How to Spend Less Time Searching for Documents: 6 Tips for Reducing Digital Clutter & How It Will Improve Business
One of the most important questions we all have to ask as business owners and leaders is: How can we make our teams more efficient? And in the world of digital transformation, this largely translates to: How can we make our teams’ digital workflows and collaborations more efficient? While searching for documents might seem like […]
How to Harness the Exit Strategy of a Business Plan to Ensure Intentional Growth
In the world of business, success is often measured by growth and expansion. However, what many entrepreneurs fail to consider is the eventual culmination of their efforts—the exit strategy of a business plan. It might seem counterintuitive to prioritize how you’re going to sell or otherwise step away from the business you are currently investing […]
How SOPs Support a Simplified Onboarding Process and Solve High Turnover Rates
High turnover rates are more than just a statistic—they reveal a dynamic force that is molding the contours of your daily operations and impacting the growth and success of your business. For one thing, they indicate a significant financial loss—yes, even on a small team. Just consider the expense of training new hires. Let’s say […]
Boosting Morale at Work: Practical Strategies for Cultivating Employee Engagement
There’s no question that boosting morale at work and increasing employee engagement is pivotal to maintaining employee retention—a reality that didn’t begin with but was punctuated by the so-called Great Resignation of 2021 and the since steady reprioritization of employee satisfaction in the workplace. Looking beyond the obvious impact of retention rates on the success […]
Outsourcing to a Virtual Assistant: When & How to Hire a VA
In today’s fast-paced business world, outsourcing to a virtual assistant has become an increasingly popular and effective way to streamline processes, affordably delegate part-time work, and expand time and energy for core business activities and growth initiatives. With such a rich pool of virtual assistants on the market, outsourcing to a virtual assistant can be […]
From Startup to Successful Scaleup: How Process Management Supports Scaling the Business
As a business owner, you’ve been thinking about growing your business since the beginning—how to keep up with your initial growth as a startup, how to continue growing beyond the startup phase to achieve your goals, and maybe even how to grow a small business into a large business—but how much have you considered scaling […]
Realizing Continuous Improvements in the Workplace: How SOPs Bring Value to Your Business
SOPs, or standard operating procedures (read this for a discussion on all that murky business lingo), are typically met with one of two responses—they are a total waste of time or they are a complete solution to achieving continuous improvements in the workplace and streamlining your business. Of course, neither of these is entirely true. […]
Process Management 101: Defining Business Processes & Overcoming the Challenge of Being Your Own Operations Manager
So much of what we do as business owners is finding ways to take the guesswork out of decision making so that day-to-day tasking eventually generates meaningful achievements; defining business processes is simply how we do that when we don’t have an operations manager. “Business processes” is one of those phrases that gets tossed around […]
