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Small Business
Small businesses can make big changes when they
become organized.
Restoring Order®
consultants are engaged by owners, managers, and employees of small
businesses to effect organizational and individual change. We can assign
one consultant or multiple consultants to our small business clients,
according to their size of company, preferences, timelines, and budgets.
Our organizers can work one-on-one with individuals
within small companies to transform office space and functionality and
personal productivity. We can also work with decision-makers, departments,
or teams to overhaul and improve central systems, like filing systems,
supply and copy rooms, and community processes.
Small businesses who want to effect global change in
their company can include all stakeholders in the organizational process,
ensuring that the new systems are appropriate to the culture, quickly
adapted, and sustainable.
Whether you are the CEO or the newest employee of a
small business, you can radically improve your professional effectiveness by
hiring
Restoring Order®.
We are committed to helping our small business clients work smarter, gain a
competitive advantage, and achieve their full potential. Since the average
professional wastes an hour per day through disorganization, each employee
who “restores order” can gain up to six work weeks per year!
Targeted deliverables to the Small Business
professional may include:
Business process improvement
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Identifying stakeholders in organizational processes
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Enhancing individual, departmental, and/or company-wide processes
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Establishing protocols for work flow, so that the job outlasts the
person
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Capturing policies and procedures if they do not already exist
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Identifying and creating missing processes and protocols in business
systems
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Improving efficiency in existing systems
Communication process improvement
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Determining appropriate flow of communication for individual or group
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Identifying reporting channels, clogs, and systems
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Establishing information transfer and communication systems between
managers
and direct reports
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Implementing one-on-one or group meetings to streamline communication
Role management
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Creating job descriptions for one or more roles
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Assigning tasks
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Identifying what and when to outsource
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Systematizing delegation
Strategic time investment strategies
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Identifying priorities
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Improving methodologies to streamline work
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Establishing boundaries
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Managing individual and company tasks and calendars
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Preventing duplication of efforts
Paper and information system implementation
Establishing personalized systems and standardized community
systems for:
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Record retention policies and protocols
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Tracking and routing of paper throughout the office
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The capture and activation of incoming paper
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The management of current or pending projects
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The transfer of paper, information, and tasks to superiors or
subordinates
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The capture and reference of benchmarks, dashboards, and minutes
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The storage and custom organization of permanent reference filing
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The creation of personalized, portable reference materials pertinent
to each position
Organization and processing of:
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Contacts
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E-mail
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Electronic file storage on individual hard drives
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Intranet or community electronic file storage protocols
Space management
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Individual office organization
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Space assessment and room arrangement
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Furniture planning and/or design collaboration with storage
professionals
Product planning
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Providing options and customizing paper and supply storage to each
employee
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Product placement, loading, and labeling
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