Stoking the proverbial fire that should help grow your courier network can be a bit tricky, especially if you have no idea about what to do first, or worse, if your ideas turn out to be self-defeating and counter-productive. But don’t you worry. Before you craft that business improvement plan for your courier company, check out the following tips first.
Time, as Always, is of the Essence
Time is a finite resource, it is fixed, and you cannot ‘create’ more of it. That’s why if you don’t know how to use it or exploit it to your courier network’s advantage, then you’ll quickly find yourself at the receiving end of a bad deal. If you’re serious about seeing the growth of your company, then you will have to take time very seriously. A good step in this direction is to take a long and hard look at your processes and operations, and try to identify areas that leave you wasting time. For example, how do you handle work interruptions? Do you have contingencies, and if so, do they actually work? Once you’ve identified so-called ‘time wasters’, then you’ll be seeing an increase in your operation’s efficiency.
Focus on Leadership Instead of Management
Sure, effective management is great, but there’s a growing understanding in workplaces around the world about the importance of shifting focus from management to leadership. If you’re wondering about transforming your courier network into an entity that is able to reach its full potential, then it is perhaps about time you re-considered how you’re doing things, in terms of making your people work with you, not for you. To illustrate, educating individual employees about their responsibility and accountability, as well as their power to succeed within the framework of their tasks within your courier company allows you to produce highly responsible people. Self-management, then, is an inevitable result, and one that should make things much easier for you. You then no longer have to micro-manage, and this frees you from the daily drudgery of having to monitor people leaving you free to focus on long-term goals and productivity milestones.
Go Electric
As far as modern transportation is concerned, using electric vehicles (as opposed to those that run on fossil fuels) is widely considered an environmentally sound option for getting from one place to another. Such vehicles offer certain economic advantages, such as cheaper fuel (you only have to charge them at designated charging stations) and they emit zero air pollution. Using electric vehicles can be instrumental in helping you achieve the further expansion of your courier network in no time, as it’s both a savvy public relations move (all those people who love pitching in their two cents’ worth of contribution to environmental conservation will be on your side and will be happy to make you popular on their own accord) and it’s a clever step toward achieving efficiency. Switching to electric or hybrid vehicles at this point may be strategic, considering major electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has made its patents public. This means that more car manufacturers will be interested in entering the game using Tesla’s technologies, which in turn will drive down the prices of such vehicles.
