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How to Create Digital Forms
“Efficiency is doing better what is already being done.”What are digital forms and how do they help your business?Put simply, digital forms are used for capturing digital information. This information is then passed directly into the systems that will manage and make...
Standard Operating Procedures: Process Optimization Tips
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together”Businesses of every size and from every industry can benefit from implementing standard operating procedures (SOPs) to drive operational efficiencies, ensure consistent quality control, and deliver...
5 Notable Team Management App – How to Choose the Right One
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”No matter the size of your business or industry, managing your teams is one aspect of business management that you can’t leave to chance. An intuitive team management app can set your business off...
Micromanagement: Understanding and Reforming
First rule of management: everything is your fault.It’s a specific type of leadership, involving keeping track of your team members’ work, monitoring their progress, and taking responsibility for their successes and weaknesses. When done well, management can be an...
Business Efficiency: What is it and Why is it Important?
"Efficiency is doing better what is already being done."As a concept, business efficiency is fairly straightforward. You optimize your internal processes to get the maximum return for the least cost. Business owners will know, however, that implementing efficient...
The Task Dashboard: Why it is Essential to Your Business Processes
Every business has a multitude of processes. From onboarding staff to writing blogs, dispatching wage slips and answering customer emails, there’s a host of tasks that all contribute to how effectively a company is run. In order to manage these processes effectively,...
A Quick Guide to Business Process Services
"Jack of all trades, master of none"It’s impossible for you to be an expert in every discipline related to your job. The same holds true for most businesses. There may be many areas where your business is high in competency, but, especially for smaller organizations,...
The 20 Best Management Books Every Leader Should Read (and the five I keep coming back to)
If being a successful manager was easy, everyone would be doing it. Let’s not kid ourselves – management is hard work, can be hugely stressful and takes great responsibility. However, these challenges are all too often misinterpreted. Management shouldn’t be about...
The Definitive Guide to Implementing Process Workflow in Your Business
No matter the size of the workforce you manage or the type of business you run, employees and managers alike have a tendency to grow accustomed to old processes. They might be rigid and outdated business processes that no longer suit your organization’s workflow, ones...
The Best Way to Prioritize Tasks, And How to Coach Your Team to do The Same
Do you ever feel like there aren't enough hours in the day?You’ve spent the day working with clients and putting out fires, but haven’t been able to cross anything off your list that you actually needed to accomplish. Due dates are quickly approaching - so what do you...
How to Make an Excel To Do List for Teams (free download)
Work can be complicated, especially if you’re managing a team. Not only do you need to keep track of your own work, but you need to know how current projects are progressing. Keeping yourself organized is the best way to counteract that chaos, but what’s the best way...
A Beginner’s Guide to Making a Process Library
Organization is key to any business; without it, you risk wasting time and resources on trying to access information that should be readily available. Lost paperwork, mixed up schedules, and unorganized files can have your team working inefficiently. But how far do...
10 Best Workflow Software for Business Process Management
Anyone who’s spent any length of time running a business will happily trade war stories with you about all the struggles they’ve endured over the years. The challenges of running your own business are almost endless, and even the best-laid plans can quite easily go...
A Definitive Guide to Team Task Management
Sometimes, work life can be a blur.With so many different tasks and projects, it’s easy to lose sight of the overall picture. One process that can help with this is task management. But what exactly is task management? How does it fit into your organizational...
Top 10 Process Management Software to Drive Business Growth
Business process management (BPM) is defined by Gartner as: “A discipline that uses various tools and methods to design, model, execute, monitor, and optimize business processes.” BPM can be instrumental in business transformation by coordinating all kinds of business...
How to Systemize your Business (without killing creativity)
What is business systemization?A common misconception about business systemizationis that it’s all about control.This isn’t the case at all; systematizing your business isn’t the same as restricting and monitoring the activities of each staff member to manage and...