26/09/2018
Morning Dew
Subject: 7 Steps on How To Build A successful Business System.
The following steps will help you build a solid business system.
1. Discourage the idea of having to do everything by yourself. For most startup entrepreneurs, the business is their baby and they want to involve in every step, but this is a common growth limiter. Making your business successful means letting go of control over every detail and making employees accountable for doing their jobs.
2. Adopt automated processes: If you can implement simple systems for your most essential business processes such as ordering. you can step away knowing that most of these systems will go according to plan. You can confidently delegate repetitive tasks to employees, freeing yourself to work on the areas of the business that generate additional cash flow.
3. Draft thorough step-by-step manuals. A good process will include training materials, which may be how-to procedures, templates, worksheets, sample orders, bills, or other documents, spreadsheets, a workflow chart or software, and any other information needed to perform the task at hand. Checklists are especially handy to ensure consistency and quality. Each task can be broken into steps and checked off when complete.
4. Hire employees you can trust: For complex situations, implement an open-ended decision process that I like to call line-of-sight decision making. Line-of-sight decision making is where you, as a business owner, realize that no system will cover every possible scenario, so you trust your team to solve most problems they will encounter. If you run out of flour at the cake baking shop, let your team decide the best medium for solving the problem.
5. Organise training for your team and employee: To ensure that your employees do things your way and think the way you do, it’s important that they are well trained. Make sure they understand every aspect of their job, including why things are done. Also, empower members of the team t
