Foresightly

Most entrepreneurs and small business owners consider their businesses to be their babies, especially when they are first starting out. Just like raising a child, building a brand from scratch is a demanding endeavour, which can make it challenging for business owners to get away from work, if even for a moment.

As hard as it can be to take a step away, successfully maintaining some level of balance can actually increase your odds of success. The majority of new companies fail within their first five years of business, with one of the most common issues being owner burnout.

This makes sense, as giving 100% of your time and energy to a new business endeavour is sure to be a demanding undertaking. However, there are many ways to reduce business owner burnout through improved processes and systems. In this guide, we will be touching on some of the most impactful changes you can make to your business starting today.

Press “Pause” And Get Organised

Starting a company can feel like a never-ending marathon, with numerous potential distractions lying in wait. One of the easiest ways to address this feeling is to take a step back and reorganise your business processes.

After all, if you don’t have a handle on the day-to-day operations of your company (think files, data, and other business administrative tasks), it can be impossible to function effectively in your role. In fact, poor organisation is a key contributor to stress, which in turn breeds the negative feelings that can lead to owner burnout.

Delegate Tasks Whenever Possible

Do you remember the saying, “it takes a village to raise a child”? Well, if an owner’s new business is their baby, then the team they surround themselves with is their village.

As such, owners need to recognize the strengths of their co-founders and other team members. While creating a successful organisation is a tall task for one person, it is much more manageable when pursued as a team. Consider developing a process for delegating work among your team members to ensure everyone is maximising their time and contributing effectively.

Leverage Foresightly & End Business Burnout Forever

In today’s world, we rely on technology in many aspects of our lives. So, why can’t business owners leverage the power of technology to help them avoid feeling burnt out?

This is the exact thought that led us to create Foresightly, innovative new tools for business success

 to help entrepreneurs better manage their businesses. At Foresightly, we are 100% committed to banishing burnout by empowering business owners to control their business processes with intelligent automation. Our platform enables business owners to document all their processes, track who is doing what and how long everything is taking. Importantly, Foresightly will also calculate the cost of any process to enable business owners to gain perspective on whether a process could be outsourced elsewhere cheaper to a specialist.

As a business owner if you can outsource your workload then it will enable you to work on building your business, instead of working on keeping up in your industry. With a rapidly expanding list of app integrations and a quickly growing waiting list, now is the best time to let Foresightly help you improve your company’s processes and systems.

Automatically manage and visualize everything in your business with our business process management software. Download today for easy to set up automated workflows!