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With you writing yours …. you know what you do.  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.

When you have completed this exercise, you can then look at who you delegate these too and the level of responsibility, then add it to theirs.  As you break it down you can be more specific on what is required, again it would be good to group into specific areas.

At the end of the exercise then step back with the other managers 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.

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