Does this picture look familiar? Do you work very long hours, commit your weekends to your business instead of your family, but still feel like there is so much that needs to be done?
Are you always on the phone, or answering questions about how something needs to be done, something you needed for today`s meeting with a client? Do you feel exhausted because you are processing all information and taking care of every single detail in your company?
If you answered yes to above questions, you definitely need a consultant.
Small business consultant, like Prime business consulting, will show you how to train your employees effectively, and then how to organize workflows and delegate your tasks.
Consultants are here to help you and your business organized by objectively evaluating 4 very important aspects of your workflow:
1. Priorities
Well, looking at this chart, it doesn`t look that hard, right? But, is it easy to implement in your day-to-day operations?
Consultant is there to give you a fresh, third-party perspective and help you and your team set up right goals and priorities.
We wrote more about it in our post Business owners: Priorities and focus!
2. Organization
You probably knew and tried getting organized on your own. Then you tried finding a good tools and one of following two things happened:
- You got overwhelmed by choice
- You made a choice, and made it through setup, but tool is still not doing what it should
Small business consultant can help you with both cases. We will talk with you and your team and determine what is it that you need. After that we can suggest several good tools that will help and get it set up for you. This way, we will ensure you got right tool, and it`s completely adapted to your needs.
3. Procedures
You probably have some procedures that are part of how you do business, right? But are those procedures effective? Is every step on that road clear for everyone using it?
Also, big question is: Is your procedure in written or verbal form?
Every company procedure has to be in written form, and it should answer following questions:
- Why? – What was identified problem
- By whom? – Who is responsible and who will do it
- When? – When this procedure is to be executed
- How? – What methods are to be used and in which way. Make it detailed as much as possible.
- Break it into step-by-step
- Make Checklists
- Make it clear
Good consultant will review your current procedure, suggest changes and new ones if needed. You will get to know that some of your procedures were perfectly clear to you, but not to your team members, that some of them were too complicated or completely ineffective.
This is why a good business consultant is needed, to give you fresh perspective and to show you how everything looks like from a different angle.
4. Implementation
Here is a key step. You need to implement all you new processes and procedures and changes to your existing business model.
At Prime Business Consulting, not only that we will guide you through changes, we will also help you get all needed documentation like employee manuals, and train your team on using tools and procedures we created together!
If you decided you want our help, feel free to contact us!
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