Three New eCourses to Help You Recession-Proof Your Business Now
Economic times are tough, and will be for a while. Now is the time to cut fat without cutting muscle. But how do you actually do it?
Well, fortunately we have three new eCourses which will help provide you with some basic ideas on how you can:
- Cut operating costs without cutting output;
- Prevent projects from running over-budget;
- And maintain or even increase sales despite the recession.
As regular Working Smarter readers are aware, we launched what we promised would be “the first of many” eCourses in December 2008. Today we’re announcing three more additional eCourses that are available to the public, for free. Here they are:
How to Manage a Project
A lesson that we have often repeated on Working Smarter time and time again is that most projects run late because they are not managed sufficiently. We’ve compiled all of our advice regarding project management into a single eCourse which will help provide you with a clear idea on how to:
- Properly decompose tasks;
- Schedule tasks using a Gantt Chart;
- Assign the right people to the right tasks;
- And measure progress using milestones.
If this is something you might be interested in, click here to sign up for How to Manage a Project.
How to Optimize a Business Process
One of the best things you can do to help soften the recession’s blow to your company is to streamline your operations using standard business processes. Streamlined operations help your company cut costs without adversely affecting output by:
- Ensuring that all team members are using the most efficient method possible to do their work;
- Making the output of all work more consistent, also enabling you to quantifiably measure the quality of your output;
- Making it easier for you train new employees or cross-train old ones;
- And making it easier for you to identify production bottlenecks.
Like project management, this is a subject that we’ve blogged about frequently on Working Smarter. We’ve gotten a lot of customer feedback on the subject and much of it has been incorporated into this eCourse. So if you’re interested, click here to sign up for How to Optimize a Business Process.
How to Manage a Sales Process
The most visible effect of the recession is the slide in consumer confidence, which ultimately reduces sales. This last “recession-proofing” eCourse that we’ve developed is an adaptation of our How to Optimize a Business Process eCourse, which goes through a sales process in detail and demonstrates how you can optimize it to close more sales despite a decreased number of leads.
Click here to sign up for How to Manage a Sales Process.
About Working Smarter’s eCourses
All of our eCourses are free and delivered via email. You will receive the first lesson immediately upon sign-up and you should receive the others via email every two to three days, until you have read all of the lessons. If you would like to skip ahead to read other lessons immediately, you can do so.
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