7 Tips To Remove Time Pressures When Running Small-medium Business.

7 Tips To Remove Time Pressures When Running Small-medium Business.

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You're a manager of a small-medium business. You work long hours. You rarely "get on top of things". Unexpected problems pop up all the time. Your staff seem to lack initiative. Sound familiar? Put these ideas into practice.

1. Have Clear Priorities. Know precisely what youre trying to achieve in your business. Decide your business focus and your customer focus. Make a list of the most important objectives to be achieved and prioritise them. Deal with the most important first.

2. Stop Doing Others Work. If you want something done properly you have to do it yourself is an old saying. Its also a copout for small business managers. Avoid finishing others work. Delegate tasks and responsibility for them. Insist that employees meet agreed deadlines and make recommendations to you about proposed action.

3. Never Say Leave It With Me. This is a serious time killer. You put pressure on yourself and add to your work load every time you say it. You also absolve your staff from further responsibility for whatever it is theyve left with you. If you cant handle quickly something a staff member brings to you, arrange a mutually suitable time to discuss it with the employee. If more work is needed, get the employee to do it.

4. Fix Problems As They Occur. This assumes that you have clear priorities. When you do, youll know whether something is a genuine problem or a pinprick masquerading as a problem. Fix genuine problems as soon as possible. Delegate or postpone pinpricks.

5. Avoid Distractions. Youll be encouraged to do all sorts of things by all sorts of people. Stick to your knitting. Make your business focus your prime concern. Let your staff evaluate ideas in their areas of expertise. Stop chasing fads and fashions.

6. Crosstrain. It's not easy to find time for training in small-medium business. But its important. Prioritise the tasks that must be done daily. Crosstrain so that more than one person can handle the priority tasks. It develops the staff and saves you from helping out.

7. Select Staff With Great Care. Selecting staff is expensive and time consuming. For these reasons alone, staff selection demands care. But in a small business you want people wholl share your enthusiasm for what youre trying to achieve. You want competent people who also enjoy the cut and thrust of small business. And you want people you can trust and who share your professional values.

Conclusion. Small business is by nature, unpredictable. That alone creates time pressures. But you dont have to do everything yourself. And you must have a clear business focus. That way youll be able to set clear priorities and find the staff to help you achieve them. Youll probably never have enough time. But youll have more than most small business managers.

About the Author:
Leon Noone helps managers in small-medium business to improve on-job staff performance without training courses. Some say his ideas are too unconventional. Find out for yourself by reading his free Special Report 49 Practical Tips For Better People Management In Small-Medium Business. Simply visit http://www.leons7secrets.com and download your free copy now.



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