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Putting systems in place in all the key areas of your business builds a solid foundation, helping to ensure the predictable results and long-term value that business owners want, deserve and at times, find elusive.
- Marketing and Sales
To set your business apart from the competition and achieve the sales goals for the profitability you want
- Internal Operations
To ensure you deliver consistently on your marketing promise by having the systems in place that ensure predictable results
- Recruitment
To ensure you find the right person for the job
- Financial Systems
To ensure you know where you stand
- Organizational Structure
To clarify roles and responsibilities as well as lines of authority, eliminating confusion and duplication of effort
- People Management
To develop an environment of trust, respect, accountability and shared expectations
- Leadership
To establish leadership in your company that lights the way, energizes, takes action and delivers
Signs of a Healthy Business
A healthy business is one that gives the owner(s) the value they want from it while providing a needed product or service, a good work environment and the desired quality of life and freedom. Can your business operate well without you being there to hold it together? Are you driving the business where you want it to go instead of being driven by the business? Is the business separate from you? Does it have an identity of its own, apart from you? A healthy business can reflect your values and high standards, but does not have to depend on you.
A healthy business needs a strong foundation. To get the value you want from your business, you have to know what you want from it in the first place. Then you have to do what it takes to make that happen in a way that sets you apart from your competition. It starts with the basic building blocks. When all the necessary building blocks are in place, they become the strong foundation for a business that is poised for healthy day-to-day operation and growth. Without them, things often just don’t work as well as they could. And if they do go well, it seems that the people dedicated to making it happen pay a high price in the form of frustration, disappointment or overwhelm.
The building blocks establish ways to treat people well and honor their efforts while getting the good results everyone is there to get. That’s a win/win! Too much life is spent in the workplace to accept anything less!
The Building Blocks of a Healthy Business
Life Vision
Establishes the owner’s connection to himself and what’s important to him/her
Business Vision
Creates a clear picture of where the business is headed and what it’s all about
Organizational Structure
Defines the functions of the business. It is the framework needed to fulfill the business vision.
Position Descriptions
Clarify roles, responsibilities and hiring needs. A tool that helps establish accountability.
Systems Development
Documents best ways of operating day-to-day for consistency and a high operating standard
Management System
Establishes accountability, respect and trust in an environment of shared expectations and predictable results
Janice Drescher
Business Development Resources
janice@BDRCoaching.com
888-600-8722 (Toll Free)
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