15 Tips To Streamline Your Business And Become Profitable In 2006
Here are some tips to help you cut the fat and improve the productivity of your business. If you apply a few of these, youre well on your way to achieving greater profit and creating less stress!
1. Cut the Slackers!
Carrying dead-weight employees? Lose them now! Ever tried to run a marathon whilst towing an old tire? This is what its like trying to grow a productive business with unproductive (or unmotivated) employees. Not only will they not add value to your bottom line, theyll drag other productive workmates to their level. Cutting a slack worker (legally of course) will actually increase the productiveness of other workmates.
2. Cut the Paper!
Start a war against paper! Do you need to print that email to read it? Or that brief? Reduce office clutter on desks and encourage better use of digital filing. Ask clients to email files rather than send faxes, and printed media. Use a web based project management or time tracking solution rather than paper based timesheets. Get the drift saves trees too!
3. Cut the Time!
A task can take both 10 minutes and an hour! Have...