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How to properly organize
your small business
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An
alternative description of a
company is an organization, but experience shows that very few small
businesses are properly organized. Well
defined organizational
structure is the framework upon which a business depends for its form
and efficiency.
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How
to properly organize your small business
An alternative description of a company is an organization, but
experience shows that very few small businesses are properly organized.
Sure everyone has a title many of which they chose themselves, but what
that title means, and what authority it conveys or responsibility it
carries is not enunciated.
So why is enunciation important?
If you have followed my articles in the past you will remember that I
set out four simple rules or processes for successful management. They
are:
i Tell your people what you expect them
to do;
ii Measure their performance;
iii Provide them with feedback, and listen when they want to
give
feedback to you;
iv Reward them for quality performance and
discipline them
when performance falls below par.
Each
of the above rules is equally
important but if you really think about it, doing the last three
without having properly done the first is impossible. You cannot
measure something you have not described, so you cannot tell your
people if they are doing well if you have no benchmark, and you cannot
reward them for good performance when “good”
performance is
undefined.
So
this is where organization
structure comes in and it comes in two parts. The first part is
analyzing and defining the tasks required to be done and collecting
them into clearly designated functions. This is done without reference
to people or who is doing what now. Each function then is defined with
allocated authority, responsibility and benchmark performance.
The second part is the easy part - allocating the functions to
existing, new or reoriented personnel. Personnel are selected to fill
positions solely upon their ability to perform the duties, to assume
the responsibilities, and to be accountable for those
functions.
Well
defined organizational
structure is the framework upon which a business depends for its form
and efficiency. Without structuring the organization, optimal
efficiency and a high quality of work life is not possible.
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Author After 25 years consulting
to small and medium sized companies,
Mike
Anderson, principal of
Train
Me To Be a CEO realized that the most
important part of his work was training the CEO, and the reason he was
such a good consultant was that he did that very well.
Trained as an engineer,
he became a CEO of a midsize corporation at the age of 35. After a
spell at Harvard Business School he entered the world of consulting.
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