Revealed: The Unbelievable Power Of An Organised Business

February 6, 2017

When you put lots of money and effort into starting a business, you want to make sure it performs as successfully as possible. You should view your business as an orange, and aim to squeeze every last drop of juice from it. Unfortunately, there are many small business owners that don’t manage their business as effectively as can be. As a result, their organisation tends to underperform.
The thing is, you can look at any business and identify numerous causes for its failure to perform as well as it should. However, most of the time, there is one common factor in all struggling businesses. They all share the same trait; they’re unorganised.
An unorganised business can throw up many obstacles that slow down a company and prevent it from reaching its true potential. On the other end of the spectrum, an organised business can do wonderful things. No one truly realises the power of an organised business until they compare one with an unorganised one. Today’s article will help show you how powerful organisation can be to your small business. Read all of the following points to find out more:

Speeds Up Business Activities

With a more organised business, you can speed up many different activities within your company, particularly ones that involve searching for documents. An unorganised business will have all its documents stored in a way that’s not easy to handle. By doing this, it makes it much harder to find the documents you need, and a lot of time gets wasted.
But, an organised business can use different storage methods to keep paper documents in a much neater fashion. There are services like Oasis Group Scanning that can scan your paper documents and store them digitally, making them far easier to locate and search through. What does this mean? It means you waste far less time conducting activities that involve you looking through lots of documents. Your business speeds up, productivity increases, and you can get more work done every day.

Improves Brand Reputation

An organised business can actually help you improve the reputation of your brand. How? Well, imagine you own a business that’s very unorganised, and your premises are a complete mess. You invite potential clients down for a meeting, and they see that your office is full of clutter and completely unorganised. What type of impression do you think this gives them? It makes you look very unprofessional, and they’re likely to have a very negative perception of your brand.
Now, flip things around and imagine inviting them to an office that’s extremely neat and tidy. It will give off the complete opposite impression. They’ll see that you’re extremely organised, and it makes your brand seem way more professional. Consequently, they’ll leave with a positive perception of your brand, which they’re likely to share with others. So, your brand reputation improves, and you get seen in a different light.

Reduces Stress

Stress is a huge problem in a lot of small businesses these days. Running a company can be very difficult, particularly when you’re battling it out in a highly competitive industry. As such, every day can be stressful, which causes issues in your business. Stressed workers aren’t fully motivated, and their output could decrease. Stressed workers are also at risk of taking days off through illness, which damages your company in multiple ways.
If your business is well organised, you can reduce company stress levels. A lot of stress comes from not being able to find something or having no space to do work. Organisation prevents both of these things from occurring. If your business is more organised, then things won’t go missing and everything will be easy to find. Likewise, it means everyone’s workspace will be free from any clutter, giving them the space they need to work comfortably. Now, your employees can be more relaxed at work, leading them to be more motivated and less likely to take any time off for health reasons.
As you can see, an organised business can be extremely powerful. The trick is making an active effort to be more organised at work. There are many ways you can do this, we’ve already touched upon using services that can help, and it's clear that digitalising your business as much as possible will make it more organised too. The toughest part is installing organisation into the minds of all your employees. Make it a huge deal when you hire them, let them know that being organised is very important in your business. If you manage this, you’ll start to see plenty of benefits.

Mark Asquith

That British podcast guy, Mark is co-founder of Captivate.fm, the world's only growth-oriented podcast host. A Harvard, TEDx, Podcast Movement and Podfest speaker (amongst many more!), he's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.

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