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Published: Aug 30, 2022 | Updated at: Aug 31, 2022

Business organization is one of the absolute most vital things when it comes to the success and failure of a business. Keeping you, your employees, and your company organized keeps everybody on the same page, and you are more prepared to face any given situation. 

Unfortunately, it is easier said than done to achieve this. About 70% of employees in the United States are not showing up to work and giving their best performance. Of that 70%, about 52% of those people are "sleepwalking" through the day. 

So, how can you get your employees to be more productive? How can you get your business, in general, to be more productive? 

This is your guide. 

Automate Tasks 

The first thing that you can do to be more productive is to automate any task that you can. This will help you get products and marketing campaigns out faster on a much longer scale. Plus, an extra benefit to going this route is that sometimes, you can set a date and time of when to automatically release something. 

Let's say that you are a business that relies on cold calls for sales. You can automate this task by getting a device that can call several numbers at once. 

The same can be done for an email marketing campaign. You can automate this task by creating a list of emails and then having these promotions sent out on a massive scale. 

However, automated tasks are not just good for marketing. It is useful to save a lot of time on general business tasks such as data entry as well. 

Look into what tasks you could automate and save your manpower for places where you really need it. 

Delegate Tasks 

Another thing that you need to do as a boss of other employees is to delegate some of your tasks. The truth is, you are just one person and sometimes, you are going to have too much work for one person to accomplish in a short period of time. 

As a boss, it can significantly strengthen your business production by doing this for a few reasons. 

The first reason is that it takes some weight off of your shoulders. This is one less task that you have to do, so now you can focus more of your attention on a more important task, you could have extra time to find a new task, or you could have extra time to relax and unwind. 

Essentially, doing this effectively is going to take some stress off of you. It is also a way to get all of your tasks done faster. Delegating a task to someone else allows those tasks to be done simultaneously instead of one at a time by one person. 

Finally, it also benefits the relationship between yourself and your employee. It shows that you trust them to get the job done, and it also could make them feel appreciative that you are trusting them with some responsibility of company tasks. 

This is a relationship that a lot of bosses seem to be lacking with their employees. About 55% of CEOs are concerned about the lack of trust in businesses. 

Having that trust and assurance strengthens the relationships from the top of the ladder to the bottom of the ladder, and that will show up in the final results. 

Outsource Tasks 

If you do not feel that you have enough staff or enough time to complete tasks in a timely matter, one option you can consider is outsourcing certain tasks in your business. 

This can be a great benefit to you because it will save you time from doing it yourself, and with more menial tasks, this can be done at an affordable rate. 

For example, you can hire a company or a few individuals to act as your call center for a temporary period. Another example is if you have a big marketing campaign, you can hire someone to create an image to represent your company and someone else to write a press release for you. 

These tasks are simple enough that you can assign them to a third party, and you can focus more of your time on the bigger picture for your business. 

Stick to a Routine 

Finally, if you run your own business or are self-employed, you may find yourself working various hours of the day. You could also find yourself putting off tasks and/or doing them at random. 

This is a quick way to get disorganized, and worst of all; you are not giving yourself a timeline to get these tasks done and to stay productive. 

What you need to do is to come up with a routine. You can do this by writing all of the tasks down that you typically have to do in a day or week. Then, figure out how long each task takes you to do and come up with a consistent timeline to get those tasks done each day. 

After that comes the hard part of sticking to this routine every day. But, if you successfully do so, you will wake up every day with a schedule knowing what you have to do, and you can set goals for yourself to accomplish each day. 

Improve Your Business Organization 

These are just four ways that you can improve your business organization. If you implement all of these successfully, you should find your business more organized in no time and have a clearer picture of where to go next. 

Halsell CRM solutions offer all of these services and more in one easy to use cloud-based CRM.  Being efficient, productive, and scaling at a much faster rate is made easy with these CRM business solutions. Sign up here for a free trial today to see how these services can help you achieve your goals.