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business challenges you can help clients conquer
While it’s yet another year that’s started with uncertainty, many business leaders are hopeful and optimistic. Here’s how you can help clients overcome three common business challenges so they can have that same positive outlook.
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n the Winter 2022 Fortune/Deloitte CEO Survey, I read that “more than two-thirds of CEOs appear determined to see sunshine on the horizon.” Asked to describe 2022 in one word, they mentioned ‘hopeful’, ‘opportunity’, ‘optimistic’, and ‘recovery’, as well as ‘uncertain’ and ‘challenging’.
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I can totally relate to this twosided outlook, and believe we’re getting better at anticipating and adjusting to disruptions as they happen. This new found flexibility and agility is leading to greater confidence in tackling challenges as they arise. It’s a positive mindset that can help you be hopeful and ready for what’s next, rather than panicked. While a confident mindset is essential to moving business forward, there are practical challenges that need to be addressed every day, especially as teams continue to be in and out of the office. I’d like to discuss three of these challenges that could be affecting your clients (and possibly your own team), and how you can help clients overcome them with WorkflowMax.
Koren Wines, Global General Manager, WorkflowMax at Xero With over 20 years’ transformational leadership experience in the tech space, I’m bringing people together to harness their individual strengths, along with our product, to deliver high impact solutions for our customers. I’m super passionate about business and technology and I love how technology can revolutionise a business and drive purpose, success and change lives for the better.
1. Preventing burnout and scope creep
management software like WorkflowMax, your clients can:
In addition to the importance of team communication, connection and empathetic leadership for creating a healthy workplace, there’s also the need to address the potential for burnout. Many people have extended both their role and hours over the past two years to help their companies get the job done. Add in working from home with family around and the never ending video calls, and it’s easy to see how having the time to truly concentrate on tasks is a luxury most of us don’t have.
• Plan ahead with job scheduling to better forecast capacity • Allocate tasks to each staff member and give them a checklist of to-dos, estimated times and due dates • Schedule tasks so employees have the time to do them well • Accurately track the time staff spend on each task • Share information easily using collaboration tools • Use in-depth reporting to have evidenced-based conversations about the balancing act between performance and wellbeing
These interruptions, combined with project and role scope creep, can leave people feeling fatigued, unmotivated, frustrated and like they’re not doing their best work because they’re stretched too thin.
These features are invaluable for monitoring who’s doing what and how projects are progressing. They also help managers know who’s working over their capacity and who has the time to take on more projects.
Get a better overview of everyone’s time
2. Improving the quality of data and analytics
Scope creep isn’t just related to the pandemic and everyone pitching in. It can be caused by missing details on a project, misunderstandings about employee availability, and the lack of a good feedback process.
An article on CDOTrends.com has stayed in my head for the last little while. It said that “Every year, poor data quality costs organizations an average US$12.9 million. Apart from the immediate impact on revenue, over the long term, poor quality data increases the complexity of data
By implementing job and project
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