Successful People, Successful Business
Posted by Steve Kickert on February 03, 2010
At OnePlace, we are strong believers in making the individual successful - not just professionally, but in their personal life as well. We understand the lines between work and home life are blurred more than ever, and want to manage that blurred line to keep organized and benefit all facets of life.
We have built our small business organization solution to focus on the individual first. Because of this focus, we help the individuals in any business setting improve their organizational styles and communication techniques. The skills our solution aids in developing are incredibly important workforce skills that increase the productivity and the success of that individual. And you definitely want successful people in your business.
Why? Without good, successful employees, your business doesn’t stand a chance.
This fact is well-known by anyone who labors through the hiring process for months trying to find “the right candidate” for the job. You need to know that the person you bring into your business has the skills, the drive and the personality to mesh with others in your business. And once you’ve found the right hire, give them the right tools to increase their personal and professional success.
Imagine what would happen if you hired Mike, because he fits all your requirements for the open position, without the aid of an organization solution. You truly believed he could handle the job with ease because he is a very talented individual. However, during the interview process, you failed to ask how he organizes his work and communicates, and like many talented and creative people, Mike isn't organized from a business standpoint. You give him a computer, phone and email and tell him to get to work.
Then, 3 months later, a big account is calling you and taking their business elsewhere. Their main reason: Mike lost important information and forgot what was mentioned in email strings. He missed important deadlines and continuously emailed the wrong documents to the client. He did all this because he had poor organizational skills and couldn’t keep track of important information.
This type of scenario can easily happen when the people working for you aren’t given the right tools to keep organized and manage account deadlines and expectations. In business teams, people need to depend on others to keep organized and get stuff done. And because not everyone is taught these skills in school, it’s important to start them off on the right foot the day they start working for you, and improve those skills.
We firmly believe that the people in your business can be more successful with the use of the online project management and team collaboration tools within our solution. These tools can only improve organization and communication, and will benefit individuals and your business as a whole.
With a solution like this in place, Mike is empowered to manage projects and tasks online for his accounts, and keep track of important deadlines. He can connect directly with team members, and collaborate on important projects. Mike is now much more organized and can achieve more by being a stronger teammate and a better representative of your business to the accounts he manages.
One thing that would make Mike - and your business - more successful would be if all the people in your business could communicate in one place. Employees can have discussions with vendors. Suppliers can get notified of a new order. And Mike can share the status of projects and deadlines directly with clients he is working with. Now, files and communications don’t need to be shared - and potentially lost - in email with external team members.
And because our solution focuses on the individual, we want to make the individual successful in their home life as well. You can take OnePlace with you wherever you go by accessing it via a Smartphone. You can organize appointments, events, grocery lists and plan major life events with it.
So now Mike can keep more organized at home, which his wife appreciates. And because he knows what tasks and deadlines are coming up at work, he feels less stress at home and can focus on more enjoyable things, like coaching Little League and planning his bathroom remodeling project.
And when the people working in your business are happy at home, that happiness spills over into their professional life as well. Your internal and external team members are more well-rounded, less stressed, and more productive.
We are dedicated to empowering individuals to be efficient and effective, and want to be the solution that increases the success of your people. With successful people, your business will be successful too.


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