If you are serious about long-term success of your company, you might want to consider these areas that can help you improve profitability and efficiency throughout all departments of your company:

• Defining Processes – processes designed specifically around your products and practices, will ensure your company can continue to grow profitably
• Time Management – tracking how working time of yourself and your staff is spent will help you identify room for improvement and sometimes this can result in significant cost savings as well
• Staff Motivation – it’s about having your employees enjoy what they do and letting them participate on setting their goals and most importantly, listening to them
• Staff Training – when your workforce is well trained, their efficiency will grow tremendously. Their value will increase, and their input to the company might even double. You should train them not only in their formal area of specialization, not only in your, but also in personal and interpersonal skills – e.g. communication, time management, self motivation etc.
• Using Technology – computers, security systems, networks etc. – all these can make the work life of your employees much easier, while you could be saving a lot of money – so think about where you could invest this year so that you will reap the benefits in the long run
• Measuring Effectiveness of All Your Activities – this is the key and we will continue emphasizing it throughout the manual – only by religious tracking and then reviewing of what you and your employees do can you see the gaps for improvement