If you are like most people, you probably have a stack of paper on your desk. Sometimes you check your email and see a great tweet and it takes you a moment to process it. Sometimes you are jotting down your daily goals and you want to know how they are going to be accomplished. Sometimes you are writing down what you want to say to yourself. And sometimes you are just sitting on your couch with your brain and staring at your phone.
Process management is a very popular topic in business today, and it may be the most misunderstood area of business. I have a friend who is a process manager, and she is not a process manager at all. She just happens to be a process manager-in-training. In the corporate world, where I work, we have a lot of people who are process managers. But they are not actually process managers. They are managers, but they are not managers at all.
Process management is a way of communicating where you are at a given time in a given business. I am not sure why it is so misunderstood, but it is quite simple actually. Process managers need to know when they have to do something, whether it’s something that needs to be done NOW, what to do when something is to be done sometime TOMORROW, or what to do if something is to be done SOMETIMES A FEW PAST EIGHT.
I think that the thing that makes this concept so confusing is how we can have a real-life process that is not process. For example, if I am running a business, I may need to do the following things: Make a list of customers; find out which customers are not a good fit for my services; ask existing customers if they would like to be added to my list, or if they have a complaint I would need to make sure I have them all on my list.
In the same way, you would need to do this sort of thing so that you don’t miss the boat with your customers. This also means that you need some sort of plan for how to handle situations that go awry. We’re not going to call this the Zen of process or a process management strategy, but we do think it’s important to have a plan for when things go wrong that you can rely on and still be OK.
I think this is an important point. We usually talk about process management in terms of the business, rather than the personal. But in the same way that you might need to have a plan for how to deal with a customer that doesn’t like your company, you also need a plan for how you are going to handle things that don’t go well. In this case, you need a plan for when things go wrong that you can rely on and still be OK.
This is a point that I make often when I say that process management is a very personal thing and requires a very specific set of skills and knowledge. It is a skill that you must develop in order to function as a professional. But as with any good skill, it comes down to practice. If you are going to develop this skill it can take a while to get it right. It is also important to note that the more you practice the more you will know and understand.
I think it is also important to note that there are a few things we can do to help improve our processes and procedures to make them more efficient and effective. For instance, I think it is very important to have a team of people doing a lot of the planning and writing of documents. This is especially important during the initial phases of a project. You need to have someone who is the ultimate planner in the room so they can keep track of the big picture.
A good example of this is a company that I worked for called Project Management Systems (PMS). At PMS we had a very clear idea of what the company was going to do for the next five years. We started with a plan of the entire organization and then we began to develop a plan of each department. However, we were always working on this plan with no one else in the room. We never had a plan that everyone in the company had to see.
This is why many companies have a process. The process is a way to work with everyone in the company to come up with a list of what the company should be doing in order to get things done. This does not mean that the company is going to do everything in a single month. However, it does mean that at the end of the month everyone has a sense of what the company should be doing.