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Key Employees can and will leave your Business, are you

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Very few businesses can claim to be prepared for the loss of key

employees. Quite often it is an unexpected and unplanned for

event that causes quite a bit of disruption to 'business as

usual'.

It is quite a gut wrenching experience to see an employee you

have worked with over a period of time leaving your business.

Even if the parting of ways is on good terms with a period of

handover, you just know that there is so much information

walking out the door with your former employee and there is

nothing you can do about it.

And this is only just the beginning...

While labouring through a period of being understaffed and

overworked you are then faced with the task of recruiting a new

employee to fill the vacant position. This is followed by the

inevitable probation and training period where, hopefully the

new employee comes up to speed and is able to pick up where the

former employee left off.

The problem is: What exactly was it that the former employee

really did? They always seemed to be busy and on the rare

occasion that they were absent due to illness, there were those

problems that arose that were only truly resolved when they

returned and took control and 'cleaned things up'.

There has to be a better way...

Fortunately quite a bit can be done to minimize the impact of

situations like this on our business. And like most truly

worthwhile solutions the steps required to complete this part of

your business development does take some effort on your part.

There is an established path that you can follow to get your

business in order and the benefits to you and your employees are

much farther reaching than just minimizing the impact of key

employees leaving you.

The following is by no means a definitive list of what is

required. But it does give you some idea of the steps required.

1) Create a flexible forward thinking Organization Chart

defining the positions you require in your business.

2) Determine what the responsibilities are for the positions in

your business.

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3) Assign Employees to relevent positions in the Business.

4) Document key information that is critical to your business

and make it available to your employees.

5) Work with your employees to define what it is they do, how

they do it and most importantly how it could be done better.

6) Record, optimize then implement the business systems you have

identified.

7) Assign the business systems to the relevant positions and

monitor their use.

By consistently following these steps for all positions in your

business you will insulate yourself from some of the problems

that occur when key employees leave your business.

About the author:

Justin Woolich has been involved with Innovative Business

Software for over 10 years. He has experience managing and

running businesses in various industries.

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