Has Running Your Business Growth To The Point Where It Is Overwhelming?

If you will, think about what running your business is now, as opposed to what it was when you first started it.  What are you doing now that you did not do then?  Are these things that you picked up on your own, or were they a result of others not performing their tasks and responsibilities?  Are they things that came into your organization and you picked them up personally, or are they things that were meant to be your personal assignments?

As a start, decide what you are doing now that you can delegate to someone else within your organization.  The initial effort to delegate will be greater than the time and effort it takes you to do the work yourself and in time, your delegation will pay off by relieving some of the pressure off you.  Decide what functions your organization has picked up that do not properly belong there – discuss with your peers about realigning some functions, and once the obtainment of agreement has been reached, discuss and implement the recommendations.

You should ask yourself if there are things you are doing that you could do less often (or cut out all together) without any significant damage to your company’s mission?  Work, such as reports, accounting, and statistics will need to continue; however, by cutting out some of the unproductive work, you will free yourself and your employees to perform tasks with greater payback, and even be recognized for increased efficiency.

Review the available technology – better usage of existing technology, such as software, better computers, mobile applications, etc. will substitute for work being done manually.  And although an automated system may not produce an entire product for you, we can gather some of the information automatically to produce a customized product.