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How to go from juggling 100 tasks to running your business with finesse

Business can often feel like a delicate juggling act. Between attracting new customers, retaining existing customers, managing cash flow, filing taxes, monitoring the competition, and keeping tabs on your teams, there are a lot of balls flying – all the time. How do you know that you are making the best decisions for your company's growth and future success when there's so much to focus on in your daily operations?

In this article, we will consider how you can run your business more efficiently so that it doesn't feel like an impossible juggling act. Plus, we'll take it a step further by suggesting how you can use Syft to save time so that you can shift your attention from getting through the week to growing your business for the long haul.

ByNSBC Editorial TeamJuly 8, 20240Comments

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How can generative AI boost your SME’s productivity?

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) face the dual challenge of competing with larger corporations while navigating resource constraints. But how can generative AI boost an SME’s productivity and help them to get a competitive edge? Let us look at six ways generative AI can increase an SME’s productivity.

ByNSBC Editorial TeamJune 10, 20240Comments

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7 secrets of the most productive people

Article written by Harry Welby-Cooke, (ActionCOACH Country Partner)

Like it or not, there are very few secrets left in the world. Google has already, for free, provided us with all the answers human beings know. So, why then are some people a lot more productive, and dare I say, a lot more successful too?

These ‘7 Secrets of the Most Productive People’ are already quite freely available. Less popular though, and much more critical, is actually following the advice and implementing these secrets. Knowing isn’t enough and doing therefore becomes a much more important part of your success.

From experience though, I thought I’d share a summary of what we as ActionCOACH business coaches see as being critical success factors across our team of business coaches and their entrepreneurial clients. To get these secrets to work best for you try this: Read, nod, take action and repeat!

ByNSBC Editorial TeamJuly 30, 20230Comments

Growing a Business Productivity & Organisation

Deep Work: the new competitive edge

How much of your day is taken up with emails, meetings, social media, or internet browsing and breaks? And how much of your day is spent doing the work to build your business not just talking about it? In the book, Deep Work by Cal Newport, the author says that “The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy.” By being able to do deep work, you will be able to master hard tasks easier and you will become more productive.

ByNSBC Editorial TeamFebruary 21, 20220Comments

Managing a business Productivity & Organisation Tech tools

A smarter way to work: Leading a streamlined business and an action-packed life

Article written by Colin Timmis (Xero)

Small businesses in South Africa are increasingly turning to technology to help automate and streamline processes, so they can focus on the most important things. One business doing this is NML, a software engineering company driven by the potential of intelligent, elegant design to solve business and social problems.

Paul Cartmel founded the business in 2007. After studying mechanical engineering at UCT in Cape Town, he started to realise how transformational the internet and other digital developments would be on businesses.

ByNSBC Editorial TeamJanuary 10, 20220Comments

Productivity & Organisation

3 major killers of office productivity

Article provided by Avitus Software

What is productivity?

Productivity is using less to create more,
Productivity is working smarter, not harder,
Productivity is using time efficiently.

“Productivity is more than just the measure of how effectively resources are used to produce outputs. It is all about using less to create more – to work smarter, not harder. Productivity is a mindset that continuously aspires to better ways of accomplishing tasks and conducting business. At the heart of productivity is the individual. An organisation can only become more productive through continuous upgrading of knowledge, skills, discipline, effort and, collaboration” - (Productivity SA)

ByNSBC Editorial TeamJuly 12, 20210Comments

Managing a business Money Matters Productivity & Organisation

Debit orders save time

Article provided by Netcash

As a financial manager of a small to medium-sized enterprise (SME), you may find yourself fulfilling multiple roles at once. You oversee salary payments, customer invoicing and debit order collections. You also analyse and report on business earnings, expenses and the financial well-being of the company. On top of all of this, you are also responsible for making key decisions about business investments and financial resource allocations. It’s fair enough then that, on some days, you may wish there was more than one of you on your team. Duplicating yourself would help you get to things quicker and get them done more efficiently. The good news is that, in this day and age, you don’t necessarily have to clone yourself to optimise on work productivity.

ByNSBC Editorial TeamMay 23, 20210Comments

COVID-19 Managing a business Productivity & Organisation

Remote productivity 101

The global pandemic saw the uptake of remote working skyrocket as more people were forced to stay at home due to lockdown protocols. Though some thought it great and easily adapted to working from home. Many struggle to work from home and have more distractions than they had in the office. But how can you make your remote work productive?

ByNSBC Editorial TeamFebruary 22, 20210Comments

Business Success Productivity & Organisation

How do you motivate yourself and others in a brand new year

Article written by Cindy Norcott

How do you motivate yourselves and others in a brand new year when you are out of oomph.

Many business leaders are entering 2021 feeling rather hesitant, concerned and uncertain. 2020 was challenging in many ways and I believe that many business owners and managers had the fight of their lives to keep their businesses afloat and to keep their teams focused, motivated and connected last year. There was a lot of gymnastics going on with everyone trying to be lean, agile, flexible, to pivot and roll with the punches all at the same time. At the end of 2020, many businesses consisted of exhausted leaders, tired teams, disconnected relationships and non-existent cultures.

ByNSBC Editorial TeamJanuary 18, 20210Comments

Growing a Business Productivity & Organisation

Harness the skill of delegation to get more tasks done

Article written by Futhi Cabe (BizCommunity)

Given the importance of this topic to you as a business owner, whose successful results depend largely through and with the actions of others, here we share some important tips on how you can hone your skill of delegation, and in so doing, develop your staff and get more tasks done.

ByNSBC Editorial TeamOctober 9, 20200Comments