Automate as many non client facing tasks as possible.
Build into your workplace a culture of kaizen, continual improvement and incentive your staff to automate the parts of their job that don’t provide client-facing value. Whether it’s filtering emails, task management automation, automated messaging, helpful notifications or others, create a workplace whether ideas are shared, staff roles evolve and your team knows they can improve their workflow and the result is not lack of job security but more time for higher level responsibilities. Don’t forget that the aim is humans doing human work and software doing mind numbing work.
We’ve all been in the situation where someone is speaking in a meeting, sending chat messages or reeling off tasks over the phone. You’re grabbing for a pen, double-tapping to open your notes app or finding anything you can to try and not forget anything. By splitting out your communication into a clear channel, people …
Paint two pictures. The business x10 with your current systems and the business x10 with different systems choices. There are some insightful tools that a systems adviser uses to help you see your business from different angles and perspectives. Using these tools, they can give you a snapshot of how your whole boat sails today …
Empathy is the key to deeper insights in an organisation. It’s through spending time “on task” that you start to see your service as your staff & clients see it. Where is the friction? Where does information go from offline to online and back again? Where are the touchpoints where you need humans and what …
Rules for automation
Automate as many non client facing tasks as possible.
Build into your workplace a culture of kaizen, continual improvement and incentive your staff to automate the parts of their job that don’t provide client-facing value. Whether it’s filtering emails, task management automation, automated messaging, helpful notifications or others, create a workplace whether ideas are shared, staff roles evolve and your team knows they can improve their workflow and the result is not lack of job security but more time for higher level responsibilities. Don’t forget that the aim is humans doing human work and software doing mind numbing work.
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