The most expensive employee in your company might be you, doing tasks worth a fraction of your time. Here’s the exercise: pull up your last two weeks and label every task. Is it a $10 task? A $50 task? A $200 task? Most owners are shocked how much of their day is cheap work they should’ve handed off or systemized. Your time is the budget. Stop blowing it on low-value work.
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Door calendar might be the most expensive payroll mistake in your company. Owners love saying they're busy. We tout how many things that we have to do and how many meetings we have to go to. All of that to say, what is the value of the actual work that you're doing? Are you doing tasks that would be better off done by somebody else so that you can focus on the higher value items that you need to be focused on? Take a look at your calendar. Where are you wasting time? Doing things that could be done by somebody else and/or just need a process or a procedure so that you don't have to do it repeatedly. All of these things are extremely important. We only have so much time to get done what needs to get done. So here's what I want you to do. Take a look over the last two weeks at your calendar. Label the task. Is it a $10 task? Is it a $50 task? Is it a $200 task? Whatever it is. All of those once labeled, then you can start to eliminate the lower value tasks.
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