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4 Powerful Tools That Will Help Any Business Succeed (Follow The SWAT Framework)
Most businesses are more complicated than they need to be.
I’m notorious for this. I love to take on more projects than the average person can handle, about broad topics, and then expect everyone to keep up. But most people don’t operate this way, and over the years, I learned to deploy the SWAT team to my company.
So, instead of turning something simple into a complex and confusing activity, the goal of every company should be to turn the routine into consistency.
Here’s how to deploy the SWAT team to your business:
1/ Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
Just reading the acronyms puts me into an instant snooze.
But procedures are paramount to every successful business. Without SOPs, everything is sporadic, confusing, and inconsistent. If you do something at least once a year, it should have a procedure.
But just creating procedures is ineffective.
You also must consistently re-evaluate the processes, eliminate waste from the steps, and continually improve them.
