🎙 Do you fear a key staff leaving the organisation or feel you cannot promote the best people due to the void they will leave in the main volume of your core work? This struggle often stems from the need to increase employee productivity within your existing team.
It could be that the business you created to give you the lifestyle you truly deserve may actually be keeping you trapped and doing the opposite of what you hoped for.
In this episode, Steve will explain how to get more out of your existing team and find and promote the best employees to amplify the great work.
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Proven Strategies to Increase Employee Productivity
- Like an orchestra tied together by sheet music and a conductor, your business generally functions based on your organisation’s systems and guidance. With these working in harmony, you all can produce your best work.
- Look for the best people or the best characteristics of your people within your organisation to document their jobs and functions. By doing so, you are effectively getting them to write the music for your orchestra.
- Create a standard on which you can rely to deliver a consistent outcome, regardless of which staff member is dealing with it, whether for a client, any task, or even with communication. In other words, always have your best practices documented.
- Before promoting someone, ensure they can effectively delegate their jobs to others without you training them. Then, you can replicate the efficient systems and leave them in place, leaving no work void.
- If you have a small staff and are just starting with documentation, keep it simple. Documentation, video capture, and task management apps are a good start. Record and pass on systems and keep track of them accordingly.
BEST MOMENTS: Increase Employee Productivity through Systems
04:12 – 💬 Most small businesses are actually being used like an orchestra without any music whatsoever. So, what we need to do is figure out how to change that.
05:10 – 💬 Yes, you want to get somewhere new; you want to progress faster and faster and all the rest of it. But we’ve got a baseline; that is certainly your business right now.
08:35 – 💬 You may also find people to document and create systems for everything, and they do. You realise these key people are surely amazing at what they do. They get it. You then go and promote them to the systems lead or the systems architect.
12:27 – 💬 If you get stuck into the improvement stage too early, then you waste all your time on improving one process at the cost of everything else not being systemised’
VALUABLE RESOURCES
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ABOUT THE HOST
Steve used to be a slave to his business, but when he moved to Sweden in 2015, he was forced to change how he worked. He switched to running his businesses remotely. After totally nailing this concept, he spent his time helping other small business owners do the same. Steve has also been investing in property since 2002, has a degree in computing, and worked as a doctor in the NHS before quitting to focus full-time on sharing his systems and outsourcing methodology with the world. He now lives in Sweden and runs his UK-based businesses remotely with the help of his team of Filipino and UK-based Virtual Assistants.
Most business owners are overwhelmed because they don’t know how to create systems or get the right help.
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