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How to document business processes to quickly drive growth and scale
How to document business processes to quickly drive growth and scale
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61 minutes
Released:
Jan 27, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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In this podcast episode, Alexis Kingsbury, an experienced management consultant, shares his passionate journey to empower business owners with his unique process to help them break free from an overwhelming workload, reclaim their time, and achieve success without sacrificing their work-life balance. You will learn the essential steps to quickly document business processes for maximum growth and scale.
"Scaling beyond those 42 hours becomes nearly impossible because you're already at full capacity. I imagine that there was a point at which he was working five days a week and as he added more team members, he gets to the point where he's working 60 hours. There is no more juice to squeeze out of him. He's already giving his all and the risk... and I know this from other business owners.
Where they went down that route and didn't solve it and as a result, closed the business or significantly cut it back. Not because it's the right thing for the business, not because they need to cut their costs or anything like that, but because it's stressing them out, so they'd rather it be dead than killing them.."
Alexis Kingsbury is an award-winning entrepreneur who runs two software businesses with remote global teams, serving over 500 organizations around the world. He has helped business leaders save thousands of hours of their time each year, enabling them to focus on business growth.
Alexis Kingsbury was frustrated by his inability to scale his business and let go of certain tasks. He decided to create a software business, Airmanual, to document business processes so that he and other business owners could quickly drive growth and scale. Through his experience, he learned that investing 3 hours into documenting processes could save around 15 hours per week of a business owner's time.
He is passionate about helping other business owners to understand this cycle and free up their time to create a greater impact. By documenting processes, he was able to increase the value of his own business and reduce the risk of it failing due to a lack of knowledge and certainty.
In this episode, you will learn the following:
Why process documentation is critical to scalingHow to increase the value of a business when selling or buying it.How to achieve work-life balance while running a successful business.How to create space in one's calendar and mental space to achieve greater impact.How documenting business processes reduces organizational process uncertainty and mitigates riskHow to effectively and simply document business processesGood practices for creating process documentationHow to create a culture around documenting business processes to scale predictablyand much much more ...
"Scaling beyond those 42 hours becomes nearly impossible because you're already at full capacity. I imagine that there was a point at which he was working five days a week and as he added more team members, he gets to the point where he's working 60 hours. There is no more juice to squeeze out of him. He's already giving his all and the risk... and I know this from other business owners.
Where they went down that route and didn't solve it and as a result, closed the business or significantly cut it back. Not because it's the right thing for the business, not because they need to cut their costs or anything like that, but because it's stressing them out, so they'd rather it be dead than killing them.."
Alexis Kingsbury is an award-winning entrepreneur who runs two software businesses with remote global teams, serving over 500 organizations around the world. He has helped business leaders save thousands of hours of their time each year, enabling them to focus on business growth.
Alexis Kingsbury was frustrated by his inability to scale his business and let go of certain tasks. He decided to create a software business, Airmanual, to document business processes so that he and other business owners could quickly drive growth and scale. Through his experience, he learned that investing 3 hours into documenting processes could save around 15 hours per week of a business owner's time.
He is passionate about helping other business owners to understand this cycle and free up their time to create a greater impact. By documenting processes, he was able to increase the value of his own business and reduce the risk of it failing due to a lack of knowledge and certainty.
In this episode, you will learn the following:
Why process documentation is critical to scalingHow to increase the value of a business when selling or buying it.How to achieve work-life balance while running a successful business.How to create space in one's calendar and mental space to achieve greater impact.How documenting business processes reduces organizational process uncertainty and mitigates riskHow to effectively and simply document business processesGood practices for creating process documentationHow to create a culture around documenting business processes to scale predictablyand much much more ...
Released:
Jan 27, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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