Time to sell your business or step back from it?
You are ready for a change. You have a flourishing business but it takes a lot of your time. Maybe you built that business from scratch. Maybe you bought it and built it up from small beginnings. Now it’s time for you to sell your business or step back from it and move on. Could be that you want to:
- Retire
- Sell the business to invest in another one
- Keep the business but make it operate without you, maybe in the hands of:
- A young relative or
- A paid manager
- Expand the business to new areas, where you’ll really need to focus your attention
Write it all down!
You are the key person in the business. All of the knowledge of that business is in your head or maybe some rough notes. How will the business survive without you?
The answer is for you to write down everything you know in and organised way!
But maybe you have never liked writing lots of details. You are a mover! There is so much in your head about the business! You tried once and ended up with a jumble of documents that are sitting in a folder somewhere.
How can you be free to take your next steps?
Solution
Engage QDT to help you:
- Develop an intranet-based procedure manual for your business.
- Train your team to:
- Use it for training and reference
- Maintain it (or we can do that for you)
How will we know what to write?
We are experts at designing bodies of information and describing business operations. We are also experts at listening and understanding. Our previous work includes award-winning business and software manuals of thousands of pages.
See Developing your secure web-based procedure manual
Won’t that be expensive?
We can’t deny that it is an investment, but there are ways of reducing costs and getting better results at the same time. We could design the manual and then coach you or your team to write it. This way you and your team may get better ownership of the results and the cost lower. If that seems difficult, don’t worry. We can also do the writing for you.
See How we work with you.
What software would we use?
We can use the software of your choice, but we normally use one of the following systems, depending on which one suits you and your business:
- Confluence (see Product we use— Confluence —procedures in a wiki)
- Way We Do (see Product we use— Way We Do —procedure manual and workflows in the Cloud)
The whole picture
Stepping back from your business is not just about getting a procedure manual. For a more detailed picture, see this Strategic Solutions article.
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