10/28/2016

How to Systemize Your Business from Scratchprocess.st/how-to-systemize-your-business/

In this episode of Business Systems Explored, we talk to Wendy Tadokoro from ‘Organising Works!‘ — abusiness systems consultancy based in Australia.

You’re not going to be able to scale your business properly if you don’t use systems…

The problem is, businesses think they don’t have enough time to create processes.

What they don’t realize is that every day you go without a process, you’re wasting time and setting yourself up forfailure.

Processes help you:

Train new employees

Assign tasks to anyone

Automate tedious jobs

Scale your business

So, how do you start systemizing your business from scratch?

If that’s what you want to know, this is the episode for you. Joining me this week is Wendy Tadokoro from OrganisingWorks!, a systems consultancy with years of experience working with enterprises and small businesses. She walksus through everything she does when starting with a new client, revealing how you start making systems from thevery beginning.

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Show notes:

Why systemizing your business isn’t hard or overwhelming

Explained: how it’s cheaper to pay for systems consultancy than to carry on the way you’ve always done it

Getting out of the day-to-day grind with systemization

Why systems will help you actually enjoy running a business

Horrific examples of systemization nightmares

The most major systemization error you can make

The first thing Wendy asks a new client when systemizing their business

Analyzing where a system broke down, then improving it

How to decide which processes to document as a priority

Exactly how Wendy systemizes a business

The three lists you need to make before you can start systemizing your company

Screen-casting to document systems quickly

Making systems for system creation

Collaboratively improving and iterating on processes

Who in your business is the best person to document the processes?

How often should you review your processes?

How to make sure you’re not re-inventing the wheel when you improve processes

Why Word documents are the worst thing you can use

Getting systems up to speed in three weeks or less

How Wendy structures her processes

Balancing time between running your business and documenting processes

The tipping point where systems need to be created

Integrating your processes into the tools you already use

Why everything should be in the cloud

On never using Evernote for process management

What kinds of admin permissions to implement for processes

Using multimedia in your processes

Saving time by automating as much as possible

The best books to teach you to systemize your business

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Contact:

Twitter: @wendytadokoro

http://organisingworks.com.au/

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