5 Tips to Eliminate Chaos in Your Business

Are you finding that things seem a bit chaotic in your business right now? As we start this new year it’s the perfect time to reset and refocus.  Check out these 5 tips on ways to eliminate the crazy and operate smoother.

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1. Have a Strategy & Plan: If you find yourself spinning your wheels you might be lacking a strategic plan - be clear on your vision for the business and what's it going to take to get there. Remember your business is yours - what works for others may not work for you. Be strategic on what you need to accomplish your vision, and write it down.
    
2. ​Establish Goals & Metrics: You know your vision and at least have a high level plan to achieve it, but do you have measures in place to track your progress along the way? Having specific goals within your plan and metrics to show how you're doing against those goals gives you insight if business is going well - it also sets expectations for your team.
   
   
3. Clearly Define Roles & Responsibilities: If your team doesn't understand their role, what's expected of them and their specific responsibilities as part of the team - you'll have total chaos. While it seems like 'teamwork' to have everyone be able to do everything, it leads to confusion, being spread thin and floundering. Have clear job descriptions that fit the role appropriately, defined scopes of work if you work with contractors & make sure everyone understands their part.
   
   
4. Assess & Adjust Current Operations: Take a step back and be honest with yourself, if something is not working...change it. Regularly assess your back-end, day to day and see if its still working for you - maybe you've grown, added team members or need a new way of doing things. Find ways to reduce manual steps, add automation and streamline as much as possible. Just because you've always done it that way doesn't mean you have to continue.
   
   
5. Create Standard Operating Procedures: If you are having to insert yourself in everything, but you have a team, chances are you need to create or revise SOPs. These procedures provide detailed steps of how to complete operations and tasks in your business. They are reference guides for training and to ensure repeatable processes get done correctly so you don't have to always be in the middle.  I’ve got a free SOP template and video guide to help you get started:  Download SOP Template