• Privacy policy
  • T&C’s
  • About Us
    • FAQ
  • Contact us
  • Guest Content
  • TLE
  • News
  • Politics
  • Opinion
    • Elevenses
  • Business
  • Food
  • Travel
  • Property
  • JOBS
  • All
    • All Entertainment
    • Film
    • Sport
    • Tech/Auto
    • Lifestyle
    • Lottery Results
      • Lotto
      • Set For Life
      • Thunderball
      • EuroMillions
No Result
View All Result
The London Economic
SUPPORT THE LONDON ECONOMIC
NEWSLETTER
The London Economic
No Result
View All Result
Home Business and Economics Business

6 Ways to Make Your Business More Efficient

Whether you are a small business owner or large corporation, it’s always beneficial to determine new ways to make your business more efficient. The more efficient your business is, the more productive your business becomes. The more productive your business becomes, the more capable you are of expanding to the next level. Higher efficiency also […]

Ollie McAninch by Ollie McAninch
2016-09-27 14:53
in Business
FacebookTwitterLinkedinEmailWhatsapp

Whether you are a small business owner or large corporation, it’s always beneficial to determine new ways to make your business more efficient. The more efficient your business is, the more productive your business becomes. The more productive your business becomes, the more capable you are of expanding to the next level. Higher efficiency also leads to higher employee satisfaction creating a more friendly, collaborative environment, which leads back to higher efficiency. See where this is going?

Here are 6 tips to help your business become more efficient

1. Create better communication

A common complaint amongst employees is often a lack of communication. This leads to misinterpretation, which creates a slow down on a work project or one that gets completed incorrectly. These gaps in communication create more work as projects need to get corrected. This also leads to meetings to determine what went wrong. Strong communication eliminates these costly errors.

Be sure that all projects and employee roles are clearly defined. Give your employees an outlet for asking questions and sharing concerns where they know they will be heard and respectfully answered.

2. Utilise reliable technology

Be sure that all of your technology is up to date and reliable. This is not an area where you want to cut corners to save money. Unreliable technology can mean slow response times or loss of data. It also means that there is more likely better and faster technology out there to accomplish what you are looking for. So, while the upfront cost may be a little more, you end up saving money and time in the long run.

3. Manage your time

Most people don’t realise just how much time is wasted throughout their day. Take some time to begin tracking this for yourself. Do you spend an hour each morning on email? Is all of that time for business related emails? Are you on social media? If so, is it relevant to what you want to accomplish for the day? Be diligent and stingy with your time. With each task, ask yourself, “Does this get me closer to my business goal for the day? The week? The month?” If the answer is yes, keep going. If the answer is no, eliminate it.

4. Limit your meetings

Is your company a meetings company? You know the ones where there is a meeting for every topic and a topic for every meeting? Are they necessary? This goes hand in hand with the tip above. For each meeting you should be asking yourself if it has strong potential for furthering your business goals. If not, don’t have it. Perhaps you can send a blanket email out to all of the employees involved with the notes you expected to share. In 5 minutes you have now accomplished what may have taken 30 minutes or more.

5. Automate when you can

If you send out regular weekly emails, use your email service to automate them. Most services provide this. If yours doesn’t, search for one that can. If you make regular bank withdrawals/deposits, automate them by using using bacs transfer services services. Bacs payment software will provide faster payments and increase efficiency, so it’s definitely something worth looking into.

Create standard emails and documents that are used company wide. Not only does this eliminate the extra work of creating new ones each time, but it creates a recognisable brand. When your customer receives the document or email, they automatically know it’s from your business before they have even have a chance to open it.

6. Prepare for disaster

No one likes to think that the unthinkable can happen. While it takes time, effort, and money to prepare for a worst case scenario, the alternative is to recover your business after it has happened. This involves far more time, effort, and money. Document everything, back up all work, and purchase the necessary supplies and technology that prepares you today for the unlikely event of tomorrow.

RelatedPosts

Trump unveils $499 gold mobile phones for ‘real Americans’

Shops could be forced to accept cash in future

Liverpool to introduce tourist tax from June

Labour’s bid to build 1.5 million new homes gets underway

Using these six tips as ways to make your business more efficient ultimately affects your bottom line. These tips lead to more content employees who are no longer wasting their time on meaningless tasks. You now have processes in place to help you manage your time efficiently. Your focus shifts from menial but important tasks to exciting projects that clearly bring you one step closer to your business goals.


 

Featured image: By NASA/Jeff Caplan [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Subscribe to our Newsletter

View our  Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

About Us

TheLondonEconomic.com – Open, accessible and accountable news, sport, culture and lifestyle.

Read more

SUPPORT

We do not charge or put articles behind a paywall. If you can, please show your appreciation for our free content by donating whatever you think is fair to help keep TLE growing and support real, independent, investigative journalism.

DONATE & SUPPORT

Contact

Editorial enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Commercial enquiries, please contact: [email protected]

Address

The London Economic Newspaper Limited t/a TLE
Company number 09221879
International House,
24 Holborn Viaduct,
London EC1A 2BN,
United Kingdom

© The London Economic Newspaper Limited t/a TLE thelondoneconomic.com - All Rights Reserved. Privacy

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Lottery Results
    • Lotto
    • Set For Life
    • Thunderball
    • EuroMillions
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Food
  • Travel
  • JOBS
  • More…
    • Elevenses
    • Opinion
    • Property
    • Tech & Auto
  • About Us
    • Privacy policy
  • Contact us

© The London Economic Newspaper Limited t/a TLE thelondoneconomic.com - All Rights Reserved. Privacy

← FA ‘embarrassed’ after Allardyce caught on camera giving players advice during game ← Kagoule get Sinister in Video for New Track ‘Magnified’
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • News
  • Politics
  • Lottery Results
    • Lotto
    • Set For Life
    • Thunderball
    • EuroMillions
  • Business
  • Sport
  • Entertainment
  • Lifestyle
  • Food
  • Travel
  • JOBS
  • More…
    • Elevenses
    • Opinion
    • Property
    • Tech & Auto
  • About Us
    • Privacy policy
  • Contact us

© The London Economic Newspaper Limited t/a TLE thelondoneconomic.com - All Rights Reserved. Privacy

-->