Most entrepreneurs have busy schedules. Between taking care of your primary tasks, making sure your paperwork is done and catching up with employees’ questions, your day is easily filled. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs lose a lot of time on menial tasks. Before they know it, their day is over and they really don’t feel like they ‘did’ anything. Do you know that feeling of working all day and noticing your to-do list only got longer? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered. In this article, we talk about some of the handiest software and programs that can totally take over your annoying, menial work.
Make a list of all tasks that you lose time on
Step 1: look closely at the past week or even month. What tasks did you spend a lot of time on that you didn’t like or weren’t supposed to spend so much time on? It can also be handy to make a list of tasks you have to do yourself, versus tasks that you’d like to make someone else do. For example, meeting up with your collection agency so they can collect (Dutch: incasso) outstanding bills from your debtors, e.g. by using a bailiff (Dutch: deurwaarder inschakelen) is something you have to do in-person. Dealing with HR updates, on the other hand, is something that could be left to handy software … if you know which ones to use!
Let the newest software take over repetitive tasks
If you’re still sending out contracts or bills by hand, it’s time to get with the program. But even if you already use some handy programs, there are programs that can do even móre!
IBM Watson
Are you always struggling with how to use your data? Data is super important for your business processes, but of course it’s important to know how to work with it. IBM made the program ‘Watson’ that easily makes you build models from scratch and get important insights from your data. AI does the heavy lifting, you make the decisions. Handy!
AI chatbots
Chatbots anno 2021 aren’t what they used to be. Some are really smart and can ask customers multiple handy questions, before letting someone else take over the answering. We recommend Netomi for customer service or atSpoke for internal teams to easily communicate with each other.
HR artificial intelligence tools
Do you also sigh whenever you have to take care of the HR side of your business? Employee info, contracts, handling applications? Then there are tons of HR AI tools to help you out. Tools like Nmbrs. Pymetrics or Seekout are great.
Which programs do you use to make your daily workload lighter?
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