As a business owner or executive, you want your company to run like a finely-tuned, well-oiled machine - whether you’re there or not. To make this happen, you need to ensure that your main role in the company is that of a leader – not someone who gets bogged down in the day to day running of a department or operation, but someone who spends time working on the business strategically.
To do this you need to Systemize all the different aspects of your business, so that everyone knows exactly what they’re supposed to do and how to do it, whether you’re there or not.
Systemization is about creating a System that replaces yourself – your knowledge, your experience and your specific requirements for how you want things done in your business. The System is basically a set of interrelated procedures and processes that you have formalized in some way and trained your employees to follow.
If you’re interested in learning more about how to go about systemizing your business, stay tuned for the second article in the series.