Building Solid Small Business Operations

As a company grows, there are always operational issues to go along with the progress it has made; many businesses are faced with challenges that can feel like they’re difficult to manage.

• Hiring the right employees
• Onboarding
• Digital transformation
• Customer experience
• Marketing and sales alignment

Now that your company has dealt with the difficulties of getting off the ground, it’s important to have solutions in place so you can overcome growing pains when they arise.

Getting started is often the hardest part. This workbook will allow you to organize your long list of operational challenges so you can improve performance in your organization.

Prioritize For Efficiency

The priority matrix is great for prioritizing operational tasks for small business and is a basic yet reliable process for making sure you’re dealing with your ambitions in the most efficient manner possible.

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Benefits of Using A Priority Matrix

• Supports structured decision-making
• Breaks down and prioritizes complex issues when there are multiple factors influencing the decision
• Objectively and unambiguously ranks your priorities
• Determines the most crucial focus areas
• Establishes a basis for discussion about what is important
• Garners team/stakeholder support for important buy-ins

1. Rank each item

After you’ve logged all of your challenges and strategic initiatives, you’ll rank each task by its impact on the business.

2. Map it out

Next, you’ll be able to strategically plot your activities into appropriate quadrants on the matrix and prioritize, delegate, or deprioritize accordingly.

3. Plan of action

Once you’ve got your priorities mapped out, it’s time to act on them!

Optimize Your Small Business Operations with Blackwood Impact Group

Blackwood Impact Group helps small businesses analyze procedures to identify areas which need improvement in accuracy, effectiveness or efficiency. Our experts assist you in figuring out what’s holding you back from gaining financial strength in the market. Contact us today to improve performance in your organization.