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So far we’ve examined the tasks we’re performing day to day and we’ve identified the tasks that we can Eliminate or Automate. Next on our list is what we can Simplify.

Simplify

Once you’ve Eliminated and Automated tasks, what tasks can you Simplify? How can you make what you have to do easier and have it take less time?

It’s true in organisations that business processes get more and more complex over time as they have to deal with more and more different situations. These processes then take more effort, manpower, time and cost to operate. They only ever get simpler if you take a long hard look at the purpose of the process and consider whether each activitity within it is actually still required.

Simplifying, therefore, means making processes easier to operate by taking out non-essential activities from them. It differs from Eliminate, where you stop doing the entire process, by looking at specific tasks you perform in operating the process.

Simplify also means organising the resources required so they’re close at hand. And it can also mean reducing the standards for completion of non-essential tasks.

You can simplify not only your marketing and coaching delivery tasks, but also your home management activities. For example, could you use online shopping and delivery to save yourself two hours a week?

So let’s start to Simplify your what you do in your coaching practice and in your private life.

Of the processes you undertake:

1. What non-essential steps can you take out of them?
2. How can you make the tasks easier?
3. How can you reduce the time it takes for the tasks, or the whole process?
4. Are there resources – material, space, machines, instructions, templates, checklists, pre-prepared or part prepared documents, tools and other aids that can be more readily at hand, and in a state ready to use?
5. Bearing in mind the required standard for completion of the tasks by your client, do all of the tasks have to be completed to the standard they are today?
6. Could you meet the requirements overall, while lowering the standard of individual tasks? Negotiation with your client on this may surprise you.
7. Can you make your home management processes more effective by simplifying them in the same way?

Summary

Simplifying your tasks and activities may initially seem time consuming. And it can be. But you’ll see the benefit immediately, and for every day you use the simplified process.

In fact, only doing what you have to do in your business and in your life, and no more can release huge amounts of time for you to spend marketing.

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