Creating a list of general company SOPs including how you handle social media, time off, logins and passwords, and the software you use daily to do your job.
You probably know how you bill your clients, pay your employees, and make business purchases. Do you have it documented? What about how you forecast budgeting for the future or long-term financing?
How do you handle handoff from sales to marketing? Do you use a CRM? Where do your design standards live? What's the process for asking for or presenting proposals? Plus so much more.
Having your process for onboarding new team members can make it easier for them to shine in their new role. How do you handle performance evaluations? What are you doing to grow and nurture your employees?
Standardizing how you manage your employees and customers ensures that you have a fair, consistent, and repeatable process. How do or talk to investors? Do you have a standard interview process?
Standardize your vendor selection process, how you manage emails, ensure the quality of what you do. How do you create roadmaps? What's your development process? Do you have inventory that you need to manage?
Simply put, if you’re not making the documentation of your business processes a top priority, then you’re likely setting yourself up to fail.