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Corporate Policies – Operations Manual

Everything comes with instructions, why not a painting company? Call it automating your business, at any time you can automate a procedure you free up your time. An automated business can run without a manager, you. Your business can run for any length of time without you? Can you take a vacation?

Have you ever seen a McDonalds go out of business?

Definitely one reason that helps them succeed is their operations manual. Go to a McDonalds from Alaska to Florida and they are the same. A Another reason for the success of McDonald's, no matter where the McDonalds in the U.S., you can get the same burger, and that makes people feel safe, then they know they can fell confident that they will get what they want. The next thing really smart about McDonalds Policy Manual, that they can take people completely inexperienced and have the backup function consistently thereafter throughout the manual.

And if a paint company has many jobs that require specialized skills, there are many tasks that are repetitive and can be described as an instruction manual. Estimate, payroll, sales can be made almost entirely. Even Foremans skills the performance of work benefit from policies or guidelines outlining how we do it.

Imagine the size you want your business to be in a few years, then by building relationships, and then visualizing the workflow or information between the relationships. Now define these relationships with job descriptions. Such as sales director, director marketing, accounting, and then when you know the people you Need to hire, create a detailed description for each. Of course, you will not need to hire these people immediately, because you can always do the hard work.

Here is an example of a draft manual of trade:

1. Plan the mission statement

2. Your Flo-chart

3. Employee Information

4. Human resources (hiring / firing, holidays, overtime, payroll, etc.)

5. Services

a. Industry

b. Our Organization

C. Business Management

d. Daily Operating Procedures

e. End of the week, month-end, end quarter and year-end Procedures6. Sales, policies and procedures

7. Customer Service, policies and procedures

8. Marketing

9. Reports and documents

10. Security

11. Legal

Consider the manual work underway. Use it and keep the change as you use it.

Making changes to simplify and improve the manual. Although many work can go into this, be assured that the rewards are well worth the effort.

About the Author

Patrick Cavanaugh has 30 years+ running a successful painting business, and helping others improve their business, and raising the standards of painters everywhere.