🚨 An urgent essay on if can you actually "afford" bad processes.
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Hey ✨2,839 Notion Rebels✨
A little different today - Notion is quiet for launches this summer, which has left a lot of space to reflect
My favourite thing about being a Certified Notion Consultant is the joy I bring to teams burnt out from needless admin, by building custom systems that bring visibility across their different workflows.
“Can you afford to have bad processes?!”
This question has been going round and around in my head to the point where I decided to put some numbers against it.
Here’s how a “well-performing” business could easily be leaking six figures in productivity each year.
Let’s say you’re a marketing agency of 10 people that charges clients £100/hr. BUT each team member wastes 2 hours a day manually updating the same information across different documents and asking other people for information they can’t see/don’t have.
—Sound familiar? Let’s chat
That’s £520,000 of lost productivity a year forever if you decided to do nothing - 2 hrs/day x 5 days/week x 10 team members x £100/hr x 52 weeks/year.
What would your team do with an extra £520,000 a year?
Scratch that, what would they do with the extra 100 hours a week?
I encourage everyone to do this productivity leak exercise - it’s not whether you can afford to invest in your processes, it’s whether you can afford not to.
Whether you’re trying to build more visibility across your processes in a system like Notion, or optimise any other parts of your operations, it’s important.
Investing in your processes should literally be the first thing you do if you’re growing your business & starting to make some decent money.
Forget pizza Fridays and a fancy office - THIS should be your priority focus
It’s not just money. Good people will leave.
Excessive admin → stress/burnout → illness/time off work → quitting → recruitment costs → time lost in onboarding all over again
I’m quite passionate angry about this specifically. I know too many people who have become very ill due to stressful work environments where bad processes, consistently working late and eventually burnout are a warped badge of honour. Topped with management refusing to do anything about it.
Yes, learning and implementing new systems are hard, but do you know what’s also hard? Your team being sick, tired and miserable. From my experience, people are quite happy to learn a “new way of doing things” once they feel heard, are presented with the benefits and have the support they need.
For any good rollout, you cannot skimp on the ongoing support/training if you want it to be successful. I chat deeply about adopting new systems on The Digital Project Manager Podcast here
Finally. I’m looking for people who are ready to get serious about creating clarity across their processes in Notion.
Personally, I always feel sad when someone I know who could benefit from more clarity in their processes can’t afford my private Notion consulting services.
I’m opening up 15 annual plans to my monthly Big Notion Energy Academy at 59% off here! Each month we go over Notion releases & troubleshoot the group’s questions
Next session is 31st July at 2.30pm UK time - feel free to also share around with any potential accountability partners!
I would genuinely love to hear your thoughts on the above
Have you ever had to leave a job because of bad process management?
Do you you have any success stories where streamlining your processes saved your business (or life)?
Did your “productivity leak” shock you?
Your girl,
Frances
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