Business

  • How To Do More In The Office In The Same Time
    Business, Business, blogging & Money, Self improvement

    How To Do More In The Office In The Same Time

    Businesses often find it tough to measure employee productivity. Unfortunately, we tend to rely on an inaccurate image of productivity that links back to the Industrial Revolution. Indeed, the Industrial Revolution marks the birth of heavy manufacturing. As such, productivity was directly measured in numbers of produced units. 

    So far, so good. However, you can’t transpose the logic to the modern workplace. Nowadays, productivity refers to the ability of your team to meet business goals. Employees drive the business forward. Consequently, it is essential to give them the tools they need to make it work. Technology investments play a significant role in making the workplace productive and efficient.

    Additionally, motivated employees are more likely to deliver quality work. People don’t achieve goals they don’t identify with. Connecting with the team and recognizing their work can build a positive culture for productivity. 

    How much can a motivated team achieve? The truth is that neither motivation nor work tools can address the most common productivity killer, namely time. Businesses need to address time-costly obstacles that can harm productivity:  (more…)

  • 5 Tips for Moving Your Business to a New Location
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    5 Tips for Moving Your Business to a New Location

    Often, businesses in a growth stage reach a point when their current location becomes too small. You’ll find you have too many workers, and your infrastructure needs are too great for your office to sustain, and you have to relocate.

    Whether you’re moving to a new country, a new state, or just down the road, the need to relocate can cause a period of chaos and confusion for your business. Uprooting everything and transporting it to a new location can put the business on hold and have implications for your customers and partners. If you’re not careful, it could also have an impact on your profits. 

    If you have found yourself in a situation where your business needs to move to a new spot, don’t panic. There are some tried-and-tested strategies you can employ to ensure the move is quick and efficient and that you keep operations running as smoothly as possible throughout. With this goal in mind, here are five tips for moving your business to a new location.  (more…)

  • Struggling To Have Faith In Your Systems?
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    Struggling To Have Faith In Your Systems?

    A common experience that all business leaders know too well is not really knowing whether you can fully trust the technology that you are using. There are a lot of reasons you might be struggling to trust those machines and systems, whether it’s because they are old and likely to fail, or new and therefore hard to work out how to use properly. Whatever it might be, if you are struggling to really have faith in your systems at work, there are a number of things you might want to think about in order to make it a little easier for everyone involved. (more…)

  • What Do You Need To Know About The IT Side Of Your Business
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    What Do You Need To Know About The IT Side Of Your Business?

    The IT side of your business might look like gibberish to you, but it’s important that you have at least some kind of understanding about it. We live in the age of technology, and if you don’t catch up and start to get your head around it, then you’re going to get left behind. We don’t want to see that happen to you, which is why we’ve written this article. Down below, we’re going to be looking at what you need to know about the IT side of your business, so keep reading if you want to find out more. (more…)

  • The Process Of Risk Identification And Why It's Important
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    The Process Of Risk Identification And Why It’s Important

    Businesses around the world, live and die, by their risk understanding. Everything is a risk. If you want to invest in a product, you must risk the money you’re funding it with, to be wasted and the product failing. But with that risk, comes opportunity. And the product could be a success, turning your investment into a profit, ten times the amount. But without proper risk identification, you are going to be taking a stab in the dark. Most small business owners don’t understand the process you need to make an informed estimate and guess about a project. So, we are going to educate you on risk identification and why it’s important.  (more…)

  • An Essential Guide to Growing Your Small Business
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    An Essential Guide to Growing Your Small Business

    Entrepreneurship is a long journey broken into several miles. While starting a business is one thing, taking the necessary steps to bring their ideas to fruition is another task that many founders often struggle with. It is not so surprising that 90% of businesses crash and burn before reaching ten-years-old. When you establish an enterprise, growth in your profit margins and your customer network should be top priorities. If you’d like to know how to grow your small business into a successful venture, here is an essential guide to help you along the way.

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  • 4 Proven Ways To Streamline Your Business Operations
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    4 Proven Ways To Streamline Your Business Operations

    Operating a business can be incredibly challenging at the rapid growth phase, but as a business owner, now is the time to streamline your activities. Sometimes, it is not unusual to feel overwhelmed with work or get a sense of inefficiency. To remain competitive and boost operational efficiency, now is the time to reassess your daily activities. Here are four tried and tested strategies for streamlining your business operations
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  • Tools to Help You Run Your Business from Anywhere
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    Tools to Help You Run Your Business from Anywhere

    The world is changing fast, and you should stay up to date if you want your business to move forward. A considerable portion of the workforce is currently working remotely, and this is set to be the trend.

    It’s in this realization that the technology industry has come up with various tools and platforms to support this shift. It now provides secure, convenient, and low-cost platforms for people to run their businesses from anywhere in the world.

    Video conferencing has, for example, become the prime of these tools. Here’s a more detailed look into some of the tools to keep your business rolling. (more…)

  • What Skills Must Every Business Owner Have
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    What Skills Must Every Business Owner Have?

    As a business owner, you need to have many skills to be a success. Some you will already have, and some you will need to make an effort to learn. The more skills you have, the better your business can become, although there is a balance to be met; learning a little about a lot of areas is not as useful as learning a lot about a few areas, so in some cases, you will need to choose what you think is in your best interests to know. 

    The list of skills below contains some of the most crucial that business owners should have to be as successful as possible. You may want to add more to this list yourself, but these are excellent ones to start with.  (more…)

  • Keep Your Staff Safe With These Tips
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    Keep Your Staff Safe With These Tips

    As you are an employer, one of your biggest priorities is going to be in keeping the people who work for you as safe as possible. Your people work for you are there to improve their lives and make sure that they get paid, but they’re also there to ensure that they have a future. It’s up to you to double-check that the people working in your premises are as safe as possible while they spend upwards of eight hours per day in your business. 

    Employee safety has to be at the top of your list for your budget and for your training and education. The more you keep your people safe, the better they will work for you and the more productive they will feel when they are working every day. Regardless of how many people are working for you, you should always advocate for your employees, and having a workers comp attorney to hand will enable you to do that. Below, we’ve put together a few tips to help you to keep your employees safe while they spend time with you in your business. (more…)