Spring Reset: Declutter, upgrade and optimise your business
This is a holistic guide for business owners to better balance business strategy with employee well-being and workspace organisation. This optimistic time of year when new life emerges and the sun finally begins to shine can be a great time, not only to spring clean your home, but to spring clean your business.
From trading dusty accounting books with a more sophisticated system to rearranging filing cabinets in a more coherent manner, now’s the time to organise your workspace and enhance employee happiness, well-being and motivation by implementing to following office spring cleaning tips.
Revitalising business operations
Evaluating your marketing strategy
Are your current marketing practices cost-effective? Are they bringing you the Return On Investment you are aspiring? Or perhaps you stand guilty of lamely neglecting marketing and need to start from scratch? Whatever your marketing qualms are, now is the time to rethink a more comprehensive, cost-effective and powerful marketing approach.
For example, do you currently have a content marketing regime in place? According to the Content Marketing Institute, nine out of 10 B-to-B marketers are actively engaged in content marketing, regardless of their type and size of business. Presenting engaging content and repurposing existing content across new platforms can be a cost-effective way to reach out to multiple-selling environments, such as websites, social media, press releases, and company brochures.
Battling on in the dark won’t heighten your brand’s identity – Get your message out there through valuable and engaging content.
Upgrading your accounting and finance systems
It is not uncommon for small businesses to waste valuable time battling with accounting systems that are not capable of dealing with information and data efficiently.
With the new tax year around the corner, it could prove provident to update the business’s accounting processes. You might want to consider moving your accounts into the cloud. As Tech Radar advises, moving accounts away from traditional desktop software to cloud solutions can give small business owners greater flexibility to deal with invoices and keep on top of cash flow.
Updating software and cybersecurity
If you’ve not already got an adequate firewall in place to help protect company data and cloud servers, now might be a good time to install data protection software to ensure company data remains protected and out of the hands of cybercriminals.
Decluttering your workspace and energising the office atmosphere
Decluttering, organising and filing
A cluttered desk with paperwork scattered between half-drank coffee cups does not do your mental well-being at work any favours. In fact, one study shows that physical clutter negatively affects our ability to focus and process information.
By contrast, a clear and uncluttered desk creates feelings of calm, making us feel more driven and motivated to take on the tasks that lie ahead. One of the quickest and most effective ways to spring clean the office for workplace motivation is to simply declutter your desk.
Having a clean office, an orderly filing system and neat and tidy drawers and cupboards is likely to boost staff morale, not to mention your own sanity!
Brightening the office
An office that’s airy and bright, with swathes of natural daylight filtering into the room, which boasts a contemporary design infused by stylish and comfortable furniture and fittings, a vibrant colour scheme and plenty of visual stimulation, will go a long way in augmenting employee motivation.
Alternatively, it might be easier to move into office space that already ticks the motivational-boosting checklist, that’s stylish, bright and airy with plenty of ‘third places’ and an open-plan design, which encourages collaboration and banter. If that’s the case, WorkWell’s serviced offices in Leeds and Harrogate