{"id":39492,"date":"2022-01-12T07:00:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T06:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/strtgy.design\/articles\/action-plan-for-2022-3-of-4\/"},"modified":"2022-01-12T07:00:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-12T06:00:54","slug":"action-plan-for-2022-3-of-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strtgy.design\/en\/strtgy-notes-en\/action-plan-for-2022-3-of-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Action Plan for 2022 (3 of 4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Welcome back\u0259!  <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How is he doing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Third note of the week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today we talk about Processes. Tomorrow, last, we will talk about People. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which are two related things.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can pride ourselves on putting people at the center, but <\/span><b>without processes we are only putting them at the center of a great confusion as well as endangering the company<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Processes define the quality with which the organization decides to work. They constitute the most practical and tangible competitive advantage. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How can a team ensure that it produces consistent quality outputs over time if it relies only on the motivation and skills of its members? It can&#8217;t. Especially in this historical period!  <\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>I want to ask you a question:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Is there a link in your company to which everyone can retrieve documents, checklists, procedures to perform, without fail, a certain activity?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And I am not referring to the bureaucracy that companies adopt by mistaking a certification for efficiency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If the answer is NO, read on.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The next lines are true for both large corporations and professionals.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Scroll down to see which KPIs will improve if you improve processes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Good work!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ALWAYS MAKE PROGRESS&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>-Antonio<br \/>\n<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009ccd;\"><strong>\u25cf PROCESSES \/ Designed not to fail.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Don&#8217;t solve the same problem twice<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How much time do you waste doing things you have already done in the past?&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Make a list of the activities, including problems, that you have encountered the most in 2021 and put them in order of priority following the &#8220;Follow the money&#8221; principle, that is, put the problems closest to revenue generation on top.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But don&#8217;t act right away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As soon as the opportunity arises again write down somewhere (Notion, Google Doc, in your company&#8217;s wiki, you name it&#8230;) a bullet point list with the minimum steps you need to do the same thing in half the time, or better yet to delegate it ensuring the same quality.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a title write a question, the same one they ask when they come to you for help. For example, &#8220;How to make a partial refund on an order?&#8221; or &#8220;How to update XYZ report.&#8221; <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Share the folder with all these &#8220;How to&#8217;s&#8221; with everyone in the company.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you decide to get into this habit in no time and without effort you will build a portentous library of internal procedures and will have put yourself in a position to save dozens of hours a month by stopping solving the same problems over and over again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #009ccd;\"><b>\u25cf PROCESSES \/ KPI<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Operations<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Operating Margin GOP<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Margin per employee<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Costs per employee<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hiring Success Rate<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">% of Tickets Resolved on First Contact<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Net Promoter Score<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See you tomorrow for \u25cf <span style=\"color: #3bd23d;\">PEOPLE <\/span>\ud83d\udc4b\ud83c\udffb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1:54 of reading &#8211; How to have procedures that write themselves. 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