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WHAT IS PROCESS MAPPING

A good process map will prompt you to say “aha”, and it will lead to interesting discoveries, ideas and potential solutions to business problems.

A process map is a workflow diagram which gives a clearer understanding of a process or series of parallel processes. It will enable you to understand the process you currently use and will be simple enough to spot issues and detailed enough to spot the answers.

Process Mapping

There are several different types of process maps and many different reasons why you should want or need one. There are many different forms of process mapping with different names such as:

Detail process mapping or swim lanes
SIPOC
IDEF modelling
Flow charting
Activity diagrams
Whatever you call it, it is the same thing.

11 Solid Ways to Improve Your Time Management Skills

Time management is a skill that many of us seem to learn through necessity. The problem with learning a skill through necessity is that, more often than not, bad habits creep in and, although the skill may be useful in general, we do not use it to its full potential.

Taking the time to read up on improving your time management skills can lead to great rewards.

Six steps to delegating

Entrepreneurs and small business owners often have a hard time delegating to others. When it’s our business and we’ve invested emotionally into it, it’s hard to let go. We worry that no-one can understand and care about our business like we do.
If we want to be successful however, we have no choice.

Delegating is critical to a small business. No one person can do everything and it becomes so easy to get lost in the finer points of things and lose focus on the bigger picture. Small business owners need to be leaders, and part of leading is delegating.

Here are 6 steps for delegating successfully:

Dom Dalton has be rewarded – justifiably

Olympic Torch Relay

Monday 23rd July 2012- the 66th day of the Olympic flame’s marathon journey across Britain and the second of a frenzied 7 day finishing sprint through the capital, taking the flame to it’s eventual East London dwelling via the London Eye, Royal Navy Commando helicopter and Battersea Dogs Home. Monday also happened to be the day that I, a normal 24 year old bloke from West London, was transported briefly into a world of celebrity and frenzied excitement for the most surreal and inspiring afternoon of my relatively short life.

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