Are you like a lot of people, busy with the little things in your business? Are you finding that although things seem to get done, there is little change to your business performance and or profitability?
In a recent Blog I wrote about to do lists and focussing on getting things out of your mind and on to paper. All good and well, however for a lot of people they are stuck with how to make the “bigger picture” work for them.
To start with its like the smaller to do list, you had some ideas of what needed to be done and you jotted them down, it was probably to do with things that needed ordering to complete a job for a client for example. In the bigger picture you can go up a level and say, what if I was to work on the profitability? the marketing? or management or operational tasks…Â and there will be various subtasks within each of these areas.
Now take each of those headings and start to compile a list of what you want to do… Up the profitability (by how much?) improve workflows (by what degree?) increase customer loyalty (How loyal are they now?) and the list goes on…
You get the picture, look at how you want the business to perform and then make a list, make it, change it, set dates to each of the points, make another list when that one is done or at least update some of the points.
The bigger picture is all about the goals you set around the things you want to achieve, in the long and medium term. Now make up a calendar (plenty of templates to download from the internet) and start to write in the things you have listed and when you want to achieve them by… Then look at what’s required to make them become a reality by the time you have set.
Breaking the task down into chunks like this can make the impossible seem very achieveable. Go on give it a go, aim high and stretch a little!
