Last Updated on Mar 31, 2020 by James W
If there’s one trait that I’m sure you want your business to have, then it’s efficiency. This is essential for staying on top of quotas, staying competitive, and continuing to grow. As you can imagine, maximising your efficiency isn’t as simple as waking up and saying “I’m going to run an efficient business???. There are many smaller factors which all contribute to making a business as productive and cost-effective as possible. One of these is organisation, and how easily you’re able to manage your business. Here are some ways to make your whole company more organised.
First of all, product development. When you’re laying out plans to release a new product, I’m sure you don’t want it to be something poor-quality and forgettable. You want something that will turn the market on its head, and drive up sales for your company. You’re probably aware of how quickly your particular niche can change. It’s important that you stay organised enough to hit those release dates. When you’re worrying about financial management, marketing and everything else that comes with running a business, staying up-to-date with your product development can become a little challenging. This is especially true if you’re managing a workforce that’s spread all over the world. Everyone at your organisation has to be working towards the same goal, and when you’ve got a new product in the works this should take priority. Start paying more frequent visits to your R&D team, and make sure you’re getting the whole picture. Find out the strengths and drawbacks for each prototype, and make sure you’re giving feedback on everything that crosses your mind. Remember that every late release will cost you money!
Organising your employees is another task that should be high on your list. In this digital age, it can be hard to forget that businesses are made of people. If your entire workforce were to quit tomorrow, you would find yourself bankrupt extremely quickly. Your team is a massive asset, so don’t let them go to waste by letting them become disorganised. A disorganised workforce usually comes from management being too disconnected from their staff. When you’re letting instructions be handed down from person to person, you can easily end up with a Chinese whispers situation. There’ll be plenty of opportunities for huge misunderstandings to crop up, leading to missed deadlines and a generally confused company. If you don’t have the time to check on your entry-level staff regularly, then you’ll probably have to find some kind of tech solution instead. Using cloud tech is a great way to see how projects are coming along in real-time, and how well your staff are meeting their quotas. Other tech like a FMLA tracking system could become part of your tool box to make your workforce even more organised. If you can afford it, you might want to take on an extra HR manager. Having these people on the office floor can save you a lot of time, and time is money!
Finally, organising your social media presence. I don’t care what you’re selling or who you’re selling it to, you need to be visible on social media. At one time, simply having the one Facebook page and posting whenever you had a new product was considered acceptable. Now, things are totally different. Your company needs to have a powerful presence on all the major social networking sites, and it needs to be interacting with them regularly. With several different pages to maintain, managing social media isn’t the easiest thing in the world. If you were to manage each channel separately, you’d eat up a lot of time which could be invested elsewhere. Once again, technology comes to the rescue! There are many social media management programs now. While some are better than others, they all serve more or less the same purpose. Through this software, you’ll be able to take the manual labour completely out of your business’s social media marketing. You’ll have a single interface linked up to all your social platforms. Here, you can compose and schedule posts on all the different networks you’re connected to. Looking at it may just be confusing now. However, once you learn some of the conventions for each network, this tech is the perfect way to make sure people see what you want, when you want it.
Take my advice, and you’ll find everything about your business much easier to manage. Implementing these changes may take some effort. However, the increased efficiency is well worth it!
