Smash your scale-up phase — Organise your business now

You’ve done it, moved out of start-up into the scale-up phase, so now it’s time to take stock and organise your business.

The start-up phase was hard work but gave you the chance to try things out, test your business and find your feet. Which you’ve done, and successfully too.

But growth doesn’t have to be messy now.

Cleaning things up in your business will ensure you can grow effortlessly, and without the remains of your trials and tests clinging to the organisation and holding you back.

Let’s look at your next steps to organise your business.

We’re going to tackle the basics and the advanced, so let’s dive in.

The Basics: Tackling your inbox and your filing system

Scrub down your inbox to prepare for the scale-up phase

Be honest; go and look at your inbox — how many unread messages do you have? Ten? One hundred? One thousand? Why are these emails unread?

Be brave, go back and sort them out.

One of the best ways to arrange your inbox and calm email anxiety is sorting the emails as they arrive:

• Create a list of folders — these…