{"id":7105,"date":"2020-10-23T20:01:40","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T00:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ca\/blog\/?p=7105"},"modified":"2026-01-16T05:08:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T10:08:46","slug":"transforming-productivity-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ca\/blog\/transforming-productivity-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Guide: Transforming the Productivity of Your Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header has-dark-background-color entry-header--has-illustration entry-header--has-illustration--generic\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-header__row row align-center\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col col-lg-7 col-xlg-6 entry-header__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"component component-single-header\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-header__misc text--subtitle text--uppercase text--small\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ca\/blog\/category\/money-matters\/\" class=\"entry-header__link\">Money Matters<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"entry-title-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"entry-title\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFree Guide: Transforming the Productivity of Your Business\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"entry-header__description\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"single-post-details container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"posted-on \"><time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2020-10-23T20:01:40-04:00\">October 23, 2020<\/time><\/span><span class=\"reading-time\"> min read<\/span>\n\t\t<button\n\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"social-share-button button button--icon button--secondary js-social-share-button\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-title=\"Free Guide: Transforming the Productivity of Your Business\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-url=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ca\/blog\/transforming-productivity-guide\/\"\n\t\t\tdata-share-text=\"Please read this interesting article\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__share-label\">Share<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__copy-label\" hidden>Copy Link<\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"social-share-button__copy-tooltip\" aria-hidden=\"true\" hidden>Copied<\/span>\n\t\t<\/button>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/header>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-author has-dark-background-color alignfull\">\n\t<div class=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"co-authors\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"entry-author-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<a class=\"entry-author\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-ca\/blog\/author\/owen\/\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/fr-ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2019\/04\/Owen_sage-advice-002.jpg\" class=\"entry-author__image\" height=\"40\" width=\"40\" fetchpriority=\"high\" \/>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"entry-author__name\">Owen Sweeney<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>How much time does your business spend on admin tasks? One day a week? Half the week? More?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dealing with admin can make a big dent in the productivity of your business. In fact, small businesses reportedly spend an average of 120 working days each year on administrative tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With that in mind, what can you do to boost your company\u2019s productivity levels? After all, those admin tasks, while laborious, are important for your business to function. Think dealing with invoices, making sure you\u2019re paid on time and managing data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10 tips to transform your productivity<\/strong> is a guide that offers you a series of pointers to get your company moving in the right direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In it, you\u2019ll discover how you can reduce the time spent on accounting tasks, which will free up time to spend on jobs that will add more value to the business, such as finding new customers and using data to make smarter business decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>10 tips to transform your productivity <\/strong>covers the following topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Work smarter<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Automate your everyday financial processes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make it easy for customers to pay<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Automate your banking processes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Make use of apps<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"#gate-d0a00698-9fff-4241-86fd-891bb796adf3\">Download your free copy of 10 tips to transform your productivity<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-an-excerpt-from-10-tips-to-transform-your-productivity\">An excerpt from 10 tips to transform your productivity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Administrative tasks can feel pretty insignificant in small doses. What\u2019s five minutes of admin&nbsp;time here and there?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But when you\u2019re juggling a hundred different tasks at once \u2013 as tends to be the case in a small&nbsp;business \u2013 and you\u2019re doing that same task hundreds of times in the course of a month, those&nbsp;minutes start to add up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder that, on average, small businesses spend 120 working days a year on administrative tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, you can\u2019t just set those administrative tasks aside \u2013 they\u2019re still vital to the smooth running of the business, even if they do take your attention off big-picture issues such as refining your financial strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The key is to find smart ways to complete administrative tasks faster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t always easy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To pull it off, you\u2019ll need to rethink the way you and the rest of your&nbsp;business operate and abandon some old and familiar, but inefficient, ways 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