Spring Cleaning | Clear Your Business Clutter

Spring. Time to declutter.

Here are three areas you might want to “sweep the corners” of your business in the immediate future.

First, remove all the made-up work for the winter.

Particularly if you’re a seasonal business, we often hear people do make work to keep their employees on the payroll so they don’t quit and are available for the following season. If that sounds like you, now is the time to get that crap back off the daily lists, and make sure that what you’re doing is focused on service, competence and productivity.

Second, put a pause on processes that are not completed.

Now, if you know anything about us at ActionCOACH, you know we want you to be process focused. Systematize the routine and humanize the exception. Springtime is one of those potential exceptions. Now’s the time to make sure all your preventive maintenance, cleaning, and preparation to deliver are the most important tasks on your plate.

Yes, even more than updating processes. But just for now, not forever.

Finally, make sure all your team are prepared.

It’s late for this already, but right now is the key time of the year for that last refresher training for your team. Reinforce the tried-and-true processes that have worked for your business. Entropy is a sneaky bastard, so review, re-energize and redeploy those steps to ensure your customers see you as the best answer to any problems they have. Now and in the future.

Take these three tasks on, and your business will have a great start to the season!