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Top 7 things for a professional in lockdown

7 things for a professional in lockdown:

First of all, we all need to keep the faith, things will be better. It will be earlier than you expected. It is a hard time but then it fills you with ample time. We all were in a rat race. Home to the office to home back. We can do wonders but for that our brain should be free from routine things. This is that time of life. We need lifestyle, going out, eat out, and everything because we bear a lot of work stress. This time has relaxed you. Now you can detox your brain and can keep the focus on the most important things.  We have listed 10 things for a professional in lockdown. Let us start.

1. Redesign the core of your services:

The first thing you can do at this lockdown is to redesign what you are providing to the customers. Just productivity your services. Fix a price based on components. Following activities may fall in this case:

  • Club services to make a pack of them.
  • Name those combos
  • Try to sell more packed services instead of customization as it takes a lot of negotiations and your personal time.
  • Create a checklist for every customize package and train your staff. Confirmation of order to delivery time shall be reduced.

2. Improve your brand and firm your core

Get deep inside to your core and try to restrain yourself to what your core is. We find it hard to say no to any work. But for stronger sustainability it is important to strengthen your core. Create some nice resources. DO analysis. Try to push yourself in what you are doing. Your goal should be increased in revenue and a decrease in cost. It doesn’t mean you should stop hiring or start firing. many times you need to spend more to save. Yes, you end up late delivery and unhappy clients for inadequate hiring. Nowadays it is almost impossible to hire trained staff that fit your use. So apart from hiring prepare a detailed manual for every profile and create a training module for every post. Execution of reporting to disaster prevention should be covered in it.

3. Put all those raw ideas on the web: redesign your website

Many professionals are taking this time as a blessing. They were so busy with sales and delivery that they hardly got any time to put their idea on the web. This is the best time to do so. You can make a document of your idea and hire a good web development company to convert your idea on the web. Earlier we used to say put your idea on paper. But now this annotation is changed to put your idea on the web. You can see that most of the web-based businesses are immune form lockdown. This is the only medium to reach maximum people at minimize cost. But yes your thought process shall be very clear for it. We find the Vocso web design agency as one of the best when it comes to converting the idea into the web. One of the finest in India. 

4. Create SOP’s for your office

This is the next best task to do at this time. Most of the professionals have that is managed office. You can use this time to fix things. even if you have a proper management system, you can try to review and make it even better. Fix everything. SOP for each kind of task. Who will report to whom? You can even fix the template of e-mail for various communications. It will reduce human intervention in the future. The goal of every business shall b to reduce human intervention at least for repetitive tasks.

5. Train the employees

It is another arrow in the eye. Why most of our employees underperform. they can’t see the things as we do. Lack of futuristic thinking. Lack of impact analysis of what they are doing. These things make them doing errors. Wastage of time, less productivity, and slow learning at their individual level. Here you can fix all these. You can have a half-hour video call and try to translate your perspective of things to them. Try to train them in whatever they are doing so that they can reach a better level. Communication skills and the importance of proper communication. Management of tasks, time management while doing the multi-tasking can be some important things. You can also inspire them to learn some important skills, like excel, PowerPoint, English speaking, email etiquette, etc. This will be a lifetime additional to their profile and improved services for you. If you want to train them in taxation you can use courses on our website to enhance their skills.

6.  Improve your own entrepreneurial knowledge

Now let us get back to ourselves. For all of the above-listed tasks, you are supposed to spend 1-2 hours daily. That’s it! Now try to enhance your won skills. You can learn some team management and sales tactics. Apart from that being a professional you also need to have a knowledge of your niche. You can go fro a course for your own career.  You can use this time to explore new areas and create new sources of revenue.

7. Stop cooking that Suji and Maida and filling your body with chocolate and oil: Work on your health goals 

Now you are at home. You can easily spend some time on your body. Do some nice workouts and try to get that fit and slim body. Don’t just spend all the time in cooking Suji and Maida and filling your body with cholates and oil. Make it a rule to get up from the workstation every hour and do some jumps and push-ups every time. Drink a glass of water and sit back.

Top 7 things for a professional in lockdown

 

 

 

 

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CA

New Delhi, India

CA Shaifaly Girdharwal is a GST consultant, Author, Trainer and a famous You tuber. She has taken many seminars on various topics of GST. She is Partner at Ashu Dalmia & Associates and heading the Indirect Tax department. She has authored a book on GST published by Taxmann.

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