- Many businesses get stuck because they don’t scale at the right time
- Others lack knowledge of scaling up and growing their business and some feel scared
Here are a few tips to scale your business effectively-
1. Focus on the future:
- Don’t base decisions on where you are as a business
- Base them on what you want to become.
- For eg. Adopt scalable policies that will benefit you in the long run
2. Make sure you are ready to scale:
- There are a lot of weaknesses you identify when your business is scaling
- These weaknesses cannot fix them once the journey has started
- You could be held back by your IT system, processes, cash flow, team or weaknesses in your supply chain
- Make a checklist of all your services and scale when all of them are in place
3. Learn from successful business scalers:
- Think about how they’ve done it, how have they succeeded
- For example, finding out how many staff they now have could give you a rough idea of how many you’ll need.
- Where are they selling and how is also a great question to prepare for scaling
- Understand their business model and learn lessons.
4. Protect your business values:
- Realise the importance of keeping your business values safe
- They’ve helped you to be successful up to that point
- Businesses with strong core values always succeed in the end
5. Build a great team:
- Create the right culture and an environment where people want to be and want to excel
- All team members must be properly engaged, motivated, recognised, and rewarded
- Remember that you work for your employees and want to scale together
6. Have rules for your staff to follow
- A core discipline with healthy competition can grow your company in many ways
- Recruiting the right people at all levels is essential to scaling up
- Attitude is as important as skills and experience.
- People should be hardworking and ambitious
7. Access outside expertise when required
- It’s never wrong to ask relevant questions for growth
- Get good advice, run it by your company’s parameters and execute it till you succeed
- Stay focussed on the ‘big picture’
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