jpg --- 05 December 2023 # Business planning advice for the silly season WRITTEN BYJames Price | JPAbusiness ![Beach holiday](https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/Beach%20holiday.jpg?width=1000&height=667&name=Beach%20holiday.jpg) For Australian business owners, the Christmas-summer holiday period can be a time of frenzied activity or it can be dead quiet; it really depends on the industry you’re in. Either way, planning your resourcing is key. Planning means you are well placed to make the most of the money-making opportunities – if there are any – or make the most of the opportunity for everyone in your team to enjoy a good break. And, as is often the case in business, good communication will set you up for success in this area. Ahead of time, talk to your customers, suppliers, internal and external team members, and get a feel for what they’re anticipating will be going on in their side of the business, over the Christmas-summer holiday period. Bring that information together in a resourcing plan that gives you some structure and direction, while also being flexible enough to respond to changes in external conditions. This Christmas, do some planning and give yourself the gift of less stress! Share this Article Share this blog post on Twitter [mailto:?subject=Share%20this%20blog%20post&body=https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/blog/business-planning-advice-for-the-silly-season](mailto:?subject=Share%20this%20blog%20post&body=https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/blog/business-planning-advice-for-the-silly-season) Copied to clipboard Topics - [business planning ](https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/blog/topic/business-planning) - [business management ](https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/blog/topic/business-management) - [running a business ](https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/blog/topic/running-a-business) - [managing employees ](https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/blog/topic/managing-employees) About James Price | JPAbusiness James Price has over 30 years’ experience in providing strategic, commercial and valuation advice to Australian and international business clients. James’ blogs provide business advice for aspiring and current small to mid-sized business owners, operators and managers. #### Related Blog Posts ### [Knowledge and patience key to winning customers (and catching fish!)](https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/blog/knowledge-and-patience-key-to-winning-customers-and-catching-fish) I don’t know about you guys, but I really need to take more time to go fishing. I’m certainly not... [Read more ](https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/blog/knowledge-and-patience-key-to-winning-customers-and-catching-fish) ### [Identifying potential for growth (case study and testimonial)](https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/case-studies/identifying-potential-for-growth-case-study-and-testimonial) Services provided by JPAbusiness: Business valuation Business advice Business background This... [Read more ](https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/case-studies/identifying-potential-for-growth-case-study-and-testimonial) ```json { "@context" : "https://schema.org", "@type" : "BlogPosting", "author" : { "@type" : "Person", "name" : "James Price | JPAbusiness", "url" : "https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/blog/author/james-price-jpabusiness" }, "dateModified" : "2023-12-05T15:00:00.774Z", "datePublished" : "2023-12-05T15:00:00.000Z", "headline" : "Business planning advice for the silly season", "image" : [ "https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/hubfs/Beach%20holiday.jpg" ], "mainEntityOfPage" : { "@id" : "https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/blog/business-planning-advice-for-the-silly-season", "@type" : "WebPage" }, "publisher" : { "@type" : "Organization", "logo" : { "@type" : "ImageObject", "url" : "https://blog.jpabusiness.com.au/hubfs/JPAbusiness-logo.svg" }, "name" : "JPAbusiness Pty Ltd" } } ```