Perform at your best: A guide for small businesses

Achieving optimal business performance can be a challenge for any company. With many moving parts to deal with and daily demands to stay on top of, it can be tricky to make sure everything is moving in the right direction.

While you might have the best intentions for your business to perform at its best, numerous things may try to hold you back: chasing late payments, manual data entry, working in silos, the cash flow balancing act – the list goes on.

But what if you could start working more efficiently, make smarter business decisions, and empower your staff so they elevate their performance – all to propel the company in the right direction?

Perform at your best is a guide that will help you take the steps to improve how your business functions so that not only can you achieve your company goals, you’ll increase your chances of massively exceeding them too.

In the guide, you’ll learn how using automation can free up time to spend on tasks that add more value to the company, how real-time data can be used to generate insights that lead to smart business decisions resulting in increased revenues, and why giving your employees the tools and support they require to succeed in their roles will mean your company will prosper.

Perform at your best covers the following topics:

• What does business performance mean to you?
• Becoming more efficient and productive
• Making smarter decisions and gaining insights
• Empowering your people so your business can thrive
• How DPR Motorsport performs at its best
• Are you ready for a new way of working?

An excerpt from Perform at your best

What’s it like if you, your team and the wider business are all healthy and performing at your best?

Ironically, it shouldn’t be noticeable at all.

Just as a well-oiled machine is one that runs silently, it’s the absence of the problems discussed earlier that serves as an indicator of good business performance. Additionally, you should find that your business can seize opportunities as soon as they arise.

To create this kind of business, three things are required:

1. Productivity and efficiency have to be the key focus

The complexity discussed earlier needs to be overcome by automating tasks where possible, freeing you and your team to use your skills and experiences to help the business grow.

2. Smarter decisions have to be facilitated

Everybody must have the insight into the business they need to do their work. Silos need to be broken down.

Every employee and department needs to be ‘open for business’, so information can flow freely, and they can make decisions with the highest level of understanding.

3. You have to get the most from your people

Technology can play a key role to improve your business processes but your people are your most important asset.

Those who work for you or alongside you need to be engaged with the business and allowed to use their skills and experience for the benefit of all. They need to be motivated and rewarded.

Their success needs to be your success – and that of the business.