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You start with writing yours first …. you know what you do, everyone should have one.

Just brain dump everything you are responsible for onto a document.  Then group them into specific areas ie Management, Sales, Purchasing, HR etc.  Look at the whole area of your responsibility, processes, what falls under your remit, just go for it.

When you have completed this exercise, you can then look at who you delegate these too and the level of responsibility, you can then start to create your direct reports.  You should then sit down with them to review, then ask your direct reports to do the same thing.

At the end of the exercise then step back with the other direct reports and look at the customer, supplier, employee experience.  Check to see that someone has responsibility for every stage in these processes.   An example would be debt.   Finance should be responsible for credit control, but they should work with Sales and Operations to recover the debt.

You may find that there isn’t anyone doing a specific function or able to, this can be outsourced, a great example would be HR!  So, if HR is one of those areas, please feel free to contact us to discuss further.

This is a high-level view of the process, but we do appreciate there are lots of steps.  Job descriptions are so important to focus your employees, set targets and if need be, performance manage them too.

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