Article Contributed by Dan Razak
Although getting a high-end equipment and hiring the right people helps make your business more productive, there is much more to it than these two aspects alone. The key to the success of your business lies in your startup’s work organization, which is not a small matter. In order to be able to unleash its full potential, your business needs to run like a well-oiled machine but to achieve this, every single cog needs to be in its place. With this in mind, here are three simple tips that can help improve your startup’s work organization significantly.
1. Encourage employee autonomy
The first thing you need to realize if you want to expand your business is the fact that you won’t be able to micro-manage everything forever. Even with an assistant, you can’t be everywhere at the same time, which means that you should start trusting your employees. In the very first sentence of this article, we’ve mentioned the importance of hiring the right people for the job. Well, if you handpick and train your employees the right way, all that is left for you is to trust them.
They are more than capable handling tasks they are appointed with, which is why you need to encourage employee autonomy whenever you can. Of course, when it comes to major managerial issues, you still need to be the one calling all the shots.
2. Outsource non-vital tasks
The next thing you should be focusing on is improving the productivity of your team in its core tasks. Here, we are usually talking about your production or sales team. At the end of the day, the aspect of your business that interests your clients the most is how good your product/service is. Because of this, you need to focus on it as much as possible and make it your priority.
Unfortunately, new entrepreneurs usually get exhausted by issues they are not as skilled in, such as IT, HR and customer support that they get barely any time or energy left for these core-departments. In order to remedy this situation, you might want to consider outsourcing. Moreover, you might even want to consider offshoring in order to get the highest quality of service at the most competitive prices. While India is one of the greatest outsourcing hubs in the world, outsourcing Jordan companies are currently on a steep rise, as well.
3. Improve your communication channels
Finally, in order to make your business run as smoothly as possible, you need to work hard on improving your communication channels. This goes two ways. First, your management needs to become much more honest towards the staff and let them know exactly what is going on. Regardless of what some may believe, even people at entry-level jobs can benefit from seeing the bigger picture. Furthermore, you need to create an atmosphere in which people won’t be afraid to speak their minds. Sure, it may not be the best idea to fraternize with your employees but they shouldn’t be afraid of you either. This kind of situation can backfire in more than a few ways.
Conclusion
By working on these three issues alone, you stand to make your business much more automated. What a lot of people aren’t aware of is the fact that one of the most common reasons SMBs fail is the fact that the entrepreneur that started it simply burned out. Running a one-man show may currently seem as your only option but keep in mind that this usually isn’t a healthy business practice. By hiring others to relieve you of at least some of your duties, you will be able to allocate your talents, time and resources where they can be useful the most.
Author Bio
Dan Radak is a marketing professional with eleven years of experience. He is a coauthor on several websites and regular contributor to BizzMark Blog. Currently, he is working with a number of companies in the field of digital marketing, closely collaborating with a couple of e-commerce companies.