This week I’m going to help you leverage your time by getting better at your systems so you can reemerge from the COVID-19 Crisis stronger.
Leaders tell me often there’s one thing they’ve put off for too long and wish they had time and margin to work on:
Improving Their Systems
Well, friend, guess what you have right now? TIME!
Systems are simply bridges that move things and people from where they are, to where they need to be.
- A budget is a bridge that tells our money where to go and how it goes there
- A meeting is a bridge that tells everyone where we are, where we’re going, and how we plan to get there
Today I’m highlighting a few results good systems provide and how to gauge if yours need improving.
Healthy systems provide…
1. CLARITY
To be a system, the process can’t just be in our heads. It must be down on paper.
These days, honestly that means they must be in writing in a document…somewhere!
Which, leads to #2:
2. ACCESSIBILITY
To be a system, the bridge must be written down, and there has to be easy access to it.
Never has it ever been easier to have access to a shared document that can be kept updated in real time and made available to everyone who needs it 24/7.
Put your processes in the cloud (securely, of course), and give everyone that needs it, access to it!
3. ACCOUNTABILITY
This is often the last and most overlooked component of a system.
When we build a process, we are not done until we have asked ourselves: “How will we hold each other accountable to working this system?”
Reporting systems, formal reviews, and effective consistent meetings that bring the process to the forefront and ensure that it’s being utilized by all is the final and most important component of a system.
Today, funnel your core systems through the questions:
Today, funnel your core systems through the questions:
- Are our systems Clear?
- Are they Accessible to the right people?
- How are others held Accountable to them?
