You can work 60 hours a week and still spend almost none of them moving the business forward.
The first step is not productivity advice. It is finding out what kind of work filled the 60 hours.
Split the week into four buckets
- Only I can do this
- A capable employee should do this
- A system should do this
- Nobody should be doing this
Look for the repeat offenders
The dangerous tasks are not always long. Fifteen minutes of checking, retyping and chasing repeated several times a day can own more of the week than one obvious three-hour task.
Do not automate your way out of a staffing problem
If the real issue is too much customer work for the current team, say that. Automation can remove friction; it cannot create unlimited capacity.
The useful target
Free enough owner attention for sales, hiring, decisions, relationships or simply leaving the office at a reasonable hour.
Talk to us about your workflow
You do not need to know the technology. Start with what is taking too long or falling through the cracks.
Start there