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How to Ensure the Productivity of Your Small Business

​Efficient daily running of your small business is what will ensure its growth and strength if you have just started out as an entrepreneur. Alternatively, if your small business has been established for a while, but has recently been letting its efficiency slip, the best productivity methods will always help.

Embrace Technology for Certain Tasks

As a small business, it’s likely you might have a very small team. This may mean that individuals are up to maximum capacity when it comes to their job responsibilities, or perhaps people are fulfilling more than one role at once.

​Anything which can be done automatically by technology is going to be a huge benefit for your business. It will free up time in your employees’ schedules and allow them to concentrate on bigger things.
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Automatic processes could include invoicing, sales ordering and more. 

Introduce Remote Working Opportunities

Whether it’s giving employees the option to work from home a few days a week, to work remotely from an alternative location or even switching to remote work to eliminate an office, flexible working patterns will always go down well with employees.

As this report from job market experts show, the reality of unexpected occurrences such as the current virus do show how beneficial flexible working options can be if you need employees to suddenly work from home and close down your office.

Promote Better Communication

It’s easy to think that within a small business, communication will be more improved than within a huge, corporate business with a towering office block. It may not be the case, however. Larger businesses have strict policies and departments to help employees understand who they should speak to regarding certain matters — an HR department, for example — and it’s easy for the lines to become blurred within a small business.

Communication is more important to induce better productivity. Make sure everyone is in the loop and understands who the senior employee is, who they can speak to with a problem and who can help with specific tasks. 

Employ Effective Time Management

Your business is going to be more productive when it’s doing precisely what it should, when it should be doing it. Time management can easily be disrupted within a small business and team if employees are fulfilling various roles, or if everyone is trying to do everything for the sake of the business.

No matter how small your business is, be sure that everybody has clear roles, goals and deadlines to work towards. Implement time-saving strategies wherever possible, such as outsourcing or automated processes.  This can be as simple as using the office whiteboard to visually set out a timeline for these to ensure everyone is on the same page. Additionally, you can overcome time management issues by implementing time-saving strategies wherever possible, such as outsourcing or automated processes.

Hold regular meetings to make sure team members know what they should be doing and where individuals are up to with certain tasks.
 
You should now have some ways to ensure that your small business is more productive. Learn as you go and see what works for your team and for your business. What works for some businesses might not work for others, so it’s just as important to understand how to find the best motivation within your own. 
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    • Brick & Mortar Retail Touch Points Exposed
    • The Secret to a Good Mobile Website for Retailers
    • U.S. Newspaper Revenues Hit 50-Year Low in 2012
    • Future Retail Trends-2015
    • The Power Of Gen Y in Today’s And Tomorrow's Workplace [INFOGRAPHIC]
    • Brick And Mortar Retailers May Become Extinct If They Do Not Embrace The New Economy >
      • A Retailer's Guide to Webrooming
      • INFOGRAPHIC - Do men and women shop differently online?
    • How Big Is Amazon {INFOGRAPHIC}
    • Why retailers must excel in the 4 Cs instead of just the 4 Ps
    • E-tailers: Tips, Trends, and Reasons E-Commerce is About to Boom
    • Is Texting The New Marketing Engagement Frontier
    • Which Social Network's Users Make the Most Money? [INFOGRAPHIC]
    • 120 Awesome Marketing Charts, Graphs and Statistics
    • What It Costs A Business To Do Social Marketing
    • The NEW Retail Demographics
    • More Shoppers Reach for Mobile to Browse, Buy >
      • Online Reviews Influence Shoppers Most, but Print Catalogs Trump Social Networks
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